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November 29
We made it home from Orlando despite some traffic. I believe I have bought the very last Christmas present for the year. I wish I didn’t enjoy shopping so much. Otherwise all I did today was make octopuses. I have completed 99 of them. Chances are very good I will hit 100 before Tuesday. I’ve…
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November 24
I spent the whole day making octopuses. My goal is 100 by Tuesday. I’m up to 91. Gotta tell ya, though… I am so tired of making octopuses. They’re not even that cute. We also went food shopping for the week and got $150+ in savings on buy one get ones, which by necessity means…
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June 12
We didn’t have any activities today, or at least I hope we didn’t, because we didn’t do any. I probably should have at least peeked at the calendar. If we missed something, oh well, too late now. Otherwise it was a pretty good day. I’ve been getting up at 5:30am all week to get into…
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June 1
Christina’s recital was a success. Rosina and Dion came bearing flowers, even for Robin, who they felt deserved them after surviving her long cheer season as well. That was so sweet of them. Now Christina can tear her ballet costume to shreds, and she probably will, too.
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May 16
I might have quit therapy today. We also made delicious chicken tikka masala for dinner and I took a shower. I bowed out of the worship committee at church and I feel so relieved. Feeling generally out of it. I haven’t even been able to put my heart into complaining this week. Maybe I need…
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May 13
The power has been off and on tonight in the rain, which is funny because we’ve lived in this house for 11 years, including through a few hurricanes, and the power has never more than flickered before. It was out for about 15 minutes at one point and Christina was flipping out. Telling her about…
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April 3
I’m continuing to truck along. Trying to get some things straight for myself, trying to stay productive creatively. I’m writing, only maybe one or two paragraphs a day, but I’m writing. I’m finding a lot of the process is trying to think through a story I don’t really know. I’ve doubled my progress from last…
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March 31
It was not my favorite Easter. Shawn has been hurt and they weren’t up for a family gathering, so it was just the four of us. I tried to keep it special, but Billy seemed to be in another kind of mood. The kids and I did some nearby geocaching, though, the food was good,…
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November 23
Billy made an awesome dinner, including one of the juiciest turkeys I’ve ever had. All in all a pretty good Thanksgiving. Could definitely have gone very differently this year, and I’m kind of glad it didn’t.
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August 21
I finished reading A Tale of Two Cities. I highly doubt that my 8th- or 9th- grade self would have appreciated this book at that time, but I really liked it now. I’m sad it took me this long to read it. Charles Dickens was really brilliant. I had no idea what it was about…
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January 5
This bouquet is a combination of flowers given to me on December 18 for a concert I didn’t perform in and flowers I bought on Christmas Eve. They are still hanging in, despite a little mold on the stems.
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