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a blog by Kim Russell

August 30, 2023

Wordless Wednesday 2023 Wk 35

a tomato in the garden, covered in dew

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August 25, 2023

Friday 5: Until it hurts

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Happy Friday, and my last official Summer Friday of the season. Booooo! I'm not down the shore because it's been raining off and on all day both here and there. Instead, WM and I had breakfast at a lovely twee local coffee shop and then ran some errands. Now I'm having a scintillating afternoon backing up my computer's hard drive and organizing all of the extra charging cables we've accumulated. In other words, it's peak Virgo season here at the House on Literary Lane. It's also National ...

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August 11, 2023

Friday 5: For argument’s sake

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Happy Friday! Today was my summer Friday and I took Mom to the beach for the day. It was a good day; however, I think I have to find a new beach. I've been going to Margate for years and it used to be that there would be 15-20 feet between everybody. Since Covid ended and people continued "working from home" (4 out of 5 people are great, number 5 logs into Teams on the beach) the beaches have been slammed. Today a group set up their umbrella and chairs less than four feet in front of us, ...

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June 23, 2023

Friday 5: Be curious, not judgmental

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Happy Friday, which is also National Take Your Dog to Work Day (in 2020 I brought my work home to my dog, who has now spent half of his life with people home all day every day), National Hydration Day, and National Detroit Pizza Day. Midwestern pizza is very heavy and will stop your heart. It's the first official Friday of Summer. It wasn't my Friday off, but I don't mind my summer Fridays "on" because I get so much work done. I call them git'er'done Fridays. We would normally be going ...

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July 16, 2021

Friday 5: Everything in its place

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Happy Friday! This week is my summer Friday, but it wasn't supposed to be. Fun fact: the Big!Work!Upgrade! that was supposed to launch yesterday has been pushed to September. I was planning on forgoing my Summer Friday today to work on pressing upgrade issues (if any), but it's not necessary. Moving the project has left me kind of adrift, because I had the next 2 months of work planned out in my head - upgrade, bug squashing, re-writing/redirecting reports to new server, PTO in September before ...

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August 25, 2019

Lovin’ Summer, had me a blast

I decided a long time ago I have no desire to live past the age of 83. It seems macabre (and trust that I'm not going to kill myself on my 83rd birthday) but when you have more summers behind you than ahead, it puts things in perspective. That gives me a finite number of years and MORE IMPORTANTLY a finite number of summers to enjoy. And I love summer like nobody's business. This summer, I unplugged a little bit so I could enjoy it more. My garden is phenomenal, and I have so many ideas ...

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May 27, 2019

May 2019

(subtitle: where the hell have you been?) Hi there! Heck of a month, eh? I can't quite explain WHY I haven't been blogging, I just haven't. Things have been great though! See? Nephew A's 5th birthday party was at a local farm, which offered stunning views... Mom and I went to the Phillies annual Mother's Day tribute game. It was in the 50s with a cold, cold rain. The Phils won and neither of us caught pneumonia though so all's well that ends well. After years being buried in ...

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August 17, 2018

Friday 5: Regionalism

Happy Friday! This is my last Summer Friday of the summer (weeps, gnashes teeth) so I spent it the way I tried to spend every Summer Friday - down the shore. via GIPHY I made that animated gif! It's 1994 all over again! We got home around 3. I took a shower, had some fast food for dinner and parked myself outside with a stack of magazines to let my hair dry naturally to give it some beachy waves. *** Time for the Friday 5! This week's theme is regionalism, which looks to ...

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August 12, 2018

Currently, summer night edition

Relaxing out in the yard. I feel like we did a lot of outdoor work early in the summer, such as planting grass and ripping out 10,000 dandelions and setting up herb gardens, so it would be a shame to miss out on enjoying it. I wanna sit under my own vine and fig treeA moment alone in the shade Remembering all the time I spent with family this weekend. Yesterday my cousin had a big ol' BBQ at his place, replete with food and beer and a firepit and strands of outdoor lights. I am a ...

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July 6, 2018

Friday 5: Happy ASLIRT

Happy Friday! Today was my summer Friday off and ... it rained. Womp womp. I don't have a shore house or relatives with a shore house, so we are daytripping folk. If it rains, we stay home. Except Mom and I went to lunch today at Zinburger (omg yum) and poked in and out of Ulta and Barnes and Noble. Then we got her new wireless network set up. I played some Diablo, spent time with WM, and now I'm sitting outside in my lounge chair as the sun sets. A damn good day. *** Time for the Friday ...

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June 9, 2017

Friday 5: Tiny gestures

Happy Friday! This is my first Summer Friday of the year! At TNP we can have every other Friday off during the summer as long as we make up the extra hours in advance. It is sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. This morning I took Ollie to the vet for a shot and was lectured about his weight. I love my vet office, but a quarter of the techs love to make you think you're the worst pet owner ever. Yes, the dog is heavy. He's always been. Yes, we do measure his food and hold back on treats. Yes, his head's ...

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April 20, 2006

naturally summer

From my Treo! Summer! An original photo by ladygypsy. 80 degrees today. Wearing tan twinset, a-line brown skirt with tan print, brown heels, tan headband and NO stockings kinda retro...i love summer! it's getting difficult to resist the call of the tanning booth. on one hand, I'm probably days away from skin cancer from all of my past sunning sins, so tanning would be dumb. but on the other hand, I'm probably days away from skin cancer ANYWAY from my past sunning sins, so why not do it ...

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I've been blogging for over twenty (2 decades! 2-0!) years and I'm apparently one of the few over-50 female bloggers who haven't sold out to THE MAN yet; hence this blog remains quirky, homespun, and unprofitable. No big. However, if you're from Disney, Doritos, or Dave Matthews Band, I'm open to talk about selling out.

I live in Southern New Jersey with my husband WM, and our dog Murphy. I'm an adult who likes Disney but not a Disney Adult. I used to work a fun (really!) office job in Philadelphia, but since March of 2020 I'm a work from home hermit. So if you're looking for a childless, slightly round, marginally boring GenX woman's blog to follow, you've come to the right place! :)

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