The plan was to work today, but I don’t think I’m going to. I woke up at a little after 4:00 am shaking and terrified out of my mind. I must’ve had a nightmare or some weird anxiety attack, so I just lay there staring at the dark ceiling and shaking for a bit. Normally,
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Fifty Shades of Maple Glen
Drop what you are doing and look at this house. Look at the pictures, especially starting with picture #31. I do have to say picture #48 is an epic no. Not judging but no. Just no. And coup de grâce: “House is being sold furnished. “ UPDAtE: They took the pics down at Redfin, but
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Hair Problems
My hair is naturally wavy, which means that if left to its own devices it will form spiral-looking waves. That sounds delightful in theory, but in practice I look like Merida. And if I brush it at the wrong moment, it goes full poodle and I end up having bigger hair than a Southern woman
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On Perfume, Surprising Fragrance of
Lotion tube: Husband, hugging me: Mmm. You smell lemony. WIN.
The Door
So the new door is finally installed. It is solid wood, 2 inches thick, it has iron doohickies and speak-easy windows, and my husband is finally happy. UPDATE: For those of you who are asking, yes, if he could dig a moat around the house, he would definitely do it.
On Inciting Violence, Peculiar Methods Of
For those of you unable to view the image, Arizona Department of Corrections is warning us that ONE FEEL SWEEP might be taken out of circulation in their prison libraries because it “promotes Acts of Violence.” We are, of course, planning to appeal the decision. We are a little puzzled as to the promoting part,
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Birthday Fun
Yesterday was my birthday. Gordon bought me all sorts of coloring loot and Kid 1 got me flowers. Kid 2, who is in New York, wished me happy birthday. Also my computer’s mother board quit. The PC froze in the middle of something, which it had never done before; I restarted and ran straight into
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Stopping Annoying Phone Calls
Update: we do not have a true landline, but we do get phone service through our cable provider bundled with the internet. 🙂 The discussion in the comments of the previous post veered into receiving spam telemarketer calls, which at best are annoying and at worst trying to scam you out of your money. We’ve
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Knitting Things You Covet
We’ve been so busy that I haven’t had a chance to make a Christmas List. I would like to get some yarn, but I have zero clue what to get or what the cool new popular projects are. I tried looking on Ravelry and just ended up overwhelmed. I’m still working on Gordon’s Ranger Cowl
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Dreams I have
I dreamed that Gordon reenlisted. He was back in the Army. We were standing around at a unit Christmas support event, and the battalion commander was a total dick and wouldn’t let anybody go home. Literally, I am standing there with a bunch of Army spouses and grinding my teeth, because we are not spending
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Stormy Friday: Narrow Escape
The fabled horrible storm promised to hit us like a monsoon this Friday turned out to be rain. Not a particularly heavy one. We are all very grateful as nobody wants flooding. The AC has been fixed and the house is a balmy 70 degrees. 🙂 The doors will be delivered shortly, which means we
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When it rains, it pours.
The law of probability, as described by my father: “Seven accidents happen over the course of the week. The probability that all of them happen on the same day is seven times higher than having them happen once a day.” I have no idea if it’s right, because I hated probability laws in school and
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