The ultimate compliment, thank you. I am a novice gardener so any success thrills me!
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Well, we just got a tornado warning 
, so any grocery shopping I was about to do will have to wait⊠yikes.
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State College was on the national news tonight with the torrential rains you got today. Hopefully everything is OK. Weâre getting that rain starting around midnight through tomorrow in New England.
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Oh, wow! Weâre only ever in the news for bad stuff 
Some friends of ours lost power in Bellefonte, but thankfully weâre all ok â thx for checking in 
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There was something in my news feeds about Dollar Tree raising their prices, again. Apparently, most items are going to a $1.50 and some to $1.75.
We donât get a lot of our âfood productsâ from Dollar Tree, but there are a few items I get there and some cleaning products.
Tracy Chapmanâs âFast Carâ was re-done by country singer Luke Combs and he was faithful to her lyrics, even singing âI work in the market as a checkout girlâ.
The thing that hit me last year with the remake that didnât hit me in 1988 when the original song was released, is how everyone in the singerâs life just frigginâ shit on her.
Her mom left them because âshe wanted more from life than we could giveâ. Her dad quit working because he was an alcoholic, so she had to drop out of college to take care of him.
Her lover sees her bar friends more than she does her own kids, and never (throughout the entire song) bothers to even try to get a job, despite the singerâs betterment of their situation. All she (her partner) has to contribute to the relationship is the Fast Car.
Yet she is faithful to all of them, despite their faithlessness to her.
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People make bad choices? 
And I much, much, MUCH prefer the OG version.
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OG means? Sorry, I donât know. I think both are good.
Original, as in Tracy Chapmanâs. The whole album is brilliant, at the tender age of 24 at that.
Donât ask me why that is abbreviated OG vs. OR (maybe it is?) â ask a native speaker 
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Original Gangsta.
I originally posted a link to urbandictionary.com, but it was mangled. Go there and enter OG in the search box.
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Oh, thx! So thatâs how that morphed!
Iâm quite familiar with the UD. On a very drunken night we made our HK buddy recite some of the more outrageous insults and (mostly fictitious) sexual acts, to roaring laughter.
None of us were familiar with the meaning of Roman Helmet prior to that evening 
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I taught the song as a lesson on the American Dream (or failure thereof) to Austrian high schoolers. It was fun hearing their interpretations.
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OG = original gangsta.
I looked it up a long time ago, because I am many things, but hip I am not.
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Ya mean Marvin the Martianâs headgearđ”
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Soundtrack of my young adult years!
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Did you know Tracy Chapman is related to the Jacksons? Small world.
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TIL File.
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My thoughts driving in to work this morning:
Rainy Days and Fridays are just as sucky as Rainy Days and Mondays.
Except the words Rainy Days and Mondays made for a better song.
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Phew. Got my MRI results early: all clear. Back to annual mammos and MRIs 
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