Bev Sykes

Airy Persiflage by Bev Sykes (27)

Sunday Stealing : I remember the time when my then 82 year old mother-in-law, after getting Web TV expressed her disappointment because when she decided to check out "this pornography stuff on the internet" apparently googled something that brought her to Barenaked Ladies and she was unhappy that it was "just a band." (posted Jan 9, 10:49pm)

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Doin' a Girly Thing : all I need to do is wait for someone to die so I can take her place, though given the age of most of the women, that might not be such a long wait. (posted Jan 8, 12:47am)

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Parenting Puppies : The mother is always grooming them. She washes them all over and it is from her tongue licking their genitals that they learn how to relieve themselves. Well...I DO draw the line at licking the genitals, but fortunately Buddy arrived here with opened eyes and working genitals, so that wasn't necessary. (posted Jan 6, 12:39am)

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Not Quite Charing Cross : Their love of books and encouragement of reading is particularly evident in the children's "room" (really just a closet) where the books are divided by age appropriateness and there is a basket for "kids who are still at the chewing stage." (posted Jan 5, 7:35am)

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Concetta : If you ever saw the movie made about that fire, her story is featured prominently, how she was rescued from the house and taken through the flames to safety. We hoped she would move off of the hill, but she was adamant. She wanted to stay in her house. Concetta was always adamant about most things! (posted Jan 4, 9:54pm)

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Bonding Pains : while he was trying to figure out how to do that I took HIS picture and did the same thing. I told him we reminded me of that old couple on the viral video that are trying to figure out how to make a Skype call. (posted Jan 3, 8:29am)

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2011 by the Numbers : .....while there was no death involved, the unexplained loss of Peggy was as painful as a death...and more painful than some. (posted Jan 1, 2:09am)

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Lotsa New Stuff : He's very sweet and very independent. And he has puppy breath. He walks with the waddle of a silverback gorilla and he is not interested in cuddling at all, except for the half hour he decided to curl up behind my neck, sucking on my hair. (posted Dec 31, 12:58am)

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Pockets : Best of Holidailies I was kind of happy with this whole pocket thing until I took out the clothes I had washed. I wondered what all that clanging was in the washer & sure enough, my phone had gone through a thorough cleaning & drying, as I had not remembered to take it out of the pocket I finally thought to put it ... (posted Dec 30, 12:16am)

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We almost saw the giraffe : I made my way down the hill, stopping for water and a pit stop, where I found the real zoo--five mothers, each with 3 small children, all trying to pee in the women's room. The lions, sleeping in the sun had it much better off! (posted Dec 29, 9:25am)

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Sandy Socks : If I had known the things we were going to do down here, I probably would have thought better about bringing only a pair of Birkinstocks and socks to wear with them. I have found they are not great for hiking in the woods, and they are not the footwear of choice while walking on the beach. (posted Dec 28, 1:48am)

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Butterfly Kisses : I had always wanted to be in one of those places where you were surrounded by monarch butterflies. Here it was right in the back yard, just about. (posted Dec 27, 1:04am)

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The Year of the Puppet : Walt and Ned were fully prepared for a ho-hum reaction from Brianna to her new puppet stage, realizing how much she would like it over time, but that a stage might not be super-exciting to a not-quite-4 year old. (posted Dec 26, 6:17am)

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Stop. Rest. : I couldn't find ginger or ground cinnamon, so I left out the ginger entirely and was having Jeri crush whole cinnamon sticks to put in the pie. It turns out they had tons of cinnamon, but they were using it to repel ants in the bathroom. I never thought to look in the bathroom for cinnamon! (posted Dec 25, 12:31am)

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Rest Stop : ...even sticking my hand way up inside and trying to run around the outer edge of the TP could not find its "free edge," and so I had to make due with the paltry bit of paper in my hand, which was not up to the task and tore as soon as it reached my body. (posted Dec 24, 7:33am)

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Thanks, Bill : It also brought some (small) comfort that he is no longer here because Paul? Sick? Dealing with a condition like that which has no cure? Oh man would that have been horrible! (posted Dec 23, 7:19am)

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Little Christmas and Ikea : The place is huge and it is brightly colored and it is right along side the freeway, so I had no trouble knowing where it was. What I had trouble was finding the right street that would lead me there. It took half an hour going up and down and around and could always see it off in the distance ... (posted Dec 22, 7:28am)

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Monday Stealing : 12. Do you think the world is going to end in 2012? It depends on who is nominated by the Republican party. (posted Dec 20, 2:47am)

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Bake-a-Thon : About this time I was beginning to doubt my sanity. I now had dozens and dozens of cookies and wanted to make more, but who was I baking them for? No job to take them to, no people dropping in, no parties to go to. (posted Dec 19, 10:46am)

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Accomplishing Absolutely Nothing : Dontcha love it when you spend an entire afternoon working on a project and realize that it was a total bust. That was just before I dropped the sugar container on the floor and spilled half of it...but let's not talk about that. (posted Dec 17, 1:02pm)

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A Local Celebrity : I told Ashley last night that Joey had been saved for some reason and that I was sure that once she has become accustomed to her paraphernalia and is placed with the perfect family, she will somehow live out her destiny. (posted Dec 16, 9:29am)

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Musical Christmas Memories : He loved hamburgers and I decided I had created the perfect hamburger. So it was going to be my gourmet hamburgers and lots and lots and lots of pop Christmas music. I had forgotten that he loved classical music...and that he was Jewish. I also burned the hamburgers. Not my best hostess night ever! (posted Dec 15, 10:22am)

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In Lieu of an Entry : the clay figure on the left was something that Paul made at the Art Center, here in town, when he went to visit the teacher of the ceramics class. She fired it for him and he was supposed to paint it, but he died before he could do it. (posted Dec 14, 10:11am)

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'Tis the Season for Excesses : you never have to play with your cat again and can sit in your recliner with the built-in minibar and continue to open beer bottles with your remote control, secure in the knowledge that the cat will have fun all by herself. (posted Dec 13, 9:20am)

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Party Animals : My contribution to the conversation, other than biting my tongue and letting the other person handle the comments, was to point out that I am a critic, and that I review theaters which DO do the expensive royalty shows and how this year I saw the largest number of empty seats that I have ever seen. (posted Dec 12, 2:30pm)

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Tsatskes and then Some : Next to her is a decorated glass votive candle holder filled with two Wisconsin cheesehead erasers. Don't ask me why! (posted Dec 11, 12:14pm)

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Delicate Pooh is Home Again : ...the important part was done: Delicate Pooh was back on his perch on the top of the etagere. (posted Dec 10, 2:26pm)