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• The Feral Ones

  September 25, 2013

  By now everyone knows that shoes and socks go feral.  Shoes seems to jump out of the car unexpectedly and socks...socks are just sly.  They leave sometime after the washer but before the dryer.  Or they slip out as we take them out of the dryer.  Or they go free-range through ...

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• On Retirement

  September 2, 2013

  I thought when I retired I would have lots of time to write.  I thought I would have lots of time to quilt.  I thought I would have lots of, well, time.  Turns out I don't have lots of time at all.  My life has turned upside down for the past nine months and sometimes…

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• It’s Been Crazy This Month But…

  June 18, 2013

  I am trying to hold my own.  I hope to have a little time to relax before the next rush of things that need to be done.  Just letting all y'all know I am alive and well and maintaining my sanity, mostly :) New surgery to remove a little bit of (not the bad kind) of…

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• Push Me Pull Me

  May 30, 2013

  When I was young, I would just be living my life being what I was: a child.  I was a good girl but still a child.  And seemingly out of the blue I would get in trouble.  I didn't know what I was being yelled at about; I didn't know I was being naughty until I…

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• UNSTOPPABLE!

  May 28, 2013

  Monday we woke up to rain rain rain.  Now understand here in the Pacific Northwest, it doesn't rain like it does on the east coast.  It just is continuous more than downpours.  I have been driving through Ohio when a rain storm hit and we all had to pull over to the side of th...

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• Good Days and Bad Days

  May 25, 2013

  Every day is an adventure with my mother.  She has a good day that turns bad in a heart beat and she has bad days that stay that way.  Funny how if a bad day turns good, she still considers it a bad day.  Can't argue with her because she gets a little mean.  Can't…

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• I Am Number 830

  April 16, 2013

  I began writing my diary on Open Diary on November 20, 1998.  I am the 830th diary here on this site that houses over 411,000 online diaries.  I did move to OD+ when it was first introduced and kept it for maybe six months.  I didn't really see the benefits and let that account go,...

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• Oy

  March 30, 2013

  It's been a tough row these past few months.  So I will just hit you and run away: New puppy--the best! Fell a day before Christmas taking out the new pup and was laid up for a good three weeks Came down with a cold Came down with the flu Once recovered, Doug came down…

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• Oh the Weather Outside is Frightful

  December 18, 2012

  Insurance not cooperating on loss of things in the suitcase. No addresses for Christmas cards because address book was in suitcase. Shopping mall shooting down south of town. Babies getting killed in their classroom. Mental illness not funded enough. Cold making me weepy and then cranky. But pup ...

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