Friday, December 15, 2006
On the fifth day, I rose again and seem to be doing better, as was projected by Esteban’s course of this mystery illness. Last night, I was able to drink a nice cabernet at my work Christmas party and didn’t throw up at the smell of food. I did manage to get through half of […]
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Thursday, December 14, 2006
I am still sick. Why am I still sick? Because the Baby Jesus hates me. That’s why. I had fooled myself into thinking that maybe I could look on the bright side and maybe I was losing weight, quarts at a time, but then my sister mentioned that she’s been sick since August and hasn’t […]
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
My Mafia Grandmother and I haven’t talked since our shouting match in the ER when she refused to have tests done after her stroke. A few weeks ago, my sister came over to my desk and applied heavy amounts of guilt about how she’s an old woman and how you just don’t know how long […]
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006
My great grandmother used to feel that if the weather would just go from lovely mild fall weather to a good hard freeze, cold season would cease to exist. Much to the dismay of the makers of NyQuil. While I’m not sure that the woman who wouldn’t let me sit on the bare ground for […]
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Monday, December 11, 2006
I would like to believe that I have gotten a hold of my body image issues somewhere along these 30 years (how sad is it that my stepfather actually scolded me for being fat when I was five) and also have thrown a lot of money at my collective wardrobe to soothe any lingering doubt. […]
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Sunday, December 10, 2006
Last week, it was time for my 7 week haircut and color touchup. I’m a very natural brunette right now, only a shade or two darker than my actual color, and about two shades lighter than my winter standard, which is, according to pictures from Weetapie last year, a shade too dark. And yet, I’ll […]
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Thursday, December 7, 2006
I still don’t have MS Office loaded on my PC. It’s one of the casualties to the great reload of Aught Six, along with a bunch of fonts and probably something else really important like my Sims based on several Wagnerian opera characters. Siegfried and Torvald always liked the butt sex, you know. Or so […]
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Wednesday, December 6, 2006
The last time I did Holidailies, I wrote out the liner notes to the Holiday Weetamix CD and I think it’s probably one of my favorite entries from that year. However, the mistake I made was posting them before the recipients actually received their Weetamixes, thus eliminating the surprise. Last year, I didn’t write out […]
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Tuesday, December 5, 2006
I have been working on my holiday cards for the last week, punctuated mostly with the fact that my PC has been limping along for the last few months. It wouldn’t show thumbnails in Windows and wouldn’t play .avi files. It wouldn’t open several programs, like my general CD burner or Sony Movie Maker or […]
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Tuesday, December 5, 2006
For some reason, I never really feel right unless I have a trip on the horizon. I think it’s a sickness. Or perhaps, a delightful personality quirk. Let’s go with that. About a month ago, I was invited to read a short story at a lit journal issue launch party in DC. The invitation came […]
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