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my daily life as experienced over a 5 minute period
If much of my life could be summed up into a single incident, I suspect it would be the one that just happened while I was home alone with my cats* on a Friday night.
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Two for a Tuesday
Well, look at that! I managed to not wait three months to update the blog again. Amazing! For this (I would say “lovely” but it’s snowing again and about 13 degrees outside so it’s just “this”) Tuesday, I’ve got two small stories for you from the last week. We’ll start with what happened today so…
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Milk Fail
Today I fail at milk. This morning I made tea and put it in my travel mug and drove to the zoo and was gone 8 hours… and when I got home I found the brand new carton of milk that I opened for the tea this morning sitting on the counter. Expanded. And warm.…
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The Wildlife is Winning!
But not for long… I made a nasty discovery today. Well, two of them. The first was that I went to check my plants, as I do every morning, and one of my container gardens now contains a large number of round, bright yellow mushrooms. They’re the kind that seem to grow from a sort…
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The Frocking Date
Today they held the frocking ceremony on J’s ship. What is frocking? It sounds kind of… bad, doesn’t it? Like it might even be painful. Well, back in the old days, the sign of a Petty Officer or commissioned officer was that they wore a frock coat. When they got promoted, it sometimes happened at…
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Adventures on the AFB Part Two!
In which our Brave Heroine ventures once again onto Hickam Air Force Base in search of a Craft Store. Today I experienced the very best (I mean this both sarcastically and seriously) of military efficiency and helpfulness. Our story begins after lunch with J. We had to go by the ITT office to get aquarium…
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The Gecko Conundrum
The gecko. The gecko perfectly embodies the strangeness that is Hawai’i. To understand what I mean, you need some background information about these small creatures and my experiences with them. First, you need to know that I have cats. Two of them. One of them is content to spend her days sleeping on my bed…
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