Sentences with phrase «nothing done around our houses»

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In his position of power within the Trump White House, Miller has done nothing to diminish the controversy that swirls around him.

She bustled into her house, only to emerge, minutes later, with a huge tray of cream cheese and jelly sandwiches, which she carried to our porch and offered around with her ready smile, simultaneously feeding and greeting the children of a family she had never met — and a black family at that — with nothing to gain for herself except perhaps the knowledge that she had done the right thing.

The Happiness Project gave me permission to be more deliberate about the little things that positively affect my outlook on life — getting enough sleep, making the bed in the morning (even if nothing else gets done around the house that day!)

Let's all start making Halloween crack a new tradition; since we all know that we will have bags of «candy corn» around the house with nothing to do with it.

I have heard nothing but raves about this classic cookie, yet it still does not seem to show itself for Christmas around our house.

If Wenger ever held a dinner party for friends at his house, the guests would arrive to find Wenger had done nothing about feeding them and he would send out for kebabs all round; from the cheapest kebab shop around, naturally.

It not only calms her when she's fussy and nothing else seems to work, but I can do things around the house when she's safely placed inside the shirt.

Soon enough, your kids will be sitting around the house, playing video games and complaining that there is nothing to do.

Since our big project to the house this year was putting on that fancy new roof (# 4) and I had nothing to do with it, I have been free to play around in my craft stuff and remember how much I like creating.

but if I did this every single time they did nap, nothing would get done around the house.

I used natural ingredients I already had around the house and it cost virtually nothing to do!

That means literally doing absolutely nothing all day — no moving around, no house work, no exercise and other activities, which all require extra calories.

got some stuff done around the house, nothing crazy, but it was a good start.

The party space may be too cramped, the temperature in the house uncomfortably cool or warm, or you find yourself sitting around with nothing to do, just twiddling your thumbs.

We all have those lazy days when we feel ourselves of doing nothing than just sitting around the house.

The «burbs does start off quite well, introducing us to typical family man, Ray Peterson (Hanks, Big), currently using his vacation time to hang around the house, hoping that doing absolutely nothing helps to get rid of his work - related stress, and gain him some much needed R&R.

Meanwhile, the women here have nothing to do but hang around houses and hospitals.

During some periods he paid nothing at all, and at other times he did work around the house.

Retirement doesn't necessarily mean sitting around the house doing nothing until you waste away and die of boredom.

Nothing beats expending your furkid's energy and getting some housekeeping done at the same time by training Fido to clean up his army of toys that are lying around the house.

whom has done nothing with their gaming budget other than throwing it around as handouts in order to share PS3 games... and all the while closing numerous in house studios... a lot of MGS games are even based off of UE3... instead of MS building a proprietary middleware product line shared throughout their internal studios... they license 3rd party middleware instead... an easy way to make a decent looking game quickly... but never a way to push ANY envelopes, at least not after the engine is already 3 years old... but Sony does this each generation... the 1st party stuff initially shows off what the system can do earlier on than any 3rd party software (well mostly, MGS2 was one of the first to push the PS2, MGS4 ditto for the PS3)... and 3rd pary stuff gets up to speed afterwards... you WILL see some incredible 3rd party content eventually, but for now... SCE is the only company pumping millions into the tech side of game development... MS isn't... and Nintendo doesn't even know what any of that is...

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Dr. Lubchenco's testimony before the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming: «The [CRU] emails really do nothing to undermine the very strong scientific consensus and the independent scientific analyses of thousands of scientists around the world that tell us that the earth is warming and that the warming is largely a result of human activities.»

I remember vividly the first time I heard this, and had trouble wrapping my head around why an agent would say such a thing — thinking his personal business had nothing to do with the value of his house.

I've known many sales associates who think nothing of dropping everything they're doing so that they can spend $ 20 in gas driving a stranger — whom they met on an ad call — around to houses, but then balk at spending the same amount on a farming program, a book, a seminar, or a tape that can improve their business and give them a return 100 times the cost of the farming program, book, seminar, or tape.

While I could probably get used to the idea of having NOTHING left to do around my house, somehow the idea of actually plunking down 3 million for one of these pre-decorated houses on a street of six other similar houses just makes me a little nauseous.

Nothing fancy mind you, but the fact I got anything done around the house at all is somewhat of a miracle to me.

Now that might make it sound like I have had nothing more to do that just putter around all day getting the house all pretty for summer.

We have wood laminate in our kitchen (& whole house) and initially planned to do ceramic tile but decided that since we want to do hardwood down the road, we won't want to rip up the ceramic tile, so we're going to wait on flooring... but we drooled over all the gorgeous travertine we've seen, nothing less than $ 5 / sq ft around here though.