6 weeks into cutting out as much processed sugar from my diet as possible.
To those of you that said the cravings will go away in a few weeks, this is all I think about…
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For those of us with bad finger-typing skills and small cellphones… tis a bummer that the exclamation point is right next to the intended question mark.
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It’s a good thing that we don’t ever use the younger generation’s saying “it’s fire!” when we gush about our D’s costume designs…because she spent this past week designing, fitting and altering costumes for a new music video for Paris Hilton…which all literally went up in fire! 
We are glad no one was hurt.
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Thunderstorms!!! 
Dagnabbit power blinked while I had a load of laundry going. That was the last straw that broke the back of my very reliable 17 1/2 yr old washer… (had the original receipt!) when it lost power in the middle of the high speed spin cycle. Thank goodness I’m good for the week because this was the last load. I hate appliance shopping!
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Hope the storm takes care of the fire & lightning doesn’t spark more.
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Dear friend, please stop making negative assumptions and make a conscious choice for your own mental health. At times you are your own worst enemy.
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For some reason this bothered me and I am still simmering about this…
My firm requires employees to be in the office 3 days a week. I managed to have my team going in 2 days a week - one day in the main office and one day at an office closer to home.
A male employee who is expecting his first child asked me if he could cut back on going to the office because he wanted to be closer to home when his wife goes into labor. (How much more could he cut back?!)
This employee is also going on a 5 months paternity leave when the baby arrives. Yes, it is a benefit my company offers, but it’s only possible because myself and another employee are going to do his work while he is out. The only way I could get another person is hire someone to replace him, and it would mean he wouldn’t have the same job to come back to. Instead of being appreciative of his benefit is at the expense of other people, it’s what else could he get out of the situation.
Before Covid when everyone was in the office, I never heard of any man asking to work from home because his wife was due soon. It was to use your vacation time or be in the office. Not this couldn’t happen, but I haven’t heard of anyone delivering their first baby in less than an hour. D1 is expecting her second baby next month, and she is going to the office 4 days a week and her husband is in the office everyday.
At some point, enough is enough with this entitlement attitude.
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Anything built by a human can be successfully broken by another human!
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A couple of weeks ago, the powers that be bragged to the press that this year they had the least number of vacancies in our poor school system in a long time. What they failed to mention was that they hired them from third world counties - almost 8% of the work force. I wonder how this will go.
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USNWR rankings have changed quite a bit.
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I’d like to fly first class some time.
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Not happy with American Airlines. My H was supposed to take a flight today, which would have an hour layover before he caught a puddle hopper. 1st flight was delayed due to weather so he would miss his connection. They automatically cancelled his flight and rebooked him on a different one tomorrow. Noooooo, he wanted to still take the delayed flight and then he would have rented a car for a 2 hour drive to the original final destination. But no, change couldn’t be made on the app or on-line , and he couldn’t get through to a live person either at the airport or on the phone for more than 2 hours. So now he waited 4 hours to be stand-by for the flight he used to have a paid reservation on. No surprise, he didn’t get off the stand by list. Infuriating that the app automatically made changes to his ticket and he was given no ability to have input.
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Hug your kids a little tighter today. 
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Ugh. H is number 56 on line to check into a hotel 3 miles away from the airport. On his own dime since AA says his ticket was canceled due to weather, even though his flight did leave tonight and they gave his seat away without his consent.
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Sorting through the wine from our last couple of trips and adding it to cellar tracker. Splitting up 4 cases, half to take over to T.H. No room in either wine fridge. I guess it’s time for a moratorium on further purchases.
Add the bar area and maybe more storage to the to-do list, dear. Haha
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I’ve been up taking care of the dogs and doing yard work for several hours while you laid in bed. My desire to read the paper and go to the gym before I rush to continue my drudgery isn’t unreasonable.
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I’m a dog lover to my core…but if your off leash dog attacks my on leash dog one more time…
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Yesterday, at a Broadway tour performance, three separate times, well into the first act, audience members who arrived very late were seated around me. I paid good money for these tickets, as I am sure they did. I did not want to be distracted and my view obstructed by their late arrival (missing some moments of the show). It said on the tickets and on several emails - that latecomers would be seated only during convenient times. Well, enforce that, the intermission is the only convenient time as far as I am concerned. Who is so wealthy and so rude to arrive at a show 30 minutes late to something they forked out over $100 a ticket!
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Aside from the souvenirs and gifts we bought/were given, how does the stuff in the suitcases seem to multiply while we are away? It seems to be taking 3x as long to unpack as it was to pack, and that doesn’t even include the laundry!
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Looks like my white cat has used yet another one of her 9 allocated at birth lives. Was lethargic but did not resist syringe fed catfood. Phew… and cautious optimism.
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