Serena’s Neighborhood

you are taking the Juno joke much too far.

NO

CO-SIGN, I CANNOT.

Star12

Show us your key chain. How many keys are on there?
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Keys

Just two - one for the house and one for the car.  Not sure what happened to the PO box key.  I ahare this car and these keys with my husband.  It is for the non-preferred car which I always seem to end up with.  I think I will have to start putting embarrassing ornaments (eg, pink fluffly animals etc) on the other set so my husband is too embarrassed to carry them and I end up with the preferred car more often. 

I'm a cut whoever did this to Doutzen Kroes. Not even in wax. NOT EVEN in wax.

Doutzen

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Walkscore.com recently ranked America's most walkable neighborhoods and cities. Where does your hometown land in the rankings? And how much do you actually find yourself walking instead of driving?

I don't think this was very accurate for my neighbourhood as it doesn't include proximity to public transport.  It came up with a score of 38 or "car dependent" just by measuring distances to various facilities such as a 7-11 (who needs one of these when the corner stores are so good?).  We have tenants in the flat behind our house who get by quite well without a car.  We probably could too except for the need to (or should I say added ease of?) ferry the kids around in one.  Even then we could probably manage if we sent them to the school closest to our house rather than to the one across the highway from where we live.  Our only extra curricular activity at the moment Kung Fu which is a five minute walk away or a train ride into the city (the kids attend classes at two locations).  Will be more difficult when the kids start swimming again as there is no public pool within our neighbourhood (a travesty in my view). 

Who needs a 7-11 when you can get everything you need (including fresh and cheap fruit and vegetables) here? Photo from Sydney Daily Photo blog. 

Do you ever read the "Acknowledgments" at the beginning or end of a book? Why or why not? Bonus points: What book contains your favorite acknowledgments?
Submitted by Strive2Be.

I do but then my husband jokes that I am such a compulsive reader that I would even read the phone book (or, Heaven forbid, the Sports pages!) if I was stuck with nothing else to read (and yes, I must admit that I have done both these things).  I don't normally remember them though so wouldn't be able to pick a favourite (not that tragic!). 

So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading

Sara Nelson

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Red Fruits

The fruit of silence is prayer.
The fruit of prayer is faith.
The fruit of faith is love.
The fruit of love is service.
The fruit of service is peace.

Thank You

I want to say THANKS for all of your support and comfort on my grandma's death, God I hate that word. I have been calling Jakarta and talked to my family especially my mom coz she was really close to my grandma and has been taking care of her when she was ill, My grandma was buried in the same ground as my granddad. I will miss her terribly, she was 92 years old, she was a very tough lady who brought up 9 children all by herself after her husband died when I was probably 3 years old. I miss talking to her in the morning with her usual cheerful way when she's talking in Javanese which I never understand, I always think that she did it on purpose coz she talks in Indonesian language with other people but not to her children and grandchildren or great grandchildren, mom always told me to learn our traditional Javanese language so I could understand her but I guess me and my cousins who were brought up in the city wouldn't bother that much in learning the traditional language. I think it's my grandma's way in teaching us coz yes I did understand a word or two, but that's all. Sorry Grandma.

Anyway, the other day before I heard the bad news, I was at my MIL's house, she took me to cut my hair and I decided to just trim it a little and then we spent the whole day making Muffins, my FIL went to his relative's funeral in Nottingham so I accompanied her until my husband came off from work and picked me up. It was lovely to taste the muffin straight off the oven.

Blueberrys muffins

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My husband has been so kind as well to take the day off today and took me out to town, he thought it might cheer me up , he bought me a sundress and a mug that says "Her Ladyship", we are still arguing about the mug he wanted to get me which is "Cheeky Monkey" which I don't like and I wanted the mugh with my name on it in the other shop but he doesn't want to get that for me, I think it's been 2 months now that we were arguing about mugs, oh well I have to settle for this one he bought me though.

Uptown

I had a nice day, a nice walk with my husband, we also collected my wedding ring that they resized it. Thank You again.

Sex and the City

1. No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?
   Becky Hartman Edwards and Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Escape from New York, 2000
2. It’s very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.
   Terri Minsky, Sex and the City, The Baby Shower, 1998
3. Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn’t deserve to be hurt.
   Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, 2000
4. When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking.
   Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, The Real Me, 2001
5. The universe may not always play fair, but at least it’s got a hell of a sense of humor.
   Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City
6. That’s the thing about needs. Sometimes, when you get them met, you don’t need them anymore.
   Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, The Good Fight, 2002
7. I admit it’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, or the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit, but maybe the best any of us can do is not quit. Play the hand we’ve been given and accessorize the outfit we’ve got.
   Allan Heinberg, Sex and the City, A ‘Vogue’ Idea, 2002
8. Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn’t fall in love or have babies or be who we are.
   Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, I Heart NY, 2002
9. That’s the key to having it all: stop expecting it to look like what you thought it was going to look like.
   Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Plus One Is The Loneliest Number, 2002
10. There’s some things that people don’t admit because they don’t like the way it sounds.
    Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Plus One Is The Loneliest Number, 2002
11. The fact is, sometimes it’s hard to walk in a single woman’s shoes. That’s why we need really special ones now and then to make the walk a little more fun.
    Jenny Bicks, Sex and the City, A Woman’s Right To Shoes, 2003
12. Nothing else exists when art does.
    Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux, 2004
13. You can’t surprise a man with a dog.
    Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, 2000

- Source

Which one is your favorite? :)