I started to get irritated this morning.  I reached my year at my new job, and promptly lost 12 hours of vacation time. I got my new 2 weeks, but they only rolled over 40 of the 52 hours I still had from last year. My boss is seeing what can be done, but I’m […]

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I’ve been doing some looking back with my birthday tomorrow. I was thinking last night, how I always put an emphasis on the day. I used it as a deadline for things I wanted – for someone to ask me out, for a job or to hear back from the college of my choice. None […]

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So, the last few weeks I’ve been refinishing our kitchen cabinets with a heat gun and a scraper.  It’s not horrid, but it’s not the most fun thing in the world. Hubby’s grandfather was there when I started working on Sunday and asked why I didn’t send the pieces home with him so he could […]

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So, tonight I confronted someone at work who has been making my life miserable.  She’s had this attitude, and then turned around and complained that another girl and I were doing what she does— whisper, whisper, whisper. Maybe we are, but it’s complaining about her behavior, that no one will do anything about.  My new […]

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I honestly can’t think of a title tonight.  It’s been a rough few months, and I’m just at a loss. It’s great that we have a house and will have it paid off by August.  That was one of my dreams, to own a house free and clear.  A dear friend of mine said it […]

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So I’m suspecting my laptop is on its last legs. It started when Chrome was installed – an occasional blue screen of death. They went from occasional to weekly to daily. I uninstalled Chrome and went from daily occurrences of the BSOD back to occasional occurrences. But they’re slowly increasing in frequency. I’m trying to […]

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I splurged yesterday and bought two things that will make my life a whole lot easier while working on the house. The first might be obvious.  I decided that I was making enough trips with the banana box full of leaves and branches that I’d do well to get a garden cart instead.  That will […]

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My husband has been working 7 days a week since the last big snow storm came through.  That makes it hard for him to make any progress on the house, so I stepped up.  It’s not that I didn’t know what needed to be done or how to do it, I was leaving it to […]

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Pretty much everyone at work is signed up to get emails from the head of the local emergency management agency.  The agency that sends out notices when the weather is foul, or the wind is going in circles and touching the ground. On Friday, I got a kick out of reading his email.  It was […]

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Hey, 3 days in a row, anyone shocked yet?  Probably 🙂 I went so long without posting at all. I’ve been looking into Homesteading lately.  Mostly because I’m frustrated with work and would love to be able to get by on just my husband’s income so I could stay home. Though a dear friend has […]

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