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Merry Christmas 2008 December 25, 2008

In my little inch of the world today is Christmas.  I had a really wonderful Christmas.  Ruby was *excited*!  Last year she was so sick she didn’t even want to open presents.  Ack. Not fabulous.  Oh, and I had just spent the night in the slammer – November 26, 2007 (long story…and no, I didn’t [...]

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This One’s For You…

October 7, 2008

I haven’t been alone on a Friday night in forever, or at least six months. Rather odd, the quiet is beginning to slip in as I sit at my desk. Armed with tootsies freshly manicured, hair simmering with a bit of red, and an obscene amount of Diet Coke I drift, drift, drift… They told [...]

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Knock That Door (down…)

August 30, 2008

There is something really annoying about Synchronicity – and not just the fact that was an album by the Police in 1983 and I do not like the Police, simply because I can (not like them…). Derek used to say, emphatically, “THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES!”. And I used to say, just as emphatically, “THERE ARE [...]

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Hickory Dickory Dock

Mouse Trap, Kinda August 21, 2008

Did I ever tell you about the day, last winter when we caught 22 mice in one day? Probably not… One day, last January I noticed that Breezy seemed to be eating quite a bit from his lil’ bowl of kibbles. Sometimes I notice things, but they don’t register the way they ought to. This [...]

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This is Just a Modern Rock Song

July 24, 2008

I can count on one hand the number of boys (or men or bois or whatever the heck you wanna call them) who asked me to “be their girlfriend”. This has never really pained me; I’m not the girlfriend type. The three that have – oh dear. The first one rolled around in 1988. I [...]

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