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Category: Sigh

  • Loved, full and warm

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    I slept uninterrupted last night. For the entire night. But I would have rather had to wake up every 4 hours to a gray-love-fluff, purring and clawing her way closer to a bottle. At 2 weeks old, she already licked fingers and moved closer to my voice. She was figuring out how to walk on…

  • Hang in there, Mazie

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    Mazda got sick over the weekend – super high fever and she stopped eating. (she’s a she now – the vet confirmed it when we took her in – I guess we shouldn’t go in the business of sexing kittens.) Anyway, last night they gave her antibiotics and some high nutrient gel to get her…

  • New Mexico is where bananas go to die

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    …and diesel engines. But thank god for my mechanically inclined step-dad who managed to fix it, but who also just smashed my elbow in between the back seat and truck frame. The past two days I’ve been up since 5 am with spotty sleep. Part of me wants to curl up on the black top…

  • My dear friends

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    *Disclaimer: I didn’t reread this so take no responsibility for its content* Sizzling potatoes and their golden smell wafting from the kitchen; Pat is still asleep after a long, wonderful birthday/going away party he and my dear friends threw for me last night. This week has exhausted me like a labor. I was trying not…

  • My amazing race

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    My schedule for the next two months: May 31-June 4: Pat’s cousin’s wedding in Iowa (we are driving. To Iowa. Wait … where is Iowa? oh, 14 hours away!) June 6: Important emotional dinner – mucho drinks required June 7: Dentist; therapy June 9-16: My cousin’s wedding in MAUI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sadly, I’ll be flying solo the…

  • Phoenix, we are moving to Phoenix

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    …Thank you, Marylinn =) I had the day off yesterday by accident. We are working these god awful night shifts and a little scheduling mishap rewarded me with A FULL DAY OFF FOR NO REASON. I’ll have to make it up eventually, but maybe no one will notice and by the time they do I’ll…

  • It's a chex mix BOLD party mix, red vines, coke zero sort of day

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    Damn, this day. I don’t even know how it happened. All I did was wake up. Have you seen “Stranger than Fiction”? That scene where the professor tells Will Farrell NOT TO DO ANYTHING all day and see if the plot is driven forward. He sits at home, watches TV, doesn’t answer the phone, pees…

  • 3am sucks

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    That is all

  • To be held

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    I had a small moment today, driving home pitch black, where a sigh left my body in a whimper. I became a small girl filled with so much adult sadness. I miss her today and that’s all – no there’s more than that. I’m sorry she can’t see what I see. I’m sorry she’s scared.…

  • Crock Pot Closure

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    I told myself that if your car was in the driveway, I wasn’t going to drop off your crock pot. I wanted to make sure you weren’t home, that there was no chance of awkward encounters. The point was not to chitchat, the point was to get this black, heavy thing out of my dining…