slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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I’m getting started a little later than usual because the evil kittehs woke me up by scampering across my face late last night, and even though that got them evicted from the bedroom, it was a long time before I could go back to sleep. Lately I’ve been going to the Church of the Covenant…
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What is it about cats and changing the sheets on the bed? Diego has been a little burrower since he was a kitten. He still tries to burrow under my body sometimes. But when the sheets are freshly changed, it’s a spelunking party.
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This iris is confused. The highs this weekend are in the 70s. Lovely. I’m so glad this work week is over. Not much got resolved, but it’s good to be home. We went to Sandy’s work party tonight which always has a good spread. Looking forward to getting outside this weekend as well as spending…
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Susanne and I participated in an adult spelling bee tonight at a local brewpub. I have middle school PTSD resulting from my spelling bee experiences in 5th-8th grades. I won’t go into it, but I went to the state bee three of those years, pretty much because it pleased my mother. My anxiety was through…
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I was in another bad mood today, but more angry and frustrated. Complicated last minute schedule changes at work. Bigotry on Facebook. After much thought about whether to go on with my personal page on Facebook or to switch over entirely to my artist page or make more feed filters that I don’t use, I…
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I’m a little bit sad. My cholesterol is high. My vitamin D is low. I don’t know what to do about my cholesterol because I don’t want to go on statins and I don’t want heart disease. I read so many conflicting things. I don’t think that I can do better about my diet. Exercise…
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We Southern cooks love our casseroles with cream of this-or-that soup, but since I moved to eating organically and locally as much as possible several years ago, I’ve adapted some of my favorite casseroles to using a cream sauce with whatever. I make faux condensed cream of mushroom soup by making a thick white sauce…
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I planned to blog and weave and such this morning, but my husband surprised me by getting up very early and he wanted to go to the farmers market and an art show this morning, so that’s what I did instead. There was a show of ten artists at the Worx restaurant downtown and they…
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Sometimes you have to backtrack and correct, and that’s okay.
slowly she turned 