Posted in Birthdays, Easter, Holidays & Celebrations, Just Rattling On, Needlework, The Hooligan Chronicles, embroidery, tagged birthday cake, Dewey's Pizza, flooded basement, heavy rain, overworked, post-operative recovery, signs of spring on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Geez, what a month March has been! First, I’m going to be whiney about how many hours I’ve been putting in at work. And the sorry part of it is, I felt as if I wasn’t seeing any results all those nights I stayed until 7 o’clock or later, or those weekends I brought work [...]
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Posted in Hippos and Dooney, St. Patrick's Day, The Hooligan Chronicles, tagged Build-a-Bear, cheetah, Christmas hippo, leprechaun, St. Paddy's Day, St. Patrick's Day, step dancing, stuffed animals, wearing of the green on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Like the rest of us, the Christmas hippos and Dooney the cheetah are ready to celebrate their Irish heritage today. (Actually, we’re not sure any of them are truly Irish, but Diamondqueen and the Hooligan children just couldn’t resist the cool duds.)
Dooney is wearing the ideal step-dancing dress, complete with Celtic knot embroidery. I can just [...]
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On Tuesday night when I let myself into my sister’s house, I was startled to find Diamondqueen and my niece and nephew all sitting on the stairs. They were beaming at me with big, cheesy grins on their faces. I was so taken aback that it took a few seconds for the focus of their [...]
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