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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...
The giggling gods have corporeal handmaidens
Vacation almost over. Sigh. Got very little done on the task list I optimistically set for myself. The Good - My sisters, knowing that I am severely limited on funds lately and would be doing not...
Okay, am I the only one who's getting freaked?
I know that the internets are spying on me. I know that they’re gathering cartloads of digital data on me in order to paper my electronic life with adverts for any and every thing they think I mi...
Politicats
What with all the election and the conventions coverage, everyone is talking politics these days. I don’t really enjoy such discussions because they aren’t actually discussions. People either a...
Day without number
I haven’t been to the gym yet. Seriously, that’s wrong on several levels. I’m spending money I barely have on a service I don’t use. I need to exercise - ask the nasty little guilt monster strap...
Day two
Despite grand intentions, I do not feel that I got much done yesterday. What I did accomplish: I got two loads of laundry washed and dried, ----- Though not all folded and none of it put away Cl...
The first day
Today is the first day of my two week vacation. Cash strapped and debt-ridden, I have no plans for travel. Sigh. Recent events have pounded the British pound to lows not seen in decades. Oh, wha...
Silly little soul
Cats are obviously less intelligent than we with their walnut sized brains and their lack of opposable thumbs, but as a species of animal they aren’t all that unintelligent. We domesticated dogs...
Misnomers
Sunday morning predawn and I’m sitting at the computer doing the adult version of homework. I’ve brought home stacks of registration forms for summer school to transcribe. It’s work that I shou...
Random thought
It occurs to me, apropos of absolutely nothing, that the calendar is just wrong. Shouldn’t October be the EIGHTH month of the year? I mean look at the (Latin) prefix. For that matter, shouldn’t S...
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