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Quick Rant: I’m Not “Mrs.”

I’m on the phone right now. With a customer service person. I’m sure she’s a perfectly lovely person (somewhere in the midwest, based on her accent, not that that matters). After spending so much time home, while sick, I got really sick and tired of looking around at my crappy apartment. So as soon as [...]

Trust. It Really Isn’t That Hard.

I’d left a message for my doctor. It wasn’t urgent. I just needed to talk with her about some new side effects I’m struggling with from the new new drugs. Fun fun. Anyway, I didn’t recognize the voice of the woman who answered the phone, which was weird. I’ve been a patient at that practice [...]

A Better Life = The Greatest Gift

So I have a couple short stories for you, one of which is holiday-ish. And they both are kinda related to one another. Please bear with me. 1) One of the few things I like about the holidays is that it gives us all an excuse to reconnect with people we don’t speak to nearly [...]

Happy Merry Christmukkah

I was taking another one of my lil hiatuses but I popped back in because I just HAD to share this.  They claim it’s from 1991 but it seems so much older. Like from another century. Happy merry Christmukkah and enjoy! via The Awl No tags for this post.

A Little Extra Happy in My Life

Some (ok..MANY) of my recent blog posts have been on the dark side. Full of sadness and frustration. Today is all about the happy. Tuesday I started to feel much, much better. And then Wednesday, I had the most beautiful bouquet of flowers delivered to my apartment by HBloom.com. And that instantly put a smile [...]