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2011-09-16T00:00:00-07:00

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Find Madeleine McCann
British 3 year old Madeleine McCann was abducted from her apartment bedroom in Praia da Luz holiday village(Algarve, Portugal) on Thursday 3rd of May 2007. There is currently a £100,000 reward for the safe return of Madeleine. If you have any informat

Cookin' Up More Fun Than A Barrel of Monkeys

2011-05-07T12:39:00.004-05:00

Do monkeys cook ... ? And in barrels?! Talented little buggers, aren't they! No, this is a different kind of cooking Monkey. My lovely friend Crystle Didn't I say she is lovely? (who also happens to have Tumblr with yummy recipes) is the administrator of a fun little group called...

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Hmmm...

2011-05-04T20:49:00.000-05:00

Maybe I should have waited on NaBloPoMo until after my finals were over...? Stay tuned folks, the brain cells are currently otherwise occupied. view blog reactions | tags: testVisit http://lageekette.com for more...

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It's Gonna Get Ugly

2011-05-01T22:50:00.000-05:00

Bin Laden is confirmed dead, and this development is sure to draw retaliation. Don't get me wrong, this is a great accomplishment. Just keep our military members in your prayers, please. view blog reactions | tags: Bin Laden, AfghanistanVisit http://lageekette.com for more...

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Maybe...

2011-04-30T12:03:00.000-05:00

Life is full of maybes. "Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your...

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Motivation. I needs it.

2011-04-15T11:54:00.001-05:00

Yeppers, boys and girls. Motivation is what's been missing. It happens to all of us sometimes. You let something get to you a little too much and before you know it, you're enveloped by it. Motivation is the first thing to go right down the toilet. I've begun walking almost every other day. ...

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Aw... poo...

2011-04-04T22:18:00.003-05:00

You know what I hate? Limbo. Limbo sucks. Not the neighborhood yardstick-propped-up-by-tiki-torches game. I'm talking about life's little tastes of purgatory. Where people go when they're kind of messed up, need space, or just time to think. Sure it sounds hunky dory and...

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Gracie's Words of Wisdom

2010-12-09T11:02:00.001-06:00

Last night my children and I watched The Nativity Story, a beautifully done movie depicting the events leading up to the birth of Christ. The idea was to give them a better understanding and almost first-hand view of why we celebrate Christmas and the importance of God in our lives. There was...

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You are made for so much more than all of this

2010-11-07T11:11:00.003-06:00

It's funny, the chain of events and people who lead us to the changes in life, both good and bad, which bring us lessons and ultimately new-found strength and renewal. We face adversity, reach a state of hopelessness and feelings of loss and teeter on that dangerous knife's edge, upon which we...

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You just never know where your inspiration will come from

2010-09-23T07:21:00.000-05:00

You know when you hit one of those points in your life when you desperately need some inspiration, encouragement and a good kick in the butt to prevent you from throwing in the towel and believing all the lies? Yep, one of those. So this morning I wake up, do the morning rush with the kids,...

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It's a Sort of Organized Chaos

2010-08-28T13:22:00.000-05:00

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." – Henry Van Dyke It's been quite an eventful summer. Since our last lil' talk I've moved in with another single mom and her three children (yes, this equals SIX crazy little...

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Something's Kinda Stinky 'Round Here...

2010-04-06T14:45:00.001-05:00

When it comes to naivete and looking at the world through rose-colored glasses, honey, I've got that market cornered in a BIG way. You give me some pretty words and a little hint here and there that you care, and I'm all over it like flies on... well, you get the idea. The funny thing is that I...

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Geek Patrol Wanted

2010-02-25T09:43:00.001-06:00

I have a Pentium 4 processor in my modded Dell Dimension 5100. There are 2 512 memory cards in it. I've done a lot in my computer's internals, but this is out of my league: A while back, my power supply blew. It wasn't the best, and pretty low wattage. I just went and picked up a 400 watt and...

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For lack of sufficient caffeine

2009-06-13T08:03:00.004-05:00

Today's vocabulary lesson: (Found on a now-defunct blog) TESTICULATING. Waving your arms around and talking Bollocks. BLAMESTORMING. Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible. SEAGULL MANAGER. A manager who flies in, makes a lot...

