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Category: Odd Jobs
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Chasing dreams, making them come true…Sacrificing your time, traveling to another country to make a real difference in someone's life…That's what two of my fellow 50-year-olds are doing right now. Me, on the other hand…well, I'm living vicariously through them thanks to Facebook and blog pictures and postings because I've spent way too many days…
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I miss reading just for fun, what I want, and for as long as I want. Right now there are twenty more pages of the third (partial) screenplay I need to read and critique before tomorrow night waiting for me on the kitchen table, and then I need to work on my own, but I needed a…
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The day started with promise, then suddenly it was 5:45 in the evening…the day was almost gone and I hadn't accomplished half of what I had hoped. And I'd barely even been out of the house! Kendall and Tom were both gone, but I needed a break from work…from the computer. I needed some exercise…to…
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It's he-ere…the Recession has officially landed in our front yard. Tom delivered the grim news when he got home last night: his company is freezing wages, cutting back executive salaries, and (as in Tom's case) having employees take two weeks off without pay. But, it could be worse…at least he didn't get laid off (like a…
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I admit it…overall this was one of the worst years of procrastination for me (although is it truly procrastination when you're just so busy with other things that you don't have time for some things until it's almost too late?) But for the first time, maybe EVER, I had presents wrapped and under the tree before…
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Monday after work I made a beeline to the church to light a candle. I normally light one after Mass every Sunday, but this past Sunday I was at Mama and Daddy's Baptist church. No candles. I like the Catholic tradition of lighting prayer candles – the idea of a continuous flame pointing up to God, carrying my…
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It wasn't really a surprise, Obama winning the election. I'm curious to see if things change as promised…I've already heard him say something about 'maybe next term'… I also wonder how long this honeymoon period (when everyone in the media wants to be his best friend) will last? But life goes on…one change for me is I'm…
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"What do you want to be for Halloween, Daniel?" "A snow leopard." A snow leopard? What the heck is a snow leopard? Daniel found me a picture. I gathered materials and stayed up until 3 am the night before his pre-school Halloween party hot-gluing black strips of felt (and occasionally my fingers) onto a white sweat suit,…
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