gillette

it's just past dawn, the frogs in the pond across the street have finally begun to go to sleep.

i woke up thinking about labor day.

what a farce! we celebrate labor day, but every facet of modern american business revolves around finding ways to screw their labor force as fast, hard, and deeply as possible.

nobody, not even a single person with no dependents,...
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i bought a new computer today, a dell notebook. i am a little freaked out about spending so much money, but i couldn't see how i could do without it, with so much travelling in my future.

now, i just need to win the lottery

le wants to be a gypsy princess.

i always make her be my barbie doll when we are together and force her into dressing rooms to try on clothing items she wouldn't be caught dead in...

my sister has been having a tough year. last august she got laid off from the charitable organization where she worked for several years, and she couldn't understand why.

a few weeks ago she learned that it wasn't her fault at all - it turns out that there was massive embezzling going on, and the auditors required that they lay off the entire accounting department....
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moving is hell. i keep reminding myself that anything said 10 days prior to, or following a move, is not admissable in divorce court.

31 years ago today, i married mark. he wore blue jeans and a paisley shirt, i wore a dress i made myself from unbleached muslin.

for the reception, we ordered in a shitload of cuban sandwiches from whaley's market, had chips...
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hahahah hohoho heeheehee


so we woke up this morning and he tried to not go to san antonio, and made me call the hotel to cancel and i did, but i was smart and booked it on expedia, so NO REFUNDS.

we are leaving in a few minutes. when i come home i will tell you stories about the trip and the moving.

Hot Dog Origami

what more can i say? an art form whose time has come

three years ago, mark promised to take me to san antonio to the riverwalk and the alamo. i waited a year and he didn't do it, so my sister came to see me after i had my hysterectomy and i went with her, but i was still not recovered enough to enjoy it.

another year went by and i tried to get mark to go...
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i am constantly surprised at how many people here, and elsewhere, have tattoos. (i aways think of that short guy saying "boss, de plane, de plane" when i hear the word tattoo...

the thing is, i just cannot imagine anyone purposely asking someone to stick needles into them when they don't have to. i have diabetes and am required to puncture myself somewhere at least...
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mark gave me the coffee can in the kitchen we have been filling with change for a year or so. then he got mad when i wouldn't let him take it to the supermarket and dump it in one of those machines that count it.

i wanted to roll it all up myself, and he was really perplexed as to why i would want to...
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