Lights out

It was a productive day topped with office November birthday celebration.  I usually throw such parties but this one was taken off my hand.  Pat O. even surprised me with my own birthday cake!  The CEO who shares my birthday said that since I throw parties for everyone all year long, it is only fitting that I get my own cake this year.  🙂 A combination of crazy Big Gala work day and sugar high/lows, I needed a decompression session.  So our little gang stopped at Suede before heading home. I made the wrong bet and chanced the 110 instead...
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Days gone by

Because of the timing of my Big Gala–and my self-inflicted funness that was Thrill the World–my time is running out before I head home for vacation.  I have to miss a few of my usual traditions around this time of year because I just don’t have the time or the right frame of mind for it. Office Thanksgiving Potluck.  Our biggest potluck of the year.  I’m cramming the Big Gala in with my vacation, plus all of the other office holiday stuff I had to get ready before I leave,  it was just impossible. Operation Jingle All the Way.  Usually...
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How you remind me

It says here in “Death Benefits”: “The death of a parent — any parent — can set us free. It offers us our last, best chance to become our truest, deepest selves…” Does it? I woke up this morning thinking about my mom, or more like how I haven’t been thinking about my mom. I was questioning myself as to why I don’t seem to be missing her as much as I should. And then I was reminded of the reason why I wasn’t missing her. First was a documentary on TLC called “The Woman with Giant Legs” about a...
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Catch this dream

What a night. That was probably the most intense, vivid dream I’ve ever had in a very long time. It started with the dream within a dream. I was dreaming that I was having nightmares. I kept waking up into a dream about me sleeping, and not really waking up.  I don’t remember the nightmare inside the dream but it wasn’t pleasant. I finally woke up from that and drifted in to an even more bizarre dream…and quite an awesome movie plot, if I may add. Brandon and I were visiting a historical village somewhere.  A bunch of seemingly inept...
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