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This Year’s Independence Day

Published on February 2, 2012 in Art, Gratitude Journal and Letters Home. 0 Comments Tags: .

It’s that time again. I turn 20 years free this year.

For this Independence Day I’m going to go to an aquarium exhibit as well as check out a few sales at Hobby Lobby and Micheal’s. Then on Friday I’m going to an art opening by an artist who is taking part in the Fringe Festival here in town.

Each year I have the same breakfast I had when I left home. Since I left and went to a hotel I ate there and had a breakfast of waffles, peaches and whipped cream. Lunch was quiche and salmon. I don’t quite remember what I did for dinner. I don’t know why but I don’t remember, anyway though, the other two meals are part of my Independence Day tradition.

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Womanchild in a Fairy Tale

Published on August 22, 2011 in Relationships and Secrets and Confessions. 1 Comment Tags: , .

A crush is so much harder than sex. Sex is easy, mindless almost, but a crush is hard work and complicated. It leaves me feeling vulnerable, less in control than I’d like to be.

Cowboi showed up in a white dress shirt, black slacks, black socks and black shoes. She had her hair spiked and looked totally awesome! Back to the shoes. I mentioned the color of her socks because that’s kind of important. Had she worn brown socks or God forbid, white socks that would have spoken volumes to me. I was truly pleased to see clean, black socks with nice, clean black shoes.

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Standing Perfectly in the Sun

Published on August 8, 2011 in Gratitude Journal and Morton's Pride. 2 Comments Tags: .

I got a phone call from my Cowboi telling me she’d be at my house very shortly. I hate it when people drop by unannounced or give me short notice that they’re on their way but I’m used to it with her. I got up from my nap, threw some water on me, tossed on some clothes and met her at the door. We talked here for a little bit then she said, “I want you to take a ride with me. I have a surprise for you.” We got in the truck and drove for about 20 min, then she told me to close my eyes and keep them closed. We drove for another 5 min with my eyes covered. When she stopped the truck she led me, eyes still closed, on a 3 or 4 min walk. I thought to myself, what on earth is this girl doing? When we stopped it still wasn’t time for me to open my eyes. Finally she said, you can open them now. There I stood in the middle of 2 acres of sunflowers. I was speechless. She snapped a photo of my stunned reaction.

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Alcoholism

Published on April 23, 2011 in Anger and Relationships. 1 Comment Tags: .

Alcoholism – you hurt yourself
you hurt your kids
your wife
your wife’s friends.
I can only shake my head as you destroy your life and hinder the lives of those around you. It truly, truly hurts.

Hugs and DVDs

Published on March 31, 2011 in Relationships and Trust. 4 Comments Tags: .

That was interesting. I walked into the house from therapy yesterday afternoon and Junior walked right up to me, threw his arms around me and hugged me strong for a good two minutes. I wasn’t expecting it, it caught me off guard. He didn’t say why and I didn’t ask so I have no idea what that was about.

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Sunday Brunch – Fail!

Published on July 12, 2010 in For the Record, Humor, Relationships and Stupid People. 4 Comments Tags: , .

Sunday afternoon I went to have coffee and hang out with Midori and meet for the first time her friend “Bianca.” The three of us  sat at the table chatting and laughing about nothing at all when Bianca started a mock argument with Midori. In fun I said, “Girl fight, girl fight. You never break up a girl fight because they might start tearing each others clothes off.”  That’s when Bianca took her shirt off. Keep in mind I’ve only known this girl for a whole twenty minutes. I gasped, turned my head and asked her what on earth she was doing. She said, “You’re a lesbian. I thought you might want to see a nice pair of breasts.” After much coaxing Bianca put her shirt back on all while telling me how pretty her breasts are. And that dear readers is when Sunday turned from casual to just plain strange.

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When It All Goes South

Published on January 1, 2010 in Gratitude Journal. 9 Comments Tags: , .

…..get together with a girlfriend and do what we do, eat ice cream and lean on each other for support. Girl’s night out usually comes right on time, to say the least it did the other day.

This was taken at Stake and Shake with Birdie behind the cam. When I looked at the menu I was overjoyed that they had a peppermint shake. Could I really think of anything else to order but that shake? After a few times switching back and forth between me and Amy I finally got to have the shake all to myself. That darn kid ate the cherry and whipped cream, left me none of it. Anyway, at first I thought the shake was lacking but once I asked for extra peppermint it came alive and was very much worth the $4.00 paid for it. Without extra peppermint it ranks a 3 out of 10.

I came home thankful for friends and peppermint shakes.