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#134 – Time to Go To Prison~Again!
My son Rory’s first DUI occurred when he was 21, not long after he got married. He was working at Chase bank, and he’d been partying with some friends one night and fell asleep at the wheel and crashed...
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Post #135 – Give me your best books or die trying…:)
My husband is not a big reader, which I simply don’t get. Yes, I love certain TV shows and movies too much probably, but nothing substitutes for good, old-fashioned published prose, in my opinion....
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Post #136 – It’s Not Even American!
A couple of days ago, I called my 97-year-old Grandmother (hereinafter referred to as “Nana”), and, of course, for those who’ve heard a Nana tale or two, she complained to my husband, Charlie, about...
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Post #137 – Revenge is a dish best served without Coca-Cola cake…
Five or six years ago when my father was still living, he and Nana Maude came to visit every fall for my son Rory and my husband Charlie’s birthdays- which are only 3 days apart. I wrote about Nana in...
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Post #138 – Wish I Could Boil My Fingers…an Adventure in Sink Surgery
One Saturday, a couple of weeks ago, Susan, my mother-in-law, came down to visit from Cleveland. On the Monday prior, I asked Max, my 22-year-old, to clean his bathroom by Thursday, so she wouldn’t...
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Post #139 – An Addendum to the day I performed sink surgery…
While I was rather livid when my son, Max, took off and didn’t clean his bathroom as requested, which is the subject of Post #138 -...
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Post #140 – No, I don’t drink wine – I drink Merlot, and what’s that in your...
While visiting Nana Maude down South last week, I took her to Olive Garden, one of her favorite restaurants. I’m not a huge fan of the Garden, but their spaghetti and meatballs are okay. However, every...
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Post #141 – About James Thompson, author of Snow Angels, my ex-husband, who...
From our wedding album – James Thompson and his father James Thompson, Sr., on March 23, 1986. Yesterday I received the sad news that my ex-husband, Jim Thompson, died in some sort of accident a couple...
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Post #142 – Jim was just hanging out of what?
The night I met Jim (Thompson – see my previous post -http://tenaciousbitch.com/2014/08/04/about-james-thompson-author-of-snow-angels-my-ex-husband-who-died-last-weekend/, I was waiting tables at the...
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Post #143 -Alive and well despite my suffocation…
No, I was not nor have I ever been in danger of suffocating. T’was a joke, you know. However, the corporate prison I’ve been living in for the last five weeks does make me feel somewhat claustrophobic....
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Post #144 – You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet! There is no crying uncle here…
This year, my sister, Fiona, received the Merry Christmas, “your job has been eliminated” speech as her box of wonder from her employer in mid-December after 17 years of faithful service. Awesome, is...
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Post # 145 – Good news…bad news…and you can’t be f’ing serious?
So, I’d forgotten how exhausting job hunting can be! And I cannot believe the fuck-ton of cyber paperwork that is required for a job paying $10 fucking dollars/hour. Yes, folks, I said $10 – a scant...
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Post #146 – Perhaps, I shall execute it in blood…
LUCKY ME, a recruiter named Lisa with Reliance Consulting spied my resume on Monster.com and called me about a job at one of the largest banks in the U.S. – doing something in their mortgage...
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Post #148 – The Toilet Promise from the Kitchen Bitch…
Like many women, I got tired of constantly being put upon to do shit tons of housework that I shouldn’t be doing because, well, the men in my house don’t always clean up after themselves, so I posted...
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Post #149 – The Good And Bad About The Ugliest Birthday Yet
Much to my unhappiness, I turned the big 5-0 last month. On my 40th, though there were black balloons on the wall of my cubicle at Yabinski and Kramer law firm where I worked at the time as well as a...
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Post #150 – About the Life and Death of James Thompson
For those who didn’t read my previous post last August – http://tenaciousbitch.com/2014/08/04/about-james-thompson-author-of-snow-angels-my-ex-husband-who-died-last-weekend/ My ex-husband, James...
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Post # 151 -HALLELUJAH! The Supreme Court FINALLY legalized same sex marriage...
In a world where women can be astronauts, a traditionally male role, and men can be nurses ( a traditionally female role of course) without anyone batting an eye, I have to wonder why it took 40+ years...
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Post #152 – CLUTTER ME CRAZY!
I previously mentioned my irritation in regard to the amount of housework I do and/or about the nasty grime my son creates in this post…...
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Post 153 – Teach me how to be that BRAINLESS and still have a job…
As mentioned previously, I started working at a large bank in March (2015), which I referred to as Mega Bank. I was recently downsized from this position a couple of weeks ago. But while I was there,...
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Post #154 – Conversation With A Mega Douche Bag!
For years, I’ve heard certain men being referred to as Mega Douche Bags, my husband chief among them. But let me clarify. Mega Douche Bags work for Mega Bank where I was employed until a couple of...
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