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I still want the mac & cheese and I don't like the way I smell today. It reminds me of when I was unemployed 7 years ago ...must have been what I was wearing then. weird.

not that big... Originally uploaded by Emily Ramsey Highlights from our trip to St. Louis: Nancy Magellan - our personal GPS navigational instructor. Driving into St. Louis for the first time and seeing the Arch in the distance The Gateway Arch, baby!! Riding the pod to the top of the arch Lacledes Landing Our waitress at Pujols 5 who refers all her customers to Ozzie's for darts, even though the restaurant she works at also has darts. Ted Drewes frozen custard Lemp Mansion (not really haunted, but the wait staff might be a little posessed) The Hill! (Cunetto House of Pasta & Ragazzi's) Page Boulevard... what? Driving all over St. Louis Driving the entire distance of the state of MO from St. Louis to KC Seeing 40 states on license plates along the way (including Hawaii & Alaska) Watching the Red Sox embarass the hometeam Royals. Booyah! Gates BBQ Not knowing how to order anything at Gates BBQ Union Station Mud Pie at the Landing...was that chocolate ice cream? Looking

I logged on to Blogger this morning to see if this thing was still here. I am surprised to find that not only do I remember my password, but my password remembers me. So how was everyone's Fourth of July yesterday? Mine was a little piece of perfect. We got up early (earlier than I get up for work, and on my extra day off!!) and skipped over to the Maryland Farms YMCA to join about 1300+ runners at the Cadillac Firecracker 5k. It was so fun! I haven't run a 5k in about 6 years. I enjoyed this one being on July 4th... we started with a prayer and the National Anthem, and then we were off! My time?? Embarrassing by most runner's standards and experience, but I was happy that I ran the whole thing without stopping in 30 minutes. For lunch we grilled tilapia, swordfish, chicken, burgers, etc... Then after an hour and half nap (I needed it after getting up at 5:38 and running), we took in a Sounds game. I haven't been to one of those in a couple of years either. This seemed

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On the menu for this cold and snowy day: Breakfast ~ Blueberry pancakes with maple syrup, turkey bacon fried crisp, and a bottomless pot of cinnamon spice coffee with vanilla caramel cream. Mid afternoon snack ~ finish up the blueberry pancakes (the bacon was gone hours ago...). Did I mention the coffee pot was bottomless? Dinner ~ Venison chili slow cooked in crock pot with chopped onions, tomato paste, crushed chili tomatos, red wine vinegar, garlic, chili powder, oregano, cloves, basil, thyme, and cracked salt & pepper to taste. Served over a bed of mixed shredded cheeses and fritos. Dinner beverage ~ Mulled Apple Cider served chilled in wine glass Dessert ~ Cheesecake Fudge-Brownie Swirl ice cream Directions to my house ~ Purposefully not provided

This morning my dog Roxy pooped a penny. I had no idea she could do that. Unfortunately, due to certain, uh, conditions , I could not tell if it landed heads or tails. (insert joke here). Regardless, I am guessing I have one lucky pet. I'm trying not to get too excited... but I could be on to something here. I have asked her to try for a nickel tomorrow. I don't want to hope for too much too soon. You know. No need to get greedy.

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I heard this song this morning on Good Morning America. It was one of those songs that just grabbed me... you know the kind. I went online to look up the artist and this is what I found: It's by a girl named Tiki Lewis . She's not on iTunes, so I sent her a MySpace message asking when she'll have this song and others available for download. I know that might sound crazy, but it's worked in the past. Once I sent a message to Peter Bradley Adams . His song Los Angeles was the last song I can remember in recent days that has done this 'grab' phenomenon thing to me. He wrote back and said it was coming. I now have it on my iPod. Check it out (and this one too of course) if you want to know what I'm talking about. Drive Slow by Tiki Lewis There is a place I know Where the people are alone They hide behind their cars and clothes And shine their broken halo's They lay awake at night and think while their lovers fast asleep thinking how its suppose to be as year

This post is simply meant to be a question to cast out into the internets. No judgment is passing, no intended social commentary nestled between the lines. Just curiosity that has momentarily struck me in light of current events. I expected yesterday, and then again today, to turn on my computer, open my feed reader and see an explosion of commentary on the shootings at NIU. But what I found instead was... nothing. Am I missing something? Did I miss your post? I admit I have dwindled my reader down to the bare and most notable of my minimum - a skinny 34 feeds reside in my Bloglines. I find it strange that no one in my blog circle (selective as it may be) has written anything about the shootings at NIU. Maybe its the same reason I also have not...but then I didn't blog about the shootings at Virginia Tech last year either. Personally I don't feel as connected to this school as I do to Tech. But all the same, there was a LOT of blogging about it last year. And I know there are a

my latest adult venture... ...parent to puppy. This is Roxy and she is a sharpei-mix stray that I rescued from the (sub)urban streets of the night. Yah, really. I love her even though she is a sass-punk. You can read all about her latest (ad)ventures on my Facebook. Yah, I joined that too. I had to do something sem-juvenile to correct the imbalance of being 'too adult'.

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