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| Twelve Twelve -- 12/12/04 |
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I was trying to think of a title for this entry and the date caught my eye -- twelve twelve oh four. Heh. I'm easily amused. Twelve times twelve... oh, that's gross. (Jim, stop playing with your words! -- I told you I was easily amused.) Hey, just wait eight more years -- then the date would be twelve twelve twelve! We had a Christmas tree malfunction last night... It fell over. I have always been paranoid about Christmas trees falling over -- ever since Christmas of 1966 when a tree fell over on a hardwood floor, smashing many beloved antique ornaments -- and for years would do things like run monofilament line from screws in the sides of window frames just to play it safe. The past couple of years I had stopped doing that and instead placed a pair of fifty-pound bags of sand against the tree stand. This year the new tree stand seemed to be quite secure. I thought about the sand bags but figured they weren't needed. *sigh* The slowness of the crash and the wall-to-wall carpeting saved most of the ornaments -- the ones that broke were mostly ones where the tree hit an end table and a coffee table. Fortunately, none of the remaining antiques and none of the ones with strong sentimental attachments were damaged. The base of the tree stand now has two 50-lb. bags of sand and two 25-lb barbell weights holding it steady. Last night Nancy and I played Monopoly with Jill and Eli. I thought I was doing well for a while, but Nancy ended up the big winner. I loved Monopoly when I was a kid. In fact, I liked it enough that when I was around ten I bought my own copy. I think it cost around four dollars -- and this was in a day when a five stick package of chewing gum or a candy bar cost five cents, a comic book ten cents, a paperback novel twenty-five cents. [That preceding sentence had originally said nickel, dime, and quarter -- and then I thought about readers from outside North America and about how confusing British writing can be for Americans when it is full of quids and crowns and guineas and shillings.] This was the first time I've played it in maybe four or five years. It was fun. I had trouble falling asleep last night. For years and years I had insomnia... but in recent years that has been a rare problem (frequently encountered when I would be away on a business trip)... usually I seem to be so tired when I get to bed that I can't keep my eyes open for more than a few pages of whatever book I might be reading and don't have any problem sleeping unless something wakes me up when I've only been asleep for a short time. Last night, however, sleep just wouldn't come. So I read and read and read... Finally fell asleep around four a.m. -- and got up around seven-thirty, so here I am at lunchtime feeling very tired and foggy-headed... This week's Sunday Brunch questions deal with color: 1) What is your favorite color? Blue
Brown. 4) What color do you like to wear most often? Blue. I usually wear blue jeans. Half of my dress shirts are blue. 5) Name your favorite possession of each color of the rainbow: (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, purple) I think I have to pass on this one. Favorite possession that is red? Favorite possession that is orange? I just can't think of answers. |
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