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Caught the Cleaning Bug…

The husband has spent the last couple of days cleaning and reorganizing his office. It made me realize I had let mine go, as well. Most people do their major cleaning in the spring.  We do ours in the winter.  I don’t know why.  What I do know is the busyness of the last six months has made it easier for me to justify stacking things in piles to deal […]

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7 Days until Christmas…

With Christmas looming ever closer, I had to concentrate on real life today. Braved the hordes to do some vital shopping.  Made a scheduled stop at my parents’ house that took much longer than planned.  Returned home to hit the road with the husband in search of good food.  Then more errands.  Home. And watched a movie that lasted well past 11 p.m. Needless to say, I’m all tapped out. […]

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The Decadence of an Hour

Most work days, I leave my desk only to go to the printer, to meetings, or to the ladies room. The rest of the time I’m banging away at the keys, trying to get things done so I can go home at a reasonable time.  No one makes me do this.  But after several years of working really long hours and feeling the toll on my body, I’m really motivated […]

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Fears and Awkwardness

One of my fears of starting a blog was not having anything to say–even if I was only saying it to myself, which was my original intent with this. I don’t lead a glamorous life.  I get up, go to work, come home to spend a couple of hours with the husband, and then climb the stairs to my office aerie to attempt to put words to the page.  Social […]

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Living with the Monster Cats

Obi on his petting chair

If you don’t know me personally, you might as well learn I have a pair of Ragdoll cats. The kids are grown, I have cats.  If I weren’t married, I might have more than two. When I got my babies, I envisioned this wonderful scene with me working at my computer, one cat curled on the desk, the other draped across my shoulders. What I didn’t factor in was that […]

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