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thank you Eve...and no...it's not St. Anthony either.

I got my lazy ass up off the chair to go look at the novena on the kitchen windowsill...

and perhaps St. JOSEPH (scroll down to "in folklore") isn't doing such a bang--up job because I keep calling him by the wrong flipping name.

I mean, I certainly wouldn't like it if the people I work with called ( Read more... )

Fellow Ohioans know all about the snow and ice storm that came out of the south yesterday. We've mostly had lake effect storms here this winter and that means we get just a dusting or an inch of snow in Kent. We're just that far enough south of the lake effect line. But by 10 am the snow was coming down hard and sticking to the roads because we had ( Read more... )

No, I didn't get tagged...I snagged. It's been a hell of a week with the 2 kids down with strep and the little one with a double ear infection and then pneumonia and then an allergic reaction to the antibiotic which we hope to remedy today. So yeah, a meme is just the thing.

When you walk in your front door, which room do you enter?
The living room, ( Read more... )

Aarrgh. Bad blogger.

Coming off of the holidays I've been in slow, thick liquid mode. Molasses ( Read more... )

I'm of two minds today and can't quite decide. Should it keep it low and mellow while I sort and clean and organize and possibly bake?


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I'm frittering my day. I wrote a blog post and that felt good. And I talked with both my sister and my mother about scaling back the gift giving between the adults in the family and redirecting that energy/cash towards planning a vacation at the beach or at a lake in the mountains sometime next summer. (Both agreed, by the way, so that was very ( Read more... )

We're home from our mad-dash-drive east to Boston via NY State where I got to spend an evening with a dear friend and her equally dear family. Seven days and Thanksgiving with my family, hosted by my sister -- meal cooked by the two of us. Codeine every night but last night to deal with The Cough That Won't Go Away. Chris drove all but an hour or ( Read more... )

I feel like one of those old ladies who talks about nothing but her ailments. But people, I'm sick again. That weekend ear infection that I got rid of with garlic/mullein oil has now settled in my chest and I'm barking like a dog/seal. Arf. I have meetings all day today, so can't stay home, but I"m for sure loading up my flash drive with files and ( Read more... )

I worked until 7 tonight. What with the flames licking at my heels all day I needed two hours of uninterrupted clean the shit off my desk time. The boss had leaned his head over the cubicle wall at around 2 wanting to know what all of the low grade Tourettic cursing was all about - and to say that we were all allowed to go home at 4 because of ( Read more... )