Shoes and Pie

Red Wing

2:44 PM Nova: what is that song that ice cream trucks play?
(insert 17 minutes of us going back and forth with different suggestions and links)
3:01 PM Nova: it’s called Red Wing [...] I think it’s supposed to make you so sad you need a treat to help you face the day.

The lyrics to the chorus, [...]

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sore and achey and cheap

SORE AND ACHEY: I was able to see a massage therapist on Tuesday, and she was great, but there is still residual neck pain. Add to that the muscle tensing involved in getting a new tattoo Tuesday night, as well as the lingering sting from being poked with needles 80-gazillion times, and you will understand [...]

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feeling unprepared

Tuesday is the big day. The day of my next tattoo. The one that I’ve been planning in my head for a bit over a year, and planning on “paper” for the last week or so. I had asked two different pros for help with the artwork; but both flaked on me, leaving me to [...]

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Perspective

Terminal illness. Family deaths. Looming divorce. The swift and unexpected wreckage left behind by a tornado, which killed at least one person and destroyed crops, homes, and businesses in a community about 60 50 miles north of me on Thursday.
None of it makes my own problems go away, but it sure makes me feel like [...]

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First Dates

There’s a guy who works at the café I frequent at lunchtime who is kind of cutishy. I’ve been going to that café for months, but didn’t care to look close enough to see if he wears a wedding ring until Monday.
He doesn’t.
Now, this doesn’t actually tell me anything. He’s a chef, working with food [...]

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