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Our county announced today that schools will be fully online for the foreseeable future. So much for all my agonizing! I just how they have spent the summer getting organized so it will be bett...

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That’s how I feel. Just…tired. We got back from Florida last Monday, I went to work on Tuesday and Wednesday and Friday and Saturday and Monday and Tuesday and then again today. I’m beyond happ...

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We got back from Florida today. I really wanted to write while I was there, but I had little to no time alone and also I didn’t take my laptop and didn’t feel up to typing an entry on my phone. ...

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I hate that phrase so damn much. I keep coming here intending to write, but then I read and I note and I log out and forget to say anything. Forgive me if I’m repeating myself, I’m not motivated...

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Today my sister sat in on a telemedicine zoom call between our mother and her doctor. It turned out to be…interesting. First, Mom told the doctor she had just signed up for a trip. When he aske...

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Tomorrow my son is turning 14. He gave me permission to post a baby picture on Facebook (“But none on Instagram, Mom! You have to promise!”), so I was looking through old pictures tonight and I...

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I was supposed to go to two concerts this summer: Barenaked Ladies/Gin Blossoms/Toad the Wet Sprocket in June and the Hella Mega Tour (Green Day/Fallout Boy/Weezer) in August. As of this week, b...

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The library opened for curbside service on Monday. Actually we spent Monday getting organized - we pulled about 700 books for approximately 200 customers, bagged them, and called each customer t...

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If you don’t know who that is, in 1992 he had his wife killed (shotgun blast to the face) in front of their two sons (ages 4 and 6). From true crime shows, I learned that he was a nasty piece o...

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Just snippets of actual conversations that have taken place in my house recently… Me, after finding the scale in our bedroom closet: “Hey babe, I’ve lost eight pounds!” Husband: “That’s what happ...

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I come here every day and read, and I think about writing - but what is there to say when most days just blend together? Blah. My husband is a home improvement rock star, and it makes me feel ev...

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We got our stimulus money last week. We barely qualified, it helped that I only had one paycheck last year and Rob wasn’t eligible for his bonus (he hadn’t been with the company more than a few ...

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Are you an Essential worker? Not in the slightest. How many drinks have you had since the quarantine began? Depends on the day. Sometimes it’s half a bottle of wine, sometimes a hard cider, somet...

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Running out of clever COVID titles. Today has been very meh. I slept through my alarm and had weird dreams as a result. Then the sourdough starting I’ve been trying to get started for more tha...

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It’s Spring Break, so the kids have no classes or assignments this week. Y’all, we might not survive. I told them we are doing three things every day: a taekwondo class (their teachers are post...

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Forgive me if I’m repeating myself. Everything is so much the same that I can’t remember what I’ve written here and what I haven’t! Schools are out until at least April 24 now, and probably for ...

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The days do tend to run together. I’m trying to stay motivated, but it’s hard. I participated in a live webinar today (how libraries are dealing with COVID-19 was the subject) and seeing how man...

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Doing a decent job of social distancing, if I do say so myself. The kids have adapted to doing school online pretty well, though they’re irritated that I made them read for an hour a day on top ...

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The library closed to the public effective Saturday, but they told the regularly scheduled employees to come in today to work on projects. I had a great day today, got a huge project finished an...

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It’s my birthday today! And I get to spend it social distancing, which is fine by me. I typically do a big grocery shop every two weeks on payday. Yesterday was my usual biweekly shop day, so I...

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…even though it seems like that’s what everyone is doing. Today Rob’s office declared that starting Monday everyone will be working from home for two weeks. He’d already planned to take the day o...

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I’m watching The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez on Netflix and it’s making me super ragey. That poor kid was failed on so many levels by so many people. I know I’m not mother of the year - when I’...

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So our boxer foster left us last Saturday and came back on Tuesday. Apparently her owner didn’t show up to claim her, so she was just boarded at the vet for a few days until they got back in tou...

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Good news - I did our taxes and we’re getting a refund! Actually two, both state and federal. Sad news - the boxer is going home next Saturday. I’m happy for her owner, but I spent five days th...

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Survey time! How many pairs of converse shoes do you own? Two. I love the silly shoes, even if they have no support. Any other names your parents planned to give you? I think they planned to c...

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