Lady in a Small Town

I get sick.
It is cold.
Freakin’ snow
Icy roads
I get sick.

1918 - The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.

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There are some things we all take for granted, but someone had to invent them.
I am really glad for:

Air conditioning I may live in a mostly cool climate, but it can get hot here. It gets especially hot in my computer lab. It took 7 years for me to convince someone that […]

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Again!  Thursdays just seem to get s busy for me.  After school T and I had a meeting which we followed up with grocery shopping and dinner.  I went to pottery and did my glazing.  When I came home Best Lady was here and we talked until after 11.  It was a great visit, but […]

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It started off innocently enough.  Although I haven’t been waking up until 6:30, instead of 6, but otherwise things were okay.
Then I got out to the car.  The door was open a little.  I was sure someone broke in and stole everything or that the battery was dead and it wouldn’t start, but no, everything […]

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Blue #1: It is getting colder by the minute.
Blue #2: I have too much to do and not enough time to do it.
Blue #3: The handle on my passenger door is broken.
Blue #4: The sky this morning.
This weekend was a long one.  MIL and I had a great time with our teddy bear photo shoot […]

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Today was the first day it has snowed in Hometown. It was a very slow scary drive. As I rounded one corner I could see ahead of me a small black car was spinning around and around on the road. It came to settle in a small ditch between the road and […]

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Every year my school has a Thanksgiving dinner for the parents.  The kitchen staff and a lot of parent volunteers work really hard to make it great.  There are two seatings and since I had a class during the second seating I ate with the big kids.
Thursday nights I have pottery.   I am not that […]

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Blue #1 I forgot to blog yesterday.
Blue #2 I nearly forgot today, so I ran downstairs in the nude to get my laptop.
Blue #3 We forgot to buy a nose hair trimmer for my husband.
Only 2 girls showed up for Sunday school today, so after we did our lesson we did lots of crafts.  First […]

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In the Strathconn household, we don’t always go wild on the weekends.  Tonight we ate at the Chelsea and now we are doing our “parallel play” thing both on our laptops watching CSI/Without a Trace.
I don’t have anything interesting to tell.  This afternoon was parent/teacher conferences, but I only had 2.  Neither of them terribly […]

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Blue #1: I forgot to post on Saturday. I couldn’t even make it 3 days without forgetting to post!
Blue #2: I have to go to work tomorrow.
Blue #3: It is getting cold.
Blue #4: We forgot to set our clock back so I got up earlier than I needed to.
Blue #4.5: I was still late […]

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