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Old 11-12-2015, 09:38 AM   #556
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I give you a lot of credit for doing one of these daily, Tara. Especially given how far out you started!!
Perhaps you need to start a log of "funny words that rhyme with numbers 1-30"?
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I give you a lot of credit for doing one of these daily, Tara. Especially given how far out you started!!
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I'm with Colleen. Very impressive that you are managing a poem a day. My mind doesn't seem to work that quickly.
Thanks, Cam!!. I think it's because I am a silly girl!!



In three times five, I will be there!!
That's just fifteen more days!!
I'll take a ride on Spaceship Earth,
And go to Cosmic Ray's!!

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That's if I get the nerve!!

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So!! My bathroom floors are in and the walls are painted!! On Monday, the painters and the floor guys are supposed to come and the upstairs rooms should be painted and the floors in my new office and family room should be in!!! Now we just need two new toilet bowls, office furniture, a TV for the family room, and the mattress sitting in my living room to go upstairs!!

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Be careful with those "magic" beans at the airport.
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Love the poem! It is so exciting with the refurbs are done and you can finally live in your new rooms.
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Thanks, Cam!!. Sadly, I'm not sure when that will be, but I am looking forward to it!!
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I only have two weeks to go!!!!!
That's fourteen little days!!!!!!
Until I get to Disney World,
I wish it was todays!!

I plan to eat some awesome meals!
And do some Christmas shopping!!
I think I'll get some things for me,
And eat some corn that's popping!!

My favorite thing for me to do,
Will be to buy some stuff!!
For my new grandchild yet to be,
And hide it in my cuff!!



So guess what, you guys?!?!?!? (This is big!)
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More good poems and hope you don't hit a roadblock with them as you still have many more to compose before your trip!
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Two weeks is hardly any time at all!

I've not idea what to guess!????
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Hmmmm.....you have another vacation in the works?
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