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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...
There are three other brains in my house but I live alone
Such a sweet sight, Esme all curled up, sleeping on my tablet on the worktable an arm’s reach away, keeping me company as I work on inventory for upcoming crafts fairs. My needle slides in and t...
Oh come on now
I get it that this house is falling apart. I understand that the wood siding outside is barely hanging on. I know the ancient ductwork above has more holes in it than I’d ever care to count. I am...
Skull fracture in black and white
I’m watching an old movie, a romantic comedy from 1938 you’ve never heard of, starring people I’ve never heard of. The husband rushes to the hospital where his wife has been taken after a fall do...
Imaginary value
Them what is in charge of such things has sent me a notice. The value of my house has gone up 5% in the four years since I bought it. Well, that’s a good thing, right? Sure, if I were going to se...
Scritch, scritch, scritch
So I am standing in the laundry room scratching my head. I’ve come here with a purpose, to get something, I think, but I cannot for the life of me remember what. I look around for clues. There...
The cat race
I usually clean up small wounds and put adhesive bandages on them for good measure, but today’s minor mischief will need to make do with the quick rinse in the shower. See, I don’t mind that my c...
Slow of hearing, long of memory
All this talk of closed captions. How silly. I’m not hard of hearing. Why would I use closed captions anyway? In a word, Mom. In the few years after the storm, when I lost all that (oh so ultima...
Son of Oof !
Tonight’s episode of “Vikings, the Closed Captioned Experience.” Another Episode, another bloodbath. Closed captions read: “BATTLE CRIES RISE TO A DEAFENING ROAR” Doesn’t that seem a rather cruel...
Oof!
I am currently watching a television series called “Vikings.” As usual, I have the closed captions on. Battle scene captions: “YAH!” “OOF!” “UNGGH!” “AARRRGGHH!” I don’t know why find that so abs...
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