No means no…

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If you watch Seinfeld did you ever see the episode where George tries to break up with a girl and she told him no? In my mid-twenties I had the same thing happened. I was dating a nice enough boy but after a few months I knew he wasn’t the one or even close to the one and so I broke up with him. He told me no. I was like what? I had been sick at the time and he told me that I must have a fever and I was delusional from the fever and we were too good to break up. And he left. Umm. So then I called him later to tell him no, we were indeed not together anymore. And again I got that I was sick and not thinking clearly and that we were still together. He would call as if everything was normal and I would remind him that we were broken up and he would tell me we were not. I finally broke down and called the largest, meanest friend I knew to go tell him that we were no longer together and to leave me the heck alone. Fortunately he was signed up to go into the military right after … [Read more...]

Unmistakable…

One time when I was a teenager and my parents went back to see my grandpa I was left to my own devices. I was left with grocery money (because I knew how to cook) and money for Chinese food (which is pretty much all I wanted to eat back then…kind of still do). For whatever reason I really, really wanted potato salad but we had no hard boiled eggs…but for some reason I had already boiled potatoes. So I had a great idea. Put the egg in the microwave. So I did. It was fine. Since I was in a rush I decided I would put it in a bowl and run it under cold water to speed up the process. And with that I had hardboiled egg 4th of July…with little bits of hard boiled fireworks flying through the kitchen everywhere. I cleaned up what I saw but I’m not a very good cleaner and when my mom came home in a couple of days she noticed right away (I missed the large chunks of the ceiling….who knew?) My parents weren’t mad or anything. I mean you know you have a good teen when you go away … [Read more...]

Slip of the tongue…

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MDP and I were roaming the aisles of our local Rite Aid in search of Mini Cadbury Crème Eggs…found them obviously . In doing so we were picking up all sorts of candy and commenting. One of them were Prayer Jelly Beans “Reaching the World One Piece at a Time”…it’s up on my CCbP Facebook page if you care to see those. The other thing we were commenting on were the Brach’s Chicks and Rabbits Marshmallow Candy which we both agreed we secretly loved. I sat there staring at them and he was like don’t buy those we will eat them in one sitting. Which is true. :P I told him though that I wondered if I could make anything with them. He told me he doubted that. I told him they were just like Circus Peanuts and that I once made Circus Peanut Ice cream…and I kind of almost shouted it. Except I didn’t say Peanuts. I said something that sounded like peanuts. I meant to say peanuts. It didn’t come out as peanuts. It came out as an ice cream flavor I don’t ever want to eat. … [Read more...]

Conversation starter…

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It’s Valentine’s Day this week which usually involves people’s own version of civil war….those who have a Valentine vs. those who do not. When I taught junior high I used to try and take Valentine’s Day off. Not to spend it with my sweetheart but because I couldn’t deal with the drama. Some called it Valentine’s Day I called it Crying Girl Day. Either girls were really, really happy because the boy they liked gave them something or they were crying because they had no one. Or the guy they liked sent flowers to another girl and not them. And then of course there were the actual girl fights over boys. You think we would learn as grown women but not so much. Valentine’s Day has been whipped into quite a frenzy if you don’t have someone. Oh no, I don’t have someone for Valentine’s Day! Oh no, I don’t have someone for July 17th. What’s July 17th? It’s just a day…and so is February 14th. Personally my day of needing someone is April 15th…Tax Day. I cry a … [Read more...]

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