{{Beverly}} I'm so, so, sorry. May you find a place for your mother that she is happy in, where whe is well taken care of, and where you are comfortable having her there. Hopefully, in the grand scheme of things, this works out, in a way, for the best. Love to you and your family.

In Dinner News, we had signed up for 2 chickens that our farm was raising. Tom picked them up yesterday- they are HUGE! 8 pounds each! Jebus. We roasted one and it was quite turkey-like in its mass and carvability. Tom cut the second bird up in parts to freeze and I think we'll use them for more wet-cooking methods. Cannot fry these chicken parts. (unfortunately)

The only problem with coffee (which I do love) is making sure you get GOOD coffee.

I love good coffee. I'll drink any coffee.

I loves the bubbles too. I drink way too much of the Le Croix sparking water in cans, which is really too pricey unless I make an expedition to Costco.

My neighbor his been using a leaf blower for an hour. Kill me now.

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Oh, crumbs, Beverly. All my -ma are belong to you, love.

In Dinner News, we had signed up for 2 chickens that our farm was raising. Tom picked them up yesterday- they are HUGE! 8 pounds each!

For a moment, I pictured Tom picking up 2 live chickens.

The only problem with coffee (which I do love) is making sure you get GOOD coffee.

I love good coffee. I'll drink any coffee.

I'll drink gas-station coffee that's been sitting on the burner for 24 hours, if that's my only choice.

I loves the bubbles too. I drink way too much of the Le Croix sparking water in cans, which is really too pricey unless I make an expedition to Costco.

Fortunately, Kroger has Big K 2-Liter bottles of fizzy water for 60 cents. I buy many, many, many of them.

I wonder what fizzy coffee would be like.

Nasty, I bet.

Nora, do they dispatch the chickens for you or do you have to do that yourself? I'm hoping that service is included in the price of the bird.

Also, sounds YUMMY!

I like coffee, tea, Diet Coke and Red Bull and am situationally flexible as to when they can be consumed.

Crap. Need to get dressed and get ready for speech therapy.

So far today I have showered, driven to CT to pick up a friend from the airport (at 5:35am), driven back to Worcester to take a train into the city, done homework on the train, taken the subway to the hospital and soon I will have therapy.

But what I really want? A nap.

Oh, and I'm taking bets on how many cups of coffee vw will drink today to make it through. I'll give you somewhere to start. I've already had five large coffees. Now, guess!

vw, are you twitching from the caffeine yet? I'll guess another 3.

Life is Hard Report:

Ellie fell off the bed this morning while jumping on it. (Something I was trying to prevent, but was also getting dressed at the time.) She's fine, but she decided that, to feel better, she needed Twizzlers for breakfast.

She cried for Twizzlers the entire way to school.

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On October 14, 2007, Stephen wrote Maureen Dowd's column in the New York Times, where, among poking fun at Frank Rich and several presidential hopefuls, he stated he would run for president for the sum of 15 million dollars.

On the October 16, 2007 episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Colbert announced "he is officially considering whether or not he will announce if he is running for President of the United States", and would make his announcement "on a more prestigious show". Fifteen minutes later, he announced his candidacy on The Colbert Report.

Colbert will run in the state of South Carolina as a Democrat, a Republican, and a Favorite Son of South Carolina.