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Don’t Tell Me What To Do

7 October 2013 / / One comment

True friends and members of my close family found out many years ago the secret. Don’t tell me what to do.

When my sister Renee’ and I were kids, our parents John and Ann created “chore charts” for us. They were hand made calendars, one for Renee’ and one for me. On it were the days of the week cross-listed with various chores including emptying the dishwasher, folding socks, emptying waste baskets, and taking out the garbage. I liked the chart and how it kept me on a nice, little

As I got older and chore charts drifted into the past, chore completion became less regimented. If I noticed the dishwasher needed to be unloaded, then I’d unload it.

But if my parents were to suddenly ask me to unload the dishwasher that day, I would bristle.

Mittens. One of the animals I dooned at my mother

Don’t tell me what to do.
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Letting Go Of Fake Cheese

1 October 2013 / / 2 comments

I am frugal and stubborn. Close family and friends will immediately and passionately agree.

Fake cheese

Fake cheese

I spend two weeks deciding whether to buy socks and I use items until they fall apart. This also means many times in my personal and work-life, I’ve ignored signs for me to end something before it gets worse. But I don’t. Despite every indication from my intuition, I hang on for dear life.

Thus it was incredibly difficult for me to throw away what is arguably the world’s most hideous food item:

Parmesan topping.
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