Normally common cold to me means 3 days of misery, during which I whine, and then I am up and running. It’s been 11 days and I am still sick. Kids are still sick. Gordon is still sick. Everyone is sick. I am so sleep deprived. Last night, just like this whole week, as soon
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ACA Open Enrollment Starts Today
This is your annual reminder: for those of you like us, who obtain their insurance through ACA, open enrollment started today. I just got done renewing our policy for 2019 at https://www.healthcare.gov/. The site is functioning and running smoothly. If you need to enroll, do it now, before they take it down for maintenance or some
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Still sick
Went to the doctor. It’s probably just a really bad cold, but it might be pneumonia. Had an X-ray. Waiting on results – they will call if it’s pneumonia. Got excused from work for next 2 days. Haven’t slept more than 4 hours for the last 3 nights. Super tired. In bed. Can’t breathe so
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Heads Up: Really Sick
I don’t remember the last time I was this sick. If I don’t get better, Gordon is taking me to Urgent Care tomorrow. It’s so bad, I want my mom. I spent the day in bed, watching Lifetime Movie Channel. Secrets of the Undercover Wife was not a bad movie. Moving on to Undercover Wife
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Delay on Innkeeper
So today is my father’s last day with us, but that’s not why we are delaying. Kid 2 had bacterial sinusitis. Her boyfriend has bacterial sinusitis. Kid 1 now also has bacterial sinusitis. Everyone has antibiotics. I’ve held on for about 4 days trying to take care of everybody, but woke up this morning with
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Gloomy Wednesday
First things first, the answers to some questions. Why was the snippet cut? It was a tense beginning but it doesn’t really connect to anything in the way we originally envisioned. We wanted to get to the main storyline faster. You will still see chunks of this in the narrative. There is a midnight visitor,
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State of Father
Thank you for asking how things are going. So far so good. Dad has arrived. He likes his room. A TV was installed and a bundle of Russian channels was ordered for him on Roku. A tablet was provided for his convenience so he could Skype my stepmom. I have made an apple and strawberry
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We are not dead
Thank you for the concerned emails. Nothing terrible happened. We had a rough week. We are still putting the house back together from the floor replacement. I had a really lousy reaction to the tetanus shot. My arm swelled, the injection site turned red and hard, my lymph node in my arm pit swelled to
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A Hell of a Monday, With Surprise Dancing
First, my routine doctor appointment a week or so ago didn’t turn out as routine as expected. Today I had my diagnostic mammogram and it’s clear. Yay! On Thursday I stepped on a nail. It went through an inch-thick shoe and into my foot. Ow. It didn’t get infected but yesterday my children realized it
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Urgent Update About Cat Video
Turns out that the cat video mentioned in the writing post is not showing the cat mourning his deceased owner. It is showing a cat watching another cat playing with a turtle. Full story here. My day is made! Yes!
Discombobulated
At some point in my life I have realized a simple fact: I can’t lose something if I always put it in the same place. Car keys? Always in a certain pocket of my purse. Glasses? Always on the bathroom counter or on the night table. Medicine? Always in the medicine cabinet by the office.
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Romance Novelist Arrested for the Murder of Her Husband
That’s a hell of a thing. A romance novelist was arrested on suspicion of murder, three months after her chef husband was found fatally shot inside the culinary institute where he taught. Read more here… She looks like such a harmless lady. Has anybody here read anything by her? I am not sure why that
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