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: you think you’re suffering? :

March 14, 2018March 18, 2018 ~ the whirly girl ~ 25 Comments

I gave up Coca-Cola for Lent. You heard me, Coke -- that most refreshing of beverages. Am I: A.  Crazy B.  A martyr C.  Seeking sainthood Possibly. No. Get real. This was one more woefully misguided decision, the kind in which I seem to specialize. You see, I love Coke more than socks and depend … Continue reading : you think you’re suffering? :

: the heimlich :

July 25, 2012July 27, 2012 ~ the whirly girl ~ 18 Comments

Breakfast tends to be a hurried, scattered affair where we dart from coffee maker *gulp* to toaster *chomp* to car *swallow* without tasting a thing. Dinner, by comparison, is more deliberate and considered, and is the most likely to require real, genuine table manners. Lunch, though, lunch falls somewhere in the middle -- not as … Continue reading : the heimlich :

: get me superman :

September 19, 2011May 19, 2017 ~ the whirly girl ~ 4 Comments

Have you bought anything lately? I have. And I’m still trying to get it out of the damn package. Unbelievable as it seems now, opening a package used to be a breeze. Little kids did it, unsupervised, there wasn’t any skill involved and the big danger was a papercut. You’d yank open a flap or … Continue reading : get me superman :

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