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Enter your blog post here…As for as blogging is concerned I think that it is a great tool for some and a wonderful place to express oneself for others. I have to admit that I personally never really got in to it.  Maybe its like so many other things in life that you’d love to spend more time doing but now is just not the time. That and the fact that for me it feels strange knowing that anyone can read it. It could be that I need don’t feel like I have much to say that would be that interesting for other people to read. I not sure what is is. I’d really love to do some scrapbooking too but this type of activity also requires a certain amount of time, energy and creativity. I don’t know maybe some day I will again. I am glad that I learned about the process though cuz you never know.

Enter your blog post here…I just finished my blog but something happened and it didn’t publish and now I don’t have enough time to write the same thing allover again. Perhaps this is just as well so I can write about my frustration concerning my low computer literacy. Just when I think I’m catching on I realize that I’ve got so far to go. This is not fun to deal with.

Enter your blog post here…Assignment: Senses. hmmm… Well this might be an interesting assignment as this could mean different things to different people. Senses as in taste, touch, smell, hear and vision?  In this case there is alot to write about. (I’m so thankful for these!) There are other senses as well such as non sense, common sense or perhaps a sixth sense. These could also make for some interesting blogs. Guess I’ll have to wait until Thursday.

Enter your blog post here…Dialogue: Teen girls.

Oh my gosh did you here what those girls were talking about in english tody?

What girls?

You know "those" girls

Oh ya, I did a little but I normally don’t pay that much attention.

Well you should have today. I’m mean it’s not like I’d hang out with them or anything, but I like talking to them sometimes. it’s like thier in a completely different world or something. I think it’s hilarious.

What do you mean?

Cuz, all they do is talk about thier sex lives all hour.

Wow. My mom says that I can’t have a "boyfriend" until I’m seventeen.

hahahahaha Ya well mine says that I can start dating after I’m married!

Ya, they worry too much.

Well even if I wanted to I’d never have the time. I’m in way too many activities.

Maybe they do that cuz they don’t have anything else to do.

ya maybe

Enter your blog post here…Lonely Apartment seeks resident. Two spacious bedrooms. Shirley’s back in town after ten years away. needs to find a place fast. Takes one look at the place chooses which bedroom will be hers sign the lease and searches the classifieds once more in order to find a quick suitable room mate. She finds a few jots the numbers down and begins to make a few phone calls. One of them turn out to be an old classmate freshly divorced although she doesn’t realize it at first because she didn’t recognize the last name. They are so exited they can hardley stand it. Alice begins moving in that wk. end. Shirley thinks great Apt. perfect roommate or is she? What Shirly doesn’t know is that the reason she got divorced is because she got caught cheating on her husband but is still happily dating the guy. This is the same guy Shirley is dating although neither one of them have a clue, yet that is until …..Until boyfriend shows up one night.  Guess what happens?

Enter your blog post here…It’s not a good thing to suffer a writers block while taking a creative writing class.  Try as I might nothing seems to come.  So, I thought since this is the case I might as well write about it.  I guess I just don’t feel so creative lately or maybe its just that I have too many other things on my mind I’m not sure.  If anyone has some good advice or know the cure for this,  Please let me know! I would be so grateful. 

Enter your blog post here…  I found an interesting poem about Itchy Feet so I thought that this might be the perfect time and place to share it.  Hope you enjoy it!

Itchy feet

Though it’s well off the beaten track
The ruins of a house provide
Some shelter to wanderers who lack
a fixed abode where they abide.

Some tramps are educated men
who’ve opted out of the rat race
Yet others can’t go home again
because they left in black disgrace.

And some their inner demons drive
to keep on moving constantly
The travel but do not arrive
just keep on moving endlessly.

Their goal they can’t identify.
They meet and greet occasionally
but keep a wary weather eye.
True friendship is in short supply.

Each man a complete mystery.
They all obey the traveller’s code
You do not ask their history.
The reasons why they’re on the road.

They’re free to go and free to come
Some choose to stay a day or two.
The ruin bids them all welcome
as any haven ought to do.

Though it’s well off the beaten track
It’s widely known to travellers.
For some of them keep coming back
to the sparse comfort it offers.

So when the winter storms draw near.
Stray wanderers start to arrive,
they will wait out the winter here
and do their best to stay alive.

When spring returns their wanderlust
will set them travelling again.
They will not stay but go they must
this hopeless breed of homeless men.

30-Apr-07

ivor .e hogg

Enter your blog post here…100 things I like
1. a good book
2. warm weather
3. when my kids are happy (of course)
4. our cat
5. Dinner A from Phoenix Wok
6. Cold stone ice cream
7. sleeping in
8. stating up late
9. when my kids are excited about something
10. adventures
11. music
12. movies
13. a good laugh
14. sincerity
15. the
16. benefit of the doubt
17. nice surprises
18. when there’s nothing on the to do list
19. diet dew
20. chocolate
21. learning something new
22. accomplishing something I didn’t think I could do
23. swimming
24. bike riding
25. musicals
26. concerts
27. cards or letters in the mail
28. picnics
29. boating
30. possibilities
31. my nieces and nephews
32. hearing good news
33. to be understood
34. coffee with creamy chocolate creamer
35. watching my kids perform at their annual recital
36. pictures
37. art
38. old people (for the most part)
39. old cottages and houses when their kept up
40. history
41. kindness
42. people you can trust
43. good customer services
44. gadgets
45. inventions
46. thinking up ideas for businesses
47. to be appreciated
48. to do makeovers (hair)
49. what the mission for people
50. encouragement
51. letting the wild side out every once in a while
52. freedom
53. be silly with my kids
54. sometimes I like to be wrong
55. sometimes I like to be right
56. flower gardens like Munsinger gardens in St. Cloud
57. tulips in the spring
58. being near water when its really hot out
59. wine
60. long island teas
61. being organized
62. knowing what’s going on
63. friendly people
64. amusement parks
65. aha moments
66. to do things for other people
67. kids in general
68. someone who’s willing to help when you need it
69. like to watch my daughter cheer at basketball games with my other daughter
70. like going to the basketball games because they have such a good team this year
71. random acts of kindness
72. when effort pays off
73. dreaming
74. comfy clothes
75. pedicures
76. jeans that fit
77. a good hair day
78. happy endings
79. the underdog
80. justice
81. solutions
82. feeling capable
83. the way I feel when I’m in love
84. when the good guy wins
85. eating when someone else cooks
86. color
87. homemade cards and presents
88. the purple blanket my grandma made
89. the blue blanket my grandpa made
90. my grandma Brundin’s lefse
91. feeling that Dane’s o.k. in Iraq
92. knowing where my kids are and that they’re safe
93. praying
94. when there’s enough time in the day to do everything I have to do
95. respect
96. good intentions
97. to dance
98. to sing (even though I couldn’t carry a tune to save my life)
99. snow days
100. vacations from to do lists

