I keep my garbage can under the sink in the kitchen.
Today my sink decided to leak, so I had to take everything out from under there.
Super says it will be fixed tomorrow.
In the meantime the garbage can is located else where.
Care to ask how many times I have opened that damned cupboard door to throw something out only to curse myself for my own stupidity cause I actually LOOKED at the garbage can before I opened that door?
I am NOT a creature of habit,
ju

Get the fuck off of my screen. Stop following me and wipe that stupid smile off of your face. If I should happen to need you I am sure I could find you in the corner, hole, tree top but right now you are in my space and I need all of my space. This is the only space I have to call my own.
Love ju

and I am 800 miles from the damn thing! It is going to get worse over night. I really hope all of you closer to the actual storm stay safe and don't lose power.
There are a lot of NNers getting a bj from Sandy right now.
Hoping you get a nicer one soon,
ju

How much crap one family can accumulate.
Today was the day to go through it and get rid of the bulk of it. The garage was a hoarders Mecca. An old artificial Christmas tree we thought we might use again, gone. Kids toys and bikes they have long outgrown, gone. Toboggans and snowboards any one over 3'6" tall wouldn't fit in, all gone.
The camping stuff has been semi organised for the first time in 2 years. I will organise it totally before the snow flies. I promise.
We finally stopped because we were all starving and once we sat down to eat realised there was no way in hell we were getting up again.
There was however one thing I kept putting in the garbage and 2 seconds later taking back out. I must have done it at least a dozen times over the course of the afternoon but for some reason just couldn't part with the kids rubber ducky. It was the only thing in the whole mess that held any kind of sentiment so he will be tucked in with the uber cute sweater, that pair of insanely tiny socks and the few other things I haven't eliminated over time.
Purged,
ju

Every parent read in their head at least once


Thanks for sharing that with me oh anonymous one.

We had our Thanksgiving on Sunday. It was great. Both good food and good company but now the treasure hunt is on. Friends who do your dishes have some damn interesting ideas about where they should be put after they have been dried.
Hoping to find everything by Christmas,
ju

I remember when I was turning 10 my paternal grandmother said to me.
"You are in your double digits"
I felt like death was imminent.
My next birthday of note was one that just made me uncomfortable. I was 20. I had been legal for everything here for a year and it just seemed like a non age. I hated when ppl asked me how old I was that year. I couldn't wait to be 21.
The next birthday I remember with great joy was my 30th. It was the best party ever!
40 came and went. Life gets busy eh?
My next one will be a big one. I am not sure why. Half a century ok... but it's a mental thing. It is not imminent, it's months and even next year away but I am hoping to celebrate with friends. Some I have already met. Some I will meet in person for the first time.
By then I will have been here for 10 years.
One fifth of my life.
I have a history.
Good friends, many who have become real life friends. Some have crossed my path and are no longer on the same journey but that doesn't mean I dont remember them fondly.
Shit happens.
It has been a trip, a learning experience and a place I so desperately needed at the time when I joined.
It has turned into a place where I go when I need to be "Norm" of Cheers fame. I have been let down by individuals but never by the whole. This is a place I can come and just be... whether I need to talk or just sit back and feel like I am a part of something.
Too many have left a mark on my life to name but there is one (team) I have to thank.
Thank you newbienudes.
ju

Makes me kinda glad I am allergic to perfume.

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Surely there is a use for the squid beaks?
Inventing,
ju

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oink,
ju

and it's all your fault.
Speaking with so many people from so many countries I have picked up on a wide variety of colloquialisms.
I am getting used to the funny looks and people generally understand what I am saying as long as I say eh at the end of the sentence
ju