Black Oak's Daughter

I’m writing this in my newly redecorated bedroom. Roomie came upstairs yesterday morning with his ladder, put the rest of the wallpaper border up, got my help to carry the door downstairs so he could trim it to clear the carpet a little better, we carried it back up (solid wood doors are freakin HEAVY!) [...]

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I’ve had a grand total of 4 different bedrooms in my life. The first was the one that I grew up in. I lived in that house for 25 years.  It was a solid brick house, with thick walls, big rooms, wood floors, and a great back yard.  My room was relatively large, probably 12 [...]

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Cats that purr when I scratch their necks 2 mostly empty rooms, almost ready for the carpet that’s coming tomorrow Godspell on my TiVo. Awesome High School memories. Ice water My kid’s taxes are done and in her possession. Non-stinky freshly cleaned litter boxes complete with fresh litter 2 for one pizza at Domino’s on [...]

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My surgery was almost 4 months ago now. I’m fairly healed, still adjusting to the little differences, but overall I think I’m doing OK.  My 3 month post surgical tests all came back negative, which is awesome. I’m cancer free, and that’s the proof that they got it all in the surgery. The only real [...]

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The project at work is mostly done.  I spent the last 7 days straight manipulating an enormous amount of data and got through it, so far, with only 2 small, fixable, mostly harmless mistakes. Literally, there were 350,000 cells on each of multiple worksheets, and in the end, I only screwed up 2 things. That [...]

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I survived the work stuff. I’m still busy as hell, but I met the deadline. Now it’s just clean up work. I’ll get through it relatively unscathed. Minime is blogging again. She showed me a bunch of templates and I picked the one she’s using for now. It’s got neon flutterbys   I’m not loving [...]

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