Black Oak's Daughter

November is always interesting because of NaBloPoMo. Finding something to write about every day was oddly less of a challenge this year. Last year, a week into NaBlo I was diagnosed with Cancer. Thankfully, there was no such trauma this year. My life has changed though.
Work is even more chaotic, I’m still dealing [...]

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I talked to my next door neighbor while I was raking leaves today. She’s been unemployed for a few months, and hasn’t found anything that pays even half of what she was making. Her mother is a real estate agent who told her that the house across the street from me that’s for sale, as [...]

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If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn’t matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years – we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on. [...]

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Seriously.
The stores hype the hell out of their day after thanksgiving sales.  People become animals in search of their 20% off prey. They show up hours early and push and shove for their place in line, crash the doors when they aren’t unlocked fast enough, and today, a 34 year old temporary worker that didn’t [...]

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The turkey breast is in the oven, the cheesecake and brownies are cooling (pumpkin pie will happen tomorrow, sleep was more impotant today).  The stuffing is ready to go into the oven, Roomie is in charge of the green beans and potatoes.
There is so much to be thankful for. About this time a year ago [...]

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I had a pretty good day today.
First, this morning I got the coveted free parking pass for next month at work. Its a magic little card that you wave and the gate to the underground lot opens. I wasn’t supposed to get that until next week.
Then I was talking to my boss and showed him [...]

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egg nog flavored salt water taffy is really good.
I really wish i could remember the password to my FTP software.
for about 10 minutes a night my normally docile, 20 pound Maine Coon turns into a FEE-RO-SHUS bobcat wannabe. He’s hilarious. I’m still Alpha cat, so he doesn’t chomp too hard, it’s more a game of [...]

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I went to the doctor today.
I’ve been having headaches for a couple of weeks, and my nose won’t quit running, so I got it checked out.   Doc gave me a prescription for antibiotics for the sinus infection, and refilled the prescription for the sleeping drug that I try to only take a couple of times [...]

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I have a little blanket.
Really little
It’s about a foot square. Light brown fleece with a very worn faded burgundy colored satin edge.
It’s so small it wouldn’t even cover one of my cats.
It was given to me by my dad, I don’t remember when, but I don’t remember a time when I didn’t have it.
When I [...]

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Both of my grandfathers were born in the 1880’s.  I’ve written about my mother’s father before.
My father’s father was very different.  His descendants had already been in this country for 300 years. They were hearty people, mostly farmers, used to hard work and hard times. My grandfather was no different. He worked two or more [...]

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