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Goodbye Summer
This weekend was Labor Day weekend, which means that summer is over for a large part of the country after today. If you live in an area that didn’t start the new school year in August, like they do here, then by Labor Day you are certainly going to be heading back to school next…
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Extended Halloween This Year
Don’t you hate it when Halloween falls on a night in the middle of the week? I sure do – it screws up everyone’s parties and late nights, because we still have school and work the next morning after the holiday. Thanks to really bad weather, though, the kids around here got an extended Halloween…
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Pumpkins For Sale
My little neighborhood grocery store set up a huge box of pumpkins for sale in the produce section because Halloween is just a month or so away. There are several different kinds, too. There are pumpkins for carving into Jack-O-Lanterns and pumpkins for cooking and other pumpkins for decorating. I have to admit that I…
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Feeling Crafty Today
The worst thing about winter for me is the shorter days and long, cold nights. It is dark when I wake up in the morning and it’s also dark when I leave work and drive home. If it is raining or snowing, the drive home takes 3-4 times as long and can be a gridlocked…
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Just Not in the Mood for Housework
My house is so messy I really need to spend a day doing a major de-cluttering and deep cleaning, but I’m just not in the mood for housework lately. It seems like when the sun goes down before 5:00 in the winter time that I get bummed out and just want to cocoon. I’m just…
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Redbox Rocks My World
There is a Redbox just about everywhere I look these days. There is one at the gas station just 1 mile from my house. There is another one just a half mile away from there, and then when you get 2 miles away in that direction there are a whole bunch of them in the…
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Free Concerts on Thursdays
Seems like the local independent radio station has stepped up to the plate and is sponsoring free concerts every Thursday night in September. These are not cheesy local bands and high school garage bands. They are national acts that are coming for a free 2 hour concert, at the invitation of the radio station that…
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Summers Gone – Kinda
So here we have September and we have Labor Day. This is supposed to mean the end of summer. You know, the nights get chilly, the mornings have dew and fog, the pools all close for the year. I hate the way school starts and within a couple of days the mornings get this odd…
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Going Fishing in the Morning
This has been a crazy day and I am so fucking burned out that I am going to take off from work tomorrow and just go fishing. I am so tired of all the problems with the customers who are never happy and do nothing but complain and insult me. I can’t bear the thought…
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Swimsuit Shopping
If you are happy with your body, then shopping for a swimsuit can be fun. It is exciting to find new colors and patterns that make your body look hot. But if you have been letting yourself go, if you have some love handles or a little belly pooch, then buying a swimsuit can be…