A Celebration of Mundanity

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Happy Anniversary to us!

I have the most wonderful husband. I came home yesterday from work to find a bright yellow viola plant waiting to greet me with the sweetest note from Mark. It sounds like I'm inciting a metaphor for…

We are sleepwalkers here

I came across a passage in the book I'm currently reading, A Year in the Maine Woods by Bernd Heinrich, which I found to be rather apropos to a post I made almost a year ago today. I read this…

So common, it's a verb

To google someone or something is so common a practice, it is a verb. Occasionally, I have the urge to try to figure out what people who I have known and have long since lost any contact with are up…

It is possessed!

Help! The dishwasher sounds possessed! I'm not sure exactly what could be wrong, but something has failed. It started just two loads ago. Our usually whisper quiet dishwasher, as in step out of the…

Woot!

I am officially enrolled in the motorcycle safety course for the first two weekends in June. I had been a fourth tier alternate for an ealier class, but decided to just try to get a regular place in…

Red currants

Just a miscellaneous note. The red currant bush that was transplanted from Sue's yard to beside our house survived the winter as well. I was genuinely worried about its survival, it did not look too…

My pharmacist recognizes me

Okay, I take two prescribed medications. No matter how hard I try, due to insurance constraints I can not get these prescriptions to sync up, I end up at the pharmacy every two weeks for one or the…

Spring clean up

It is unbelievably gorgeous out today! And with this lovely weather comes the spring clean up of my front gardens, unearthing the sleepy flower beds from under heaping soggy blankets of decaying…

Thoughts on journaling

Just expanding thoughts from a comment I made elsewhere. A friend just deleted a bunch of entries from his journal citing that he thought they had no purpose nor were of any interest. This got me…