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Reflections of My Daily Life

If any picture reflects my daily life, this is it. R and I holding hands while Simba sits and enjoys all the attention of the other two members of his cat group. Simba doesn’t care if he’s an arm rest, he just cares that his people are with him.

Catching my Breath for a Minute

Look I have a shiny new badge for completing the A to Z Challenge! Tonight is a catch my breath kind of night and figure out what is next for this month’s posts. I thoroughly enjoyed the A to Z Challenge this past month and I want to continue to build on what I’ve started. I’ll be doing a lot
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X – Xanth

I’m not sure when it was that I started reading fantasy fiction, but I do know what started my journey into that realm 30 odd years ago. It was Piers Anthony’s book, “A Spell for Chameleon” – the first of 35 books in the Xanth series. The kid in me loved the story line and the puns that were in
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W – Weightlifter

At lunch today, I went to the book store and picked up The New Rules of Lifting For Life: An All-New Muscle-Building, Fat-Blasting Plan for Men and Women Who Want to Ace Their Midlife Exams By Lou Schuler and Alwyn Cosgrove. I’ve been waiting for the book since Lou announced he was working on it. You wouldn’t know it by
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V- Vernacular

I move between a lot of different vernaculars during the day. A vernacular is defined as being the standard native language of a country or locality OR The idiom of a particular trade or profession I started my day off with the girlfriend vernacular. This vernacular include words and phrases like “coffee fairy”, “breakfast fairy” and “Honey, I’m not bringing
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U – Umbrellas

Okay so I’m a self admitted Japanophile and honestly, I can’t think of anything that starts with U that specifically describes me (Truth be told, I’m going to be struggling for the V post this evening). Anyhoo, so I thought I would kind of mix things up a bit and talk about one of my favorite collections of photography on
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T – Texas

Texas has been my home for the last 15 years. I came to Houston work on Army Trucks when the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles were still in Sealy and I stayed here for the weather, the people, the places and events. And I’ll be honest, the job market has not been too bad down here either. Texas always seems
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