Quilly | February 27, 2009
– make certain you have no internet at all. We expect we’ll land in Kansas any time now. We’re in the midst of a major wind storm. It has made the internet erratic and undependable at best. There is a high wind advisory in effect and isn’t scheduled to be lifted until 6 p.m. tomorrow [...]
Category: Hawaii, Internet, blogging, current events, nature, weather |
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Tags: internet connectivity, weather, wind
Quilly | February 26, 2009
Welcome to Three Word Thursday #3. This week, joining the quondam word-list, we have opprobrious, quondom, & casuistry. We also have a whole list of perspicacious writers. If you enjoy reading my story, leave a comment than click on the names of the other players and go see how they used the words. You’ll be [...]
Category: creative writing, entertainment, humor |
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Tags: 3WT, Add new tag, creative writing, Three Word Thursday
Quilly | February 25, 2009
Melli, our hostess with the mostest, presents: The ALPHABET PHOTO CHALLENGE Week Six: K & L Thom stood right in our driveway and agreed this was a “K” — after OC told him to! “L” of course. What else could it be? See. L. Of course! If you thought this was fun, you should go [...]
Category: humor, meme |
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Tags: Melli's Alphabet Photo Challenge
Quilly | February 24, 2009
At work I am clearing out the 2008 files and getting them put away in some semblance of order, and I discover a file named: Z – Miscellaneous. . I open it and find: Xerox invoices. . Of course. . I am surprised my predecessor didn’t file everything under S … . …. for stupid.
Category: employment, humor |
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Tags: filing, work
Quilly | February 23, 2009
No post. Move along. Technical difficulties have left me very poor company anyway. I posted yesterday, looked over the post, liked it and went about my business. I came back a bit later and refreshed my blog and got this bit of alphabet soup. In trying to get my sidebar back where it belongs I [...]
Category: Internet, blogging, current events, stress, technology |
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Tags: unhappy
Quilly | February 23, 2009
What noun (thing) does this photo represent? EMAIL your answers and leave a comment designed to either help or confuse your fellow game players. The first contestant to EMAIL me the right answer wins a featured link in my blog which will display until next Monday when we’ll play this little game again. Enjoy. PLEASE, [...]
Category: blogging, contest, entertainment, humor, photo |
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Tags: Punny Monday 2009
Quilly | February 22, 2009
I meet the nicest people online. You may have noticed a few weeks back that a new gentleman, Thom, started commenting on my blog. I’ve visited his blog a time or two and we’ve traded email back and forth. Then we started talking about meeting in person and shared the particulars of our addresses. Thom [...]
Category: blogging, current events, friends, humor, photo |
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Tags: blogging, Parrot's Beak; bouquet, Proteas, Thom
Quilly | February 21, 2009
If you haven’t read “Pretty Pink Panties,” you’ll want to do so before continuing on. Eight years later I was sitting in a night club with three of my girl-friends. One of them was showing off her flashy engagement ring and telling us all about TheProposal. We were talking and laughing and teasing her, making [...]
Category: friends, memoir |
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Tags: Add new tag, romance
Quilly | February 20, 2009
Do you have an embarrassing nickname? Are you brave enough to share it with us? Better still, are you brave enough to tell the story of how you got it? Pretty Pink Panties My Freshman year in High School a big snow storm stopped the buses but school remained open for the walkers. I rode [...]
Category: friends, memoir |
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Tags: romance
Quilly | February 18, 2009
Welcome to Three Word Thursday #2. I thought there was going to be a fracas over this week’s words, especially when the perspicacious participants learned their reward didn’t involve numismatics. Thankfully, that never came to be ! And we have a bevvy of perspicacious Three Word Thursday #2 Players — with nary a cynicocratical volgivagant [...]
Category: blogging, creative writing, entertainment, humor |
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Tags: 3WT, creative writing, Three Word Thursday