StarStruk By Life

My own look at the world and its inhabitants…

In my refrigerator…

I am going to spend the weekend “off the grid”…spending time with friends and I want to enjoy every moment fully. Our refrigerator has been brimming with leftovers, which we are managing to eat our way through…leaving some behind for hus, the leftover-eating prince (the two kings of leftover-eating are my other dad, Michael, and […]

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Oh, what a beautiful and very cold morning…

So much for complaining about the lack of winter weather…I was talking more along the lines of snow…lots and lots of snow, on occasion…I really hadn’t wanted (or asked for) single digit temperatures (1 degree F from 6:30am…now, at 8:30am, it is a whopping 5 degrees). It is so cold, I am wearing socks…that says […]

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Blog, blog, blog…

As I was doing laundry yesterday, I turned on a movie to watch as I folded…Motherhood, I think it was called, with Uma Thurman…she played a writer whose career was put on hold by mother- and wifehood…she blogged as an outlet, joining the wide world of Mommy Bloggers. I actually enjoyed parts of the movie […]

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We’re not alone here…

On our walk yesterday, we were greeted with day old snow…I immediately noticed the pattern of Boo’s footsteps as he raced ahead.  But then I started noticing footprints that belonged to no one we know…for elimination purposes, the top photos are ours, the rest seem to belong to birds, squirrels and other woodsy creatures we […]

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’twas the day after Christmas…

It snowed again last night…I woke up this morning to find a light blanket of the white stuff outside. It covered Boo’s footprints from yesterday out on the deck and frosted the trees in a dusting of sparkle! A wonderful surprise for our Boxing Day! I had so much gifted to me yesterday. My green-eyed […]

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Empty nest holidays…

There are certain specific holidays which to me are Family Holidays.  We are not religious, so most holidays for us have been centered around family. We have always lived too far from family to spend time with anyone other than the four of us, which simplified our holiday lives. Christmas and New Year and Easter […]

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Our times…

Watching Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s hilarious reaction to the loin-cloth wearing, torchbearing, tattooed streaker running behind her photo opportunity in Hawaii today got my day off to a rollicking start…what a wonderful, genuine full-body laugh!  If you haven’t seen it, seek it out somewhere online. Politics, on the other hand, have me pulling out my hair, […]

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A cooking frenzy…

Despite the fact that hus and I are seriously heavier than we have ever been, and despite the fact that we don’t get enough exercise, we have been cooking up a storm in the last few weeks.  I think I mentioned earlier that I made a killer pot roast…we followed with a delicious and creamy butternut squash and […]

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