November: A month in entries

Now that NaBloPoMo is drawing to a close, I thought it might be fun to look back at what I did this month:
I was nominated for a Perfect Post.  R came  to town.  Nicole’s book of essays came out. I tried desperately to change the time setting from UTC to EST.  I wrote an excuse [...]

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brief update

My grandfather has ulcers.  Nobody’s quite sure why the bleeding, but hopefully he’ll be home soon.  He gave me a freaking heartattack.  Talked to him this afternoon and he sounds pretty wiped.  They’re giving him blood and doing a colonoscopy tomorrow morning to make sure there’s nothing else funky.  He seems to think the docs [...]

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fuckfuckfuckfuck

Listen, guys, any of y’all what pray or whathaveyou…my grandfather is in an ambulance on the way to the hospital and I’m pretty well scared shitless.  He threw up and shat out very dark blood today, and what with all of the heart crap he’s gone through…thing is, nobody knows what it is and I’m [...]

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3 Things Meme

I was tagged by Karen:
1.  3 Things that scare me:  Most social situations, death, fucking up
2.  3 People who make me laugh:  My husband, Lucy, Jon Stewart
3.  3 Things I love:  coffee, napping, great conversations
4.  3 Things I hate:   ignorance, tomatos, talking on the telephone
5.  3 Things I don’t understand:   the workings of [...]

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Man, I Give Up

I should probably explain–my people are a bit…rigid with the Christmas tree decorating.  By rigid, I mean there is a proper order for the entire process to the extent that by the time one is eight or nine years old, one can accurately remember on which branch each ornament goes.  Well, maybe just the lower [...]

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Last night I slept the sleep of the dead…

…and boy do the dead dream weird shit.  I was passed out enough to not really remember the circumstances of my dreams, but there was something to do with Robert Pires and blogging.  Perhaps I have gotten stressed out enough about coming up with daily entries that my subconscious is doing my legwork whilst I [...]

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Exhausted.

Three nights of talking until the wee hours of the morning have taken their toll on me.  I’m gonna put on sweats, heat up soup, and try not to think about unpacking.
I managed to leave my keys somewhere down in the southland, as well as Lucy’s drawing book, my Yankee cap and a skull shirt.  [...]

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Fickle obsessive

Every so often I glom on to a news story or something and drive myself near batty trying to read everything written on the subject.  The Russian spy poisoning is my newest, and let me just tell ya, I do not have the stomach for espionage or conspiracies.  Seriously, I have to stop reading this [...]

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Thanks

I’m thankful for many things–family, good friends, emotional stability, and so forth. I’ve met a lot of wonderful people over the past year, both online and off, and have been fortunate to share experiences with them that help me learn and grow as a person. I’m very thankful for that, and for what [...]

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Rain rain rain

Lucy managed to con my mom’s boss into typing up a letter to Santa yesterday.  Without further ado, this is what my daughter wants for Christmas:
1.  Snakes and Ladders board game
2.  A Barbie doll
3.  Pink mittens
4.  A blue-winged blackbird.
Mittens it is, then.
It’s rainy and yick here, and I’ve been chilled since yesterday morning.  It’s fun [...]

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