Things I Do Not Understand

My daughters - two wonderful, intelligent, creative, funny, loving individuals - are spending their holiday vacation with their biological father. 
They arrived in his care on Monday (Christmas Eve) at approximately noon.
Christmas was Tuesday.
Woe - wait.
Guess when they last saw their biological father?
Well, that would be August 5th.
I spoke with [...]

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Next up .. Holiday Lessons

I do not really like gin.
It gives me a horrible taste in my mouth.
Icky.
I like vodka. (mmmm)
Gimlets, basically made with liquor and sweetened lime juicea, are better with vodka than with gin.
I am capable of replicating the Gimlet at my local fancy-pants bar … the one where you add a little raspberry liqueur (Chambord) .. [...]

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Opportunities Lost

At approximately 5 p.m., someone in my firm sent out an e-mail offering Patriots tickets for tomorrow’s game.
The Patriots are my team.
I want to watch the Patriots play football, in person.

But when the e-mail arrived in my box, I had a moment where 1,000 thoughts flashed through my mind, as follows:
I have approximately 90 [...]

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Holiday Failures

8 pounds up.  
Damn it!!  
I, as a result, found my way to the gym today.  
It was my first time using my iPod touch for the purpose for which it was intended.
Wow.  Was it gorgeous.
Seriously.  That Prison Break boy was cute to start with, but now he’s super cute.  And gorgeous.  But that was [...]

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I have no idea

why my paragraph breaks aren’t showing up.  I downloaded Leopard for my Mac a few weeks ago.Since then, Firefox is crashing pretty much every 10 minutes.So I uninstalled it, and now am on Safari.  I think I’ll try re-installing Firefox sometime soon - once I catch up with all the work I have to do.But [...]

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I gave Obama more money yesterday,

I keep giving it in dribs and drabs.  When something happens that makes me either feel especially happy with him, or especially UNhappy with his competition, I throw $25 at him.  Yeah, $25.  Beloved has an acquaintance who lives in Iowa, and who could not decide if participating in next week’s events was worthwhile.I think [...]

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Silly Tiger, Tricks Are For Kids!

I have been sad about the tiger incident since the first time I read about it, at post-Christmas day 3 a.m., while suffering from insomnia.  I used to visit those tigers.  I’ve seen Tatiana in person.My first sadness was over the re-realization that no matter how much tigers seem like the world’s biggest, cuddliest kitty cat, they [...]

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Fast Week

Wow.  It’s Friday.My schedule is all messed up, and apparently, my alarm clock is following suit.I fear I need a new one.  I’m desensitized to this one.  I set it for 5:20 a.m., but yet, when I woke up, it was 6:57 a.m., even though it said the alarm was still set, and snoozing.I think [...]

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Childless Christmas Eve

And quite frankly - no. I’m not sad.
We had our holiday. It was the day marked on our calendar all year. We had a fantastic holiday - with a delicious dinner, family and fun gifts. It was everything we had hoped for.
Today did not feel like a holiday.
[Oddly, and perhaps the topic of another [...]

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Holiday Materialism

[written on 12/22]
Last night was our Solstice celebration. It went very well.
We had a nice dinner together, with holiday music in the background, then we pulled last minute things together and sat around the tree (i.e., Solstice Shrub).
While we were waiting for Beloved to finish up so we could open presents, E remarked on [...]

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