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My favorite thing about protein bars is that they satisfy the innate human desire for sweet edible clay

I had my "device check" this morning and I've got four and a half more years left on this pacemaker and then I have to get a new battery. Woohoo I guess!

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Constant Comment (a stream of consciousness steeped in nostalgia) Today’s thoughts are steeped—literally—in Constant Comment. The tea, not the chatter. Though both, in their own way, are constant. Tea is memory wat…

My latest piece - a wander in memories and tea.
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It's cool in Florida today-

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

Without my glasses on I thought there was a monster on the right. It's your dog. Carry on.

Okay today I'm applying to jobs, lighting up my son's surgeon if they don't call me back, taking the girl to school for a class, and gonna work on my next post. What are you doing ? #writing #jobhunt #losingmymind

Touch a Truck It had been our idea, though we didn’t say it out loud like that. “Idea” makes it sound lofty, something with scaffolding. Really it was more of a hope dressed up in sunscreen and pract…

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I just realized that for the past 50 something years I thought that name of the movie was Rooster Cockburn and seriously I have laughed too hard about this. I had to tell someone.
I guess Rooster Cockburn would be a very different movie....

When Life Gives You Lemons When life gives you lemons, you could make lemonade, but that’s sticky and you’ll spill it, and then the ants come. Better to tie them up and make a knot. A citrus talisman. A fruit-flavored warnin…

Let's talk about therapy

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Coffeepocalypse In our house, coffee is both sacrament and scourge. It arrives each morning with the same inevitability as gravity, the same quiet threat. Charlie is its high priest, its addict, its harbinger. He …

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Every day I just deal with the crushing stress of being me without the right words to express all the shit I deal with and I think it's going to kill me. I really do. Special needs parenting is not for the weak I tell you what

I forgot I had this one. Hi guys I'm back.

Are the dark clouds parting? It may be true

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Not really sure how to process the level of sad I’m feeling right now.

My first time taking Tamiflu. Stupid flu. Stupid virus.

Do I get any magical powers from it.

I feel like I may just collapse under the weight of my life. How can one life be so chaotic? What bad energy am I burning off from a past life? I just wanna sleep for like four days. I don’t know what to do anymore…I’m tired you guys.

I went to my new cardiologist today. I found out that my pacemaker is now officially pacing my heart 100%, so I guess I’m a battery powered zombie now.
I’m glad I have it, but it feels pretty disconcerting really.

When you have a special needs child who is also
Violent at times, it’s a special kind of hell.

My big hair outlasted the 80s

Here is a weird thing, I got about 50 or more cookbooks- a lady had collected them all her life. They are adorable so many are from local clubs, the sort that is like a little fundraiser.
Now I don’t know what to do with them but I would love to think of a way to preserve what is in them!

I just saw this and howled

I’m still deep in the unplanned tooth extraction recovery. I hate that this surprised me like this and that it just ate up my weekend. I keep having good ideas to write about and then they fade away which is probs my pain meds. Probably not good ideas anyway, eh?

Today I went to have a crown put back and ended up having an emergency extraction and bone graft so that’s my Friday sorted.

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Look it’s Girl Scout cookie time and we have 9k boxes to move! We offer shipping! You probably want some to ward off the existential horrors ….

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The snow forecast for Florida now includes US. Snow might be fun- for a day….

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