abra

yes, i've been away for a few days; my real life does demand attention from time to time, you know. the new year is going well for me, and i hope for all of you too.

in the last week i've viewed the following films:

kid galahad (bette davis is fantastic)
mystic river (awful movie, but good acting)
an american in paris (fun if you're...
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happy new year's eve all. be good and safe and have fun.

here's to 2004...what do you want to happen this year? i want a new president. and some new knickers.

if i'm going to stay up until midnight, i need to have a wee nap.

until next year
xoxo
love
abra!

it's snowing! i know this is no big deal to those of you in parts of the world where there are real winters, but it just doesn't snow much in mild western oregon. i went on a walk downtown and watched kids sledding and making snowpeople and it looks like a christmas card, just a little late.

i logged on today after a bit of...
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happy holidays everyone! i might be scarce for a few more days, doing the family thing. feel free to drop me a line though, of course, as always. i'm a happy abra, because i'm visiting my sweet black love puppy, who sleeps on my feet each night. she's a little chubby but i think she's perfect. much better than that squirrel; he never slept under...
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the three words in the english language i most like to hear are not "i love you" -- they are "you were right," especially when followed by the three words, "i was wrong."

just a few minutes before i'm off to work....

love to all, especially to Thursday and yumchen, lovely hostesses and all-about-town girls, and to Tigerlily for her squirrel expertise. and to...
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tonight i'm celebrating because i did much better in school than i thought i would. yay me. i'm also teaching myself to knit, so i can make myself some cute pink arm-warmers. mmm.

the squirrel moved out. i didn't see him all weekend; i can only assume he's out sowing his wild oats with all the sexy squirrels in the neighborhood, without even a single thought for poor abra waiting at home. he hasn't even called to let me know he's okay. i mean, i know i'm hard to live with, but did he have to pee all...
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so i had a squirrel visitor the other day. i came home and he was in the living room (i think he was eating popcorn and watching tv). he scampered nonchalantly down to the basement and i couldn't find him. (i wandered around the basement calling, "squirrelly, squirrelly, come back!) the next day i came home and he was in the living room again. he...
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look, i stayed away for 19 hours!

what would we do without distractions? sometimes my entire life itself seems like a series of distractions. then the kinks come on the radio and everything's okay.

i just sneezed all over my computer. bless me.

xo

is it pretentious to quote from madame bovary? forgive me, please, but i must:

Whereas the truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for...
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