Esteban and I recently refinanced our house, only because we’ve never done it and when the interest rates were really really low, back when everyone else was refinancing their houses, I looked into doing it and decided that it was a lot of work gathering all of these financial documents and our ARM interest rate […]
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I’ve been working on getting over my fear of boats. I mentioned to my guy friends that I would be interested in joining one of their twice-weekly waterskiing excursions. So this week, they let me play spotter. I was freaked out, but it helped somehow to find out that the area of river we were […]
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I’ve been suffering from what longtime readers will recognize as my quarterly episode of flutter tummy. I like the idea of food, sort of, but the actual eating of said food’ not so much. I’m not taking any Prednisone right now (a notorious cause of my picky eater syndrome) so it’s a mystery. I haven’t […]
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This morning, as I was driving to work, I spotted one of the facial hair guys. You know, the guys who seem to want to make some kind of statement with their facial hair? The two bearded guys in ZZTop come to mind. (By the way, there are other members of ZZTop, but for some […]
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I’ve mentioned earlier that half the reason I haven’t been updating a lot is due to my project at work. Lo, behold, it is at a very critical stage right now, the motherfucking project. At this point, it is starting to feel as though I have actually pushed it through a birthing canal, a fourteen-pound […]
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So the Zombie Thumb made life interesting for awhile. I never really think about how much I favor my left hand (I was originally a left-hander, but my step-father decided that it would be better if I were right-handed and therefore forced me to learn to do everything with my right hand, and of course, […]
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Some things I forgot to mention about the Bon Voyage Times Two Party (Now With Extra Llama Face): Hausfrau drove up especially for the party, but because there was some kind of biker convention in town, she couldn’t get her normal room at the nice hotel and had to stay in a gritty hotel. WTF, […]
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Many things have happened in the last twelve days since I updated this page. If you have a short attention span, here’s the high points: Farewell Soirees: 3 Trips to the emergency room: 1 Stitches: 2 People who rubbed their hot sweaty bodies up against mine: 473 Dollars charged for two plastic cups filled with […]
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heels Over the past two weekends in a row, a parent of a friend has passed away. I’ve spent the last two Tuesdays in a row at funerals. I hate to be superstitious because I always think of swarthy women with hairy moles, wearing burlap scarves and giving people the evil eye, and I can […]
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Things that have made me laugh over the last two weeks: Imitating golf commentary as delivered by Maya Angelou Re: exchange following the above conversation: “Yeah, but my father isn’t a politically oppressed black woman.”“He would be by the end of the poem.” Re: Insufficient robes at the local day spa Weet: Whoa, my boobs […]
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