Category: ranting and raving
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update from master researcher Peg re:my Visa nightmare. so far, it doesn't look good. though the Artist Visa allows me to live here, it does not allow for working. she did discover however, that i can legally work as a prostitute without a visa, as long as i don't have a pimp. or i could…
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Erin and husband Doug and baby Sam at a UW Madison Badgers football game…i just couldn't bring myself to post the one with Daddy and son and BUCKY BADGER…sorry, but furries frighten me. and sports furries? (shiver) my friend Erin from highschool (that's starting to sound like one big long name–Erin From-Highschool) is coming for…
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my sister, bless her, slept with her husbands t-shirt last night because it smells like him. awww…ack! isn't there a code of conduct when Married People spend time with Chronicly Single people?!
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as i've promised mom not to "rag" on her anymore about her domestic habits, or 'lifestyle choice" in regards to tidiness, i will vent via blog. because i can't help it, i just have to let it out somehow! and this should spare her having to listen to me grumble, i mean, i do totally…
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seems everyone has a nightmare emergency room story. i'm reminded of the time i threw a disk in my back (lifting a sofa at work) and went to the e.r. because i suddenly couldn't feel my legs or walk…seriously scary and i was blind with pain. after filling out a dozen forms and waiting for…
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little Italian mama driving me nuts continued…i've mentioned the first floor neighbors before…well, here today's installment of the story…the building was cut up for sale as individual apartments (condo-style) rather unfairly..the retired Italian couple on the first floor have a huge back garden, an extended kitchen with another terrace built (illegaly i might add) on…
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amidst more than ten thousand alleged heat-related deaths in France, a famous ancient tree at Versaille is lost as well. and then my downstairs neighbor has the gall to complain (AGAIN) about the tiny little trickle of water the airconditioner in the bedroom makes in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. i only run it from…
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(see Monday's entry below) nothing in the mailbox yet, (it's too soon i know) but i have faith that i will see some handwritten letters and postcards soon..and i can't wait! seems i may have one winner already, Aunt Maria had sent us a package regarding the McMullen family reunion a few days prior to…
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GUYS!!!! some practical hints for posting a personal ad online: do not use a picture of yourself: -getting your hair cut -hugging an ex-girlfriend -in super-short basketball pants -about to sneeze -wearing a beret -wearing a “World’s Greatest Mom” sweatshirt -doing the Chicken Dance -from highschool (particularly if you are currently 35) -shirtless while holding…
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ok folks, today's earlier bonhumeur has evaporated in the face of yet another sad, empty mailbox (aside from the previously mentioned New Yorkers earlier in the week). it's even been two months since my Grandmother Eileen has written me about the status of the weather and contents of the obits in Edgar, Nebraska! email is…
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