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Goodbye House

On Saturday we went down to The Swamp to help my parents finish up their move into a rent house.  And I found it a lot harder than I expected to say goodbye to my old home.  We moved in before the end of my 8th grade year, some sixteen years ago.  A lot of memories were […]

A Summer Story

Once upon a time, there was a little boy called AE.  It isn’t his real name, of course, but it is how his mother refers to him on her blog because those are his initials and she isn’t very creative.  Anyway, AE recently graduated from kindergarten.  

A few work-related ponderings and observations

I haven’t been blindingly busy at work lately, so I’ve had time to stop and smell the roses.  Or more accurately, time to notice all the quirky things that go on around my workplace.  I know I’ve touched on some of these subjects before, but that’s one of my most endearing traits – the ability […]

And the award goes to…

If I were giving out awards, the categories and winners would go something like this: Best Timing of Illness for Maximum Weekend Ruinage goes to none other than little Miss T.  She managed to impressively hail the arrival of a 24-hour stomach bug within an hour of getting to The Swamp on Saturday.  Sometime during our […]

Friday randomness. With photos.

Holy cow, is it ever boring around these parts lately.  AE has been with my parents all week so it has been really quiet at our house (save for Miss T’s incessant jabbering, of course).  I’ve been borderline sick most of the week and haven’t felt like drinking wine (travesty!) or watching movies and therefore […]