I’ll have some Valium on my pizza please. Maybe a round of anti-acids on the side. I am a member of a very elite club. One I didn’t choose although it lists some pretty awesome people as members. It’s the breast cancer … Continue reading
Category Archives: Life at Home
The old gut feeling and the ethereal lemon pie
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My gut is smarter than my brain. I can do probabilities in my head but my gut will tell me the truth without any data to back it up. It just knows. I don’t trust my heart. It gets veered … Continue reading
Random 5 for March 20 – Taxes, Kindle, desserts, work, weather
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I’m done, I’m done! Sweet Lord I’m done! – Ok, maybe that’s a little over the top but my taxes are completed, sent and accepted. After all the whining, it wasn’t too bad. I get some back from the feds. … Continue reading
Culling the herd
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My pond had a sick goldfish. It either had pox or a cell tumor. Both are non-contagious often caused by a virus that results in wart-like lumps. The fish doesn’t have much value. Goldfish cost less than $10 for a … Continue reading
Serial sperm squirter
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Yes, you read that right. Yes, it is true. I can’t make this stuff up. Locally we had a serial sperm squirter on the loose. Don’t worry, they caught him. You are safe. It was in the newspaper. The article was … Continue reading
The nose knows and so does Howard Hughes!
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I have a great nose — not the structure but the function. I can smell things that are best left un-smelled. Lucky me. This skill was inherited from my mother who could tell where I was from my smell. You … Continue reading
Good luck, bad luck
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There was the promise of good weather. Predictions of mid-60s. In this area in February, it would be another two months before we had a steady diet of that. With this window of warmth, my mind was in a tizzy. … Continue reading
The tax man cometh
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When I got married, the deal was that my husband does the garbage, grass cutting and snow removal and I do the taxes. Sounds fair, doesn’t it? It does until tax time comes around when I would love to go … Continue reading
Relishing retirement and “conscious squandering”
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People ask me about retirement. Do I enjoy it? Hell, yeah! Really, I’m lucky! Very lucky! No white-knuckle driving! I was grateful during the last record-breaking snowstorm. I didn’t have to drive or worry about parking. There was no need to … Continue reading
Old habits die hard
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I did it again! I accumulate crap like no one else. Not like those hoarders on TV but I can hold my own with “normal” people. (Definition of normal person: Someone like me.) I was cleaning off the top of … Continue reading
Views and Mews by Coffee Kat 