Monthly Archives: February 2010

weekend fluff blogging

February 20, 2010 – 11:29 am

She preferred the old cardboard box to the bed I bought her. She liked the paper bag. But finally she seems to enjoy something I bought her – the “crackle tube.” Of course, it could be the catnip I sprinkled inside.

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why yes, I am still alive

February 18, 2010 – 11:41 pm

“Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” A. A. Milne

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spots of light

February 12, 2010 – 7:36 pm

If there’s one (more) thing I have trouble wrapping my head around it’s to remember that happiness and depression are not mutually exclusive. While I continue to deal with my own version of The Dark™ I also have moments or periods or whatever of happiness. Today was cookie day at the nursing home. I’ve been [...]

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February 6, 2010 – 2:35 pm

In my food and addiction series, I’m trying to examine, consider and write about the issues in a more or less pragmatic manner. But things come up. While I’m trying to understand and really take a close look at how compulsive eating mirrors addiction (at the least) I am also living it. I am in [...]

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the dark

February 4, 2010 – 1:57 am

I don’t write much about the dark times these days. It isn’t because they’ve gone away, it’s more that writing about it feels old and tired and far too self-pitying. I know I’ve said before at some point that the strangest thing for me is that down here in the rabbit hole, I don’t really [...]

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is that a wow moment?

February 3, 2010 – 12:09 am

We have this thing in group called “wow moments” in which we talk about something that has been exceptional or has made us say “wow” since having the weight loss surgery. I’ve had a lot of them including things like shrinking out of old clothes that were formerly too tight and having to keep adjusting [...]

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silence

February 1, 2010 – 10:20 pm

“Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.” – Samuel Johnson I’ve been feeling quiet lately. You know these times come and go. Life, I noted today, just feels a little overwhelming. But I never shut up for that long, so I reckon [...]

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