The Best Parts http://thebestparts.net Fostering an Attitude of Gratitude Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:25:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 thebestparts/WzFPhttp://feedburner.google.com Macro Monday 3 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thebestparts/WzFP/~3/Sjz7fRGFTnw/ http://thebestparts.net/2010/03/09/macro-monday-3/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:25:00 +0000 Ferd http://thebestparts.net/?p=758

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]]> http://thebestparts.net/2010/03/09/macro-monday-3/feed/ 0 http://thebestparts.net/2010/03/09/macro-monday-3/ A Wine Tasting Dinner http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thebestparts/WzFP/~3/_A03XdNXhXs/ http://thebestparts.net/2010/03/03/a-wine-tasting-dinner/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:05:36 +0000 Ferd http://thebestparts.net/?p=754 Princess Gail and I just got really buzzed back from a wonderful wine tasting dinner! It was absolutely delicious! My only problem is that I maybe have about one glass of wine a year! So by my third or fourth la-de-da wine, my brain was (and is) la-la-la. I should use the spell checker today. [...]]]> Princess Gail and I just got really buzzed back from a wonderful wine tasting dinner! It was absolutely delicious! My only problem is that I maybe have about one glass of wine a year! So by my third or fourth la-de-da wine, my brain was (and is) la-la-la. I should use the spell checker today. I’ll just keep it short. Here’s the menu.

Is they typing hard to read? or is it just me? Why are there two copies of the menu? I just scanned one. And why are the words moving arund like tht?

]]> http://thebestparts.net/2010/03/03/a-wine-tasting-dinner/feed/ 1 http://thebestparts.net/2010/03/03/a-wine-tasting-dinner/ Ass-tronaut http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thebestparts/WzFP/~3/kYuGWd5AyEI/ http://thebestparts.net/2010/02/27/ass-tronaut/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:53:43 +0000 Ferd http://thebestparts.net/2010/02/27/ass-tronaut/ I had to be fitted for a special mask at work yesterday. I took this picture and sent it to Princess Gail. She wrote back and said I looked like an ass-tronaut! I guess I do!

]]> I had to be fitted for a special mask at work yesterday. I took this picture and sent it to Princess Gail. She wrote back and said I looked like an ass-tronaut! I guess I do!

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]]> http://thebestparts.net/2010/02/22/macro-monday-2/feed/ 3 http://thebestparts.net/2010/02/22/macro-monday-2/ Meme’d again! What I do for unlove! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thebestparts/WzFP/~3/bjn5QSDFNd4/ http://thebestparts.net/2010/02/15/memed-again-what-i-do-for-unlove/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:12:00 +0000 Ferd http://thebestparts.net/?p=730 Once again, Queen Mimi is up to her old meme tricks. She snuck up and tagged me when I wasn’t looking, and now I have to do this to stay out of her creepy dungeon!

The UnValentine Grumpy Meme

1. What did you get for Valentine’s Day? Hall’s Mentho-Lyptus. (You can imagine how romantic I look and feel [...]]]> Once again, Queen Mimi is up to her old meme tricks. She snuck up and tagged me when I wasn’t looking, and now I have to do this to stay out of her creepy dungeon!

The UnValentine Grumpy Meme

1. What did you get for Valentine’s Day? Hall’s Mentho-Lyptus. (You can imagine how romantic I look and feel right now.)

2. What will you miss most about Valentine’s Day? I’ll miss the chocolate, but only for a little while. I have stashes all over the place. Valentine’s day comes and goes. Chocolate is forever!

3. What could you have done differently yesterday tomake the day sweeter? I could have taken Princess Gail out to someplace more romantic than Smiley’s BBQ.

4. How many roses make a dozen? Easy. Twelve! Is this a trick question? I’m way too literal and concrete for a question like this. I must be missing something. Twelve, right? Yeah, twelve. I’m sticking to it.

5. You and your love are getting matching tattoos for Valentine’s Day. What will they be? Hmmm… Master/Slave?  Princess/Frog?  Peace/Love? Tarheels/BlueDevils? We should probably both have the same tat. Might have to go with a picture of a red tin foiled chocolate rose! I love those!

6. Does your significant other have an annoying cute little habit you’d like to break? Nope. It’s all part of her charm!

7. What did you get someone for Valentine’s Day? I think I might have given Gail an Upper Respiratory Infection, with all my love.

8. Write one word on this candy heart you’ve been dying to say to a romantic connection from your past. Thanks!

9. Be a poet. Write a 4-line poem starting with Roses are red…. There’s wine in the cup… Now get in the bed… And shut the hell up… ;-)  (That was the UN-love version. I would NEVER talk to Princess Gail like that. I just thought it was funny.) The LOVE version goes: Roses are red… Buntings are blue… In love and in like…  I’m just crazy ’bout you!

