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. It occurs to me that I was always in love with the ghost of you The shadow left burnt behind by the nuclear war you raged in my mind Left to fill the silence of the things I knew you’d say if you were here Only it’s taken some time to realize it was never our time and you were never on tim…
Donnie Darko
I watched Donnie Darko… it was a great movie. Awesome acting by the Gyllenhaal sibs, Drew and the music was right up my alley, but I didn’t quite get the ending, why did Gretchen deny knowing Donnie and then waved to his mom?? I guess some things are meant to be cosmically f****d up I reck…
Hello World
About a month ago I quit my job. About a month before that my husband quit his job and started his own law practice. Although I hated my corporate job and the majority of the 6,000 co-workers who came with it, and although I generally do not prefer company or make friends easily, I do feel t…
Totality II;
If all roads lead to somewhere, one sequence of wrong turns led me to the Russian gal. She was a holler from a sore throat, and a hoarse one at that. She was as American as you could get, despite being from Saint Petersburg or something, and spilling features like a Faberge egg. Loved beer…
the doubter, doubted;
Today doesn’t feel real. I feel like I want to change my life, but I also feel like I want to rip up the carpet & boards from under my feet, nestle myself between the framing and cover myself with concrete, instead of doing what I’ve always done, which is turning 360-degrees, over and …
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Friday 5/3/24 part 2
10:42a.m. I’m dressed and in my wheelchair. Once again I missed the coffee social. The aides got me dressed at 9:00. They left me in bed until 10:00. Then they didn’t hook i me up to my oxygen machine. I had to go to the nurse’s station so I can get hooked up to a portable tank. These aides…
Craziness!
That’s an AI art piece I created, somewhere… it’s a gothic Taylor Swift lol… Um… I just heard someone close by scream something unintelligible. Eh. I guess the neighborhood is really going *poof!* I hope to get some financial relief from D sometime soon. Thank God too. Cos I need it. :…
Friday 5/ 3/24
6:23a.m. I had a dream last night. I was a kid driving in a car with two men. They were preacher and pedophiles. They were preaching as they both molested me. I tied to fight back but they were both big me . I screamed for help. One was driving. I tried to grab hold of the streering wheel.…
03/05/2024
Feelings lately. It’s been so long since I wrote here… So lately things have been going better, mostly in the way that I feel. I won’t say things are going that much better at work because it’s still much the same but the way that I am dealing with it seems better. On Monday, last week when …