I’ve been furloughed for a week now, and I’m doing okay. I’m cognizant of how very lucky I am–I’m furloughed, not laid off or let go. I qualify for unemployment, and I have a computer and internet to get that ball rolling (now if they could toss that ball back to me, with money…) I […]
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The kids are watching a movie and hopefully going to sleep, the marvelous sis-in-law will probably drop off before they do. Brother is cleaning the kitchen and headed that way himself. Time for me to write? I don’t usually go to bed for over two hours, after all. Except suddenly, somehow, I’m soooooooo sleepy… Must.
We finally got everything out of her room. So my room, the kitchen, and the living room are cluttered–but she has room to dance.
You know how, if you really want to clean, you have to make things a lot worse first? That’s where I am. And I’m done. I don’t wanna do anymore. I’m ready to write now, plzkthx. You’d think I’d learn not to start on the whole place at once, but noooooooooo…not me. I never learn.
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I did go to work today, and boy, was I sorry. Wednesdays are rough anyway. The day is an hour shorter (for the kids) and parents insist on thinking of it as a “half-day.” So they schedule lots of appointments and I spend most of my day finding kids. Then, after school when everyone should
I’ve got it. Not too horribly bad, but bad enough I didn’t go to work today. And what did I do? Oh, only wrote 1,198 words!! Chapter Nine is done, and I’ve got a good start on Chapter Ten. Who would have thought I’d be grateful for the stomach flu? One drawback, though, is I
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Today we signed the lease. Naturally both of us forgot until late last night that we needed to have a money order for the rest of the deposit and for the rent and that we were to sign the lease at nine, which is when both our banks open… Went over after and spent two