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Archive for October, 2007

It’s Only Temporary

Posted in NaNoWriMo, cats, coffee, daughters, family, writing on October 31, 2007 | 6 Comments »

I had high hopes of having everything set for a smooth transition into this year’s NaNoWriMo (nanowrimo.org). I was going to do my shopping for lots of coffee and tea and things to eat that are easy to fix in twenty minutes or less. I was going to burn a couple of CDs [...]

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She Made Me Cry

Posted in Best Mom Ever, daughters, mom duties, mothers and daughters on October 29, 2007 | 10 Comments »

As a parent, we cry many tears. If we’re lucky, most of those tears are the joyous kind; the kind that come when they take their first step or the day you leave them at the door to the kindergarten room.
As a parent, we often think it is a thankless job. If we’re [...]

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NaNoWriMo

Posted in NaNoWriMo, fiction novel, personal challenge, writing on October 27, 2007 | 7 Comments »

National Novel Writitn Month takes place in November of each year. The idea is that you sign up (for free) on the website (nanowrimo.org) and you challenge yourself to write a novel in thirty days, beginning on November 1 and ending on November 30. The novel length is a 50,000 word count which [...]

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Secrets Kept From Me

Posted in deception, divorce, poem on October 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Little did I know
as I watched you sleep
the secrets you kept
locked inside your heart
the ones you used to
destroy me
the moment you chose
to awaken
annihilating the safety
of my ignorance

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Room Mates~Part 4

Posted in daughters on October 25, 2007 | 10 Comments »

I did not intend to write a part 4.  I thought I was finished with part 3.  However, life has a way of doing what it wants.
At 7:30 on Wednesday evening, my daughter dropped me off at home and headed for the house she moved into with the last load.  Because of her work schedule [...]

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Here’s Looking At YOU!

Posted in stalkers and morons, tagged on October 24, 2007 | 12 Comments »

If you’re sitting there saying, “Huh? What’s this about?” then this is probably not about you. So maybe you want to read another of my posts or come back in a while and see if there is something else for you to read or explore some of the writing by one of the excellent bloggers [...]

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Room Mates~Part 3

Posted in daughters, independence, women on October 23, 2007 | 4 Comments »

When my daughter moved here last year, she didn’t know anyone but she did have a couple of people to look up from her LiveJournal and MySpace pages. A few months after moving here, she was able to meet both girls and begin a Real Life friendship. Last May, one of the girls (I’ll call [...]

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Room Mates~Part 2

Posted in daughters, independance, mothers and daughters, women on October 21, 2007 | 10 Comments »

My twenty-two year old daughter, T,  moved from the southern California area to northern California in July of 2006.  She knew no one up here except me and her little sister.  Well, she also had a boyfriend that moved up here at the same time.  Not knowing anyone here, she posted an ad on Craigslist.org, [...]

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Room Mates~Part 1

Posted in college life, on my own on October 20, 2007 | 6 Comments »

Room mates can be a god sent, but they can also be a nightmare, or perhaps more accurately, a series of nightmares. Although I have not had a lot of experience with room mates, I do have some interesting stories.
First, let me tell you that I lived a very sheltered life.  My parents were very [...]

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Almost Useless

Posted in just musing on October 19, 2007 | 11 Comments »

I don’t use recipes.
I’m not a gourmet cook.
I just hate following directions; I even hate reading them.  That goes for any directions.  I just don’t read them.
Recipes seem useless to me.  Why cook something exactly like someone else tells you to?  Why not be original and do it your way?  Why not invent your own [...]

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