A fool and her money.

My friends can tell just exactly how bored I am on the job some days by the sheer number of links I forward them.  It’s the technological equivalent of clipping articles to send to people, which is something I would never do, and yet I have no problem passing on links to websites and articles.  [...]

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Mike stole most of my answers.

I’m usually pretty happy to play along with a meme, mostly because I don’t get tagged for them too often.  If it were a habit I’d probably sow the ground with salt and call it a day. 
Anyway, Mike tagged me for his self-created Offend-O-Fest and though I am not by nature an offending sort I [...]

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Number 14

If you had told me some 20 years ago that the guy I met up on the frat floor, who was simultaneously playing chess and being a loudmouth jerk, that that guy would somehow worm his way into my life, I would have laughed.  And possibly thrown something at your head.  Because he was SO [...]

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Mox’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day

We all have those days, don’t we?  Those days that would be best served by staying in bed, incommunicado?  I seem to be having my fair share of them here lately. 
Right.  So I signed Spawn up for day camp at the local YMCA, figuring that the kid would have fun and learn some stuff and [...]

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Pondering

When you were in 4th grade, did they separate the boys and the girls and show each group a filmstrip about what puberty was going to do to them? 
Wow, boy, they did that when I was in school.  Pretty traumatic stuff for a bunch of 9-year-olds.  And I daresay the only sex education some of [...]

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Signs of the apocalypse

It’s taken over 30 years, but my mother finally resorted to opening a can of store-bought green beans to serve for supper the other night. 
The magnitude of this will probably go unappreciated by those who do not know my parents well.
See, my parents have always had a garden, every year.  And they’ve always canned from [...]

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A hard night’s day

I haven’t slept well these past couple of nights, and that makes for some long, hard days on the job. 
I need a crown on one of my teeth.  Big bucks there.  So I have a choice — spend the money getting preventive maintenance on my car, or put my money where my mouth is.  I [...]

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How far I’ve come

So I got my adult beverages on Friday, which was good, but I also have discovered that my palate for adult beverages has gotten more discerning over the years. 
Friday, my husband and I went to our favorite Mexican joint to load up on chips and chori-queso (queso dip mixed with chorizio sausage mmmm so good) [...]

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Lost shaker of salt

~SIGH~
Seems that everyone around me these days is having personal tragedies left and right.  I do wish misery would take its company elsewhere. 
I do believe that tonight would be a good night for some adult beverages. 
– Mox

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If you are what you eat, I’m a fully dressed double cheeseburger with bacon and real mayo.

My best friend and I have been comparing notes on the various diet books that we’ve been reading, and we’ve concluded that no matter what diet you buy into — Atkins, South Beach, Weight Watchers, etc. — the basic premise is the same:  you are what you eat. 
Which means my physical makeup consists of more [...]

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