…some words from Taylor. Cuz that man can twist my heart and make me cry and wring a smile out of me even when I’m crabby with his words. Hot. The kinda hot where your shoes get soupy, and yer underwear get… Well never mind those. The sting of summer on my skin, like a good friend

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But I did catch my doggies napping in the sun this morning. Of course, as soon as I grabbed the camera, they woke up and looked at me stupid.   Murphy, at it again.

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When I was longing for Fall?  We’re way past that. Remember when I was enthralled with Winter?  When the snow made me smile?  Yeah.  We’re past that, too. Wisconsin is stupid and the snow has all but stopped and we’ve had nothing but cold.  Biting, stabbing, painful cold and dark. Until today. Today we got

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“ The  fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?  ~J.B. Priestley   I love snow. I love sweaters and

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The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ~Doug Larson   Today I was inspired by something a friend said in a comment on another blog. I’d been writing about candles flickering and scenting up my house with delicious fragrances while the christmas lights twinkled and all I really

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One week and I’ll be 39. Good gods, it just doesn’t seem possible when, most days, I barely feel older than I did at 19. I look in the mirror and it’s almost a shock. Where did my youthful glow go!? Heh. I don’t care, really.  I went thru a major upheaval when I was

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I love Sundays. Sundays are our “nothing” days.  We lounge around in jammies and do as little as possible. Sunday’s in the winter are even better cuz it’s cozy and warm in the house and blustery outside and I feel, more so than any other time, the tight knit closeness of our family. Today the

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We got a new puppy! His name is King Leonidas (though he started out as thor. We changed our minds like ten times).  He’s a 9 week old rottweiler and we’re in love.  Dazey the beagle, however, isn’t quite so sure yet. Dazey is three and I’m pretty sure that puppy smell makes her nose

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So school has started for the teen and I’m quite determined to get myself into some sort of routine.  There has been next to no scheduled sleep or eat or cleaning times since Taylor started working nights and it’s making me both crazy and vaguely depressed all the time.  I’m a creature of habit and

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“The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many. ” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Fall is coming.  Can you smell it?  I almost can. It sneaks

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*****Some of the entries in this blog are imported from the old, vanilla blogs I used to have. I combined them all when I bought my own domain and decided to stop keeping one thing seperate from another***** “Should I stay or should I go now?” I started this blog to record all my angsty,

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Well… I sure haven’t written here in awhile, have I? Both lots going on and nothing going on at the same time, if that makes sense. Let’s see if I can hit the major points, hmmm? Taylor got a new job. He was working for a company thru the temp agency for two months and

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I figured it was time to check in again. :) I’ve been so caught up in every day crap I just haven’t felt like writing much. I should probably check my other blogs, see if it’s some sort of pattern for me to be quiet around this time of year. It kind of feels like

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Quiet around here lately, eh? Not much goin’ on. Still struggling with money, still workin’ on the diet and exercise stuff – I’ve dropped eight pounds since I did all that bitching a few weeks back. Ten more and I”ll be back to where I was when I met most of y’all. Twenty more and

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So I’m 38. I’ve been going thru mild perimenopause symptoms for a couple years. They bother me. Of course they do. Who wouldn’t be bothered by hot flashes, breast tenderness, worsening PMS, decreased libido, fatigue, irregular periods, vaginal dryness, discomfort during sex, urinary leakage, urinary urgency, mood swings, difficulty sleeping, night sweats and… Ahem… The

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Easter Bunny brought me nothin’. Ditto on the money fairy. Bah. We did, however, have a blast at the party this weekend. I guess I’ve just gotta take the bad with the good, eh? Not much else goin’ on. Taylor’s about to leave for work which means yoga for me in a wee bit. Idol

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So… Life is life, right? Ups and downs and everything in between. Life here lately is good. Lots of love, lots of time with Taylor and the Teen – who has been about as good as any teen ever is. Lots of time spent with a couple of friends in a pretty neat chat room

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Still got a whole lotta nothing goin’ on around here. The melt is nice. We almost have a back yard again, even if it is slightly swampy. :) Makes me think Spring really is going to come. Eventually. Still doin’ the yoga and whatnot – though I did take six days off. That sure messed

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I’ve had this blog open for like… oh… I dunno… an hour and haven’t found a damned thing to talk about. The kiddo is sicker than hell after having a sick friend spend the night Saturday. I sure do wish they’d told me kid was sick before I’d said it was okay for him to

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Oh my. Eight days without a post. Quiet, eh?Taylor worked all last week so I just sort of took the opportunity to enjoy the quiet.I haven’t really written any blogs and have barely read any.And I’ve been doing yoga.Not exactly deep, meditative, religious experience type yoga but yoga none the less.Steve Ross – who has

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Five thirty in the mornin’ and I’m up. (Actually haven’t slept yet but seeing as we slept until nearly two in the afternoon Saturday AND Sunday I don’t think I really expected to)Taylor’s workin’, the kid is still sleeping and it feels very quiet in the house.Taylor, while not a huge guy, just takes up

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I should have oodles of stuff to say but I just don’t.I’m firmly entrenched in the winter blahs.Firmly. I’ve got spaghetti bubbling away on the stove and even that doesn’t really have me feeling very happy.Decent coffee in my mug and still blah. I know, I know, I just bitched a few weeks back about

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My mom sent me this today and I liked it. I’m thinking we all need a tree…I hired a plumber to help me restore an old farmhouse, and after he had just finished a rough first day on the job: a flat tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric drill quit and

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So much goin’ on and yet it’s the same old, same old.Ain’t that just life? Burned the heck out of my hand/wrist/thumb today pulling still soppy, steaming coffee grounds out of the pot.Thought it was going to be a major disaster but, a few hours and many cold compresses and ibuprofens later, it look I’ll

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Not sure how many of ya like seafood but, sweet jesus, I tried a new soup today and I’m in love.I got it at Pick N Save, in the frozen department. It’s called Soup Man Seafood Bisque and it was just about the best soup I’ve ever had. Definitely the best store bought and in

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