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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...
Turning one
Quiet late night here. We’re all gathered in the study, on and around the big square table I use as a desk and work surface. The kittens are sleeping. Coco is just a foot or two away, draped ...
The glory that was Rome
Watching “Treme” a finished HBO series set in New Orleans just post Katrina. I missed it when it was being broadcast originally because I didn’t get HBO, but it’s showing on Amazon now, so, well...
Near miss
It’s strange how your mind can alter the elsewhere highly disciplined passage of time. Joy seems to disappear in an instant, while moments of “oh god, this is going to hurt” stretch out forever....
How to be a passive aggressive landlady
Background info Rent is due on the first of the month. Tina, my tenant, prefers to drop the check (sans envelope) in my mailbox. Right now, my bank account is running very close to empty on a d...
Definition - with edit
I have no idea where the word came from. I may have heard it anywhere, found it kind of shiny, and ferreted it away in my brain to have it pop up stripped of history for me to use later. I may h...
Pop off that roof
An hour ago I was sitting on the sofa, unhappily concentrating on the physical discomfort which refused to let me put my mind anywhere else. The pain wasn’t a new thing, unexpectedly sudden. yes...
Good Friday
Good Friday? Honestly, is there any other kind? Today, however, is a day off of work, so I’m thinking it should be called One of the Best Fridays. I appreciated a joke I heard the other day abou...
Nathe-mail
March 23, 2016 - 1:56 PM, Nathe wrote: Somehow, someway I have lost my mind.... okay.. now that the peanut gallery has stopped laughing I’ll continue..... I’ve lost my physical notebook with all...
Paper noir
The kitchen floor, like all the floors save the bathroom in this wreck of a house, is a hardwood stained dark mahogany brown. Don’t let anyone tell you dark floors are easy to keep clean. They a...
'Lo to you too
I stepped on my electronic scale just a few minutes ago. “Lo” it said in little black letters. Now, I know it was telling me that its battery is on its last legs, but I ignore such warnings. For...
Tempest in a tuna wrap
The clock ticks away the minutes as I overwork diligently at my desk. It’s the same old story of too many tasks and not enough time to do them, but today I am strangely content. It is Friday m...
Tempest in a tuna wrap
The clock ticks away the minutes as I overwork diligently at my desk. It’s the same old story of too many tasks and not enough time to do them, but today I am strangely content. It is Friday m...
Proof that I am in need of a life
When there’s nothing you really want to watch, you try something completely different. So now I’m watching (Amazon Prime summary) Hong Kong Retro Cinema - The Haunted Cop Shop (English Subtitled)...
The ugly human
It matters not that they will knock over the garbage and play in the contents or that they will splash in the toilet or sleep with their faces inside my stinkiest shoes or greet each other with a...
Word from the unwise
When the label on the exceedingly cheap plasticware says “Not dishwasher safe” - Believe it. Your dishwasher will thank you. I need to store this in my brain for future reference. ‘Nuff said.
Etiquitte / Eticat
Very late Friday night. Sitting at my study table doing overwork I brought home to process and prepare to enter back into the school master program when I go back in to work tomorrow (Saturday!)...
How very sweet of you
Today was the last day of work until after the holidays. Huzzah! There were flurries of gifts being handed about. I don’t celebrate Christmas much but, being as it’s a school and I’m very visib...
Have need
Have runny nose. Have watery eyes. Have body aches. Have cough. Have pervasive yuck. Am alone. Need meds. Went to store in less than sharp shape. Needed meds and tissues. Wandered about store. Co...
War!
It’s a war of opposable thumbs versus the one-working-braincell-between-the-two-duo. For the last few days the kittens have been winning, striking major blows in their natural need to destroy a...
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