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You told me to plan for 50. I reserved a room with seating for 72. Now you tell me there could be as many as 76. Now I need to plan for extra food and favors and worry that there may not be enough seats.
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Things that annoy me this week:
- my neighbor who thinks that everybody celebrates Christmas
- people who hassle my kid for not going to a school dance
- hot flashes in the middle of the night that wake me up
- people who think that every kid is given a new car by their parents
- the expectation that a student’s 4 yr of college isn’t complete without study abroad
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By the pool, in Provence, with a glass of rosé, in October. Living our best lives.
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The father I know who was dealing with anticipatory grief is no longer anticipating it. D**n DPIG. 
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Don’t ever agree to a double patient hospital room. You are guaranteed no sleep
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He’s really honestly scared of flying, and I don’t really have any desire to see Paris (Iknow, I know). I hope saying no thank you doesn’t make you both mad at us. Why couldn’t it be Vancouver or someplace boring in the states?
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Water damage from waste water in the basement. I HOPE we did the right thing by filing an insurance claim, and I hope the insurance people pay for total carpet replacement and painting all of the walls, instead of just a patch job! Ick and ugh! Fortunately the plumbing issue wasn’t too expensive (we have to pay that), and was already fixed, and they’ve torn out the wall and carpet impacted.
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3 weeks ago everyone was good.
Monday I think my fil is going on hospice
We have a cruise that we leave on in 26 days. Booked a year ago
Thank goodness for travel insurance.
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The cause of Alaska’s IT meltdown has been found!
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Our book club discussed “The Frozen River” last night, an excellent historical fiction novel about a town in Maine in the late 1700s. It’s based on the real diary of a midwife. The town happens to be where NAMI Maine’s office is located, and I was just there on Thursday. 
I highly recommend the book.
This quote really spoke to me. I tried to read it at book club, but got too choked up, so my friend read it for me.
“You think it will break your heart to have a child who suffers in this way. One who is seen as damaged. You think, perhaps, that it is your fault somehow. That if only you’d done something different, taken better care of him, this would have never happened. And then he asks you to dance on a cold January evening, and you realize that perhaps you are a fool. And whatever his life may be now—different than you’d imagined all those years ago when he grew in your womb and curled into the hand you set upon your stomach—he is perfect.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River
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If you haven’t had a dermatologist blast spots on top of your bald head with liquid nitrogen spray, you don’t know what you’re missing.
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This evening was the 4th time our on leash lab was attacked by an off leash dog. It was the 3rd time she was attacked by the same off leash dog. It was the 1st time an attack came while both my wife and I were walking our lab together. My wife did an amazing job retreating and protecting our pup. I intercepted the charging off leash dog. I’m confident this dog will never approach me again, for any reason. I truly love dogs, but I love my sweet lab most of all.
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Ô Canada!
Terre de nos aïeux,
Ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux!
Car ton bras sait porter l’épée,
Il sait porter la croix!
Ton histoire est une épopée
Des plus brillants exploits.
Et ta valeur, de foi trempée,
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits.
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits!
ELBOWS UP!!!
In parochial school the French-Canadian nuns made us memorize those lyrics in French—almost 60 yrs later I still remember. My grandparents came from Canada, so, mess with Canada and you’re messing with me!!!
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There is a gigantic disgusting looking spider on the floor of the car, by my feet. H seems to think that’s just fine. I’m stuck with my feet up the final 40 minutes of this drive. I’m going to have to check my purse & tote bag, which are on the floor, when I get home. Arghhhh!!!
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Survived the spider scare (no clue where it went …). Back to say WTH. My niece apparently lost a baby within the past few months. I can’t believe that I only know about this because she just posted about it to her Facebook stories (due date was today). I want to smack my brother upside the head. He had already all but withdrawn from my life, save a nice text for my birthday and holidays. The reason is complicated, and not due to any issues between us. I just feel really sad right now, because it’s clear that he has no interest in maintaining the relationship we used to have until the last five years. I understand that my niece may not have wanted the world knowing her business, but the fact that she posted to Facebook kind of blows that theory. Oh, well. As always, I am here if he ever wants to drive the ten minutes from his house to see me.
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It’s not OK to read your Facebook feed out loud to yourself when you are on an airplane. My headphones couldn’t drown you out.
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If you’re in the position to do so, most food banks accept online donations. They can buy what they need in bulk. People don’t realize that many SNAP and WIC recipients aren’t just sitting back living it up. Many ARE working - many multiple jobs. Read the room. Things were bad. They’re going to get worse.
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I have been trying to plan a family vacation for a few months now. All ready to buy tickets and kid loses his passport. Okay, no big deal, I have alternate plans I can go with. Was about to buy tickets (again) and I get a message “oh by the way, we are throwing this big huge surprise celebration and already have sent out invites and your husband is the guest of honor.” So only after the plans are already in motion and people were invited did they reach out to me, the wife telling us about it. Of course it was on the weekend we were set to go on our family mini vacation. It isn’t a big huge award or anything that he is getting. Its just to thank him for what he did a year ago. I know I should appreciate people care about him but seriously, who makes big surprise party plans for a person who they dont even know if they can come or not? So now I have to cancel family vacation to spend time with a bunch of people that personally mean way less to me than my adult kids who I rarely get to see due to their distance from home.
ETA: Just cancelled the hotel reservations I had. We just had a nice weekend with our college kid and now husband doesnt understand why I am salty and annoyed.
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