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For My Mother

2009-05-06T08:55:00.008-05:00

I love my mom. As crazy as my family is and as much energy as I've spent trying to extricate myself from the madness of my past, my mother is still very important to me. In the past I've written about some less-than-palatable times we've had. Yes, there were many. We've fought, we've turned...

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The Obligatory (& Much Belated) 100 Things

2009-03-25T11:13:00.000-05:00

1) I was born in the year of the pig. 2) I’m an Aries. 3) I share a birthday with Hayley Mills and James Woods. 4) My name (Shanna) means: ~ Hebrew: 1. Beautiful, 2. God is gracious; variation of Shannon; lovely ~ Nickname for Shoshana (Hebrew) "lily, rose"; short form of Shannon or...

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Stuff and Happenin's

2009-01-04T11:54:00.002-06:00

Talk about a busy new year! I'm busily trying to sew/knit/crochet/embroider/and otherwise craft all the projects I've put off for entirely too long. Not all at once, mind you. I'm not THAT insane! Meanwhile, my sewing machine has decided it doesn't like to do zig-zag stitches anymore. Which...

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From The Mouths of Babes

2009-01-01T12:36:00.002-06:00

Gracie, my 5-year-old, is about to play some Noggin games on the computer. I need to first explain that Gracie is wise beyond her tender years. She's got such a beautiful sense of the world around her. Once, when things were pretty tough around here, she came up to me and said, "Mommy, we've tried...

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Scary...

2008-11-08T09:23:00.000-06:00

Last week a little six-year-old boy from my kids' Tae Kwon Do class (my kids got a scholarship from the owners, bless them both) was hit by a van. His mother and little brother were with him, and after they'd safely crossed the street and gotten to the parking lot, the boy was struck by a very...

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La vie est un lieu fou, mon cher. Que notre sanctuaire être les uns les autres

2008-11-04T10:41:00.004-06:00

Our lives are so short and so limited to our own perceptions of what we're capable of. What's the difference between the couch potato who dreams of something more, and the man who climbs the Himalayas and lives his dreams? It's only faith. There is no wall, no separating boundary between what...

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Screw Political BS, Let’s have some Truth

2008-11-04T07:38:00.001-06:00

Yep, I'm a Christian. And a Conservative. Really. However, I am also wearing big girl underpants and have the ability to make up my own mind about issues independently from whatever party I'm "supposed" to be following. Frankly, this election is disappointing on both sides. Either direction is...

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Adding to the chaos, just for the fun of it

2008-11-03T11:44:00.002-06:00

As if things weren't crazy enough around this joint, with the kids' schoolwork and Tae Kwon Do lessons, church, my cleaning job, looking for a second job, deaths, health issues (of all sorts from lots of parties in my life) and all the typical chores of single-motherhood, I've decided to return to...

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Catching Up

2008-10-28T12:11:00.003-05:00

Yesterday was a pretty good day all around. Lots going on, and lots of stress, but Pollyanna prevails! It's recently come to light that a certain Irishman I've had a crush on for a very long time had actually been interested in me for just as long, and I do enjoy the mushiness on the phone - just...

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A new one for the allergist

2007-11-29T22:00:00.000-06:00

My youngest always manages to get more food in her hair than in her mouth. Today was no exception, and she wore my homemade pizza (yum, by the way) like hair-dye frost. Time for a bath! Unfortunately, all my kids hate having their hair washed. My 6-year-old son can be heard three counties...

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Everybody's a comedian

2007-11-17T16:39:00.001-06:00

My six-year-old son came up to me this morning with a new joke: "Mom, how many cats does it take to change a lightbulb?" "Hmmm. I don't know. How many?" "A thousand! That's a lot of cats Mom!" Meanwhile, as I try to figure out the punchline, he continues, "Now if it was baby cats, that...

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So far this morning....

2007-11-10T10:30:00.000-06:00

My 6-year-old has somehow gotten orange juice up his nose. It's apparently quite painful. My 4-year old has used her Barbie cellphone to call the "pretend police" to notify them of my decision to make Cream o' Wheat for breakfast. She stated, "It's not wego (legal) to feed kids that stuff!" No,...

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2007-05-12T00:00:00-07:00

Find Madeleine McCann
British 3 year old Madeleine McCann was abducted from her apartment bedroom in Praia da Luz holiday village(Algarve, Portugal) on Thursday 3rd of May 2007. There is currently a £100,000 reward for the safe return of Madeleine.

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