Month: November 2010
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We thawed, we roasted, we gobbled
So yesterday was our Designated Alternate Holiday of Gratitude, postponed from last Thursday due to various reasons mainly involving the complex interplay of the juxtaposition of a bunch of stuff nobody cares about. Actually, it was just the best day to have it on so that our families could attend if they so desired. This…
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It’s cold!
It’s like Antarctica cold! Nanook of the North couldn’t take this cold! I’m not sure if I can stay here if it’s going to be this cold! … So it’s like 19 degrees tonight, which is just about the point where the furnace explodes and the car flips over on its back and wriggles its…
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The Only Version of This I Can Stand
So it turns out I hate the Nutcracker. I just do. I never went to it as a child and if I had, I most likely would have hated it then too. It’s all a little too precious, and those nutcrackers? Scary and ugly. And giant dancing rats? Ew. There, I said it. And the…
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It Made My Day
So a long while back I posted about not getting a full-time position that I had applied for at another mental health agency. It was down to me and one other person, I knew, and I surmised that the other person probably had more experience or something. A friend of mine who was privy to…
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The Dancing Panties
So we took the Collective Spawn ™ over to a friend’s house yesterday, dressed them in new holiday-themed pajamas, and placed them on a table so that the friend could take photos of them. She has a kick-ass fancy camera and we want to send out photos in our Christmas (and other holidays /take your…
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In which I become a pincushion
So today I was obliged to visit the Urgent Care, because indeed Care was called for, and Urgently, in light of the rip-roaring fever and piercing abdominal pain of the long night before. It was improved by the morning but is it an improvement to feel that you have a red-hot brick in your gut…
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Let the holiday season begin!
So I had to visit the Lady Bits Doctor today to follow up on some fol-de-rol having to do with things you don’t, and I can pretty much guarantee this, want to know anything about. All is well, and aside from some Helpful Advice I am pretty much off the hook for a year, provided…
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