27
Jan
Posted by merlisser in Melissa's life. Tagged: 2009, Arkansas, cat stories, ice storm. Leave a Comment
Ice 992
Originally uploaded by Arkansas farmboy
Arkansas doesn’t really get that cold. Most of the time the weather is above freezing and every once in a while it will dip below freezing at night time. We rarely get snow and when we do it rarely last longer than 24 hours before it melts away. [...]
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27
Jan
Posted by merlisser in Uncategorized. Tagged: 2009, bacon, clothes. 1 Comment
bacon shoes
Originally uploaded by Smorgasbite
I found this via Smorgasbite, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite food blogs.
These are KEDS with BACON!
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24
Jan
Posted by merlisser in Uncategorized. Tagged: 2009, happy, obama, running, Veronica Mars. 1 Comment
I had some productive days at work
Veronica Mars MOVIE If you admit to not liking Veronica Mars, you lose cool points with me. If you absolutely hate it, I just might think you have neurological problems.
I’m going to be visiting friends next week
I got to see some pictures from a really really long [...]
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20
Jan
Posted by merlisser in politics. Tagged: 2009, awesome videos, Barak Obama, Biden, Inauguration, politics. 2 Comments
“Let it be said by our children’s children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God’s grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to [...]
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20
Jan
Posted by merlisser in politics. Tagged: 2009, Barack Obama, web, white house. 2 Comments
Before & After: WhiteHouse.gov
Originally uploaded by fimoculous
The Obama administration wasted no time in putting up its new website at Whitehouse.gov. The top is the screen shot of the old whitehouse.gov site under the Bush administration.
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19
Jan
Posted by merlisser in General. Tagged: 2009, Martin Luther King Jr., obama. Leave a Comment
I don’t really have anything of importance to say. I wish I had something of profound but I am just a woman with an ear infection trying to hear right and work a little.
For all the African American people and families who endured taunts, rocks, and lynchings just to do the simple things [...]
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17
Jan
Posted by merlisser in running. Tagged: 2009, half marathon, running, training. 1 Comment
During the week thanks to the fatigue that comes when your body is fighting an infection, I had only logged in 4 miles total. So today I thought “hey my weekly mileage is past 17 miles. I’ll just run a half marathon. I’ve run 12 miles before”
Famous last words, people. Famous last [...]
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16
Jan
Posted by merlisser in Melissa's life. Leave a Comment
I got an ear infection. While having an ear infection sounds painful, it really isn’t. The most annoying thing about my ear infection is that I have fluid behind the ear. This means my eustachian tube is clogged with flemmy goodness and I can hear myself breathe and chew but my hearing the outside [...]
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14
Jan
Posted by merlisser in Melissa's life. Tagged: 2009, camera, good samaritan. 2 Comments
I love taking pictures. You can see to the right that I have a flickr account and quite a few photos uploaded over there. I also have shoeboxes full of photos from the predigital photo era of my life: cute toddler pics with my brother, high school, college party pics, and other assorted [...]
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11
Jan
Posted by merlisser in Melissa's life. Tagged: 2009, about me, lists. 2 Comments
This quote from superhero journal inspired me and others. It also set forth a meme of cool things to do.
And there were a few stories that stuck. One was a story that Elizabeth Gilbert paraphrased from a book she had read recently. The question posed was about living in the now and [...]
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