Definitely having the cleaning lady come this week.

The other day I was working from home (translation:  I was surfing the Internet at my dining room table rather than at my desk in the office) when something happened to me that hasn’t happened in a long, long time. 
I was “working” along and minding my own business when I was suddenly besieged by eye [...]

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Landmarks and Milestones

So as I was rounding the corner at the track this morning at my gym (I went to the gym today!) I started thinking about where, physically and healthwise, I am headed. 
I am going to be 41 later this summer, and oddly enough, 41 isn’t bothering me nearly as much as 40 did last year.  [...]

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Progress is being made. If only in my head.

I was driving into work this morning, and as my brain is wont to to, my mind started wandering back to when Spawn was a baby.  When you’re a first-time mom and you’re dealing with a colicky newborn, the last thing you think about is what kind of personality your kid is going to have.  [...]

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I do dumb things.

Do you have any idea what burnt peanut butter smells like? 
If you do you can laugh with me instead of at me.  If not, then you can just chalk it up in the column marked Mox Is Crazy. 
I packed Spawn’s lunch last night before I went to bed.  As much as I hate to admit [...]

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Snow on the mountain is one thing. Snow on the Easter eggs is something else entirely.

The fact that this Easter is the earliest it’s been since 1913, and that it won’t come this early again until 2228, means that for one thing, it was damned cold around here. 
Spring weather is notoriously fickle, and this year it seems to be more so.  On Friday we were treated to 65° and sunshine, followed [...]

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Caffeine is the stuff that makes coffee taste good.

I’m not kidding, y’all. 
I’ve been drinking decaf for the last 40 days and it’s just not the same.  Gimme the full lead version. 
This year, Lent has seemed rather irrelevant to me.  While I don’t pretend to know The Mind of God, I have wondered about this business of Lent and the attendant giving up of [...]

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TGI(G)F

Today is Good Friday, and because of this fact, Spawn’s Catholic school is not in session today.  Which means we both got to sleep in and putter around the house in our jammies this morning. 
In  just a bit, we’re going to take some stale bread out to feed the ducks and maybe get some ice [...]

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Happy happy joy joy

Today is the first day of spring. 
Of course that means I had to get out and scrape the ice off my windshield this morning.  Y’know, the usual. 
Easter is this weekend. 
Which means I can go back to drinking cappucinos and rum & cokes, since I gave up caffienated beverages for Lent.  The things that make life [...]

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I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Well, with the initial meeting with the psychologist behind me, I (not surprisingly) slept quite well last night.  Oh, how I love my dreamless nights.  I understand why depressed people sometimes sleep and sleep and sleep… it’s an escape. 
At the crack of dark this morning I learned that school had been cancelled yet again due [...]

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Like studying for a blood test.

For those of you wondering out there, I did not sleep any better last night than the night before.  Same minefield of dreams.  Mostly I dreamed that I was late for my appointment with the psychologist. 
Heretofore my experience meeting with a doctor has been a 30-minute time frame; this meeting took an hour and a [...]

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