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Question of the Day

When is the last time you took a risk? How did it work out? Biggest risk of my entire adult life. But it’s still brewing so I’ll let you know in about three months.

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Question of the Day

Are you superstitious? I try not to be. But… If something good happens to me I automatically assume something is going to go horribly wrong. And I assume that if that something good happens and I don’t start thinking of all the ways it could go wrong then it will definitely go horribly wrong. When something, even the most minuscule, insignificant thing about my routine changes I assume the…

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Question of the Day

You get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do? If I were to get some great, amazingly fantastic news, what would be the first thing I would do? Seriously. The first thing I would do would be to panic. I rarely get good news of such magnitude. Generally good news comes with bad news which is required to balance out the universe. I’ll panic because I won’t initially…

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Doing My Duty

Tomorrow I report for my initial jury duty meeting. Orientation? Jury Draft Day? I don’t know. It’s funny how many people told me “you could just throw the paper away they’d never know you actually got it.” And I always told them, “no but I wanna go, it’ll be interesting!” In reality I’m so afraid of unintentionally breaking the law that I think it’s physically impossible to break it, seriously,…

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Twenty Years Ago

Twenty years ago, I was starting the second semester of my freshman year of college. I was a quiet, shy, little bit lonely kid. I didn’t have many friends, and barely spoke up in public situations. And I had zero expectations that I wouldn’t become the teacher I was going to college to become. In fact it never once occurred to me that I wouldn’t be a teacher, writing on the weekend and summers.…

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Question of the Day

What do you complain about the most? Easy. This time of year: being cold. If I’m not trying to sleep and cannot wrap my self up in multiple cozy blankets like I’m shipping a vase overseas in bubble wrap I want to be cold. I don’t want to be hot either but I hate being cold with a fiery passion that burns like the heat of the sun. My body hurts when I’m cold, my hands and feet are the worst,…

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Let Me Re-Introduce Myself

Hi. My Name is Crystal. You can call me Crys, or C. Or whatever. I’ve been called worse. This is my blog. There is a great deal here more than a blog, there are unfinished stories, there are non-fiction articles, there are depressed ramblings, there are stickers, there is a significant amount of nonsense. And all of it is here simply because it brings me joy. It is all still here, despite the…

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Question of the Day

If you had a freeway billboard, what would it say? When I was in college I had a habit of spending my free time looking at funny pictures on the internet. This was long before I learned that funny pictures on the internet were called “memes”. One such picture I stumbled upon was this: Stolen from Snopes. I kept hold of that image for a long time. But it got lost in the process of numerous…

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Question of the Day

What is the greatest gift someone could give you? $25,000 It would pay off my outstanding debt. I could quit my day job, which I despise. I could do what I would like to and go into a school and work some kind of job there, where I’d be teaching adjacent. I would have evenings off, weekends off, and holidays and breaks. I would have the same schedule as my kid and I’d have time to do things I…

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Journal Entry 1

It is Thursday, January 4, 2024 at 10:22pm My current weight is 317 pounds. I’m feeling depressed, tired, achy. and cold. I have a headache and a lingering cough that’s been around for a few weeks. I’ve had one can of Pepsi today. I don’t know why I’m writing this. I literally just heard what sounded like my cat leaping from a great height. I know I should investigate. But I’m so tired.…

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The Saga of the Tiny Temu Scissors

Some Background First Many moons ago, my grandmother gave me a crap ton of crafting stuff. Included in said crafting stuff was a pair of tiny folding scissors. I liked them so much that I tied a piece of yarn to each side so I could wear them around my neck while I crocheted. I lost those ones and found a new pair at a store in a sewing kit. Did I need everything in said kit, heck no. Did I…

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Praxis With Me

Prologue I, dear readers, have once again decided that I need to try to get back into education. While the ones of you who have just stumbled upon my blog don’t know, there might be two people who have been here before that do know that I have a bachelor’s degree in elementary education. From an accredited institution, no less. Yes, I am and have been for almost fifteen years now, working…

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Question of the Day

Do you need time? Is this not the most important question? Yes. I need time. I need more time. I need time to rest so I can do the things I enjoy after I do the things I have to. I need more time with The Kid while she’s still a kid. I need to go back in time and not make all the mistakes I’ve made with my life. I need to go back in time so I can have more time with my mom, who I still miss…

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Question of the Day

What’s the first impression you want to give people? Obviously the first and ONLY impression I want to give people is that I may or may not be a super spy with ties to international incidents. That’s why I’m very quiet and utterly reserved when you first meet me, Clearly I’m being facetious. I’m actually very chatty, especially when I have had caffeine, a not insignificant amount of caffeine…

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It’s Too late for me

I have made my bed. And now I must lay (and cry) in it. As I might have vaguely mentioned in my last post—I honestly cannot remember if I posted it—I my current employer is pulling the rug out from under my unhappy tookis and is screwing with my life. For reasons that are still, and will likely forever be, unclear to me. I took the absolute annihilation of my sanity as a sign it is time to…

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A Rock and A Crappy Existence

You remember how, when you were in high school, if someone put a single little toe out of line rumors began to swirl like a dust devil that eventually turned into full blown category five tornado? My work is a lot like that. When I’m stressed I talk. Honestly when I’ve had a little caffeine I get extra chatty. But when things seem to be going extra not my way, I get talkative. There’s just…

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