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Check out the comments on this post , and tell me what the heck they mean! I’m flummoxed.
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One word, baby: Botox . It took a year of injections for it to finally work (actually, maybe more like 9 months), and I am so glad I didn’t give up. For most migraineurs who try Botox, it makes a big difference the first time, but not me. But now? Life
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Yes, this is totally off-topic. Well, sort of. (At work, I am very interested in books and kids. YA novels bring those things together, but just not for the age group I work with.) For the last year and a half or so, I have been going nuts reading young
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Yesterday before I left work, I talked to the woman who organizes the Secret Santa thing every year. Let’s call her Mrs. Claus. Mrs. Claus was appalled when she heard what I had received. She looked up who my Secret Santa was, without telling me the name,
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We are doing Secret Santa again this year at work, and once again, I’m doubting my wisdom in choosing to participate. I have had good Secret Santas twice in all the years I have been doing this. This year, my Secret Santa tops them all for….bizarreness.
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So, besides the hundreds of people who find my blog every week by typing “Roald Dahl” into their search engines, I have people coming here from the weirdest sources. Insurance? Self-improvement? Car financing? Cordless phones? Top gossip? Sexy pictures
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I’m back. I have been gone because my migraines went haywire again, and I started to feel exhausted all the time. I went to the doctor about the exhaustion and she said…..”mild depression.” I was shocked at first, but then a lot of things started to make
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I have had some really great weekends lately. In fact, they have been so nice that I have found myself clinging to them desperately and dreading Monday morning. And that worries me. Work is going well — at least, the teaching preschool part of it is.
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My first full week back at work is over, and I’m too sleepy to blog about it. Maybe tomorrow.
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Yep, going kayaking on the lake. My children are coming with me, and it’s sort of our last summer activity. Next week they will be at camp, and I’ll be running around madly, starting to get my room ready, and trying to finish all the things I was supposed
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I’ve been working for two hours on one drawer. Here’s what it looked like before: And here’s what it looks like now: Yes, after two hours I’m only half-done with this drawer. Here’s what my poor old office looks like currently: Time to take an exercise
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I know this is completely off-topic, but I hope you will endulge me in a brief rant. First of all, I love facebook. I have really enjoyed getting back in touch with people I hadn’t seen in years, and staying in closer touch with my friends-in-real-life.
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I find myself fantasizing about summer with disturbing frequency. This has been a good school year, and I can tell — finally — that the children have learned a lot. I will send them off to kindergarten, ready for success. But I have been tired all year,
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I have a kid in my class — let’s call him Kid — who is one of several children at his home. He’s got some issues. He also has had green goo coming out of his nose for months, his breath is stunningly bad, and his adenoids are swollen and slimy. If I were
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I haven’t been posting because I am on spring break, in a warm place with sand and palm trees and — most importantly — margaritas. I am a happy teacher who is having a well-deserved lazy vacation in the sun. I have read three novels in four days and just
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