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Holidailies Wrap Up : Thanks to Richard and Jennifer for taking over hosting duties for Holidailies and getting the portal working again! It was so nice to be back there this year. For those of you I only run into during this month o' writing, it's been fun, and I hope to see you again in December 2012. (posted Jan 9, 2:57pm)

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Failure to Resolve : Today would have been a good day to finally decide on my New Year’s resolutions. (posted Jan 8, 3:01pm)

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Rainbow of Choices : I spent part of my Saturday afternoon in a shop with Mr. Karen, picking out a mat and frame for the Matterhorn poster we bought when were at Disneyland in October. (posted Jan 7, 2:30pm)

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Winter? Not So’s I Could Tell : It felt downright spring-like when I went out at lunchtime today: 53 degrees F and sunny. (posted Jan 6, 2:19pm)

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On Developing a New Habit : So far, the hardest part about doing a photo a day project again has been remembering I’m doing it. (posted Jan 5, 3:17pm)

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Mini-Meme : The answer that immediately popped in my head was “retiring”. (posted Jan 4, 12:42pm)

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Reading Through the Alphabet : And to think when I started my journal, I'd pretty much given up reading books in favor of magazines. (posted Jan 3, 3:18pm)

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My Presence was the Present : We saw snow from the plane! (posted Jan 2, 8:15am)

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2011 Photo Projects : A year in pictures. (posted Jan 1, 11:56am)

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How Long Until 2012? : Two monkeys, one clock. (posted Dec 31, 7:43pm)

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Sock Monkeys Redecorate : Sock Monkey and New Monkey try their hands at interior design. (posted Dec 30, 3:31pm)

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New Monkey Plays with the Buttons : New Monkey decided to show off his (or her? Mr. Karen and I have different ideas about New Monkey’s gender) flexible arms. (posted Dec 29, 5:02pm)

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Sock Monkey Makes a Friend : How many stripey monkeys does one person need? One more, evidently. (posted Dec 28, 7:21pm)

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King of the Snow Pile : Sock Monkey gets his winter on. (posted Dec 27, 5:17pm)

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Sock Monkey Celebrates Christmas : Sock Monkey makes his triumphant return to my journal for another week of monkeyshines. (posted Dec 26, 9:34pm)

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Purple Can Too Be a Christmas Color : Now it is time for me to shut down the computer and take my Christmas break. (posted Dec 24, 4:11pm)

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Worrying About Nothing : So far today, at least the part of it I’ve been awake, I’ve been feeling anxious and ever so slightly panicky about all the stuff I have to do today (and now that I’m sitting here typing, I’m starting to worry about whether the fan noise the laptop is making is normal or a sign of impending doom). (posted Dec 24, 6:41am)

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A Trip Down Memory Lane : Anyone for history? Nope. (posted Dec 23, 7:40am)

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Not Yet Socks : In which my knitting fails to behave. (posted Dec 22, 12:10pm)

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On Being a Negative Force : I read some books and didn't like all of them. If this makes me Princess McCrankypants, so be it. (posted Dec 21, 10:44am)

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What's Inside : In which I dump out my purse on purpose. (posted Dec 20, 4:06pm)

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The Secret : No, not that law of attraction stuff, but the secret to how I do something in the office bathrooms that not everyone seems to be able to manage. (posted Dec 19, 4:23pm)

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Stockpiling : In which I decreased the chaos in my house just a tiny bit. (posted Dec 18, 11:04am)

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Paying It Forward : Warm fuzzies courtesy of a friend of mine. (posted Dec 17, 9:44pm)

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Rainbows at My Fingertips : Fortunately where I work, this sort of thing is considered office appropriate. (posted Dec 16, 5:30pm)

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Big and Bright : Last night after work I met up with some colleagues for food and drink and discussion; the restaurant was in a city I don't get to very often, so I did not realize that it had decked itself out in thousands and thousands of Christmas lights. (posted Dec 15, 7:58pm)

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Minimal Effort : Speaking of hobbies I've been neglecting (as I was, yesterday, about my quilting), I've been slacking big time in my photo a week group on Flickr. (posted Dec 14, 4:51pm)

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Emerging from Dormancy : When I started this journal, quilting was just about the only creative hobby I was really pursuing. Looking back at the archives, I finished seven quilting projects in the first twelve months I wrote here. My, how times change. (posted Dec 13, 3:20pm)

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Expensive Urine : Note--urine appears only in the title. (posted Dec 12, 5:05pm)

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Grey on Top, Brown Below : I’m not especially fussy when it comes to my hair, yet I do care enough to keep coloring it. What’s that about? (posted Dec 11, 10:47am)

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File Under "Old School" : Make sure the keys on your typewriter are clean. (posted Dec 10, 12:01pm)

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Flaky : In which my nail blog puts its fingers into my online journal. (posted Dec 9, 4:50pm)