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February, 2006
February 9th, 2006
My co-worker, the crazy one who thinks President Bush is listening to her cell phone, cracks me up.
I was telling her about my grandmother, the living one, who despite being bipolar is just plain perky in the senior citizens’ home with all of her new friends and little boyfriends. I added that of course, she’d been a cheerleader in high school…
Well, suddenly my co-worker asked, “Is it true that George Bush was a cheerleader?”
I thought, “Oh, Lord! What now?” but said “Yes, that’s true.”
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Tags: George W. Bush
February 9th, 2006
I don’t know why, but my grandmother’s death is hitting me pretty hard today. I’ve felt like I’m on the verge of tears all morning. I’m sure it’s the impending memorial service and scattering of the ashes. I guess it just seems so much more real now that we’re doing this two days from now as opposed to a month ago when she passed away so far away.
I’m feeling a bit guilty too that I didn’t spend more time with her, that I wasn’t more patient with her. I feel like a rotten granddaughter today.
Tags: depression
February 8th, 2006
Well, this new look isn’t exactly what I was looking for but when I saw this template, I knew it was me. I love the expression of the cat in the graphic. That’s what drew me to it.
I keep running across issues with the Wordpress 2.0.1 upgrade and the compatibility of the plugins. Some of my plugins still need to be upgraded to the latest versions themselves. Some are just plain getting deactivated I’m sad to say.
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Tags: none
February 8th, 2006
Seriously, despite the fact that I blog all about my life and share all sorts of thoughts and opinions, I’m really kind of a paranoidly private person. I mean, I blog under a pseudonym. I don’t publish my address or phone number or even my Yahoo!Messanger ID.
I’m like that in non-cyberland too. I am loath to hand out my phone number or even my personal email sometimes. I certainly don’t hand out my cel phone number since I moved. In fact, I think I have only given it officially to my mom and the other N.
The problem is that once that information is out there, you can’t take it back and make people forget it. You have to be inconvenienced and have to move and change all of your phone numbers again and maybe even stop using that email address.
For years, I’ve sat quietly distant from my extended family. I pretty much communicated with them through my parents. Now this whole “reconnect with the family” thing has gotten out of control.
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Tags: dysfunctional family
February 6th, 2006
Now that I’ve got Wordpress upgraded, I realize that I’m tired of this theme. I still want the three columns with one column being the “Featured” column but I want somthing a little more calming and smooth looking.
I guess I’ll be looking around the web for ideas.
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Tags: none
February 6th, 2006
If you stopped by in the last 24 hours, you might have had issues actually getting to anything other than the first page of the website. Sorry about that. I didn’t realize until this morning that there were issues with the upgrade I did yesterday. That’ll teach me to test better in the future.
Anyway, if you are upgrading to Wordpress 2.0.1 and have the following plugins, they don’t play well and you really need to keep them deactivated:
- Adhesive
- Enhanced Post List
Just an FYI.
Tags: none
February 6th, 2006
My dad’s brother was a very successful salesman for a fairly large and well-known company. He made enough to retire in his 40’s. Since then he’s had way too much time on his hands.
I’m starting to see why he was so successful. He certainly doesn’t take “no” for an answer.
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Tags: dysfunctional family
February 3rd, 2006
Well. It’s happened. Again.
I am a bridesmaid, possible the maid of honor.
I swore up and down that there was no way I was going to be in PW’s wedding, especially since I live on a separate continent and there’s no way I can pop over there for dress-fittings, shower plannings, etc.
I was heavily involved in her first wedding. I helped pick out the decorations. I helped decorate. I went dress shopping with her. I helped plan. Blah blah blah.
And honestly, as much as I wanted to be happy for her, even as Maid
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Tags: wedding, friendship
February 2nd, 2006
I appologize for seemingly abandoning this blog. The truth is that I’ve been distracted by more than a few things in my life:
- My grandmother’s death, as you know, took me somewhat by surprise and has caused me to do a lot of self-inspecting. Plus, I want to be there for my mother who I think took it a lot harder than me. Plus, the planning for the memorial service the weekend before Valentine’s Day in Florida.
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Tags: Faith, God, Spirituality, migraine, wedding, England, paranoia, Samuel Alito, discombobulated, fibromyalgia
