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Background info Rent is due on the first of the month. Tina, my tenant, prefers to drop the check (sans envelope) in my mailbox. Right now, my bank account is running very close to empty on a d...

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I have no idea where the word came from. I may have heard it anywhere, found it kind of shiny, and ferreted it away in my brain to have it pop up stripped of history for me to use later. I may h...

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An hour ago I was sitting on the sofa, unhappily concentrating on the physical discomfort which refused to let me put my mind anywhere else. The pain wasn’t a new thing, unexpectedly sudden. yes...

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Good Friday? Honestly, is there any other kind? Today, however, is a day off of work, so I’m thinking it should be called One of the Best Fridays. I appreciated a joke I heard the other day abou...

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March 23, 2016 - 1:56 PM, Nathe wrote: Somehow, someway I have lost my mind.... okay.. now that the peanut gallery has stopped laughing I’ll continue..... I’ve lost my physical notebook with all...

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The kitchen floor, like all the floors save the bathroom in this wreck of a house, is a hardwood stained dark mahogany brown. Don’t let anyone tell you dark floors are easy to keep clean. They a...

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I stepped on my electronic scale just a few minutes ago. “Lo” it said in little black letters. Now, I know it was telling me that its battery is on its last legs, but I ignore such warnings. For...

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“Miss Mack! Miss Mack!” D’marr’s hand is up and pumping like a piston from the third row of boys in Penance Hall (as detention in a Catholic institution is sometimes called). It’s a bumpe...

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The clock ticks away the minutes as I overwork diligently at my desk. It’s the same old story of too many tasks and not enough time to do them, but today I am strangely content. It is Friday m...

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The clock ticks away the minutes as I overwork diligently at my desk. It’s the same old story of too many tasks and not enough time to do them, but today I am strangely content. It is Friday m...

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When there’s nothing you really want to watch, you try something completely different. So now I’m watching (Amazon Prime summary) Hong Kong Retro Cinema - The Haunted Cop Shop (English Subtitled)...

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It matters not that they will knock over the garbage and play in the contents or that they will splash in the toilet or sleep with their faces inside my stinkiest shoes or greet each other with a...

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When the label on the exceedingly cheap plasticware says “Not dishwasher safe” - Believe it. Your dishwasher will thank you. I need to store this in my brain for future reference. ‘Nuff said.

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Very late Friday night. Sitting at my study table doing overwork I brought home to process and prepare to enter back into the school master program when I go back in to work tomorrow (Saturday!)...

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I could sit down and write an entry about New Year’s stuff, reso-illusions and such, but I’m actually working on one of them right now and really oughtn’t use this journal (which I’ve been negle...

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Today was the last day of work until after the holidays. Huzzah! There were flurries of gifts being handed about. I don’t celebrate Christmas much but, being as it’s a school and I’m very visib...

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Have runny nose. Have watery eyes. Have body aches. Have cough. Have pervasive yuck. Am alone. Need meds. Went to store in less than sharp shape. Needed meds and tissues. Wandered about store. Co...

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It’s a war of opposable thumbs versus the one-working-braincell-between-the-two-duo. For the last few days the kittens have been winning, striking major blows in their natural need to destroy a...

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Esme, like most of her species, has an inborn aversion to water. Unfortunately, also true to her species, she is a slave to curiosity. Sometimes the combination of these two traits can get a si...

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It was a private comment but it did make me think about what other people might make of my journal. Being what I’m thinking about tonight, that train of thought becomes my entry and most of my e...

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I’m on a deadline. I should be working, working, working. I’ve got less than two weeks until my first craft fair, my first sales venue since Katrina, and I think I don’t have enough inventory o...

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The kittens are doing quite well, thank you very much. The plan was to get two kittens, rather than one, to fill the void left in Lucy’s life after Tessa passed. It seemed cruel to me to let Lucy...

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It’s a beautiful song. I’ve known it nearly all my life and it moves me in ways I can neither understand nor articulate. Yet every time I hear it, it stirs in me both these inexplicable emotion...

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There’s the old question about the glass. How you look at the glass, how you answer the question, is supposed to say a lot about you. I suppose that’s true. Some people say the glass is half empt...

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Nathe can be so exasperating. You never do know when he is telling you something true or lying for his own amusement. By this late stage in our siblinghood you would think I’d have a clue. Trut...

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