Stop me if you’ve heard this one.

A guy walks into a bar and orders three beers.  He sits quietly and drinks each one in turn, raising each mug in a silent salute before drinking.  He pays for the beers and leaves. 
The next week, he comes in and does the exact same thing.  The bartender, having heard his fair share of stories, [...]

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The Charlene Atlas Course

In my never-ending quest to torture myself at the gym and beyond, I bought a pair of hand weights to use while I walked my four daily miles.  Measly little 1.5 pounders, even.  And it’s evident that I have lost all the muscle tone I acquired hoisting a baby all around, because two miles into [...]

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So this is what it’s like to be a grown-up.

Ok, y’all, kittens are cute.  No? 
Oh, yes, they are.  So very cute. 
But here’s the thing:  I have called the humane society and asked for one of their traps, because I need to trap these little cutie-pies (and their mama) and at the very least have them assessed for health.  Because the day is coming when [...]

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Cathouse

It’s not a big secret amongst our friends and family members that Spawn is a cataholic.  The kid loves cats with a single-minded adoration like nothing I’ve ever seen.  I don’t know where this comes from, though I am myself a professed cat person — which is to say that I got bitten by a [...]

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I don’t even want to be here today.

My husband and I managed to get the hell out of town this weekend, and it did us both a world of good. 
It also pointed up the fact that I really need a break. 
I have hit a wall with both of my jobs, and have started banging my head on it.  Really, y’all.  My well [...]

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Where my Type-A Anal Personality really shows.

So today is trash day in my neighborhood.  I like having trash day on Friday, because it gives me a real sense of clearing out all the crap from the week and tossing it so we can have a good clean weekend.  (Notice I did not say “good clean fun” because what fun is that?)  [...]

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So far out of my comfort zone, it’s not even funny.

Every year for the past 22 years, my little podunk town has hosted a music festival that includes a folklife component.  Folklife, for the uninitiated, is all of those little rituals and crafts that identify a culture.  To that end, the festival has always included dancing or soapmaking or weaving or some such attraction, and [...]

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Blast from the past. Because I’m lazy.

Often, in the wee small hours of the morning, I will lie awake and let the flotsam of my mind just sort of have its’ way with my thoughts.  This often produces really great posts, which are then lost to the ages when I fall back asleep. 
This morning, when my fuzzy yellow alarm clock rudely [...]

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When in doubt, post a recipe

INGREDIENTS:

6 fluid ounces vodka
18 fluid ounces orange juice
1 cup frozen strawberries
4 scoops orange sherbet
1 cup crushed ice

DIRECTIONS:

In a blender, mix the vodka, orange juice, strawberries, orange sherbet, and ice. Blend until smooth.

– Mox

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There are days like today that I wish I had a few posts all saved up in my drafts folder.

The busier I get the less time I have for the frivolity of this blog.  And I hate that, because this blog is where I go to dump out the contents of my head, rifle through them, analyze, categorize, rationalize, prioritize, poke out my eyes.  If I didn’t do it here I’d have a real [...]

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