Around here, “Black Friday” refers to the color of my hands.

I do not understand how Christmas decorations can get so dirty being stored in a box all year. 
The theme for this year’s Christmas is “making do.”  I was all set to go buy a new Christmas tree this year, had it all picked out, but when I went to buy it they were all sold [...]

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First world dilemma.

I’m trying to decide if it would be okay to mix prescription anti-inflammatories with a glass of wine.  Meds in the morning, booze in the evening. 
I have bigger things on my plate to be concerned with, and yet this is the most pressing issue I can face right now. 
Happy Thanksgiving. 
 
– Mox

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The one in which I go to church and the roof doesn’t cave in.

Spawn is still quite adamant about becoming Catholic. 
The first step to take is for Spawn to participate in Reconciliation, which in my father’s day was known as First Confession.  I have my doubts as to what sorts of sins a second grader would be able to confess to, but it’s a clearing of the conscience, and [...]

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How does guilt taste?

My mother and I have been talking about how we’re both going to start getting rid of stuff that people have given us, and not be guilty about it.  I mean, why be guilty if you don’t like that tole-painted goose that someone gave you, because they didn’t know what kind of stuff you like?  [...]

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The old gray mare, etc., etc.

From “the hits just keep on coming” department: 
Back during the summer I noticed a little bit of pain in my left knee after a workout.  Nothing too serious, but it felt almost like a muscle strain along the back of my knee.  I took some time off from my regular workout, babied it, wrapped it [...]

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I wonder what it’s like to not think about money all the time.

(Yes, a post on Saturday.  Because I feel some entitlement to whine right now.)
Dear reader, I am cold. 
Not your run-of-the-mill cold because it’s 22 freakin’ degrees outside sort of cold.  Oh no, that would be a mere luxury. 
This is more of a whoops-your-30-year-old-furnace-is-broken sort of cold. 
Meaning, currently it is 60° inside my house.  And dropping. 
On [...]

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A little more commitment than I want but I’m doing it anyway.

Right.  So the other day I wrote about some of the minutiae in my life, namely the epic purging that’s going on in my household.  I am trying to feel the progress as it’s happening but I am really tired of gnawing on this particular bone. 
I was starting to feel like there was a light [...]

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Adding one more.

Those who know me in real life and those who have followed my story here in all it’s anonymous glory, know that I am a cat person.  My husband, though allergic, is a cat person.  And Spawn is a cat person.  We are cat people. 
Not this kind of cat people: 

More like this kind of cat [...]

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I’m the English major — you do the math.

I can tell very quickly just how far I’ll be able to go in helping Spawn with homework.  As far as second grade math. 
Spawn came home last night with a note from the teacher, asking me to work with the kid to understand how to add columns of numbers. 
Oh holy crap.  Having to teach math.  [...]

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It’s a lot of work.

Now that I am in hibernation mode due to dark days, cloudy skies, and cold temperatures, my attentions have been focused on cleaning out my house.  One of the reasons we’ve never been hot to move to a new house is because we have twelve years of crap stored in the basement, which would need [...]

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