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Missed your bus? Spilled frappolatte down your front? Dreamville makes connections and removes stains. Read nightly.
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Yeah! I went to Sears and bought a hammer drill!!! The outside walls were impossible to hang anything on, eroded any ordinary carbide masonry bit to cheese. Now I have serious power. I highly recommend getting one of these--built in bubble level, depth gauge, reverse, forward, and atta atta atta atta atta! Walls crumble before me. The ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is my son's birthday. He will be twenty-six. The last time he leaned over to pick something up, for the first time I saw his face aging. I am so proud of him for being the person he is in spite of childhood circumstances. What is he made of? Snips and snails and puppydog tails. I love you, Bri.

Today a girl brought in a snake skin for show and tell. I think snakes are great. We stand up at the front of the room, I untie the plastic bag. Now she tells the class this is from her aunt's boa constrictor that eats rabbits. Inside the bag are immense, brown loop de loops. I am still thinking, this is great! It's science! I stick my hand in ( Read more... )

Lost amount of weight in the spring equal to the size of a Kindergartener or a large turkey. Felt thin. Leveled out. Four months pass. Looked at self. Self looked back. Feel schlubby. Promised tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow. Couldn't face another cuppa vegetable stew, especially with all the Buffalo tasties abounding. Grr. Wimp. Took the ( Read more... )

After swim class, brought the girls back to the locker room. One took off on me, I yelled her name. Another woman ran into the shower area, looked at me, and said, "Oh, I'm sorry, I thought I heard a man in here ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is a very necessary Friday.

Doesn't feel like Friday. Going down to Fredonia tomorrow to pick sour cherries to put up. Farmer John's has a fruit mill that will pit them for you. It looks like a steam roller crossed with an Iron Maiden and knocks them stones right outta there. Better than doing it by hand ( Read more... )