Category: daily drivel
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trickle
It’s been raining quietly all night, which is usually a comforting sound that lulls me to sleep and keeps me there, but my biological alarm clock began to ring at three-thirty this morning and the most pleasant trickling rain wouldn’t override it, so out of bed I got. Somehow, there is still snow on the… Read.
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ringer
One of my previous employers made me exercise three times a week. I would literally be violating a federal law if I didn’t exercise as directed. Think about that when you’re complaining about all the things your boss makes you do. Sometimes I was allowed to exercise on my own. If the weather was good,… Read.
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peeved
Is there one thing people do practically all the time, a small, insignificant thing that really shouldn’t bother you but, even so, makes you clench your teeth to keep yourself from screaming, “STOP DOING THAT! IT’S WRONG! WHERE’D YOU LEARN TO DO IT THAT WAY?” For me, it’s when people say “reason why,” as in,… Read.
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Drippy
From my office window, I’ve watched heavy clouds slobber on our fair city all day long. I’ve seen prettier sights. Read.
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Relief
Good news! I did not become homicidal (see previous entry). Unless defenestration counts. I may be in a peck of trouble there. (I am tickled to learn my phone’s autofill anticipated the word “defenestration” with just a six-letter head start!) Read.
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Simulation
The four-day Christmas weekend is over! Now it’s back to the office to pretend to work for three days until the New Year’s four-day weekend! Read.
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Boxing
Two-thirty in the morning, Boo comes to our bedroom door to whine because she didn’t eat before bed and now she’s hungry. I get up to feed her because she’s not going to shut up and I won’t be able to ignore her whining. Three o’clock in the morning, Scooter starts to play the game… Read.
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most wonderful
It’s a white Christmas! Woke up to a thin dusting of snow, maybe a half-inch at most. Still counts, especially since the weather’s been really uneven this winter: a little snow, then rain, then biting cold, then a week of warmth, and back to biting cold. We’ve really had precious little snow since the leaves… Read.
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coming down
I started to ween myself off caffeine this week because I was drinking way too much of it. I used to drink a cup of coffee in the morning before work, then a cup of Earl Grey tea in the afternoon to get me to the end of the day. That used to be more… Read.
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129 ways
I avoid clickbait. It’s never as interesting as the link makes it sound. Almost never. I can’t explain why I clicked on “129 Ways to Find a Husband.” I don’t know why I spent precious minutes closing the pop-ups that all but obliterated the web site I found this story on. And I loathe “stories”… Read.
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