Real Life

Things related to that reality thing people are always going on about.

Being Kind

The Red Baron stopped by the other day.ย  When this blog was my sanity and my refuge, he was one who stopped by regularly to let me know I was heard.ย  It helped.ย  It helped a lot. On May 14, 2004, my husband of not-quite seven years killed himself.ย  I was afraid to fall apart […]

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BJ's Back!!!

Long-term readers (if such there be) may have noticed a distinct lack of BJ in recent months. That’s because she moved.ย  Unexpectedly, quickly, and not entirely willingly.ย  It seems her mold allergy and her last apartment combined to eat her brain. I watched her go downhill, and I tried to get her out of there,

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Made It

Friday and I didn’t kill anyone.ย  You will never know how amazing an achievement that is. Work was long and horrid.ย  Noisy kids kept getting in trouble and then whining they were bored (or just kept making trouble) while stuck in the office waiting for their discipline.ย  Came home and asked Hope to feed the

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Snap, Snarl, Growl

Every computer I came near today hated me.ย  Can you possibly imagine how much fun that was? Let me put it this way.ย  I do attendance for 800+ kids.ย  On the computer.ย  There’s just no way to get it done without the computer. I enroll kids.ย  In the computer.ย  Otherwise the district can’t track our

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Whoops!

Did a LOT of running around today.ย  That’s why I forgot to post. Okay, so it wasn’t the running around.ย  It was where we went.ย  I had a $25 gift card for Park Place Mall burning a hole in my pocket, and my DVD-ROM on my computer quit last week. You know what that means.

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Movie Night

Bly’s home, and that means movie night. So…what have I accomplished?ย  Well, I am typing this all in dvorak, so that’s something.ย  I spent an hour or two working on getting Flame into the computer.ย  Keyboard practice and work that needed doing at the same time.ย  Yay! When I couldn’t take any more practice (read

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Talking Helps

So we’re all insane.ย  It helps to reinforce each others’ insanity in the chat cave.ย  If we didn’t…well, gods help us, we might turn normal. From the weather to re-casting Robin Hood Men in Tights with anime characters to homework to online RPgamers meeting in real life (terrifying, the way we planned it) to cheesecake

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