Clamorgate Alert! There is a small kitty door in my kitchen door. Charli and Patches use it when they want to go outside. They know not to go outside at night because there are coyotes, owls and other native predators in our neighborhood, so I haven’t closed it in years. Well, last night […]
Handwriting my Spanish lessons has made me realize how much I miss writing by hand. I have rarely done so in well over two decades other than shopping lists and the occasional handwritten note in a birthday or thank you card. Writing by hand slows me down, gives me permission to ponder and/or truly
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I’m absolutely loving deep-learning espanol. I bought the perfect book to keep me enthusiastic about it, too. It’s called Madrigal’s Magic Key to Spanish. I have been completely through it already, handwriting 150+ pages of notes all along the way. (I tend to learn best when my fingers are forming letters and sentences. Doing
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There can be great joy in being different, whether the difference is race, gender or neurodiversity. The trick to making sure that you remain inside the joy of your existence is reminding yourself, as often as you need to (sometimes hourly!), that other people’s opinions are just that. If they’re critical, unkind, nasty, or mean-spirited
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If I don’t book a round trip flight from Sea-Tac to Costa Rica (which I don’t want to do), I need to book another ticket for 90 days after I arrive that I can show the authorities at the airports in Sea-Tac and in Costa Rica showing that I have a confirmed scheduled trip out
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WOO HOO! In two more Saturdays I’ll be free of garage sales for two to three months. So what that means is that I only have to survive six more hours (noon to 3 pm) before I can be free again. (I’m not overtly antisocial: I’m just soooooooo done with garage sales for a while!!!
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I slept most of the day today, which was a good thing, because I have been sleeping sporadically for the better part of a week. Being so close to finished with my sorting/storing/selling/donating process has given me a feeling that I could fly away almost immediately to my new life in Costa Rica if I
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It feels decadent to not have a pressing task sitting in my den when I come in here every morning, afternoon and evening. No writing assignments, no journals to preserve, no plastic bins to rifle through and organize. I’m already getting down to the nitty gritty of being a short-timer here in the U.S.
My only absolute “must do task” for today is to finalize my tax prep with AARP in Puyallup. That should be finished around 1:30 because it’s a simple form and I have everything on a spreadsheet. BUT! When I get back, I still have some stuff in my den closet and a couple
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