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• 00:10 @thechancetofly It was awesome! :) I got cool presents and got to hang out with cool people. :)
• 19:10 I'm #reading Take Me There by Susane Colasanti - bit.ly/6BFZVO
• 19:10 On page 78 of 304 of Take Me There by Susane Colasanti bit.ly/4BOXa2
• 23:22 I'm feeling a bit hungry, but not sure for what. Maybe spaghetti? It's kinda late, though....

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Randomness of the Day...

• 23:49 @CoarseDame You KNOW I have a Wii, girl. I'll DM you my number so you can add me. I have Mario Kart, too.
• 23:50 @seananmcguire Yikes! I hope you are nice and warm now!
• 23:50 @thechancetofly Mwah!
• 23:51 I had a great Christmas. Now I'm worn out (and I didn't even travel anywhere this year) and going to bed and reading all night!
• 23:51 @CoarseDame I suck at Mario Kart. Just sayin'. LOL. But we can send each other messages and Miis. :)

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Ornamental Reflection, originally uploaded by Ezra S F.

Downtown Valdosta outside Bleu Cafe.

Randomness of the Day...

• 20:58 Somewhat busy day today. I am beat. Gotta get Aidan off to bed soon so I can follow! Merry Christmas, my fellow Christmasheads!
• 21:21 @beanjbunny None of the waffle ones are working--you get a message about hotlinking. But the doll you can shave? WTF. LOL.
• 23:12 @seananmcguire What is going on? Is your furnace dead or something? :O
• 23:39 MERRY CHRISTMAS TO THOSE WHO CELEBRATE IT! :)

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Randomness of the Day...

• 19:04 The cake so far: www.flickr.com/photos/lilrongal/4210111090

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Randomness of the Day...

• 23:15 I'm going to try to make this tomorrow: new.pillsbury.com:10339/Recipes/ShowRecipe.aspx?rid=38249

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Chicken butt!

If you would have told me, at any point in my life, that there would come a time when I brought a chicken into my house to wash and blow-dry her tush, I'd have looked at you like you had lobsters crawling out of your ears. Sure, I've washed a lot of chicken in my time, but never the live variety..and I've never blow-dried one, live or otherwise. Well, this afternoon, I did just that.

Poor Esther had made a mess of herself. If it were a chicken like Pearl, I'd have just waited until she cleaned herself up during one of the million and two dust (mud) baths she gives herself everyday. She's a pretty white chicken when she's all cleaned up but she prefers the bad girl biker look. Esther, however, is sort of like Miss Prissy on Foghorn Leghorn and I was sure she must have been horrified having other chickens looking at her in that condition. Kind of like when we went to DeWitte's snobby aunts house and she hadn't done the dishes yet so she wouldn't let us in the house.

So, this afternoon, I let the other girls out into their portable run and brought Miss Esther into the house. I put a warm wet rag on her nether regions, while Nathan held her and said "Gross!" a lot..I can't wait till he's a parent, that kid doesn't know from gross, and put her in a cage on the kitchen floor to give the gunk time to loosen up.  We enjoyed the interaction between Esther and the cat. Esther acted like the cat must have been a ferocious chicken eating tiger, even though she's now twice the size of the cat and would surely win in a head to head match. Don't tell her, though, she thinks she's dainty. We evenutally locked the cat in the bathroom because it seemed like she was starting to believe the ferocious chicken eating tiger hype.

After that, it was time to really get in there and clean her up. I was kind of worried..the last time we tried to give an animal a bath that doesn't usually receive baths with the warmest of welcomes, was Cleo. DeWitte put a leash on her and attached it to the faucet, so she couldn't jump out, and she ended up flying around the tub in mid air like a cartoon cat and we had to replace the shower curtain. Esther didn't seem to mind, though. Throughout her back-end bath she seemed to kind of purr. I thought the blow drier would be a fight, too. My chickens are so chicken that they're eremikophobic, which means that if you put new sand in their run, they think it's gonna eat their face off.  But, no, Esther just sat there and let me blow dry her like it was a five star feather salon. She even offered me a tip but I didn't take it, I just cleaned it up with a paper towel and washed my hands.

After she was dry, I took her back out and put her back with the other hens, who were all fighting over a three inch plot of mud. She just looked down her nose at them, turned around and shook her clean, fluffy butt.

Randomness of the Day...

• 23:21 I want to read: Very LeFreak by Rachel Cohn - bit.ly/6d2UZV
• 23:21 I'm #reading You Know Where to Find Me by Rachel Cohn - bit.ly/5ZupG5
• 23:21 On page 55 of 208 of You Know Where to Find Me by Rachel Cohn bit.ly/6xDlwe

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Randomness of the Day...

• 00:18 Had fun with @claudiagray and Tara tonight! :)
• 23:44 Aidan's here! Let Christmastime OFFICIALLY begin! :D

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