Uhhh…I’d say this applies year-round.

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Thirteen Reasons I Write This Blog

It’s WAY less expensive than therapy
To connect and keep up-to-date those I love who are far away
To know myself better
To be heard
To laugh on a regular basis
To remind myself of what’s important in life
It’s more fun than folding laundry or doing dishes
To make new friends
To express myself
To practice what I [...]

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Thirteen Places I Don’t Care If I See Again or Ever

Las Vegas, Nevada (ever)
Graceland (again)
Detroit, Michigan (again)
Niagara Falls, New York (again)
I-40 from Memphis, Tennessee to Asheville, North Carolina (again…ever! lol)
Any of the Mexican border towns (ever)
Kansas or Nebraska (again)
Little Rock, Arkansas (again)
Anywhere in the Middle East except Egypt and Israel (ever)
Anywhere in the Far East [...]

Since I fought the Monday but the Monday won, I figured today would have no choice but to be better. Right?
Kamikaze Caller
Today started off with a revealing conversation with New Man who crawled back out of the woodwork a week ago. He had disappeared for a couple of weeks, until I saw him at [...]

Ya know - there are days we should just follow the advice of that little voice we hear and throw the covers back over our heads and stay in bed - and today feels like one of them! Oy!
Even as I sit here typing this, I realize I’m still carrying around $4,655 in checks and [...]

Wednesday night, after all the dog and website drama here, Baby Sister came over to hang the curtains she’d made for my room and Second Son’s room, only to find we had the wrong length of rod for mine and Second Son’s she deemed too short (thanks to me trusting the contractor who told me [...]

Tuesday, I got to school expecting to be teaching 8th grade and instead was asked to cover 6th grade math/reading classes. Aside from the fact that the 6th graders act like their parents feed them acid for breakfast, it was an ok day. But I came home to an email from a new web client [...]

Yes, we all survived Spring Break, hallelujah! It was touch and go a couple of times, but we made it.
No stretch of days seems to pass here lately without some serious life lessons involved. Life lesson realizations, more accurately.
You know, when I made the decision to take Adopted Son in, I knew what I [...]

Ok, I’m not sure if it’ll be my sanity or my grocery budget first, but Spring Break is gonna break something, I can tell you that, for sure.
We’re just finishing up Day 4 with 5 more to go. So far, I haven’t had to kill anyone, but if it’s rainy and cold again tomorrow - [...]