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Family Tree

Ironically enough, I titled this blog in relation to one side of the family and am now building a family tree with the other.  C’est la vie.  I guess I’ll have to figure out how to say that in Chamorro. View more of Christine’s tree | Get your own family tree at Geni.com I have [...]

System Failure

The system would be me. I seem unable to keep up with anything in the past year. I feel as though things snowballed on me, that I just now noticed. On the up side, I have recently resumed the purge of unnecessary household objects. And have delivered several carloads of stuff that was cluttering up [...]

Holiday Blues

The past two days I have woken up feeling very blue. For some reason it is bothering me that this is the first Christmas that I will spend without my grandmother. She and I often did not see each other on Thanksgiving or Christmas day, but at other times during the season to celebrate. So [...]

Red Maple

I have a deep and abiding love for trees. I’m told it’s very un-Republican of me. I compost too. When we moved into our house in 2000, I planted over a dozen trees. I was unable to convince DH to buy a lot covered with trees. So I planted some myself. It’s difficult to tell [...]

Frustration

The theme for this week seems to be it’s always something. Dammit! by gfpeck My copy of Quicken has stopped accepting data from any bank. Which DH says hardly seems fair since I did pay for it. Right. Annoying. Investigated and tried Online Quicken, which stinks. Ascendo which is beautiful if you only keep one [...]