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These Foolish Things

by Ginger Snap

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November 16, 2016

11.15 Ultra Peaceful Protest

Tonight, Athena and I had planned to go to a rally downtown close to my place. It was a local Pantsuit Nation group that has formed since the election (one week ago today, what a strange feeling...


November 15, 2016

11.14 Almost…but not.

Well, look at this. The month is almost half over! And uhhhhhgggg, the month is almost half over. I’m back on the wagon with the diet and working out. I don’t know if I’m allowed to say that w...


November 14, 2016

11.13 Weekend Over

What a restful weekend. I got home stuff done today and that was a good feeling. Walked-and-talked with Athena this morning, early. Then grocery shopped, made pumpkin/oatmeal/nut breakfast cook...


November 13, 2016

11.12 Lazing the Weekend

OMG. I went to bed super early last night and dreamt something amazing, but I just can’t remember what it was. You know when you have that feeling that you had incredible dreams because you jus...


November 12, 2016

11.11 Singles Day

Well, it’s not Singles Day here in the US, but in China, 11/11 is known as Singles Day, their nation’s Black Friday, or more accurately, Cyber Monday as Alibaba, the Chinese version of Amazon has...


November 10, 2016

11.10 Buried Alive

Again, I don’t really know what to say lately. Work is so GD busy that I’m overwhelmed and I feel like every step I take is one step forward but puts me two back. I can’t get it all done, but ...


November 10, 2016

11.9 Dumbfounded

I really don’t want to talk about it right now.


…but I’m so tired at night that I’m not sure when I’ll get around to it. Here are a few updates: Vote: I got up extra early this morning because I wanted to drop the dog off at daycare and then ...


November 08, 2016

11.7 Back at It

Flight last night was slightly delayed, but the awesome French pilot made up for lost time and got us back on track and we landed on time! I figured he was French because his name was something ...


November 07, 2016

11.6 Week End.

Sunday afternoon. Almost time to head to the airport. Today’s been slow and I probably should have either gotten an earlier flight (but who knew?) or napped or slept later today. But my friend ...


November 06, 2016

11.5 So Tired

It’s after the football game and I’ve met crazy x-roomie and other girls from my former flag corps days. It’s been a long, long day that started at around 7 with getting ready and saying goodbye...


November 04, 2016

11.4 Windy Roads!

Oh! So Elaine says I need to fill you in on all of our day drinking yesterday! NO…in case you’re wondering, we DID NOT DRINK AND DRIVE!! We had tons of fun yesterday exploring the little downto...


November 03, 2016

11.3 Here

Elaine and I are here in Tennessee and we are having a great time…I arrived kind of late last night and she picked me up at the airport. We found this really cool speakeasy and had a couple of co...


November 02, 2016

11.2 Love the Egg You're In

I got one of those inspirational emails from one of those inspirational websites that you sign up for when you’re feeling blue and you want some inspiration in your inbox, you know? I do a lot of...


November 02, 2016

11.1 Where Are the Prompts?

Gonna try to write an entry a day again this year. I don’t know where the prompts are, but I’m just going to tap out an entry because I’m procrastinating packing for my trip that starts tomorrow...


October 27, 2016

Ten Things for Thursday

Birthday was yesterday and it was pretty uneventful by design. I knew I was going to have a super stressful day at work with all of the stuff going on (and now I only have half a staff). Much...


October 25, 2016

Fuck it All.*

The Tree’s been chopped, so there goes that. And after texting the new Tinder prospect for a good part of the weekend, I didn’t hear from him after late Sunday morning. So I thought I’d confirm ...


October 24, 2016

Weird Weekend Wrap-Up

Oh hi. I’m just sitting here on my computer doing WORK stuff. Yeah, I was supposed to work on a spreadsheet over the weekend that has all of my strategies for the next two quarters, and guess w...


October 21, 2016

Hyper-Analysis!

I wonder if anyone’s ever analyzed ME as much as I have analyzed certain guys in my journaling? It’s embarrassing that I spend so much energy on someone who seems to have such low interest in me...


October 20, 2016

What Wood You Think?

So, when I last wrote about the Tree, we’d talked on Saturday about the fact that he wouldn’t dare pursue others after kissing me and that he wasn’t much of a phone talker and that it’s much bett...


October 19, 2016

Updates on Various

Work: End of the workday on Wednesday. I’m just D.O.N.E. The last two days have been the longest two days I’ve had in a long time - back to back meetings, hours and hours of presentations to p...


October 16, 2016

The Tree Reaches Out

I’m not sure if The Tree has read this journal or if he has finally read my mind. After blowing me off for a sickness that I’m still not sure ever happened and not really getting back to me on ...


October 14, 2016

RAD: The Eccentric

Name: ‘Ric (short for Eccentric) Age: 50. That’s more like it. Status: Single. I believe he said he never married, but we’ll get to that. No kids, but his dog situation is a lot like mine in t...


More stories about my recent forays into dating… After my date on Saturday night with The Tree, I took Sunday off from dating, Tindering, all of that stuff. I was pretty saturated after two date...


Part 2 in the dating series… Last Saturday night was The Tree’s turn at a date! If you remember, I’d gotten a funny feeling about the guy perhaps stringing me along. Previously, we’d gone on ...


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