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Plans is good.
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Plans is good."
:-)
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Plans is good."
:-)"
Plans could also have been my word for today. :-)
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I automatically hear Baldrick: "I have a plan. A cunning plan." : )
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I automatically hear Baldrick: "I have a plan. A cunning plan." : )"
LOL
HJ wrote: "Josh wrote: "It's always a little disheartening to see so many qualified -- even brilliant people -- unable to compete simply because of the lack of finances. Sanders is right about campaign fundin..."American election campaigning is so wild and dramatic. Campaigning is highly regulated in NZ, and quite quiet in comparison. It can only happen in a small window of time before election day (maybe two months?) and each party is allocated a certain amount of money by the government and that's all they can use to campaign and private money is not allowed. In the last general election (2014), it was a little over a million dollars per party, and there are seven parties in Parliament right now. I quite like how it's concentrated into such a short period of time. So it's a really big deal for a couple of months and then not the rest of the time, because it isn't allowed. Campaigning in America seems to be almost continuous these days.
Karen wrote: "Josh wrote: "Plans"I automatically hear Baldrick: "I have a plan. A cunning plan." : )"
Me too. Always. :)
Alison wrote: "Campaigning is highly regulated in NZ, and quite quiet in comparison. It can only happen in a small window of time before election day (maybe two months?) and each party is allocated a certain amount of money by the government and that's all they can use to campaign and private money is not allowed. In the last general election (2014), it was a little over a million dollars per party, and there are seven parties in Parliament right now. I quite like how it's concentrated into such a short period of time. So it's a really big deal for a couple of months and then not the rest of the time, because it isn't allowed. Campaigning in America seems to be almost continuous these days...."I want this system! It really seems possible that the best person the the job might well be elected, that way.
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NZ sounds like they know how to do it right.
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(I can't believe, in my hast to get to work this afternoon, I forgot to leave the radio on for Adrien. I hope she doesn't continue to cry all afternoon while I'm gone!)
Jordan wrote: "I agree HJ! That sounds delightful! I hate our politics with a passion. I have better things to do with my time than watch annoying people I often don't like yell at each other and tell lies about ..."I don't live in America and I was tired of hearing about the election last year! :) Politics in NZ certainly lacks the drama it has in other places, which I am all in favour of. Parliament mostly just gets on with it in a quietly progressive and sensible way. Most MPs actually seem like real, genuine people who care and do their job. HJ, I don't know about the best person always being elected ;), but I don't think you can be a politician in NZ without actually really wanting to do the actual work and being held accountable for it, which is something.
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I could go for quiet and regulated.
I am also weary of the only news being what outrageous thing Trump has said now. Months and months to go until November. It is going to be a very long summer.
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(I can't believe, in my hast to get to work this afternoon, I forgot to leave the radio on for Adrien. I hope she doesn't continue to cry all afternoon while I'm gone!)"
How did that turn out?
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(with myself and everyone else)
Josh wrote: "Exasperated(with myself and everyone else)"
No solutions in sight?
Hug you ♡♡♡
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(with myself and everyone else)"
No solutions in sight?
Hug you ♡♡♡"
Hugs you back!
It will be okay. It always is.
Josh wrote: "Sabine wrote: "Josh wrote: "Exasperated(with myself and everyone else)"
No solutions in sight?
Hug you ♡♡♡"
Hugs you back!
It will be okay. It always is."
That is a wonderful way of looking at life :)
Jordan wrote: "I worried for nothing! :-)"Good!
Snow((can you guess I'm back in Switzerland?))
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((can you guess I'm back in Switzerland?))"
:-)
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(At least it's not snow...)
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Neverending wind laced with pollen and dust.
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Outside it didn't last long at all but inside... drifts of Snowy's silky white undercoat floating everywhere, congregating on the carpets, clogging the hoover, sticking to our clothes so peo..."
That...sounds really awful. :-D
Nest((a blackbird has started to use the nest outside my office window, he built a kind of second floor on top of the old nest: soon I'll have nephews :-))
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((a blackbird has started to use the nest outside my office window, he built a kind of second floor on top of the old nest: soon I'll have nephews :-))"
Cool! :-D
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In one hour I get to finally go home, curl up with a good book in front of the fireplace, and eat pudding. And see the dog. I've been wanting to do this ALL day. I hate Mondays. especially the one after a vacation, when it's cold and rainy out, and I'm tired and miserable. And would rather be anywhere but where I am. *sigh*
Antonella wrote: "Nest((a blackbird has started to use the nest outside my office window, he built a kind of second floor on top of the old nest: soon I'll have nephews :-))"
:-)
Antonella wrote: "Nest((a blackbird has started to use the nest outside my office window, he built a kind of second floor on top of the old nest: soon I'll have nephews :-))"
That's so cool! :)
Alison wrote: "That's so cool! :)"At the moment my feelings for the blackbird are less warm than before: I found out that the main building material for the nest was my moss, the garden is full of holes...
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At the moment my feelings for the blackbird are less warm than before: I found out that the main building material for the nest was my moss, the garden is full o..."
lol. Could be worse though. At least he's not stealing lumber from your house!
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At the moment my feelings for the blackbird are less warm than before: I found out that the main building material for the nest was my moss, the garden is full o..."
LOL! :-)
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It sounds like you have your own zoo there... :-)
I won't go so far as Mymymble,, but definitelySpring.
And about time, too I must say :)
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I love you guys and this place!
Johanna wrote: "Summer, spring and autumn... huh. :-D I love you guys and this place!"
Surely someone out there can give us a winter? :)
Cool and grey here, with a lovely golden tree outside my window.
Packing.(and leaving for vacation tomorrow so I won't be around much)
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(and leaving for vacation tomorrow so I won't be around much)"
Enjoy, my dear! Have amazing adventures!
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I simply like that word. Also, now when I've finally set up the final art exhibition for the semester and the opening night is successfully over, I feel like it's the end of a yet another era and the beginning of a new one. The laborious, stressful first work months of the year are over and I'm carefully learning to breath slowly again.
Oh, obviously I still have all the student evaluation ahead of me, but let's not remember that quite yet... :-D
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It's over now. And it is April, I want spring! :)