FRIDAY FIVE October 17

Friday, Oct. 17, 2003 - 5:40 a.m.

This week's Friday Five: (Questions are boldface, my answers appear beneath.)

Name five things in your refrigerator.

A: Milk, eggs, filtered water, grape tomatoes, and about a half a jar of plum preserves that my grandmother put up in 1994.

Name five things in your freezer.

A: Ice cube trays, ice cubes, blue ice, the container the ice cubes are in, and a bag of frozen mixed vegetables.

Name five things under your kitchen sink.

A: Laundry detergent, oven cleaner, tarnish remover, the big refill jug for dish liquid, and the little allen wrench thing that turns the garbage disposal back on if it gets vapor lock.

Name five things around your computer.

A: A blue velcro hair curler for my bangs (if I come sit out here while my hair is wet), the guestbook from my grandmother's memorial service so I can finish looking up addresses online for thank you cards, a half-cup plastic container that more often than not contains Skittles, a bobby pin which which I scratch my ear canals (bad!), and of course the peripherals (Speakers, printer, etc).

Name five things in your medicine cabinet.

A: Ear medicine, NaPCA for sunburned skin, Chloraseptic for sore throats, a thermometer, and a needle nosed pair of tweezers.

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So I'm reading here where the surgeons have had to remove a portion of Roy's skull bone in order to relieve the pressure on his brain. This is well and good, but maybe instead of putting that piece of bone back, they could just install a nice strong patch of carpeting, so his kitties would have something built in to scratch on.

Just a thought.

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A headline in last night's AIM Crawl: "Winter Outlook Unclear for Most Of United States"

Here's a clue -- It WILL happen, and it's going to be COLD and DARK

And some people are going to get SNOWED ON.

How do the powers that be not know this after their hundreds of years of record-keeping? ...??...

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I had a legendary IM session with Todd Thalimer last night; you know it's a good visit if you forget about watching the majority of a playoff game. (God bless the Boston Red Sox for trying so hard.) If you have a peek in here today, let me tell you that I'm really glad we're working on music together, Todd -- and I'm glad we had a good visit last night. I can count the number of people who've known me for ten years -- and stuck around -- on one hand. And you know what? I may have even counted you twice. :)

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Another nice thing that happened last night: Jamie IMed me and told me he bought me some banner ads here on Diaryland! Thank you, Jamie! You didn't have to, but gosh, what a sweet thing for you to do. Makes me feel "as warm as a pot-bellied stove on a cold morning." :) :)

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Finally, some family news: I'm an aunt again. John's brother and his wife had a boy. No name yet. :)

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