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Saturday, January 28, 2006
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I'm not creative enough to have thought of this one on my own, but my friend Crime Dog is!
Q: What do you get when you cross an insomniac, a dyslexic, and an agnostic?
A: A guy who lies awake at night wondering if there really is a Dog.
I laughed. A lot.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006
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I've got a lot to do and a little time to do it, so for now I will be taking a small hiatus from blogging. Not that I upated all that often anyway, but probably even less now.
I'm in the middle of planning a Golf Tournament for the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. Our Sheriff's Office sponsors a team every year, with the exception of last year, due to the Lunsford case. I'm going to try to devote most of my extra time to this, in hopes that we have an awesome turn out and can help surpass the $270,000 raised by Citrus County last year.
If you have anything to contribute or would like to golf, please contact me at kprus@sheriffcitrus.org. We're accepting donations for the raffle, as well as hole sponsorships, for a $100 donation. Golfers pay only $50 to play, including beer, lunch and prizes!
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006
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Click this link to read the article on our Sheriff's Office employees running the Half Marathon, Marathon and for some, both!
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006
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Worth the read from Crime Dog's blog!
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I've been wanting to do this for a while but never really had the guts, or energy to do it. I'm not such a good gardner, never have been. In my life garden, there are usually a couple of really big, beautiful flowers that come back year after year. Some new flowers come in and make a good border, but generally speaking there are a lot of dandelions and weeds. That's really my own fault, for not weeding and fertilizing as much as I should. After careful consideration, I've decided to start pulling the weeds.
These weeds come and they mulitply. Eventually, what ends up happening is these weeds try to take over. The gardner knows these pesky weeds will do this but unfortunately is too busy, lazy, tired, whatever the excuse may be, to take care of the problem. The gardner hears it from other gardners how she needs to control her weed problem, but ignores the problem instead of dealing with it. Now, like I said. occassionally there are a couple of dandelions. The dandelions are still considered weeds, but arean't as easy to see through. They come off as pretty, bright yellow flowers, trying to fit in...but in reality they're not only lying to the gardner, but also to themselves.
As a gardner, I don't like being lied to. In fact, I despise it. I've got enough in my greenhouse without having to be lied to about stupid things. What's actually quite humorous is this gardner is no stranger to being lied to, by weeds and dandelions. This garnder knows a lie, and though it may not seem obvious, she stores it in her gardening glove for later use. She probably shouldn't do that. She really should just pull the weed immediately, but instead she resorts to her old ways. You see, the difference between a weed and a dandelion is the weed lies, knowing they will get caught in that lie but doesn't really care (I was a weed once). Then, the lies keep spreading and spreading until they become out of control (I am now a terrible liar and tend to get caught if I even THINK about lying!). A dandelion, on the other hand, will lie to you but think you don't know the truth, when in all actuality, this gardening community is very small and the truth comes around much, much quicker than they think. You see, other gardners talk, gardners they think would never tell anyone else their gardening secrets. But they do.
So...I have officially started weeding my garden. If you are reading this and I studdenly stop talking to you for no apparent reason, consider yourself weeded! (Just kidding...sorda)
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
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Yesterday I was wearing capri type pants with nylons and dress shoes. Well I just happened to look down and in my nylons was a piece of lint/string that obviously stuck to the inside of them from the washer and I didn't notice it.
Me: Oh nice, I have a string in my nylons (pointing to the back of my calf).
Melissa: Oh yeah, I saw that earlier. Meant to tell ya about it.
Me: So you let me walk around with this all day? Hmmpft. Well, I hope nobody walks in (we have a somewhat private office area) because I'm going to just stick my hand down my nylons (from the waist area) and get it out.
Melissa: Well, aren't you wearing knee highs?
Me: Yeah?
Melissa...silence
Me: Oh shoot, LOL, nevermind I'll just pull it off!!!!
Even the best of us have blonde moments at times!
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Monday, January 09, 2006
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Ok, this next post is dedicated to my friend hmb. During the past several months I have read about this Tai Chi, or Chai Tea, or some crazy drink she relishes. I have always been a little leary of trying things from coffee bars, mainly because I don't drink coffee. Fear of the unknown, I guess. A few weeks ago I went to our local breakfast joint, Cinnamon Sticks, for a bite to eat. They've done some extensive remodeling and added a cappucino bar. I took a leap into the unknown and tried a sample of Tazo Chai Tea. It was, well..."ok" would be pushing it. You see, I have this issue with milk. Especially warm milk. And being that this is a latte drink it obviously has warm milk in it. You see where I'm going with this, right? Great. So, we go to Orlando for the marathon this past weekend and low and behold there's a Starbucks in the lobby. The crowd goes wild! Well...maybe not. But after the race I offered to buy a coffee for everyone. Some went with cappucino's, some with mocha, some with espresso. Me...after a short non-english speaking (hense, short) conversation with the employee at Starbucks I take that once familiar leap into the unknown. I try a Tazo Chai Tea Latte. HO-LEE-COW that's some good stuff. I was instantly addicted. After 3 more that day and one the following morning I decide I need to learn how to make this stuff. Which brings me to my question----should I wait until my tax return (hoping that I actually receive a return this year) and buy a cappucino machine or should I (((shudder))) make the 'latte' myself, using the conventional stove recipe? Your suggestions would be appreciated!
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Sunday, January 08, 2006
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I'm partially watching Miami Ink. It's making me want another tattoo, bad...but I'm not exactly sure what I would get. I'm thinking something like a Celtic knot. Something that represents eternity, love and being a goddess. All things about me! (just kidding)
Can you believe another year has passed? I didn't fulfill my new year's resolution, of course. I take a ride on the train of success then it derails. Go figure. I'll have to work on that. I would like to run in the Gasparilla 5k in Tampa. After seeing the Disney Marathon I've kinda got the runner's bug, which brings me to my next topic.
The marathon weekend was GREAT! I checked into the hotel early on Friday after attending a Civil Justice class in Orlando. As I waited for Chris, Gater, Mac, Angel, Juan, Ritli, John and Mickey to come I went shopping at the outlets. I didn't really intend to buy anything until I found a two pairs of jeans, a pair of khakis, a sweatshirt, sweater and shorts all for under $50! I LOVE to bargain shop! We stayed at the Embassy Suites Lake Buena Vista. I will DEFINITELY stay there again. They had happy hour for 2 hours during the evening with basic call drinks, beer, wine and their "special" drink of the evening. One night it was kahlua, amaretto and cream. I'm not into any of those liquors but it did sound pretty good. They also had snacks, like popcorn and pretzels during happy hour. I was pleasantly surprised. Anyway, back to the marathon (get all carried away when I start discussing free snacks and drinks! ha ha). Saturday morning the guys, as well as several others from our agency all met at 4:45 to go to the Disney property for the 6:00 marathon start. Angel and I went down there around 8:00 to watch them finish. HOLY COW....there were a lot of runners! We eventually met up with our group, but missed most of the cross the finish line, mainly due to the amount of people down there. After seeing all of that I think with the right gradual training I can participate in next year's Disney Half Marathon. Check back in a year to see if I complete it!
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Thursday, January 05, 2006
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As we walk out of Stumpknockers we see a cute little white fluffy puppy being walked by it's owner.
Kelly: Aww, look at that little white dog
Patrol Captain: Oh, that's Snowball...c'mere Snowball
(keeps calling Snowball to try to come to him)
Me: You know that dog?
Patrol Captain: No!
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