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  • Still Slogging Along

    It is almost the end of October already. I can’t say that I will be sorry to leave this year behind us soon, but I can’t say that just changing the year on the calendar will make a difference. What a year it has been! Cancer diagnosis. Cruise! Cancer surgery. Car accident. Daughter and co.

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  • Once Again….

    So, Friday the 16th of May, I had finally found the sideboard/buffet I wanted to replace the island in my kitchen that I frankly HATE. I had found one at our local Restore store. My elder son and I had found it a few days before, did the measuring thing, and then I had to

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  • So, my doctor told me that the test came back ‘good’. What does that mean exactly? Well, despite the fact that I had 38% of my uterus showing signs of cancer (which I am told is better than 50%, which is where I roll my eyes and think really?) there was no sign that it

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  • The area in which we live

    “When it rains, it pours” Well, duh. Living in Western Oregon has some distinct advantages. 5. We bought at a good time. In fact, we signed our paperwork on the 29th of December and started moving in on the 30th. We could not get out of our apartment fast enough! We lived in an apartment

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  • Secrets are…. Seductive

    Just a couple of secrets I have held on to for a long time and how I feel about them, I guess. When I was pregnant with my eldest, the daughter, she was way late. I mean three weeks late. I know that my math is correct on that, mainly because I thought she was

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  • Realized that I had not written in a while. I have been taking a computer break since I ended my last class. Basically, through a serious of ridiculous events, I had two days to write my final a week before it was technically due. Thank goddess I managed it! I decided to take a breather,

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  • The Return from Prison

    Well, not actually a return to me- us. He was required to live in the county he was convicted in. Not the county he had been incarcerated in, which I thought was kind of weird, but then again he had spent years in three different prisons in the state. Either way, he was 300 miles

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  • So nothing much going on. Sarcasm: my family’s first and preferred language. Managed to finish the semester with straight A’s. What can I say? School has always been easy for me. Moved back in with my parents. Like I had a choice and to be honest, with two special needs kids and a baby due,

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  • Like I said, I had no idea what the hell was going on. After my kids left, only two agents stuck around. The rest went where ever agents go when they aren’t pointing guns at people. Ok, that’s not really fair. They were doing their jobs, and I do get that. Just at the time

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  • A Pallet Cleanser

    Now, I take no credit for the following, but I think it states, in words, what a lot of people feel, but don’t necessarily know how to put into words. “I don’t think that any of us planned for the things we’ve had to go through. Maybe that’s the whole point of living in the

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