Sumac Schmoo-mac

I can hardly move.
My mom bought a cottage and the neighbor “allowed” her to cut down his sumac for her view of the ocean.
Lucky neighbor, huh?
This means, J and I went down to help her and a friend who had a chainsaw, take on the project. When she called me that morning I asked her [...]

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Parent rant

I am wiped out. 
See my face?
I am going to hell.
It has been very very very hard having my dad here.  
I dont want to sound like an ungrateful bitch about the man who was half of the effort in bringing me into this world, but it has been brutal.
24 hours a day for a week [...]

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Newish artwork

I am not feeling terribly inspired to write about anything, with Dad’s visit and all. I feel worn out already. I feel small and tired and old and young, all at once.
I wish J were here with me while I go through this week. The internet for him right now depends on the satellite and [...]

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Getting to where we are…a long rant

Not long ago, I was standing up for myself in a conversation with my mother, tired of constant disapproval, which I ultimately know is just her concern for me.
There tends to be a disapproving feeling I get from her based on her facial expressions, the things that come out of her mouth, and the emails [...]

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20 comforting things

1. Blue singing to herself in the back seat of the car while Red reads “The Boxcar Children”.
2. Photos. Photos of the kids. Photos of good places I’ve been. Photos of my artwork. Photos of my family. Photos of J.
3. The ringing of Skype on my computer in the mornings.
4. Paying off the credit card.
5. [...]

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A perfect end to the day

The girls have been getting along famously lately, aside from an occasional competitive rift that comes from time to time.
Today was one of those days where by the end, they were bickering about who danced the best in their dance class that afternoon or who can brush their teeth the fastest or, gasp, who eats [...]

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Half and Half

There’s this restaurant that I love, J and I had our first dinner out there on their outside patio after we met. On the menu, is something called “The Harf ‘n Harf”. Half hamburger/half hotdog on a bun. Seriously. I haven’t had it and not everything on the menu is quite so obscure in such [...]

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Junk Reading

Does everyone have a crazy auntie?
Mine is kind of crazy, but in a sweet, childlike kind of way.
She tends to refill bottled water bottles with tap water and call it “bottled water.” 
Seriously.
Since the beginning of time, she’s been obsessed with Princess Diana.
When she died and the rumor was that the paparrazzi was being blamed by [...]

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A day off

The girls loved staying in their pajamas today, since there was no school on “voting day”. Although it was 65 degrees, they wanted to go see High School Musical 3, something I promised a long time ago. In the end, I was able to run errands for my two upcoming art shows and I feel [...]

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will you clean out the tub and draw me a bath?

I loved baths as a kid and would sit with a novel and read for hours, soaking and basking in the quietness and warmth and stories, for a long time each night.  J takes baths and I admire that he does it, enjoys it, takes care of himself to relax in that way, because for [...]

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