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A question
Because I am both a technidiot and cheap, I am unable to post pics anymore. (And I have need to illustrate some of my more serious craziness.) I used to be able to get pics into my entries by usi...
Oh boy
Did I mention that the retreat was an overnight thing? Seriously, overnight adult retreat house trapped indoor camping with people most of whom I actively do not love, many of whom give me unwa...
Putting it together
I’m not saying the pressure was on, but everyone in the group was looking at me, without a clue how I was going to pull this one together. It was one of those lovely soul-searching team building ...
My mind's not right
Polluted. Simply polluted. I am not in control of my mind’s autocorrect. I watch, well actually listen, to too much television. I need the background noise. I always have. A child of the sixties ...
It's not always a choice
Donnal had just mentioned she was having guests over and had spent part of the morning cleaning. I had replied, equal parts honest admiration and resigned envy, that she was a better woman than...
Rainy days
Okay, it’s supposedly a bit more than rain. It’s Tropical Depression Cindy and, while New Orleans is not in the direct path of the storm, it is in the dump path. The storm is (most probably) goi...
Sending out an s.o.s
Yesterday everyone at work got a bulk email from our colleague Willie. “Greetings, Hope this email finds you well. I made a trip to Manila. Philippines Unfortunately, the chip on my card was conf...
Dogged doggerel
Waging odious battle against the never-dying green, I look up from the fence I am deforesting from the all-devouring viney weeds that simply will not die, no matter how much ethically wrong “w...
Sounds of Saturday morning
It is a surprisingly unquiet morning here in the House of Eternal Entropy. I sit at the keyboard typing away as the tablet plays this morning’s stream of gathered news and blog clips. - Why do I ...
Greetings from the darkside
Monday morning - 7 (freaking) a.m. I greet people in the morning - a mumbled greeting, the odd polite inquiry - because it’s what you do when you see colleagues in the hallways. I do it becaus...
Sparks that die ignoble deaths
I live an ADHD life, completely undiagnosed but undeniably evident. I never seem to finish anything. I am torn between two modes of thought: - Absolute dismay at my inability of complete anything...
Conversation with my cat
She looks up at me, her amber eyes full of offense. “Why do you keep throwing things on top of me while I’m trying to sleep?” “Lucy, love, with all the soft and comfy spots around the house to ...
Oh freaking lovely
What I knew: My next door neighbor is a druggie. By himself he’s pretty much harmless, rather pathetic in fact. It’s his friends that began to worry me. They come and go at all hours of the da...
Paroxysms of predatory joy
Three nights ago I woke up in he middle of the night shivering. Seems a hard cold front had snuck in fast while I was sleeping and dropped the outside temperature from a lovely 65 degrees down ...
The tenth day
So I had a week off of work and I squandered it, just royally squandered it. I didn’t go in to work a few times when the place was empty to catch up on the overwork I can’t get done during normal...
First things
I’ve been here before. One of the (admittedly few) nice things about my job is the school calendar. I cannot complain about the time off. Especially today. Smile. Especially today. I’m on day t...
New rule
Hey, I don’t want to get graphic, as telling the tale of what just occurred would require. Suffice it to say, there’s a new rule in my office. Anything that goes in your nose, stays in your nose.
Side effects
It is a good thing that the young have no idea about growing older. It would scare the living shit out of them. Like many aging souls, I take a cornucopia of prescribed chemicals on a regular ba...
Her momma didn't raise her right
First off, let me say that I believe in regifting. It makes perfect sense for those people who aren’t really special but that you have an obligation to give something to anyway. As long as it’s...
You'd give a diabetic a candy cane
It’s just damn rude. Every year at Christmas it happens. I don’t mind, really, when the kids and their moms drop off brightly wrapped packages of luscious home-made nibble nuggets. It’s a school...
At a loss
More on the Donnal thing later - nice stuff actually. For now though… I need $500 for house insurance. I made over $400 at the craft fair last year and my stuff was nicer this year, so I thought...
Territory unmarked
Background noise - I run very close to the edge financially on a month to month basis. The problems with my house, including major foundation work that had to be paid for on credit cards, have pu...
All the required coos and cuddles - Addendum far below
Here is how close Donnal and I are not. Donnal’s second daughter, my niece Marie, is pregnant, very pregnant, eight and a half months into her second pregnancy to be near exact. It is a lovely t...
Expert advice
A popular television cat whisperer says that cats, especially housebound cats, need mental stimulation. Due to their curious natures and inborn hunting instinct, you should challenge them on a d...
There is no intelligent debate possible
Nathe says he’s not trying to annoy me. (This is how it always starts.) He says he values my opinion and just wants to know what I think about these absolutely ridiculous and vindictive diatribe...
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