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Ba-Ba-Birthday Season

There is a time every year where my family comes together to celebrate the birthdays of the two who are born at the end of February/beginning of March. Usually this is at the end of February and beginning of March. :-) Except, there are three of us have birthdays during this time frame. So, if you do a little math, one person’s birthday isn’t acknowledged, on its own or at all. Care to guess who?…

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Trust Fall: Blogging Style

Trust Fall: Blogging Style

       Subtitle to this post:  Or, if this becomes a trust FAIL, I am going to blame Laura. (OK, not really, because she is cool) Earlier this year, when I made the rash, hastily formed inspired decision to blog (almost) every day this year as a way to keep from screaming and crying all the damn time about guys and family and work and blah  to try to develop my work and audience, I never thought…

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C is for...Clowns!

C is for...Clowns! #AtoZ #AtoZChallenge

The letter C got multiple suggestions from y’all. CarryTheMessage was one of the participants. I like CTM.  Heck, I even got him to come out of his temporary hiatus to make suggestions for this challenge.  So I am sure he had no way of knowing that my kid likes to bug me when he thinks he can get away with it. And that is how today’s topic got to be “clowns”, of course. Warning:  Clown pictures…

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E is for...Empathy

E is for…Empathy

Today’s suggested topic came from LivingDeadGirl (LDG, for short, though she will always be “CB” to me :-) )  It’s a great topic, and while I tend to think of myself as being very empathetic, I had the hardest time starting this post. One idea I had was relating empathy (or lack of) to my experience when I was pregnant.  I have discussed being pregnant as an unmarried teenager from the point of…

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J is for...Jokes & Joy

J is for…Jokes & Joy

E from “A Sign of Life” suggested joy.  Decadent Kane suggested jokes.  I think they go well together,so I will try to address both in one post! Yeah, this is more about rambling, but TGIF!…

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K is for...Kidlet

K is for…Kidlet

Hey Kidlet, You just left an hour ago and your ol’ Mom here is already missing you. Spring Break snuck up on us this year, with all that is going on with school and getting ready for graduation (can I just say I smile like this :-D when I think of graduation?  So proud of you sweetie! :-D ). I hope you have a good week with your dad.  I will admit, I worried that something would happen and that…

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L is for...Labels, Love and Lazy

L is for…Labels, Love and Lazy

This feline is often labeled as “grumpy”. My friends who read this blog and know me outside of the WP universe (and hell, probably some of y’all in this world) just read the title and said: Nooooooooooooooooo! It is really isn’t like that.  Promise. Today’s word was Labels, as suggested by Fish of Gold.  Fishie is an amazing writer and her blog was one of the very first I followed way back when.…

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M is for...Maybe

Maybe I should forget the research I have done on where to move and just run away now. Maybe I shouldn’t have to be nice when someone is making fun of me to my face. Maybe I should have called them out on it finally. Maybe I will hear something about the other job I applied for, getting out of management (or “management”, as it really is) and back to hands-on, dealing with front-line employees,…

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N is for...Needful

Today’s post was going to be about ninjas… But…work. So, here at the end of another long day, I will go with the other word that suggested: Needful. Looking at the definition, I can go with “necessary or required” or “needy”. Yeah, I think we will go with the first definition tonight. “Needy” can lead to a bunch of other things, but please please please read this post and like it, pretty pretty…

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O is for...Openness

O is for…Openness

The word of the day is “openness.”  This is another suggestion by Fishie, aka Fish of Gold.   Now, I noticed that Linda G. Hill, wrote about the same topic today.  Since I am so far behind on reading, I didn’t open her post.  Any similarities are a coincidence.  Other than the word “openness,” of course. From mymodernmet.com   (more…)

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P is for...Pickles

P is for…Pickles

When I saw that Green Embers had suggested this topic, I knew it wouldn’t matter what else was suggested for the letter “P”.  Being at my offspring’s mercy, I prepared myself to write a pickle post instead of a peck of peppers. The kid is a pickle fanatic. I’ve mentioned before that I think he has inherited his father’s taste buds (coincidentally, he is from Pittsburgh, home of Heinz). Sigh. At…

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Q is for...Quiet

Q is for…Quiet

Quiet was the word suggested by HastyWords. You know her, right? Poetry is something I wish I could write and she makes it look so effortless, while staying in the moment and evoking genuine emotion. Which is what I am right now. Emotionally charged. It is 4:30 on Saturday morning and I have been awake for about an hour. Normally, when I get up like this, I read on Tumblr, Reddit, here, or…

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Holiday, Therapy, Pictures, Etc.

Holiday, Therapy, Pictures, Etc.

Disjointed post ahead.  Not a happy holiday one either, so feel free to skip (or hop…ha!) on… Hoppy Easter Anxiety, everyone…

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R is for...Reader Feedback!

Or, “I Joined the WP Blogging University 201 Challenge and Need Help” Yes, as if I needed something else to keep track of in my life, I have joined this initiative.  Luckily, it isn’t date/task specific, so I can try to lump some things together at once.  Such as Days one through six, in one convenient post! (This post, if you didn’t realize it) You were warned!…

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S is for...Sex...

S is for…Sex…

What!?….

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T is for...Tea

T is for…Tea

The incredibly talented and wonderful TJ Lubrano made the suggestion to discuss time travel for today’s subject…which I plan to do, in a round-about way. Keep calm and read on…

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U is for...Uninspired by Unicorns

U is for…Uninspired by Unicorns

The word today was suggested by Evil Squirrel.  If you know his site, then you are already familiar with his cast of characters (and if you don’t know, get over there ASAP and check them out).  This includes the always dazzling Rainbow Donkey! Direct from the Evil Squirrel’s site! Rainbow Donkey is the one risking impalement on the Washington Monument. Makes sense that he would choose “unicorn”…