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hEllo SpRinG!

Normally I like to stay with the black and white theme but hey, it doesn’t do Spring much justice so…color it is!  Living on the wild side over here, I tell ya.
I haven’t been much for posting lately.  I guess sometimes you just need a break from it.   Anyway, after a rough few months of [...]

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Happy Late Easter!

I don’t know about you but these crack me up!  Happy Mopey Easter, indeed.
Anyway, Happy Late Easter!  We had a good day.  Not your average Easter, but that’s fine.  No more egg hunts around here.  The Easter Bunny still comes and brings a basket of goodies but he no longer hides eggs.  Bummer.  And yesterday [...]

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Feeling Good Friday

A few weeks back we were sitting in the psychiatrists office waiting to see what kind of magical jellicle med combo we were going to try next with Rye and I opened up the The New Yorker and saw this cartoon by Tom Cheney.
Touche.
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Anyhoo, Happy Friday!   I am so glad it’s the weekend.  Not that [...]

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Like Looking In A Mirror

If I could morph into a taxidermied weasel, this would be me.
Thank you to The Bloggess for always making me laugh.  This is her new Weasel, Juanita.  I think I’ve looked at this picture ten hundred times already today and every time it makes me burst into laughter.
Man, I needed that.
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Something To Look Forward To

[tattoo by Shane ONeill]
Rye told me yesterday that when he gets older he’s going to put a tattoo of my face on his chest.
Ummmm no, I say.
Yes, mom, I’m doing it, he says.  You and I are so close and that way you will always be with me and everyone will know how much you [...]

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Precarious

Here we are for the past week +.  I am the giraffe/elephant.  Rye is the bear.  I am exhausted.
After a good long stretch of stability, we have hit a bump in the road.  This past week Rye morphed into a person I have not seem in a very long time with symptoms I have not [...]

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Dr. Drew Show: Tics in Teen Girls Caused By Conversion Disorder?

Did you see the Dr. Drew show yesterday?  It was one of the most disturbing things I have seen in a long time.  Don and I were flipping around channels and somehow landed on this show and we could not stop watching it once we started.  It was incredible.  The show was about 12 teen [...]

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This and That

Rye is skiing today and Don is catching up on sleep so I have a chance to sit and write and think.  Ahhhh.  I’m feeling myself exhale.  Lovely.  Rye’s been sick with a chest cold the past few days so I have not had much time to myself and it’s nice now to have a [...]

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Arthritis

Or, ‘the thritis’ as Don and I call it.  One of my new challenges as we begin 2012 is that I’m getting arthritis.  Or at least I’m pretty sure that’s what it is.   It started late last year and it seems to be a steady part of my life now.  And it’s making me [...]

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So Long, 2011!

[photo credit: Peter Jukes]
Wow.  New Year’s kind of snuck up on me this year.  We’ve been in a vacation coma of eating junk food and watching movies for over a week now and it just dawned on me yesterday that today is New Year’s Eve.   We don’t have any big plans for the evening.  I [...]

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Christmas Love

I look at our pictures from Christmas last year and I can’t believe how much Rye has changed.   Last Christmas he was shorter than both Don and I.  And he looked young.  Like a kid.  This Christmas, he is 6′2″.  Without shoes on.  He looks like a teen.   This Christmas he towers over me and [...]

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