Black Oak's Daughter

I have a friend named Ian, and he has some pretty amazing instincts.  He knows what’s going on in my life and he knew I needed to talk last night. We ended up on the phone until  well after 11.   I felt a lot better, and exhausted from just letting it all out. I must [...]

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Thanksgiving is a little different this year.
I have never felt more thankful for what I have in my life, but the agenda that I need to get through before surgery in 2 and a half weeks is daunting.   I talked to minime today and she asked what we were doing for Thanksgiving.  I said “painting”.  She asked [...]

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You Are The Stuffing

You’re complicated and complex, yet all your pieces fit together.People miss you if you’re gone – but they’re not sure why.

What Part of Thanksgiving Are You?
 
 I like this one better:
 

You Are A Romantic Realist

You tend to be grounded when it comes to romance.Sure, you can fall hard… but only for someone you’ve [...]

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My vet (the nice one) called this morning. The blood test results came back. Diabetic kitty is now considered controlled as far as his sugar levels go.  We’re going to keep him on this amount of insulin for another month to let any residual damage heal, and then start the work of tapering him off.  There’s [...]

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I had my diabetic kitty at the vet today.
 
My regular vet wasn’t there so I lucked out and got the mean one. She hates me.  I get one speech  or another every time I have her.  She asks questions in a way that I know she thinks I’m abusing my beasts. It’s almost like the last gynecologist [...]

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First off:  Happy Birthday Little Girl!! Hope it was fun. 
Secondly, I saw the oncologist this morning. Surgery is scheduled in a few weeks. The whole experience sucked, so instead of whining, I’m going to do a meme to remind myself of more important things. 

A Thanksgiving tradition:  I really can’t think of any. Each Thanksgiving that I remember [...]

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The meetings at work are over. The training was better than usual, but I’m still getting to know how to roll with the new regime in place.   It just felt different. Also, my brain is fried so hence the “randomness” post today
Tomorrow is minime’s b’day, and today she called me that her car was in [...]

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Coworker 1 to Coworker 2: how old were you when you got married?
Coworker 2: twenty three  
Coworker 2 to Manager: how old were you?
Manager: twenty one but we didn’t have kids for 7 years (dramantic pause)  It took us that long to get it right
Coworker 1 to Manager: It was all that pot back then…

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I get all mushy on Veterans Day.  I am American. I was born here, I’ll die here. I love this country. A lot of people have sacrificed a lot for me to have the life that I have. That’s not lost on me.
Honoring veterans is important, but it’s also personal to me.
Today I take time to [...]

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Silly me.
Commit to writing every day for a month to see what I could come up with.  I was worried that I’d have nothing to write about. HA! There’s been no shortage of material here.
This happened yesterday. That was my driveway.

They were digging until 9 pm or so. Two truckloads of clay and both halves [...]

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