Never let it be said that Virginia wine growers don’t have a sense of humor: July 12: 7th Annual Sip-n-Shag Beach Bash AMRHEIN WINE CELLARS (Bent Mountain) www.roanokewine.com
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Good, bad, and so…slow…
Posted on June 30, 2008 by 8junebugs
The good thing about working from home every now and then is going grocery shopping during your lunch break. The bad thing is that you’re at the store with lots of elderly people who courteously planned their trip during a nontraditional grocery-shopping hour. And they take their bloody time.
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Irrationally exuberant
Posted on June 30, 2008 by 8junebugs
Happy Monday, folks. I had the most brow-knitting weekend. In true ping-pongy fashion, I experienced the following completely incongruous events and emotions: Friday afternoon, my brother called me in his next-of-kin capacity from the Emergency Room at Porter Medical. There are three alarm bells in that sentence: next of kin! Emergency Room! PORTER MEDICAL! Oh, [...]
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Home schooling for clowns
Posted on June 27, 2008 by 8junebugs
If you’ve been looking for a proper unicycle, now’s your chance! Amazon has conveniently placed it on this week’s Friday Sale: 16″ Unicycle
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Random thoughts for a Thursday
Posted on June 26, 2008 by 8junebugs
My cousin and her partner (Hi, Amy!), who live in Iowa City, have not drowned. Hooray! Family news is hard to come by and I don’t do phone, so thank heavens for email. My maternal instincts are flipped into overdrive today. Or my caregiver ones — whichever. I’m your basic tough-it-out type when it comes [...]
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Take that, cancer!
Posted on June 26, 2008 by 8junebugs
Between Monday and Tuesday, my mother’s platelets done busted through the roof y’all. I talked to her Monday and she had barely hit the mid-70,000s, but they still wanted her to try to get at least up into the 90s on her own, so they gave her another day. On Tuesday, her count came in [...]
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Dialing down the snark
Posted on June 24, 2008 by 8junebugs
Reading back a little bit, it seems I’m getting all het up again about things that may or may not be within my power to change. Do not be alarmed — I am starting to care about the rest of the world again. Enough to mock it/them, anyway, and we all know that’s how I [...]
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And another thing…
Posted on June 23, 2008 by 8junebugs
It’s wedding-planning season in these parts and a handful of my friends are experiencing the joy of setting up Life-Changing Events They Will Remember Forever And Ever Amen. I am not about to write about planning a wedding. I suck at it, I left most of it to the other party, and it didn’t stick, [...]
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Oh, happy day
Posted on June 23, 2008 by 8junebugs
Maggie Mason’s got some excellent pictures of the gay and lesbian couples getting married at City Hall in San Francisco last week: http://mightygirl.com/2008/06/18/growing-pains/ Reactions: Endless joy. People who want to legally join their lives together (without coercion or brainwashing–I’m looking at you, FLDS) ought to be able to do so. San Francisco has the most gorgeous City [...]
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Rest in peace, fucker
Posted on June 23, 2008 by 8junebugs
George Carlin died last night of heart failure. It seems only natural to honor his passing by using one of the Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television. (‘Cause the is the internet, where you can say ANYTHING YOU WANT. And most people do…which I think pleased Carlin.) I grew up with George Carlin’s [...]
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