It's deja vu all over again!

Comment if you'd like a color, and then list ten things you love which are that color.

I've done it in purple, now karaokegal has given me brown.

1. Chocolate! Especially dark chocolate, especially Ghiradelli Dark w/ Raspberries.
2. The coolest car I ever owned was a brown 1971 Buick Centurion convertible. 8 mpg city, 13 hwy. I called it "Leroy". (Yeah, I used to be a Jim Croce fan.)
3. The lamp on my computer desk has a light brown ceramic base. It looks kinda Art Deco.
4. Woodgrain. I love natural wood, be it oak, maple or knotty pine.
5. Tigereye is a beautiful stone.
6. Brown is my favorite neutral. I have a fair amount of it in my wardrobe. (see icon) If I were to list each item individually, the list would way excede 10.
7. Baked potatoes. (Well, the outside is brown. And when you add some white sour cream and yellow butter, green chives, orange cheese and red bacon, you can taste the rainbow.)
8. Molasses, when combined with the rest of the ingredients to make gingerbread. Hmm, I haven't baked any gingerbread in ages....
9. Brownstone houses, which speak to my New York roots.
10. I've occasionally fantasized about having a chocolate brown poodle named Cocoa Chenille.

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It's deja vu all over again!

Comment if you'd like a color, and then list ten things you love which are that color.

I've done it in purple, now karaokegal has given me brown.

1. Chocolate! Especially dark chocolate, especially Ghiradelli Dark w/ Raspberries.
2. The coolest car I ever owned was a brown 1971 Buick Centurion convertible. 8 mpg city, 13 hwy. I called it "Leroy". (Yeah, I used to be a Jim Croce fan.)
3. The lamp on my computer desk has a light brown ceramic base. It looks kinda Art Deco.
4. Woodgrain. I love natural wood, be it oak, maple or knotty pine.
5. Tigereye is a beautiful stone.
6. Brown is my favorite neutral. I have a fair amount of it in my wardrobe. (see icon) If I were to list each item individually, the list would way excede 10.
7. Baked potatoes. (Well, the outside is brown. And when you add some white sour cream and yellow butter, green chives, orange cheese and red bacon, you can taste the rainbow.)
8. Molasses, when combined with the rest of the ingredients to make gingerbread. Hmm, I haven't baked any gingerbread in ages....
9. Brownstone houses, which speak to my New York roots.
10. I've occasionally fantasized about having a chocolate brown poodle named Cocoa Chenille.

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The Universe has come to my rescue

A little while ago, the doorbell rang.* I wasn't expecting anyone, and after some kid tried to sell me a discount card yesterday, I was a little wary, but hooray, it was a father-and-son team who offered to mow my front yard for $5. Front and back for $10, I asked. YES.

It's being mowed even as I type, and that's one less thing to stress me out. Because this is the first time it's been cut since last fall, we're heading into the rainy season, and I just plain can't afford $25 for mowing. This is clearly the Universe patting me on the back---maybe for giving away my nail file yesterday---and I'm really relieved.

It's all good.

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And a big ol' tag for timing, because if they'd rung the bell ten seconds later, I would've been in flagrante in the loo at the far end of the house,

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The Universe has come to my rescue

A little while ago, the doorbell rang.* I wasn't expecting anyone, and after some kid tried to sell me a discount card yesterday, I was a little wary, but hooray, it was a father-and-son team who offered to mow my front yard for $5. Front and back for $10, I asked. YES.

It's being mowed even as I type, and that's one less thing to stress me out. Because this is the first time it's been cut since last fall, we're heading into the rainy season, and I just plain can't afford $25 for mowing. This is clearly the Universe patting me on the back---maybe for giving away my nail file yesterday---and I'm really relieved.

It's all good.

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And a big ol' tag for timing, because if they'd rung the bell ten seconds later, I would've been in flagrante in the loo at the far end of the house,

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