Day 19: Something that never fails to make you feel better I can say sex, right? This blog challenge warrants honesty, so I’ll go ahead and say sex.
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 18
Day 18: Disrespecting parents This is, I think, a stupid prompt. Unless you have the world’s worst parents, they deserve at least some respect. I say this from the point of view of someone who is now a parent: I (along with the spouse) do what I think is in…
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 17
Day 17: Things that make you scared Ah, this list could go on forever. I already wrote about the horrific political climate. In addition to that, there are plenty of other real-world things that scare me: terrorism, health epidemics, the possibility of economic and social collapse, my recurring nightmare of…
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 16
Day 16: 3 things you are proud about your personality Loyalty: I’m pretty damn loyal, but cross or hurt someone I love, you’re dead to me. Gotta earn that loyalty, and it is not gained by treating others like crap. Honesty: Granted, I can be brutally honest at times, which…
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 15
Day 15: The best thing to happen to you this week After last week, I’ll go with the obvious: no family members have received grim prognoses, no one has passed away, and no one else has been diagnosed with cancer. Fucking cancer made last week a living hell for me…
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 14
Day 14: Something disgusting you do I’m going to go with something I do that never fails to gross out the spouse: I snack on Pringles with ketchup. Which I LOVE. And the very idea of which makes Rich want to barf, which I don’t understand — to me it’s…
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 13
Day 13: A date you would love to go on Most of my and Rich’s dates consist of dinner and a movie. Assuming money wasn’t an issue, I guess a dream date would be somewhere far away from everyone and everything, and where we didn’t have a set agenda and…
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 12
Day 12: Things you want to say to an ex I don’t want to say anything to my ex. But if you put a gun to my head, I guess this is what I’d say, in no particular order: I’m sorry for your loss. I think you and your family…
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 11
Day 11: Your current relationship; if single, discuss how single life is I’m an old married lady. You already know that. Next month we will celebrate our 16th wedding anniversary. I’m glad I’m not single, though. The downsides as I imagine them: working up enough interest to want to date,…
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 10
Day 10: Your views on drugs and alcohol I’ve talked a little bit before about having grown up with an alcoholic father. Which is where I should stop and give him a shout out for his 24th year of sobriety. But the years he was a drinker definitely screwed up…