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  • Oct
    2019
    10
    2019 / Oct / 10

    Before you judge my asshole dog…

    • posted in Dogs
    • / with 1 comments
    • / tags: blogtober, dogs, Gilfoyle, mental health

    You know those dogs that aren’t quite like other dogs? The ones with malformed or missing limbs, or mangled faces, or no eyes? You see those dogs, be it in real life or on the Internet, and you know some shit went down somewhere. Birth defect, injury, abuse, something went very wrong at some point in each of those dog’s lives and rendered them different dogs than nature intended.

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  • Oct
    2019
    09
    2019 / Oct / 09

    The Decline of a Warrior

    • posted in Dogs
    • / with 0 comments
    • / tags: blogtober, dogs, Lady Byng

    I missed posting to the blog yesterday. The reason for that is, what should have been about 45 minutes out of my morning turned into over 3 hours. That time was spent at the vet’s office with this little girl.

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  • Oct
    2019
    07
    2019 / Oct / 07

    Yes, I say “Please” when I ask Siri to do shit

    • posted in Incidentals
    • / with 1 comments
    • / tags: blogtober, relationships, technology

    I have a pan that is dishwasher-safe but that will hold a lot of water at the end of the cycle. So I try (and often fail) to remember to take it out of the dishwasher as soon as possible. My usual reminder is to put the measuring spoon I use to feed the dogs in the dishwasher because I have to grab that at certain times otherwise there shall be no peace as my poor dogs wither away to nothing.

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  • Oct
    2019
    06
    2019 / Oct / 06

    Rara Avis

    • posted in Incidentals
    • / with 1 comments
    • / tags: birds, blogtober

    This morning as I was putting away groceries I said to myself “that’s a weird-looking bird and why do they have a bird on the box anyway?” and then I realized I should probably have more coffee.


     
     
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  • Oct
    2019
    05
    2019 / Oct / 05

    Procreating

    • posted in Making Stuff
    • / with 0 comments
    • / tags: blogtober, making stuff, Procreate

    I’m blessed to be part of a family of creatives. And while each of us has our strengths, we all dabble in multiple endeavors. Writing, painting, sculpting, photography, cooking, sewing, modeling, gardening, crafting, if it’s a thing that involves making things, we do it.

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  • Oct
    2019
    04
    2019 / Oct / 04

    The Big 10-4

    • posted in Incidentals
    • / with 1 comments
    • / tags: blogtober, holidays

    To the best of my knowledge, no one in my family was ever a trucker. That didn’t stop my dad from trying to convince us as kids that October 4th was a holiday.

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  • Oct
    2019
    03
    2019 / Oct / 03

    Every October…

    • posted in Incidentals
    • / with 0 comments
    • / tags: movies

    I feel like the only person in the English-speaking world who has never seen Hocus Pocus.

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  • Oct
    2019
    02
    2019 / Oct / 02

    Universal Makeup

    • posted in Rants
    • / with 0 comments
    • / tags: blogtober, common sense, fashion, makeup, shopping

    Once upon a time, there was a thing called OSFA. It stood for “One Size Fits All” and was considered a legitimate clothing size.

    Then people started saying things like “this is 4 feet too long” and “I can’t get this past my knees” and “is an 8 inch neck circumference really the norm for adults?” and various other responses to the One Size Fits All designation that translated to “the fuck it does”.

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  • Oct
    2019
    01
    2019 / Oct / 01

    Blogtober

    • posted in Making Stuff
    • / with 1 comments
    • / tags: blogtober, making stuff, writing

    After a long hiatus, I’ve decided I want to do NaNoWriMo again this year. I completed it every year from 2003 to 2010, then life got a bit crazy and… yeah. But the time has come to make it a priority again.

    So to get back in the habit of focusing on creativity every day, I wanted a warmup month. Hence Blogtober.

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  • Aug
    2019
    20
    2019 / Aug / 20

    An Open Letter to Cora

    • posted in Rants
    • / with 2 comments
    • / tags: cora, menopause, periods

    This post is about periods so if you don’t want to read that…

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  • Aug
    2019
    12
    2019 / Aug / 12

    Hatch Me If You Can

    • posted in Foodstuffs
    • / with 2 comments
    • / tags: bob's burgers, burgers, cooking, dinner, Hatch green chile, Meatless Monday

    I had a goal in 2018. I had a lot of goals, actually, but one specifically. That goal was to make my way through as many of the recipes in The Bob’s Burgers Burger Book as I possibly could.

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  • Jul
    2019
    15
    2019 / Jul / 15

    The Margarita Bundt

    • posted in Foodstuffs
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    • / tags: alcohol, baking, Bundt, dessert, gardening, margaritas

    In 2011, I began my tradition of baking an original-recipe Bundt cake in observance of National Bundt Day, which is November 15th.

    In March 2017, I wrote up the post for the cake I baked in November 2015. I wasn’t planning on that tardiness becoming part of my tradition, but here we are today, in July 2019, and I’m writing up the cake I baked in November 2018.

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