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• The Name That Came Up

  November 11, 2021

  Okay, so when we last left me, I was griping about how I needed to find things to do. And now it sounds like something fell into my lap and it (dramatic beat) sounds (slightly longer dramatic beat, dramatic pause, even) awful. As I was dropping my 4yo off for preschool, the woman taking my…

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• Another Attempt at a Restart

  November 5, 2021

  When OD came back four years ago (four years ago?!), I was glad. I had fallen out of my OD habits before it went away nearly eight years ago (eight years?!), but I was ready to get back into OD. And then I didn't. There have been several times where I started an entry and…

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• Reintroduction

  November 16, 2017

  I think I have started typing notes in at least four or five entries before deleting them and moving elsewhere. Good to know that my old Open Diary habits live on. It's ridiculous, really. The point of this is to share and to reach out to others who are sharing, but I apparently have trouble…

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• 1,377 Days Later

  November 15, 2017

  Well, this was a nice unexpected surprise. The timing is pretty good, though. I feel as if I've needed a place to just kvetch (and share, but let's be honest, there will be a lot of kvetching here). Facebook has gotten just ... awful. Or it has always been awful and I’ve recently realized that&he...

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• Well…

  January 28, 2014

  Nothing in this song is relevant to my feelings right now except for the chorus. The guy is heartbroken because he's stuck on a lovely girl, who's with another guy. Yeah, it doesn't really fit, unless this site could be a metaphor for the lovely girl (which is it could be) and the other guy ...

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• The Seahawk

  November 21, 2013

  An old friend posted something on Facebook about how the football team at our high school was playing a championship game tonight and that her nephew was on the team. This kind of blew my mind on a few levels. First off, how could her nephew be on the high school football team? He was…

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• F.Y.T.

  November 13, 2013

  Every year, hundreds of thousands of people come to town for Bikes, Blues and BBQ. The amount of blues music at the rally seems to be negligible, though I concede I may not have been looking in the right places. I suppose there is a slight uptick in the amount of BBQ food available, but…

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• Self-Diagnosis Through Spreadsheets

  October 11, 2013

  About two years ago, Lilith gave up caffeine for a month, cold turkey, just to see if she could do it. Result: yes, she could. However, for the first week or so, she mentioned that she was having trouble concentrating. She felt really fuzzy, scattered and daydreamy. She hated it, because it was a...

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• New Skill Unlocked

  October 7, 2013

  I really have to hand it to my idiot Facebook friend for posting this incredibly dumb thing. There's so much stupidity here, I don't even know what to do with myself. Clearly, this adult is under the impression that simply posting something will cause money to come his way and that "Chinese ...

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