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Red State Lib Gaurd
I had to take my car to the shop this week for an oil change and small repairs. I have been driving Angus, my metallic grey RAV4, since I bought it new in 2006. Matt has been trying to get me to upgrade, and doesn’t understand why I wouldn’t be excited about getting a new car. I have noticed that people seem to really love getting new cars, but I don’t get that personally. I hate change and I find new things over rated. Besides, I love Angus! I plan to keep driving him as long as possible (though I may reconsider, now that Toyota is coming out with a…
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A “Twist” on the Old Saying
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Day One
My sister gave me a T-shirt for my birthday in August that read: In August. As in, the summer. That’s how bad 2020 was. I wanted that year of my life to end also, but it seemed like a lot of pressure to put on 2021. “Does The Universe know that it is a new year and that we pin a lot of meaning to that change of numerics? Does it care?” I was, of course, looking for an end to the shit show that was 2020. But I didn’t want to put my one fragile egg in that basket. Before long (but also years later, 2020 was weird that…
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Breaking Tradition
I love Christmas. I love Christmas so freaking much. It surprises people because I am loudly atheist and I guess that seems like a big disconnect. I don’t notice because I always forget that Christmas is about Jesus. I get excited about finding memorable gifts and knitting scarves and baking pies. I had to make a rule that I couldn’t start Christmas shopping until after Labor Day (a rule I have frequently broken in the past) but to make up for it I am allowed to MAKE gifts all year round. (Not pies, obviously.) The sad this is that I love Christmas so much I usually ruin it. I realized…
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Bumkin
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COVID Academy
Me, teaching the third grade: Ethan (pointing to a problem in a math book): Rachel, do you know how to do three digit subtraction with the regrouping strategy? Rachel: I sure do! Here…. lemme find.. oh got it. This little machine is called a calculator. Punch in the numbers and… 152. That’s the answer. Here, you can keep it. I have one on my phone. Let me know if you need anything else!
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Happy Anniversary
100 years ago today, on August 18, 1920, women gained the right to vote here in America. In 1924, Native Americans were granted citizenship and the right to vote, and in 943, Chinese immigrants/citizens were given the right to vote. The final change that would guarantee all men and women of this country their right to vote wouldn’t come until 1965, which prohibited racial discrimination in voting. My grandmother was born in 1909. When she was eleven she would not have been allowed to vote, but by the time she graduated with her master’s degree, she could. The suffragettes fought for over 80 years to get the Nineteenth Amendment. It…
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Space XXX
At least once a day, everyday, this happens: I see Murphy’s rocket shaped tooth brush somewhere in the house… wherever he left it last. Then, I register [yet again] just how much it looks like a dildo. Then, for anywhere between fifteen minutes and an hour, I hear Frank Sinatra singing “Fly Me to the Moon” in my head. I am not sure this is sustainable.
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Heavy Shit
Trigger Warning: this post deals with domestic violence and horrendous human shittiness. (Also, it is not funny.) Something happened two months ago, and I’ve been struggling to write ever since. I’ve been struggling to do anything, to be honest. But I’ve been creatively stuck and I’ve been looking for lighthearted things I can write about to make people laugh, which is my clearest goal here. It would seem that I can’t. I can’t think about other things yet, so I’m going to write about the terrible thing here and remove it from my soul, like a fatty blockage in my heart. It’s rough but here we go. We have to…
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Veladoras for Heathens
This was an odd thing for an atheist to do, but I saw it and I had to have it. Right now I feel like if I can support a small business and soothe my grief, I gotta do it. Gotta say I’m completely satisfied with this purchase. When I was placing the order I was looking for a way to get paws because the hands and feet are kinda creepy… but now I have it and I love it. GoSaintYourself (on Etsy) for the win!