Wellbeing

My mastery of the obvious wanes

Common sense struck fourteen hours too late today. You should know this already, but if not, take this opportunity to learn from others’ mistakes. How did I become an other? Oh woe is me! Am I the mother of all others? If there’s any chance a doctor’s appointment may cause worry, for God’s sake people, take the morning appointment! How it fits into your work schedule should…
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Kitchen Sink

Fickle Facebook friends

Note: I wrote this months ago, so the time references are way off (like someone’s concerned about timeliness… here of all places). I was a social networking snob. At one time I had a blog, a web site, and all of it ran on a web server under my desk. I had Internet cred, and Facebook was beneath me. Like everyone else, I didn’t get Twitter. About a year ago I was talked into…
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Kitchen Sink

Life is like a box of Splenda

Stuff never seems to stop coming out of that dang box. I have to say, it’s disturbingly light. What lengths do chemists go to create a substance with so little density? Anyway, I bought one three weeks ago thinking we were almost out, but the old one’s still filling tablespoons for Cheryl’s elixir of life (coffee). I had a similar experience this weekend. I was a mad cleaning…
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Family and Friends

My life in song

She had no idea she was making a mistake. I’m unpredictable that way. You never know what will set me off. We were watching something on the TV and Cheryl asked, “where have I seen her before?” Not missing a beat, I whipped up a brilliant song about IMDB… set to the music of YMCA. I even threw in the arm spasms… I mean letters. It’s my one true gift, the thing…
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Family and Friends

Big Bother is watching

Cheryl was complaining this morning. Before you rush to judgement – of me – for telling on Cheryl, let me say up front that I complain just as much as she does. Only, my complaining tends to be more whiney, grating, and down right irritating. But let us not talk about me, and instead focus on Cheryl – my intended target. (We’ll get to me shortly.) Cheryl was complaining…
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Going for Broke

Saving money in the wrong places

There are some lines I won’t cross on this blog. Don’t you laugh. I’ll find you. I’m not going to elaborate, not that it’ll be necessary. I think your imagination will fill in capably. I’ve decided not to save money on toilet paper anymore. I say that now, but just you wait. A few years from now I’ll be reposting this entry, complaining about how rough it…
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Kitchen Sink

You've done this before

If you haven’t I don’t want to hear about it. I’ve been working with weights for a while now, trying to build up a little strength. You can do a fair bit with free weights alone, but there were a few exercises I wanted to add that required a bench. The kids have finally grown to the point where I’m not worried about having my old weight bench sitting out, so I set out to…
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