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by Eriu

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October 13, 2017

To Be or Not to Be

That is the question. - Hamlet, William Shakespeare Recently I’ve found myself pondering just that = whether I will continue to be or not. I haven’t a death wish, but circumstances have left me w...


September 22, 2017

Today is My Birthday

“Birthday” They say it’s your birthday It’s my birthday too, yeah They say it’s your birthday We’re gonna have a good time I’m glad it’s your birthday Happy birthday to you from “Birthday” b...


September 18, 2017

With or Without You

My Excellent Adventure wasn’t. U2 cancelled on Saturday morning! They made a responsible decision based on what was going on; on Friday the court acquitted a white ex-cop in the shooting death of...


September 13, 2017

Blah, Blessings, and BS

Blah. Just a general feeling of lethargy. I seem to have no motivation and drag myself to work, grateful for Fridays, dreading Mondays. I have work to do but no push to do it. It isn’t the job - ...


September 12, 2017

Tick Tock...

U2 released their second single by that title in 1980, and since I’m now counting down only a couple of days until going to St. Louis to see U2 (I’m going to St. Louis to see U2!!! As if you didn...


September 04, 2017

Sound of Silence

Silence can speak volumes. Saying nothing here means life otherwise has been filled, and nothing of me is left over to sit down and write about it. Except today - on Labor Day I do not labor. Te...


August 02, 2017

Read All About It

Nothing earthshattering; I just needed a title, but I’m excited! In Professional news When I got in my car today to drive to work what was on the radio but “Dance with Me”? It’s a sign, I tell y...


July 28, 2017

Fluttery

Events of the last week have me feeling invigorated! The Professional. As it turns out, he had been thinking of me, too, remembering that same weekend nearly 20 years ago. I joked that it wasn’t ...


July 26, 2017

Dance with Me (reprise)

“…(and he is) willing…“ He just invited me to a dance coming up next month and I invited him back to ours. :-) Thank you all for your words of encouragement! “Old days, good times I remember…” ...


July 25, 2017

Dance with Me

Dance with me, I want to be your partner Can’t you see? The music is just starting Night is falling, and I am calling Dance with me Fantasy could never be so thrilling I feel free, I hope tha...


July 18, 2017

Ketchup

My foot. I’m free! I’m free! Dr. C said my wound is healed; he didn’t even put a bandage on it. He usually asks if I have questions for him; this time he asked if there were any problems. Not w...


July 12, 2017

Dancing Queen

The pow wow grounds are quiet now. The tents are down. The food and arts and crafts booths are gone. The speakers’ stand, elders’ arbor, and bleachers are empty; no chairs ring the arena; no drum...


July 05, 2017

Fireworks

But I’m not talking about those in the sky. The court documents full of the worthless waste of humanity’s lies came today. The horrible excuse for a human being asked for an EPO against my mother...


June 30, 2017

Happy Holiday!

…Argh - found out late yesterday that our reports for our governing council were due TODAY. We have to do one every year, so it shouldn’t have been a surprise, but it was anyway. I got it done an...


June 30, 2017

Random bits and pieces

Dr. Doom made me cry again yesterday; the last time he saw me he brought me to tears but I held them back. This time I couldn’t. My feet are tender, always have been, and I said so the first time...


June 28, 2017

Standstill

Nothing really to say. Just writing to show I’m still here. …Baby’s waste of humanity mother isn’t claiming only that my mom beats Baby, which would NEVER happen, but that Baby has been molested ...


June 19, 2017

Impatient Patient

I’m NOT a patient patient; I’m not patient even when well. I don’t like coming to work part time; I feel I just get started on something and then have to cut it off. Right now, though, I come in ...


June 16, 2017

Hodge Podge

Baby. Her waste of humanity mother lied to the guardian ad litem, claiming my mother taught Baby to cuss and abuses her! At the courthouse Baby was initially afraid to speak to my mom, although...


June 12, 2017

Miracles Happen!

Ordered my ticket to the U2 concert this morning!!!! I’m going to St. Louis!!!!!


June 07, 2017

Caution: Whining Ahead

I just came from seeing the podiatrist, who 1) asked why I came back to work, 2) asked how many steps I take from my car to my office, 3) said my foot can’t touch the ground because bacteria is e...


June 06, 2017

What's Going On

I have a touch of the blues. I get so tired even though I work only half the day; when I put in a couple of six hour days they didn’t tire me so much. Yesterday I slept as soon as I got in from w...


June 02, 2017

Adjusting

On one hand I feel I haven’t been away at all and on the other I have to reacquaint myself with my computer and its workings and the realization that currently I’m limited in movement. I can walk...


I’m baaaack! When I last wrote here I said I had a bug, which made me really irritable; I missed a week of work with what I thought was the flu but was actually an infection. I went to the hospi...


December 16, 2016

Just gotta say something...

even though I have nothing to say. The Bachelors. We are related to three men of the same family who are all single - Language Director and his uncle who have both never married and their first c...


December 08, 2016

Far reaching

Now that my emotional dam has broken, I can’t shut up! One of my favorites is Serin, who wrote an entry that included how someone saved his words from years ago and what that meant to her. When ...


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