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Music/Movie Monday—The Wet Carpet Mystery
With this being the first Monday of December, I tried to think of a good quote from a Christmas movie. I’ve kind of struggled accepting the fact that it is, yet again, the Christmas season. This year has gone by faster than any other year of my life, I’m 100% convinced. I used to think… →
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“Something Good” Sunday: Christmas Jammies
I was struggling to think of something good from this week for my feel-good Sunday post. There’s actually been quite a few good things this week. I’ve already talked about my tattoo from Friday. That was good, well, didn’t feel good, but the art produced by the pain is amazing. Thanksgiving was wonderful too. The… →
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“Something Good” Sunday
I’m too impatient to wait until Christmas to give really good gifts. Today I gave my husband a super awesome gift early because I was so excited about it. →
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Oh…Fudge!
I will always be happy to answer this question! When I answered this question last year, I linked back to this post: Meeting Ralphie: My Crochet Tribute to “A Christmas Story” Basically, two years ago, when it was the 40th anniversary of “A Christmas Story”, the original cast had a convention in Cleveland, where most… →
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We Were Young
I think this is the perfect time of year for a question like this. I believe I am still a kid at heart and the holidays bring it out in me. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s are heavy with nostalgia. Because, despite the memories of trauma from my childhood outnumbering the good, holidays when… →
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Just Us for the Holidays
How do you celebrate holidays? When I was a kid, holidays, particularly Christmas, were big family affairs. Probably not as big as some families though. My two older sisters would fly down to Georgia from Cleveland and spend the holiday with us. They lived with their dad and visited a few times a year. Christmas… →
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Thank You for the Air Pods, Honey!
I recently saw a few things online, a clip of a celebrity interview on the Graham Norton Show, a comment thread on a random post in a group I’m in on Facebook, and the common theme of these tidbits was that gift-giving at Christmas should only be for kids. The rest of Christmas—the meal, the… →
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Things that are making me happy (part 12)
Christmas. But not for the reason that it used to make me happy. When I was a kid, and even well into my adult years, I was super excited on Christmas Eve and had trouble sleeping that night because of the anticipation of waking up in the morning and opening presents. This always made me… →
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Christmas is Weird This Year
Back in the spring, when I knew I was quitting my job of 19 years and doing…well, I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life at that point. I just knew I wasn’t going to keep being an educator. I wrote repeatedly in my journal about how badly I couldn’t wait… →
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Christmas Celebrity
Who is the most famous or infamous person you have ever met? I literally just wrote about this yesterday! I met Ralphie! It really is the coolest story I’ll ever get to tell about meeting someone famous. →