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“grandmother”

Jan
26
2010

System Failure

The system would be me. I seem unable to keep up with anything in the past year. I feel as though things snowballed on me, that I just now noticed.
On the up side, I have recently resumed the purge of unnecessary household objects. And have delivered several carloads of stuff that was [...]

Dec
1
2009

Holiday Blues

The past two days I have woken up feeling very blue. For some reason it is bothering me that this is the first Christmas that I will spend without my grandmother. She and I often did not see each other on Thanksgiving or Christmas day, but at other times during the season to [...]

Nov
12
2009

Red Maple

I have a deep and abiding love for trees. I’m told it’s very un-Republican of me. I compost too. When we moved into our house in 2000, I planted over a dozen trees. I was unable to convince DH to buy a lot covered with trees. So I planted some [...]

Nov
5
2009

Frustration

The theme for this week seems to be it’s always something.

Dammit! by gfpeck

My copy of Quicken has stopped accepting data from any bank. Which DH says hardly seems fair since I did pay for it. Right. Annoying. Investigated and tried Online Quicken, which stinks. Ascendo which is beautiful if you [...]

Oct
29
2009

Nivea and Turning 40

In 2010, I will turn 40. I spent my twenties educating myself, growing up, working, and traveling. I did much of it badly. At 27, it finally occurred to me that if I ever wished to procreate I should find myself attracted to nice men, instead of the bad boys of my youth.  Else [...]