The House Rules

Based on experiences with prior visitors to my house and inspired by conversations of do’s/don’ts in various areas including house rules with a friend, I have developed my own regulations. All are a result of actual events that have occurred in the past.  So without further ado, here are the Ten House Rules for the [...]

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Why I Read

There are two groups of people: bibliophiles and those that read a book a year if they’re lucky.  There are many levels of bookworms, from the collector to the packrat to the obsessive, and I’m not sure where I fall.  I do, however, read every day.  Sometimes I finish a book in one sitting, sometimes [...]

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Denial is a wonderful thing!

So Thursday, I was home from work by 1pm.  Went through a box of Kleenex.  Friday, no job to go to, went to lunch with an old friend and dinner with a former coworker.  We were supposed to be at dinner to talk about the big hooplah the prior weekend, but given the recent events [...]

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To post, or not to post? (AKA what do the unemployed do?)

I have struggled with this question all day, actually.  See things were going okay in my life.  I had a job I was dang good at, I had a debt payment plan all worked out for my life, and then I had the joyous event of being laid off today.  I think that the only [...]

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Ten small things that I was thankful for today

I have a roof over my head and an air conditioner that works when it is 99+ outside
I have a next-door neighbor that lets me come dunk in her backyard above-ground pool when it is 99+ outside
I have a former coworker that has a chainsaw and didn’t mind coming over when a mutual friend asked [...]

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It’s a crazy world we live in, part 2

Okay, here’s some more stuff that I just think is worth mentioning.  To continue from yesterday:

How is it that I have never heard of this woman before?  Irena Sendler saved 2500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942-1943.  A teacher thought that the number was actually a typo, and four high school girls–Megan Stewart, Elizabeth [...]

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It’s a crazy world we live in

So there have been some weird reports of things going on lately.  I don’t understand how this kind of stuff gets more air time than the TWO WARS that we are currently participating in, but hey I don’t write the news I just convey the wacko stuff to the general public.
One note: I think I [...]

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Home again, home again, jiggity jig

(Re: Entry title: Name that Mother Goose nursery rhyme!)
So I’m home from a week of driving to various vacation related activities.  After the chaos of work last week it was nice to get away for awhile.  I had every intention of going to church before heading to the beach last Sunday, but after two days [...]

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This week has been brought to you by the letter C!

So, yeah, this week has been absolutely crazy. You know how it is with a short week at work, you never know what’s going to happen, and then I’m on vacation next week so it’s always insane.
Sunday was fine, I guess, I started off at church, was supposed to meet a friend for a movie [...]

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