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The Plotz Thickens
Way back, in the ‘80s, everyone walked home from school; the soft-footed kids of today just don’t know… My walk home included crossing a pretty busy street. There was a crosswalk, and I did use it, but you really felt what that frog was going through trying to get to the other side before a log squished you! There are…
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Foxtails; Detri-mental health
Earlier this evening, I took John and Yoko for a post-dinner stroll. We didn’t make it one house length before Dumb and Dumber plunged their pilfering faces into a cluster of dead weeds. Almost instantly, Brick started sneezing. violently. spraying everything in a ten-snoot radius with blood spatter. After an hour, my parental panic took precedence, and I rushed him…
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An Old Prompt
I have some kind of [undiagnosed] mental disorder that requires me to save things obsessively. Since the passing of my father, I have been reading old emails. In ~2008 I was taking a creative writing class at the local community college and would send all of my assignments to my dad to proofread. Though I don’t now recall the prompt,…
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First Kiss
I don’t know how things are now, when my nieces were starting school in the early 00’s they had homework from day one, including kindergarten. When I was in kindergarten, you had to be a good napper, good at using the potty without help, good at eating snacks and being quiet at story time. I’d like to tell you I…
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The Great Fence Project
I sat on the patio yesterday in uncomfortable outdoor temps, attempting this rant on my phone with my thumbs, I didn’t finish. Today my hands are chapped and itchy from sitting in the cold, but I’m still annoyed and must complete this, thankfully from the comfort of my cubicle! I am in a unique position because Boyfriend is a general…
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Church Bells
I woke up this morning missing Aunt Jo. I expect it is because a cousin is getting married this Saturday and I really really wish I could go. Having two big, aging, high maintenance dogs inhibits travel. Add that one is still recovering from two hip removal surgeries in a 3-month period and – aside from not having two nickels…
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Absolutely Maybe
It’s been an expensive year as far as vet bills are concerned, we’ve just passed the low five figure mark as Maybe’s gone and busted the remaining hip. When her right hip was dislocated, I had no idea. I saw the weakness but she is also positive for Cushing’s and muscle weakness is a symptom of the disease. When I…
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Fish On!
I actually got my butt in gear early this morning, early for me, earlier than the hot. I wanted to give the dogs a walk before it was miserable out – and I also had a long list of things I wanted to accomplish outside before miserable tested my Secret. We were only about 500 steps in and Brick dove,…
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Helpless Rage to Hysteria
Were you wondering how it ended? I’m still wondering if it has ended because, at the moment, my finances look like that junk drawer with 3 corroded batteries, 17 expired rubber bands, two gift cards to Mervyns and every non-working pen in existence. Sometime around 6pm on the 28th the local bank branch manager finally called, that’s a lengthy paragraph…
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Helpless Rage
I mean, I did name my blog Daily Complaints and today’s aggravation is a real humdinger! All day I have been suffering a feeling that I can only describe as “helpless rage” because, I am angry. Really really angry! But I feel completely stuck in this holding pattern of “just wait” and it’s almost crippling. This all started when I…
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