Real Life

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

Another Step

Today my baby (sniff!) took another step into the wide world.  She attended a birthday party all by herself. I dropped her off…and couldn’t leave!  I couldn’t stay, it was at one of those pizza places with benches for seats and my back was already killing me–but I couldn’t leave!  I sat in the car […]

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DMV and Hell Are the Same Place

DMV and Hell Are the Same Place

Why is there only one DMV office open on Saturdays?  Does this make sense to anyone outside the DMV? We spent five hours there. They had Bly take her Ohio plates off the car, and she broke her swiss army knife doing it (no doing it for you or even having a damn screw driver

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Mourning a Champion

From Merriam-Webster: champion : one that does battle for another’s rights or honor I don’t know exactly when it happened, what with time zones and all, but today I learned that Steve Irwin has died. What a tragic loss. I’ve heard comments that sneered at giving him the title of environmentalist, that talked about what

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Staying Later

So the babysitter called me about four, my usual time to leave, and said they were baking cookies.  If I wanted to stay at work, or if I wanted to hang out over there for a while, I could take some home. Cookies?  Yeah, I’ll make allowances.  I stayed at work.  And got an amazing

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Time to Get Moving

So I accomplished pretty much nothing yesterday except for a lot of anime watching.  Oh, and a lot of staring at my computer, trying to make a chapter of my Chaos Came Early fanfic appear.  God, I hate when I’m brain-dead.  I feel grey and boring and bored and then there are the moments of

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First Day

I made it.  I survived the first day of school.  I’m still surfing the tsunami.  Yeah, the piles are getting higher, but I still know where everything (mostly) is, and I’m not letting anything pile up horribly to be dealt with later (yet.)  I’m trying really hard to stay on top of things, and so

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow…

Yeah, not much of my day crept by, let me tell you.  I doubt I’ll ever get used to the really important things people leave till the last possible second.  Umm, hello?  Did you want to keep the kids at home when there’s free baby-sitting at the school? Even my twenty-minute for-survival nap when I

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