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For Realz 7 Jul 2013 | 07:30 pm
Anyone who knows me knows I obviously did not make my 40 by 40 list. Things being what they are, life intervened. To be honest, that 40 by 40 "challenge" really seems self-centered to me as I look bac...
Whump Whump Whump 7 Jul 2013 | 03:30 am
There's a wheel missing off my metaphorical buggy. I know for certain that the brakes are toast. The only way to stop is to run into a large stand of brush and then pick my way out. Again...metaphoric...
Lists Are Good For People 5 Jul 2013 | 02:56 am
10 Things I No Longer Give a Flying Rat's Ass About 1. Separating laundry loads by white versus colored (blue or red). Suffice it to say that I don't wear red or blue and even if I did, my general th...
FFS 4 Jul 2013 | 01:47 am
"Oh, for fuck sake!" Probably not the best thing to say out loud in my grandmother's living room the one day all the deaf people had their ears on and were really listening. But no one commented. Th...
A Day In The Life 3 Jul 2013 | 09:56 am
6:00 am I wake up. I'm in the Big Red House sleeping in the guest bedroom b/c the AC is out in my house. Again. Again in the same month. Brain declares this to be an unholy hour of the morning despit...
Scars 30 Jun 2013 | 05:58 pm
Yesterday, Squib told me he didn't want to go to a friend's swim party because of his scar. (Leave it to my chitlins to skip all things laparoscopic and go straight for the scalpel...and other...thing...
No wookin'! 25 Jun 2013 | 08:17 am
Well, it's that time, now. At 7 and 10 (a few weeks shy of 8 and 11) the weebles are starting to talk! (Talk legibly is the only way we can describe it). There were times when I thought I'd never unde...
The Old Grey Mare 20 Jun 2013 | 08:49 am
I was twenty-one when I had my first knee surgery (in February). It was on my right knee. The first surgeon scoped it to remove arthritic tissue and something called a plica that was supposed to have ...
Phone Etiquette 18 Jun 2013 | 09:01 am
This used to be a lot easier, I think. First, the phone was attached to the wall. When it rang you were inevitably unable to answer it a certain percentage of the time, so you gradually taught your ch...
The Height of the Beanstalk 17 Jun 2013 | 08:37 am
The Saturday ritual of Andrea Bocelli's Sacred Arias DVD at 9:00 a.m. has, of course, already been discussed here. As has Beanstalk's ability (and now mine) to sing every word in the original language...