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Red Sox clinch AL East crown The Red Sox clinched their first division title in 12 years Friday night by beating the Twins 5-2 at Fenway and then watching the Orioles rally to beat the Yankees in extra innings. Many thanks to the kind folks at Camden Yards who helped the Sox secure the division: Especially Mariano Rivera for another collapse and Melvin Mora for that SWEET RBI bunt! Pics! Go Sox!!!

All is well here...just got out of the groove and then the topics started piling up which of course becomes intimidating but then I'm like what the heck, it's MY blog, I can skip stuff if I want to. But I won't. SO: Willie Nelson/Ray Price/Merle Haggard concert the day after I got back from Nashville, with one of my oldest and best friends, Carolyn, and her husband Andy. Carolyn is being shipped to Iraq soon. She's a nurse anesthetist. Hopefully away from danger for her but I'll worry. Anyway I gotta push that thought down. The concert was great and Ray Price (81 yrs old) freakin STOLE the show. Wow. And I made fun of my mom for listening to him when I was a kid. That man can mesmerize an audience. And I was really happy to see Willie Nelson (no spring chicken himself) - I've wanted to for years and I was afraid it would go the way of Jerry Garcia before I got the chance. We had a great time. Next up: Loretta Lynn. Hope she comes around this way so...

This is the picture that goes on the fridge! Hard to believe that a whole week of real life has gone by already! I wish we could see each other more often, but it's just not the way it is, so we just gotta take it when we can. Karen lives in Albany , NY (since 2000), Kim lives in CA (since 2004), and I'm in the Boston area. Along with our friend Mary Clare (who still lives west of Boston but now with a young family of her own), we all lived in the Boston area from 1995-2000 and became great friends. We had awesome times together and many of the stories we tell are still the stories from that time. Those were the days! Well, now THESE are the days. We don't get to see each other as much as we used to (Karen and I much more so than the others, but we're only 3 hours apart). We've been to CA to visit Kim a couple times, and she came out here a couple years ago (and MC was able to join us, that was fun!) but it's not like the old days when we all lived within a ...

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I have been sporting shorter hair all summer. It's easier to do, dries in place without much blow-drying action, and BONUS-TIME, Randy can't stand to wait for me to dry it when we've got cool places to see and better things to do. (Mind you, he's got less on top than I do. Plus, there's no Raisin eyeliner or black mascara or Bare Minerals to apply). I've rarely been loyal to hairdressers, have kinda been like a guy that way. Go in, get my hair cut, pay my $25-$35, and leave. The first and second haircuts are the best with most hairdressers anyway, I've found. Anyway, I'm going away with my best girlfriends next weekend to Nashville for a girly weekend. I wanna look nice, and fluff it up ('cause you CAN in Nashville) and have my girlies can see how good I look. I can feel good about myself, and I can go free and easy and ready to go in less than 15. So, I got my hair cut last week in anticipation of this event, by a very nice and smiley, stylish Chine...

9:23 PM, I'm out on the deck enjoying the last of tonight's gorgeous weather....and I hear raccoons chirrupping across the street. I think they're the big fat furry healthy 30-lb better-than-zoo specimens we saw on the telephone pole up by the wires, 4 ft from the bedroom window last month at 3am one Tuesday in July. The same ones we saw under the deck a couple weeks ago; the ones I worried were gonna beat up Emmie-kitty when we thought we lost her outside earlier this month. Ah well...post this one under Nature in Somerville. They better not eat my tomatoes or knock over the friggin' trash cans.

I hate it when I check my Yahoo email and have zero emails... No one has the address. It means I have no " best answers ." Darn it.