Is it a Raisin or a Lifeline?

As I type this I’m holed up in our bedroom with Walt and the Newt while Ryan resorts to toxic chemicals in our kitchen sink.  This isn’t really as dreadful as it seems as I have Ryan’s laptop and a bowl of soup.  Also, a baby who is content with the constant feeding – so [...]

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Britney and Me

Well, if I leave the last post up for much longer I’ll really seem like a whine-y bitch.  However, just to contradict myself I’ll complain just a little bit more.  Earlier this week, when shopping for groceries, a woman asked me, “How many babies do [I] have in there?”
“Just one,” I answered.
“A big one,” she [...]

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A Snow Day and Cows

School was canceled today not because of snow but because of -40 windchill “issues.”  This is a major improvement from the first year that I worked at my current school.  At that time our representative from the board of trustees had some “old-school” values that prevented her from making the call to shut down the [...]

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Sick

I’m on my seventh day of being sick.  I have a whole bunch of different type of sicknesses, none of which is very interesting to mention, so I won’t.  What I will mention is how intolerant I’ve become.  I can’t stand being uncomfortable, never mind in pain.  Four years ago I pushed through mono and [...]

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Ba De Ya

Ryan is listening to some shitty-ass country music right now that I feel is impossible to criticize (to his face) because of my love of Earth Wind and Fire’s “September.”  Do you know about this song?  Because its amazing.  The only problem with it is as follows:
- it’s a disco song and apparently that’s bad
- [...]

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Summer Dayz*

Well, it’s day 3 of my summer vacation at home and I’ve:
Made a “to do” list that I accomplish before noon, leaving me with way too much time to think
Convinced myself that my dog does have a soul and have used it as justification to dress him up in the future (and also talk to [...]

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Stream of Consciousness and Annie Lennox

I’ve been thinking about writing something for a few weeks.  But I’ve got nothing.  I could complain about boredom and poverty.  But that’s weak.  It’s February, who isn’t bored and poor?  No one I want to associate with, that’s for sure.   
Everything in my life right now is good and quiet.  And I like that.  But [...]

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Doesn’t Play Well with Others (Because Others are Stupid)

I’m an only child and I don’t play well with others.  I thought I did.  In fact, I was that only child who didn’t seem like an only child.  “But you’re so normal,” they’d all say. 
Ryan doesn’t say that.  Ryan says that it’s obvious that moving in together was a big adjustment for me.  A [...]

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The Lake Isle of Innisfree

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning [...]

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