Eating Establishments I Frequent In Sycamore, Illinois

  • Tommy O’s
  • Subway
  • Sweet Dreams Desserts & Catering
  • Los Rancheros
  • Taxco
  • Hy-Vee Deli
  • Sycamore Parkway Restaurant
  • Cabana Charley’s
  • Tom & Jerry’s
  • Rosati’s Pizza

Twenty One Things To Be Thankful For On The Twentyfirst, In No Particular Order

  1. Emerald green corn taller than me, growing outside my front door
  2. Sunshine
  3. Perfect puffy clouds on a bright blue day
  4. The pool at my apartment complex
  5. The new novel I’m working on which is a lot of fun and a great challenge
  6. My laptop
  7. Sprint’s truly Unlimited Data plan
  8. My family and friends who mean more than I could ever say
  9. The Amazon gift card sitting next to me this moment
  10. Books to read
  11. Libraries to get those books for free
  12. Book stores to take those books home and keep
  13. Meaningful work
  14. Everyone who supports Wendy’s Butterfly Garden at the Quad City Botanical Center
  15. Oranges
  16. Hawaii
  17. Beaches
  18. Enough money to pay bills
  19. Caramel covered anything
  20. God’s mercies poured upon me
  21. My twenty one year old son who is the Best Kid Ever (Except for Jesus)

Terrific Tuesday

  • Two of a kind
  • Terrible twos
  • Two by four
  • One if by land, two if by sea
  • Tea for two
  • Bicycle built for two
  • Table for two
  • Two’s company
  • Two faced
  • Two heads are better than one
  • Two peas in a pod
  • It takes two to tango
  • Two wrongs don’t make a right
Two Faced cover art
Two Faced ~ Album by Caleb Webster

 

Items from the “Upcoming Expenses” list on the White Board in front of me which were placed there in 2010

  • haircuts
  • guard suit – H2Owear
  • contacts
  • contact lens solution
  • coat
  • library fine
  • car tag $206
  • virus protection for laptop
  • life insurance due
  • shampoo & conditioner
  • oil change
  • dentist bill
  • shaving cream
  • Shim’s book
  • glasses

Things on the Shelf Next to Me

  • 5 framed photographs of my son as a baby
  • 1 photo of him as a 1st grader
  • 1 photo of myself as a baby with my parents
  • Half a box of business cards for KateyBWriting.com
  • Pink scarf knitted by my friend Anne
  • Disney coffee mug from my sisters
  • Half a case of blank CD cases
  • An interchangeable screwdriver thingy
  • A stapler
  • A bunch of old photo albums
  • A basket of old files & 2 AKX books
  • A flyswatter
  • The boxes from the last 2 digital cameras I purchased
  • A mason jar filled with odds and ends
  • Half a bottle of water
  • An empty vase
  • A package of 100 votive candles from Ikea, 2 missing
  • A remote control that I don’t know what it controls
  • A pen holder filled with Sharpies of all colors
  • A pair of needle nose pliers

sharpies

 

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