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Posted by lyn | Jul 15, 2010 | jokes | 1

Items I have recently put through the washer and dryer: One dollar bill Approximately 15,000 kleenexes A large unidentified insect** A Coors beer bottle cap*** * My best guess is that it clambered into the laundry basket only...

first wave feminism, birth of

Posted by lyn | Jun 8, 2010 | true story | 6

Shortly after they were married, my parents went over to my grandparents’ house one Friday night for dinner. My mom and her mother set plates of food down on the table for the men, then busied themselves straightening up...

gratitude on nearing 30

Posted by lyn | May 28, 2010 | musings | 0

When I was 20, I was living in a white duplex with 2 other students. One day, I wrote “You ain’t gotta be in jail to be doin’ time”1 on the whiteboard in the kitchen — the whiteboard where we usually...

cabazon

Posted by lyn | May 6, 2010 | true story | 1

I was supposed to be leaving. It was already late afternoon and I was facing a long drive back up...

things i have learned, #452

Posted by lyn | Apr 22, 2010 | jokes | 2

452) Never, ever, under no uncertain terms, look at your skin in a magnified mirror.

back in the days

Posted by lyn | Apr 7, 2010 | everyday life | 1

We have a big ‘ol TV. Big ‘ol. TV. It is HD. It is flat panel. Did I mention it was big?1 We inherited this thing via Beau’s parents, who somehow did not have a need for it anymore. And we have been pleased....

today

Posted by lyn | Apr 1, 2010 | musings | 1

Today there is an Easter-egg hunt at my work, followed by a luncheon. My reaction to this news was: Oh. So… Easter? Is coming soon, then? I grew up in the Catholic church. Holy communion, confirmation, whole nine yards....

indignant

Posted by lyn | Mar 26, 2010 | rant | 1

There is a row of mailboxes affixed to the side of our house. Somebody, I don’t know who, takes his1 weekly ad circulars out of his respective mailbox every Tuesday and leaves them atop a ledge on our (inoperable)...

probably an omen

Posted by lyn | Mar 23, 2010 | true story | 2

True story. This morning, at work, I decided my desk could use some reorganization. I picked up a stack of papers from one side of the cubicle and set them on the other side, then decided I didn’t want them there after all...

Year: 2010