Stephanie’s Old Man’s parents, Nancy and Brian, are in town this week doing home repairs. They’re amazing. They’re replumbing and rewiring the whole house. Last night, Nancy and Stephanie took acetone and sandpaper to all the cabinets in the little kitchen to prep them for new paint and new doors. Today I came home to […]
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Life just keeps going, doesn’t it? I suppose that’s the definition, but yeah, boy, it just marches on regardless. Sometimes it’s just stunning, how that is.
I’ve been busting up on my French for awhile now, trying to get in at least a few pages or lessons or some kind of exposure to it at least once a day. It’s been a goal of mine to be able to get around in French for some time now, but it was one
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Steph’s in-laws are here for the week to work on the cabinets and the plumbing in this 1940s-era fixer-upper. Steph and the Old Man have a really great coffee maker that’s shiny and kewl and makes the best coffee ever, but it had been taking progressively longer and longer for the coffee to brew. Steph’s
Final Cost: $836.75 On the one hand: it’s better than being dead. On the other hand: they spent 4 hours and charged me $836.75 to tell me that there was nothing wrong with me. And people wonder why poor people never go to the doctor until they’re literally bleeding and falling over on the floor?
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That you’re just way too sensitive about certain personal push-button topics? I suppose that’s to be expected, but I’d love to be stone cold enough for stupid stuff not to bother me so I could speak about it rationally. Or even, at this point, make fun of it. Because really, at this point, it’s just
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One of the toughest things to deal with, having a chronic illness, is how many other things that that one illness affects. I went a really long time before getting diagnosed doing a lot of harm to myself. I was, effectively, dying, but it was taking me an incredibly long time to do it. I
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Oh, the joys of home ownership…. Yesterday, one of the big tree branches out front came down, so Steph and the Old Man bought a chain-saw-on a stick and Steph’s brother Josh came down for the day and made an afternoon of it. Josh is real excited by this manly stuff… But that chainsaw-on-a-stick is