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Ferris Lives!
Day three with Ferris. Loving it. Even though the specter of cleaning him up after he shits his pants haunts me, I love this job. Working retail has either warped me or motivated me or, mostly, warped me ( Read more... ) -
One of those motherfucking life lessons
Today was a Learning Experience. Like doing tequila shots on an empty stomach -- one of those learning experiences. I overslept and forgot my bag with the notes and the schedule and all my useful stuff. My reward was a really shitty day with a balky, cranky Ferris who was, I learned at the end of the day, recovering from the stomach flu ( Read more... ) -
I'm not dead, yet.
It's been a while since I posted. The condensed version is that last semester I engaged in a fun experiment called "weaning off Effexor." Turns out that even while done under a doctor's care, it sucks the chrome off trailer hitches. And when the drug you are taking to replace it is a generic strongly suspected to be problematic, the end result is ( Read more... ) -
Sex Education,
On the way home today, Crash asked me what homosexual meant. I explained it means the same thing as gay, and is when two men are boyfriends or husbands, or two women are girlfriends or wives ( Read more... ) -
On Wakes
So, my aunt Judy died about two weeks ago. It was unexpected: she was 70 but healthy and vibrant, but she had a massive heart attack ( Read more... ) -
Granny cookies
Today Crash wanted to buy some cookies in the grocery bakery. They were labeled "no-bake cookies" but I looked at them and recognized them by their true name, Granny cookies. These were the cookies my Granny Long, my maternal grandmother made for us at her house.
They are perfect cookies for a busy person to whip up. She was a mother of six with a ( Read more... ) -
Questions Crash asked me on the way home from school
- Where do you buy poison?
- Why do you hate Annoying Orange?
- Why do you hate Fred?
- But why do you hate their voices?
- Where is Washington D.C.?
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Writing about autism
I just caught this on my FB feed: a post by a mom who told autism to suck it. Apparently this caused some controversy, because some people felt she was being ableist, and others felt she was a potty-mouth.
Okay, let me clear this up now: if you think "suck it" is potty-mouthed, your internet GPS hates you, and you need to run, fleet, like a deer ( Read more... ) -
Signs, signs, everywhere signs
Sometimes I feel like people don't get it when I talk about living in the Bible Belt -- in a rural ass-pocket of the Bible Belt, no less. It's just overwhelming for a poor atheist girl.
One interesting local phenomenon is the random hand-painted sign. There you go down the high-way, minding your own bidness, when up looms this hand-painted, rustic ( Read more... ) -
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Updates. My, my, it's been a while since I posted. I will blame my 5-class schedule, the parenting thing, and up until now, my job ( Read more... )