December 2009
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Christine Chronicles (old blog) →
I really made an attempt to move my old blog here but I’m lazy and exhausted. This is too painstakingly slow to copy and paste a few years of my life into this new space. So if you are even at all interested to read old entries, you can go here.
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Sisterhood on Facebook... →
Someone on facebook posted her sister’s hook-up list as revenge for getting her grounded for 3 months. Kinda hilarious but really sad, especially the announcement, “Ladies and gentlemen, my sister is a whore.” What’s wrong with people?
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Day 4 at Church
I attended mass for the fourth time this week. My mom knocked on my door early this morning to wake me up. She actually left me the option to sleep in since I had already gone to mass last Sunday, Monday (Simbang Gabi) and Friday (at 7am Christmas mass!), but her eyes were actually saying as she has told me repeatedly throughout my lifetime, “You don’t really have to go, but I...
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Sarabande
9:47 am. We are late to our tee time. We pull up in the Corolla (the 4th Corolla that I am bound to drive in life) to the course to be welcomed by two dozen, red-shirted club members ready to start. My opponents, poofy haired 60-somethings wore large floral hats bedazzled in good luck jewelry, or as my 69- year-old aunt would say “da bling bling.” Who needs to practice when you can get through a...
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Kidnapping in the Villages
“Oh I heard he is a sex addict. Seben times in one night! Can you believe dat? Seben times! Poor Elin!”
This afternoon, I was kidnapped. In most kidnapping cases, the kidnapper is a known family member. My assailant was my 68-year-old aunt who just needed to get out of the house. My mother wasn’t home so I was the next easiest victim, stranded in the land of retirement without a car. Her Cadillac...
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