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This week last year

Pushing the weather-luck

All that discussion of planting and greenery yesterday seems to have pushed the weather to retaliate. It started snowing yesterday and hasn’t really quit since. It’s been on and off, piling up 5 inches so far. Naturally the power went out last night, as it does here any time the weather does anything interesting. I [...]

Early morning omens

I’m trying to be very careful today. I have this sense of impending doom that I just can’t shake. There’s a very good reason for this, beyond the waking up crabby and trying to hide from the world.
This morning, a crow ran into the side of my car.
Note the phrasing there. The CROW ran into [...]

Interlude

Today is funny, mostly because I’m crabby. There’s a lot going on today, in a mental-overhead sort of way and it’s taking some weird sort of toll on my brain and my ability to concentrate, making the day fuzzy and indistinct. It’s also making things funnier than they would normally be.
Take, for instance, the hallway [...]

Things you never wanted to know about your neighbors

I now know that my neighbors use clumping clay cat litter. The kind that’s grey with little blue flecks in it. I also happen to know that this stuff stains beige carpet.
It all started out innocently enough. Wednesday, I stopped at the end of the driveway on my way home from work to pick up [...]

Make a face for the camera

At the company party earlier this month they had a photo area set up so all of us in our fancy clothes could get our pictures taken. This is not my favorite thing in the world to do, especially because I invariably gain 50 pounds for the camera. I have not yet mastered the angled [...]