The part of me that hasn’t grown up

As I sit here typing this, there are snowflakes swirling around outside my window.  Depending on where you live around here, the weather forecasters are calling for anywhere from an inch of snow to ten inches of snow. 
As a parent and businessperson, I cringe. 
We don’t generally get big snows in this neck of the woods, [...]

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When you hot, you hot.

Female physiology being what it is, there are things about my body that just perplex the hell out of me. 
To wit:  the wind chill is at -1 outside and yet I wake up in a full sweat in the middle of the night. 
And I know, I know.  I’m 40 now.  “The Change” can’t be too [...]

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Every day is a new day.

There are days, like yesterday, where I question the wisdom of even getting out of bed.  Then there are days, like today, where I don’t see any reason not to. 
Amazing what good nights’ sleep will do for your perspective. 
Of course the weather here is still crap.  And I’m still hopelessly behind on my to-do list. 
Is [...]

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The blahfest continues. Unabated.

Somewhere there is an unwritten rule that Mondays should suck. 
I am having what amounts to being a typical (for me) Monday. 
It started out, for me, with a lazy lazy Sunday, and as we all know the lazy Sunday is the undoing of the civilized world.  I usually use my Sundays to prepare for the upcoming week – [...]

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Things that irritate me, part Whatever.

Recently Spawn had an opportunity to choose a birthday gift for a female classmate, and as I like to do, I made the kid pick the gift out rather than me assuming what I should get.  These kids today and their cartoon idols and movie toys… I am lost in the toy department anymore. 
Choosing a [...]

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Bull by the horns.

Something that I have been dreading is about to come to pass. 
Spawn needs to be tested for learning disabilities. 
I think that somewhere within any mother who is worth her salt, there is a little internal warning system that tells her when something with her child is not right.  Personally, my alarm has been sounding since [...]

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The L Word

The hits just keep on coming this week. 
This morning on the radio someone said the L word:  Lent. 
Lent is early this year.  Ash Wednesday is February 6th.  Which also means that Easter is early, a full week before spring break, so there’s the silver lining in that cloud.  We might could actually get out of town [...]

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Amazing what you can learn on TV.

So now that I’ve got this second TV, I’ve been able to watch the news in the evenings.  I caught part of a news report last night that said that the third Monday in January is the most depressing day of the year. 
Well, hell.  No wonder I’m struggling. 
Of course it doesn’t help that it’s colder [...]

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I really need to get back to the gym.

I won’t lie to you, folks.  I am really struggling right now. 
It’s been a good while since I’ve felt this way — groggy, silent, restless.  Back in late summer last year was the last time I had to fight this feeling. 
I’m in a dark mood.  I’m not satisfied with anything. 
I’m not sleeping well. 
I feel very [...]

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Trying on something new.

I am bored.  Bored with my life, bored with my haircut, bored with what’s in my closet, bored with the furniture in my house, bored with the daily routine. 
It is not good to be bored with so many elements of your life, especially in the dead of winter.  Changes beg to be made. 
Changes have a way [...]

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