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Posted on 11/21/2003

bq. Every time a friend posts something about how their eye just fell out or they’ve just had their entire house stolen, I realize what a creampuff life I’ve led.
- “Wherein the bigger picture is temporarily(?) out of focus”:http://www.livejournal.com/users/kermix/345229.html

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this was going to be an entry about snow

Posted on 11/20/2003

which we got a bunch of in Olympia this morning.
but. I talked to Grandma on the phone today, after she got out of the hospital. I can just barely hear the Grandma I remember through the obviously very delicate old woman who was on the phone. mainly in her acerbically saying that […]

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less grimly

Posted on 11/18/2003

Elizabeth tells me not to freak out yet (which I did by email), they really don’t know and it could go either way. bleh.

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what does all this matter, anyway?

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just got word from my sister that our grandmother (and last surviving grandparent) is seriously, quite likely fatally, ill. severly low blood pressure, which like the kidney failure that killed at least two other grandparents, is just the last straw. if it doesn’t go up in the next few days she’ll die, says […]

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feh.

Posted on 11/16/2003

I probably shouldn’t publish this while I am (a) home by myself and (b) feeling so churlish, but there you are.
was starting to plan holiday vacation times, so I looked up C’s school schedule for winter break. I’d been laboring under the impression that school didn’t start until after MLK Jr. Day (probably because […]

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if you look…

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…at the wall of my (home) office, it’s amazing: the books are shelved, scarves & hats put away, various pretty knicknacks & photos finally seeing the light of day, art supplies (should I ever make anything ever again) accessible.
…at the floor of my office, it’s also amazing, but for the opposite reason. drifts of […]

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Hi! This is Elaine Nelson's site, which used to be at epersonae.com, and which is sometimes known as emergency weblog.