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Happy Thanksgiving

You all rock for the Around the World in 80 Blogs and I am going to read (and pimp) each and every person who signs up. More details to come but what about we try to post on, say, Monday the 14th of December? That works?
Tomorrow in my former home country of America, [...]

Around the World in 80 Blogs

I’m so, so random these days it’s unreal. I saw a photo a lovely contact of mine had posted and realized that my life will not be complete unless I get a disused American pay phone, of the variety that the phone companies are chucking away. I know not why I need a [...]

Searches

I don’t really check my stats apart from checking to see how people come and go from this site. Some of the search engine hits that lead people to my site crease me up. Here are a few examples:
everyday stranger Seek and ye shall find.
everydaystranger Go ahead and space between those [...]

Becomings

Your randomness, my friends, was fantastic. I wanted to invite each and every one of you over for wine coffee. I can’t tell you how hard I crushed on your comments. Thank you for that.
(And JLH? Come sit on the comfy seat here next to me, a former harlot herself. As [...]

Random Shit You Probably Don’t Care About

1) I’m coming up on my 10 year anniversary of leaving the U.S. for the E.U. This feels weird. On the one hand, I’ve survived in the lone wilderness that my military upbringing would have you believe the waters outside the U.S. offer although no one gets it when I parrot “Sit Ubu, [...]

Weekend Away

An opportunity arose this weekend to go away to a “luxury accommodation family friendly place”. No one really wanted to go to Wiltshire this weekend in what was the worst possible weekend for going out and about possible, and the hotel offered a room at a stupidly low price. The hotel is indeed [...]

And the darkness still has work to do

I am plagued, every night, by vicious, stressful, horrendous nightmares. Sometimes I wake up screaming. Sometimes I just wake up, shake off the cobwebs, only to lie back down and go right back to the nightmares.
They are relentless.
They started about things that have been happening recently. It’s broadened in scope [...]

Snapping to Mummy Blogger Attention

Right, so I am supposed to be a Mummy blogger and I’ve been letting the home team down. Allow me to fix.
Nick and Nora slammed headfirst into being two and we haven’t looked back. Their vocabulary is growing daily, so whereas Nora knew about 20-30 words and Nick…well, Nick was Nick, we now [...]

Me

Each day is a struggle. Each and every day. I find myself a mix of emotions and – very often – conflicting requirements. I’ll think I’ll have put my finger on something only to find that my hand has slipped, my fingerprint smudged, my placement incorrect.
There is little about my [...]

Items

1) I am completely random these days. Too much is happening, I feel I’m falling apart in terms of cohesive thought. Walking the dog the other day all I could do was think “Everything dies. I want to die when you die. Lear! I will not love you when I [...]