100 things I hate

1. jerks
2. arrogance
3. not knowing how to do something
4. misunderstandings
5. when evil thrives
6. feeling overwhelmed
7. not having enough money to pay my bills
8. bad decisions
9. rude people
10. grocery shopping
11. gossip
12. being taken for granted
13. being used
14. mind games
15. poverty
16. war
17. injustice
18. cold hearts
19. stereotypes
20. when kids are hurt
21. suffering
22. bad endings
23. when the nice guy finishes last
24. being lied to
25. wrong directions
26. greed
27. the to do list
28. laundry
29. not being able to support my kids like I’d like to
30. narrow mindedness
31. apathy
32. getting up early
33. cooking
34. failing despite my best efforts
35. cruelty
36. bills
37. jumping through hopes
38. feeling helpless
39. a bad haircut
40. hearing bad news
41. hypocrisy
42. politicians’ who lie
43. being talked down to
44. rules that make no sense
45. feeling betrayed
46. minimum wage
47. Wal-Mart
48. corporate welfare
49. knowing that there are so many people who are suffering around the world
50. people who don’t care
51. being stupid
52. snap judgments
53. religious politics with self serving agendas
54. people who make fun of others for believing in God
55. when bad things happen to good people
56. being cold
57. temperatures below 0
58. not having what I need to do what I have to do
59. when people assume the worse
60. that my kids don’t even know what it would be like to have a real father
61. being a single parent
62. feeling exhausted
63. when its too late
64. not knowing the why
65. trying to put things together with an instruction manual
66. standing in line
67. most of my clothes
68. a waste of time
69. senseless busy work
70. frustration
71. things that are harder than they have to be
72. being bored
73. icy roads
74. having nothing to offer
75. when things don’t work the way that they are supposed to
76. going into the cupboard for something thinking you had it when someone put an empty container back in
77. forgetting to pack something important
78. getting lost
79. losing my keys
80. the book freakonomics
81. going for a doctors appt. (especially because I am female)
82. that the same rules do not apply for everyone
83. working hard and having nothing to show for it
84. clogged sinks
85. being computer illiterate
86. threats
87. fighting
88. not knowing where to start
89. feeling clueless
90. liars
91. cheaters
92. having zits and wrinkles at the same time
93. know it alls
94. lame excuses
95. bad advice
96. “I told you so”s
97. fear
98. violence
99. vandalism
100. hate

Enter your blog post here…Submissions are due tomorrow for the Inkwell tomorrow and I hope that everyone in class chooses at least one if not more pieces to submit.  I was talking to my cousin Dinah and she said that she was thinking about submitting a painting. I wasn’t paying attention because I thought that this was for writers only, so I guess clueless suits me well.  I was also thinking about how we could get more people involved in this and I thought of Kit Brennen the principals management instructor.  I took this class last semester and I thinking that maybe her class may be able to help out.  You know think up some kind of marketing stradegy in order to get the word out and get more students and locals excited about this project. It really is such a great opportunity for locals to have thier works published and I want it to thrive.  Kit really is all about the students and Jen is too and so I was just thinking that it would be a great opportunity to work together and see what could happen with this club.  If anyone actually reads this please submit something.  I was told that it looks really good on a transcript and I would imagine a resume as well! Have a great spring break!!

Enter your blog post here…  This is a memory that I hold dear to my heart just thinking of it makes my heart melt all over again.  It is the day I brought my youngest daughter home from the hospital.  Since she was born early she had been kept the special care nursary of Abbot NW hospital a little longer than usual.  She was healthy but there are always concerns about preemies.  I wasn’t expecting to be able to take her home just a week after she was born but earlier the docter had pronounced her to be "perfect" music to my ears.  My mother went with me to get her while Brent stayed stayed home to be with Lily (who had just turned two three days earlier) and Dane who was 8 going on 9 at the time.  Dane would have to wait until after school to meet his new baby sister but Lily was sooo excited!  We opened the door and comes running just as fast as she can she couldn’t wait to meet her. Not yet poddy trained but wow she had a great grasp on langauge. I put the car seat down so she could have a peak.  Through giggles she exclaimed "oh, mommy mommy it’s a real one!  It’s a real one baby doll mommy!"  (like any toddler she had lots of dolls)  She squats down puts her sweet little toddler hand on her sister’s head and proceeds to sing to her the whole Jesus loves me song!  No prompting no encouragment this came from her own heart which is why it melts mine.  So sweet, so beautiful, so innocent, so perfect.  I couln’t imagine a better homecoming for her baby sister than that!