Do you ever have a day where even though you know things are a joke, you can’t help but internally take them seriously? The worst part is that every comment thereafter is automatically analyzed and deconstructed to determine its intent.  What do they mean by that?  Is it an insult?  Or is it just a [...]

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I’ve been in an intermediate-level funk lately.  Nothing to call up the therapist multiple times a week about; but still nothing to sneeze at.  At first I thought it was job stress coupled with the house.  While those may be contributing factors, I realized today what probably plays a large role in this funk of [...]

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I am one person with two minds.  The mind that is rational and can map out a solution to a problem in 2.5 seconds.  Then there’s the emotional mind that has trouble even looking at a spreadsheet and would rather investigate my motivations like an actor in rehearsal than rationalize my behavior logically. This is [...]

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The whole inspiration for exposing my SOMLs and MOMLs is seeing What’s Eating Gilbert Grape on cable again last night.  (And while I’m on the subject, why is it that even though I own the movie on DVD I never watch it, but when it’s on TV I can’t turn the channel?)  That movie doesn’t [...]

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I often get razzed by my friends (Mr. CVD in particular) when I bring this up.  I don’t have favorite songs or movies–I have songs and movies Of My Life. Here’s the deal:  We have too many changes in our lives to have just one movie or song that sums it all up.  (And if [...]

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Or does anyone else find it depressing that Guns N’ Roses is on VH1 Classic?

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The sellers accepted our counter offer.  We are well on our way to being homeowners. And cue the music…and the anxiety attack.

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There are things that I was never clever enough to come up with.  Then there are certain things in life that I know, given the chance and the time, I could have come up with.  The latter haunts my dreams. So here is a list, in no particular order, of some of the things I [...]

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To say that I have some neurotic tendencies would be an understatement. One of these neurotic tendencies involves money.  I grew up in a family where money was scarce at quite a few turns and God bless my parents, but we always knew about it.  This coupled with a lack of any sort of financial [...]

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I’m editing a brief I have been working on for a week and a half and I just realized that a sentance that should have stated that “he said that he wanted to lay her off” simply said “he said that he wanted to lay her.” The hilarity of that typographic error displays my sheer [...]

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