Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Out to Lunch

1. Find out credit card payment went through. 2. Drive to Target, proud of my ability to multi-task at lunch. 3. Plan in head purchase of beautiful clothing and Healthy Choice® frozen dinner. 4. Pack wisely, taking only keys and … Continue reading

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Death Be Not Proud

Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. ~ John Donne I was driving home from work. Just another night that followed a dreary, gray January day. Same old, same old. Ennui had set in, and an overall … Continue reading

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Hope Riding High: My Top 10 ’80s Fist-Pumping Movie Songs!

So this has been a big, controversial year full of politics and rage. An election and a rejection. Fights. Fear. A collapsing economy. I figured out why. It’s simply been too long since we had great, motivating songs in our … Continue reading

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Stop Me When I’m Passing By

When we moved into our first house, I was 5 and three quarters, and excited for myriad reasons. Obviously, there was more space in a house than a one-bedroom apartment. But there was also treasure at every turn. The place … Continue reading

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Catering To The Classes

So back when I was a senior in high school, I decided that I wasn’t quite enough of a Sharon Cherske from “My So-Called Life,” maybe because that show didn’t exist then, more’s the pity, because man I could have … Continue reading

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Sticker? I Hardly Knew ‘Er!

When I was quitting smoking, I gave myself a sticker on my Hello, Kitty calendar every day. Bear with me. Well actually no, that pretty much sets the tone for the remainder. But it was very nice positive reinforcement. I … Continue reading

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30 Days of Non-Humbug: A Quest To Grow My Heart Three Sizes

Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch, who lived just north of Whoville – did not. The Grinch hated Christmas – the whole Christmas season. Now, please don’t ask why; no one quite knows the … Continue reading

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In Defence of Spidey

Click here for part one! One day at Boulder Creek, I was the only girl working a lunch shift. The guys were all engaged in this animated argument that was traveling throughout the restaurant. They’d fight, take care of their … Continue reading

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Top 7 Current Shows I’m Watching PLUS One More…

So I think I’m watching more current television than I ever have in my existence, i.e., where every show is my choice to watch and no one’s going to make me watch it but me. And shockingly, many of the … Continue reading

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This House…Is Clean?

(And so the hauntings conclude (FOR NOW), not with a bang, but a whimper (TM my boy T.S.). So when I was living in my second Merrick apartment (the one before the current Levittown one), I remember trying to download … Continue reading

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