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I know, I know.  You sense it, but can’t exactly tell.  Well, today, for the first time in years, I have only ONE blog.  I have all my old Live Journal posts here, and all of my other blogs, even the indie shopping one, all the content has been moved here and those blogs deleted.  [...]

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I’m putting off taking a much needed shower right now because I am determined to take it alone and this fact will lead to the inevitable wailing and gnashing of toddler girlie teeth.  Besides clicking around the interwebz, I’m making a mental list of all the things that I can buy to float us through [...]

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I’m starting to be able to see out of the hole I had dug.  My house is clean, my swap dresses almost done.  The cleaning I did was, funny enough, cleansing.  I shampooed the rugs and they look much better.  I washed the tile floors by hand, something I haven’t done in a time period [...]

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So last night for the first time ever, I had a dream in which Var talked to me.  I’ve waited eight years for this, so I woke up feeling excited.  I started reviewing the dream, and couldn’t help but be disappointed.  In the dream, I was changing his diaper.  I had his hospital bed at [...]

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It’s back.  That is all.

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As things start getting rationed and people start panicking about the food crisis and it gets harder and harder to afford daily life I find myself happy to have a bunker like area to escape to,  to own enough fabric to clothe my family for at least a decade,  and to have a garden bed [...]

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Your friend just had a beautiful new baby and you haven’t been able to smell her head yet.
You need to test some patterns and need someone to model newborn items.
You are sick of having your period.

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I grew up in Chicago were snow and wind are just a fact of life, you know?  Snow days were reserved for dumps of 4 feet of snow.
When we moved to Rockford, which is north of Chicago, I assumed that if anything, we’d be expected to stop being such wusses about snow, kwim?  Like they [...]

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I’m sick of hating what I see in the mirror.  I’m not going to drop 50 pounds this month.  I actually think I’m so unmotivated to lose weight because I just never feel like I look good.  SO, I sucked it up and took my regular store bought jeans and altered them to fit my [...]

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I’ve never been able to meditate.  The closest I’ve ever come is when I was in the throes of anorexia and would spend a minimum of an hour a day stretching (Jane Fonda Workout style) in my bedroom.  I actually really enjoy stretching…hmmm…maybe that’s something to think about, a pudgy yet very flexible Mama, for [...]

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