an entry in which Ann bitches about sleeping in and getting everything done:

After the girls left for school this morning, I crawled back into bed.  This is something I normally do not do.  I usually average about six hours of sleep a night.  In my younger days, this worked out just fine.  Nowadays I can manage that crazy schedule for about four days and then have a day where I collapse.  It is not a good sign that the collapse day happened on the first day of the week!

Besides being well rested, another effect of the day is feeling behind the eight ball all damn day.  Everything that needed to get done got done, but I was desperately running through the day trying to get to it all. 

Thus the late blog entry!

Webheads has a puzzle that has been plaguing me — what Christmas song has the word knit in the second or third verse?

Today is my one year anniversary!  I started tinkering around with blogging on December 9th of last year, but got myself set up with Typepad on the 12th.  It’s hard to believe I have been at this for a whole year – until recently, I had a monthly subscription, not being sure how long I would keep this up.

Like many, if not all, of the bloggers out there, I must say that blogging has opened up a whole new world for me.  In this past year, I have met eight of the women whose sites I enjoy – two at the festival in Maryland, three right here in my own back yard and three more in Manhatten.  I would love to meet everyone on my blogroll!  There are so many who I feel connected to, like we have met, just through reading their blogs — many different backgrounds and life experiences but something in their writing just hits me at a certain level. 

It’s very hard to explain, without sounding like a complete lunatic – but I do feel a level of friendship with people I have never met!  Internet friends — there has to be a better term for it — it makes me sound all pasty and white, a lonely, pathetic character whose only interaction is with her keyboard.  Truth be told, I am a bit pasty and white, but I’m not lonely or pathetic!  But what else to call it?  What label would accurately reflect these new relationships — something along the lines of pen pals.  Keyboard chums, blogging buddies, computer compadres, internet intimates  maybe not that last one!,

Whatever we call it, it is what it is — and that is a new circle of friends, which seems to expand on a weekly basis.  Visiting someone’s site and becoming a regular reader is in many ways similar to stopping by their house for a cup of coffee. 

just stopping by to see what’s new with you ….

I’ll stop now, getting a bit carried away with myself …. I’d like to teach the world to blog … and all that …..

Suffice to say:  It’s been a year.  I like it.  You guys are great.

Today is my one year anniversary!  I started tinkering around with blogging on December 9th of last year, but got myself set up with Typepad on the 12th.  It’s hard to believe I have been at this for a whole year – until recently, I had a monthly subscription, not being sure how long I would keep this up.

Like many, if not all, of the bloggers out there, I must say that blogging has opened up a whole new world for me.  In this past year, I have met eight of the women whose sites I enjoy – two at the festival in Maryland, three right here in my own back yard and three more in Manhatten.  I would love to meet everyone on my blogroll!  There are so many who I feel connected to, like we have met, just through reading their blogs — many different backgrounds and life experiences but something in their writing just hits me at a certain level. 

It’s very hard to explain, without sounding like a complete lunatic – but I do feel a level of friendship with people I have never met!  Internet friends — there has to be a better term for it — it makes me sound all pasty and white, a lonely, pathetic character whose only interaction is with her keyboard.  Truth be told, I am a bit pasty and white, but I’m not lonely or pathetic!  But what else to call it?  What label would accurately reflect these new relationships — something along the lines of pen pals.  Keyboard chums, blogging buddies, computer compadres, internet intimates  maybe not that last one!,

Whatever we call it, it is what it is — and that is a new circle of friends, which seems to expand on a weekly basis.  Visiting someone’s site and becoming a regular reader is in many ways similar to stopping by their house for a cup of coffee. 

just stopping by to see what’s new with you ….

I’ll stop now, getting a bit carried away with myself …. I’d like to teach the world to blog … and all that …..

Suffice to say:  It’s been a year.  I like it.  You guys are great.

CIA Test:

After all the background checks, interviews and testing were done, there
were three finalists: two men and a woman. For the final test, the CIA
agents took one of the men to a large metal door and handed him a gun.

"We  must know that you will follow your instructions, no matter what
the circumstances. Inside this room, you will find your wife sitting in a
chair. "Kill her!!!".

The man said, "You can’t be serious. I could never shoot my wife." The
agent said, "Then you’re not the right man for this job. Take your wife
and go home."

The second man was given the same instructions. He took the gun and
went into the room. All was quiet for about five minutes. Then the man
came out with tears in his eyes. "I tried, but I can’t kill my wife." The
agent said, "You don’t have what it takes. Take your wife and go home."

Finally, it was the woman’s turn….

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