Perfume perspective.

At the place where I work for a living, there are female prisoners that perform the housekeeping duties early in the mornings. We are told that we are not to make friends with them. Do not touch them. Do not attempt to interact with them outside their duties in any way. They may call . . . → Read More: Perfume perspective.

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Meet the Ferrets

We adopted 2 ferrets last Friday!

Both Kirk and I have had ferrets in our lives in the past.

When I was a teenager, my sister got Skeeter as a present form her boyfriend. She and I shared a room at the time, and we built a cage for Skeeter ourselves. We had . . . → Read More: Meet the Ferrets

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Different in the South – Part 2

Skin

There is a lot more skin in the south than there is in Alaska. No, I’m not saying the South is fat (but maybe it is? http://calorielab.com/news/2010/06/28/fattest-states-2010/ ). It’s just that in the south there are a lot fewer months of the year where you need to be covered for warmth.

I . . . → Read More: Different in the South – Part 2

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Favorite quote from a novel?

I got the idea for this post from http://www.practiceofmadness.com/ a post titled “What is your favourite quote from a novel of all time?” Here

My favorite quotes are so varied that I thought I’d restrict myself to favorite opening line of a book. There are a lot of very famous opening lines out there, . . . → Read More: Favorite quote from a novel?

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Forty

I turned forty this week. My feelings on the matter are somewhere along the lines of “Wow, would you look at that!?”

As a child, 40 was an immense age, how could I ever live that long? What would I do with all that time? As a depressed and overly sensitive teenager I was . . . → Read More: Forty

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I feel very accomplished today!

It’s days like these that make me really really wish I didn’t have to work for a living!

I took today off in order to run some errands and enjoy my new sewing machine that Kirk bought me for my upcoming birthday. (It arrived yesterday.)

I was up and dressed, had eaten breakfast and . . . → Read More: I feel very accomplished today!

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Different in the South

Different in the South

Driving

The roads here are insane. The sharply curved on/off ramps and narrow lanes that I drive here in South Carolina would cause a ridiculous amount of accidents in Alaska. But then, we have this stuff called snow and ice on the roads up there more often than not, . . . → Read More: Different in the South

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