10. What song best describes your Valentine’s Day experience this year? All Choked Up.

11. I, Mimi Grumpy Skirt, am so glad this meme is almost over. This is my final question. I made it eleven questions in honor of the 11 roses I didn’t receive. Aren’t they lovely? This is my final final question, Regis:
Two cupids are in a knock down drag out fight on the floor of the Senate. One is a constituent from Venus, the other from Mars.
What is the name of the legislation are they fighting over? Top Down Legislation! I like the sound of that!

;-)



]]> http://thebestparts.net/2010/02/15/memed-again-what-i-do-for-unlove/feed/ 5 http://thebestparts.net/2010/02/15/memed-again-what-i-do-for-unlove/ Lexington BBQ at Smiley’s http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thebestparts/WzFP/~3/8GwKpVUQwTY/ http://thebestparts.net/2010/02/14/lexington-bbq-at-smileys/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:20:17 +0000 Ferd http://thebestparts.net/?p=726 North Carolina prides itself in many things, among them BBQ. There is a famous BBQ festival in Lexington, NC every October. So today we decided to take a little drive down there since it is only about 30 miles away. We had chosen a specific restaurant, but when we arrived, it was closed (on Sundays.) [...]]]> North Carolina prides itself in many things, among them BBQ. There is a famous BBQ festival in Lexington, NC every October. So today we decided to take a little drive down there since it is only about 30 miles away. We had chosen a specific restaurant, but when we arrived, it was closed (on Sundays.) So we Yelped another one, drove there, and it was also closed. We finally got smart and called a few before actually driving there! We found Smiley’s open, and by that time had developed a pretty good appetite! The food was delicious!!!

Here’s a picture of Gail and me at Smiley’s

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]]> This is my first contribution to Macro Monday, a photo meme that my friend Dawn is playing, but I think started at Lisa’s Chaos. This was taken today in my front yard, a camellia, sleeping through the winter.

]]> http://thebestparts.net/2010/01/25/macro-monday/feed/ 10 http://thebestparts.net/2010/01/25/macro-monday/ Happy 24th Kevin!!! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thebestparts/WzFP/~3/Kr_6Y8THvoI/ http://thebestparts.net/2010/01/22/happy-24th-kevin/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:35:10 +0000 Ferd http://thebestparts.net/?p=711 Happy birthday, Kevin! You will always be my best dude!

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]]> http://thebestparts.net/2010/01/22/happy-24th-kevin/feed/ 3 http://thebestparts.net/2010/01/22/happy-24th-kevin/ Haitians need our help! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thebestparts/WzFP/~3/pppQ6r3wxpY/ http://thebestparts.net/2010/01/14/haitians-need-our-help/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:33:45 +0000 Ferd http://thebestparts.net/?p=703

This blog is about the best parts. Natural disasters like the one happening in Haiti belong in some other blog, about the worst parts. The “best” lies in how we respond as human beings. Nations are mobilizing to help the survivors. Without immediate aid, the survivors will fall to dehydration, malnutrition, typhoid, wound infections, etc [...]]]>

This blog is about the best parts. Natural disasters like the one happening in Haiti belong in some other blog, about the worst parts. The “best” lies in how we respond as human beings. Nations are mobilizing to help the survivors. Without immediate aid, the survivors will fall to dehydration, malnutrition, typhoid, wound infections, etc that are the real killers in these disasters, and many of these deaths can be prevented. I bow to the heroic men and women who drop everything and go to these areas to provide hands on help. I’m not one of those. But if I can’t or won’t give of my time and talent, and can at least share of my treasure.

The two links that follow are organizations that rate the integrity and effectiveness of charities. I am much more comfortable in giving if I know the money is going to the right places. Maybe this will encourage you, too.

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My body got a bit soft last year. I think I exercised less last year than I have for most years of my life! It had to do with moving from Ohio to North Carolina. The relocation was a year long project. Much of the year was spent sorting and packing, traveling back and forth, [...]]]>

My body got a bit soft last year. I think I exercised less last year than I have for most years of my life! It had to do with moving from Ohio to North Carolina. The relocation was a year long project. Much of the year was spent sorting and packing, traveling back and forth, starting a new job, selling and buying a house, unpacking, and getting to know our new surroundings. It was all great stuff, but it really restricted my exercise time.

So this year I will get back on my usual track. I’d like to exercise every other day, on the average. I figure, since my job gives me as many days off as I work, I should be able to do it, right? Plus, I love it.

And I resolve to eat more Cheeseburger Happy Meals! How else am I going to have a body like that! :-)

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