27. Winter Joy

It’s cold and it’s cold and it’s cold. I have the blues and it’s cold. It’s the time of year where darkness comes suddenly, overpoweringly, menacingly. Days are grey and they blend into nights and you just want to hibernate but you can’t. You’re solely responsible, you see. For others. Their education. Their morals. Their diets. Their exercise. Their mental health. All on your shoulders. So you…

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Designated Fat Friend

I was always the small one. Always the skinny friend. The one told to eat a cheeseburger. And I continuously thought I was over weight. Then came pregnancies, surgeries, medications, age. And with all of those additional weight. As well as some laziness, procrastination, pain, exhaustion. And all of the excuses in the world. Like every. single. one. I am by far not the heaviest I have ever…

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30. Goodbye, November

I began this month feeling hopeful; we had just emerged from a particularly warm October. Indian summer. Evenings shorter but not quite cold enough to realise the inevitability of the hibernation season. Then as November progressed, I succumbed to the misery of short evenings and lack of vitamin D. It was mostly due to not getting out as often as I would like. It’s being too cold, my worry over…

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26. Tea

Today my son asked me if I would have some tea with him. Of course my boy, I will certainly have tea with you. He asked me repeatedly if he could have caramel in it. Caramel? Since when do you know about caramel? Turns out he was asking for camomile. He had a temperature of 40 degrees C. Lying on the sofa with bright red ears and scarlet cheeks, lethargic and still, cold hands and feet. Not…

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25. Dear Diary

If I were to write a diary here, I would say. I would say, dear diary, I am in love. With what, well I could not begin to tell you. I do not know for myself. The solitude in the hour before dawn, perhaps. Listening to the wind whistle through the hole under the radiator. That coffee I have at 5:30am before the gym when my family is fast asleep in their beds and I have a few moments to just…

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23.

I keep trying to remind myself that I was a person before.

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Monday, Monday

Monday’s should be filled with music, so use these to fill yours.

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Coffee

I never was a big coffee person. I mean I drank it but I wasn’t a “I have to have my coffee” type person. There were days I drank it and days I didn’t but I never felt like it was a must. For a short while, I only drank iced coffee, regardless of the weather. My oldest bought me a Mr. Coffee Iced Coffee Maker for Christmas a few years back with some ground coffee and syrups. This machine became…

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21. Drained

Folks, I am drained. I have very little left to give. I don’t know whether I am coming or going. The weeks are slipping away from me like my pearls did when my son found them and ripped them apart. Spattered all over the floor. Shining, satiny balls rolling in every direction. I am just so drained. Empty. Blood pooling away from my face. Eyes wide. Hair in the fashion of Einstein. I am…

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18. Scones

My mother used to make scones for visitors if they arrived without notice. It was easy, all you have to do is take flour out of the cupboard, make breadcrumbs by rubbing cold pieces of butter through it – add some warm, milk, salt, baking powder and make a quick dough. Roll it out, cut it into rounds using a glass – or a round cookie cutter if you have one – we didn’t!. Then bake while you put…

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10. Benefit

Of the doubt. Is better than Holding resentment Against somebody Whose circumstances You don’t understand.

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Sketch Saturday - Bumble Bee

Another search on DeviantArt lead to today’s sketches. I like DeviantArt as there is a lot on their and a lot of artist that I don’t think get all the credit they deserve. So, with out further ado, here are some drawings/sketches of Bumble Bees I found that caught my…

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Florida Trip - October 2023

I just spent the last month in my home town of Sebring, Florida visiting. I enjoyed my time, and the memories made but quickly learned that a month is too much time away from my husband, my dog, my bed, my comfort. I miss the familiarity and people of Florida, and it will always be “home” as I grew up there but I am glad to be back in Texas. Didn’t get to spend as much time with everyone as I…

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Thursday Day 9 - NaBloPoMo/NanoPlobano

Thursday is also known as the Roman god Jupiter’s day. In Latin, the day is referred to as Iovis Dies, “Jupiter’s Day”. Jupiter and Thor are very similar. Thursday’s were made for… …happiness as it is almost the weekend. …football if you’re into that kind of thing, …truth. What did I get myself into? Truth is, I do this challenge every year and somehow end up failing it. I do enjoy it, but…

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Top Ten Tuesday - Book Titles That Would Make Great Newspaper Headlines

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. The topic for Tuesday November 7 is Book Titles That Would Make Great Newspaper Headlines (Submitted by Cathy @ What Cathy Read Next). All of these are on my TBR…

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Music Mondays

A long time ago in a blogging land far, far a way – there use to be daily things that were posted such as Music Mondays, Wordless Wednesdays, Girl Talk Thursdays, etc., etc. Those days are long behind us now but I feel the occasion every now and then to revitalize those old topics and give them a freshening and remembrance. And so today, on Day 6 of NaBloPoMo/NanoPlobano we are doing a Music…

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