Go Tom and Nora! That's so exciting!

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the place we are looking at has a yard. Maybe we can get a dog!

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-t, did Henry ask his mother--that is something along the lines of, "If you and dad took this out and signed on my behalf, I own the debt. I just want to make sure it wasn't taken out by another family to pay to educate another Henry."

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Yay SA! Listen to -t on the negotiations, for she is wise.

Also, WOOT! NORA AND TOMW! Yay!!!!

Tom and I were friends first

See, my thing always was that if we had a friendship first, I had a very hard time seeing them in a sexy light (men and women both). Which is not to say I didn't have a few f-buddies, but... I don't know if I can explain it. I'm just wanton, I guess.

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Heh, from way back:

You've been smoke free for a month, Lilty? Go you!!! You've gotten this far, you'll do it, girl!

Ummm, nope. I will buy the patches and try to quit in one month. For really.

ION, I can't believe it's been this long, but thanks for a great Buffista-riffic Year, mi Bitches.

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Ummm, nope. I will buy the patches and try to quit in one month. For really.

I imagine that's about when I will be giving it a go. I am thinking I will buy the gum as a back up plan, so that if I go insane, I can fall back on those, rather than on actual cigarettes.

Did someone here mention lozenges?

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Cindy, she doesn't remember specifically, but they took out a lot of loans. She was under the impression that they had paid them all back, but they didn't keep good records. H's father's signature looks genuine, certainly.

When I quit smoking I used some wacky herbal "cigarettes" (not that wacky, they were, as far as I know, perfectly legal) that didn't taste very good but helped me get through the compulsion to light up that I had aside from the nicotine craving. I didn't do gum, but I have heard that the new versions taste much better (when I tried Nicotrol or whatever it was, it tasted like Dentyne that had been left in an ashtray)

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Ugh, my marriage is on the rocks again. Don't know how this is going to end.

On the plus side, I've finally started building the play equipment I wanted to make for the kids. Okay, it's not much of a plus side.

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eta: Horrible crosspost with Gud. I'm so very, very sorry, Gud. You and your wife and Emaryn and Leif are all in my thoughts.

There are seventeen species of penguin and I can name them all!

fans self, swoons

juliana is so pretty it's just crazymaking. And the pictures are wonderful: brimming with love of all sorts, agape and eros and affection and familial cherishing and the whole big mess of it. The dancing pictures are my favorites -- first dance pictures are almost always my favorites. The couple is finished with the stressful ceremonial scary stuff, they're all giddy with "we did it!"-ness and booze, and they're wrapped up in each other's arms with music they love swirling around them. Public but very playful and intimate. Oh, how I love first dance pictures.

Also, did I mention the prettiness of juliana? 'Cause, STUNNING!

Hec and I were utterly ass-backwards: acquaintances, then fb's, then friends and in love in a jumble while still insisting that we were really just fb's without a future. I am never, ever, ever telling our children the truth about it.

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I'm so sorry, Gud. You have my best wishes.

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