This is a test to see how many words I can write without having to break off and go for a pee.
I don’t have anything burning that I want to say but I do have a burning desire to do something else instead.
Did you know (you don’t – how could you?) that I’ve never ever peed in a bottle in my life. Ever. And I don’t intend to start now.
Actually, as I get flowing (ooo – bad choice of words) into this exercise (of my pee-holding-back muscles) I realise that when I distract myself by writing something interesting, I’m less liable to feel the urgent, burning desire to pee. The only thing I have to do now is to start writing something interesting, right?
Oh, oh – that’s not good. I’m starting to get a pain in my neck. That means that my cramping up of muscles is spreading up my body and …
Hold on, I have an idea – why don’t I try relieving the pressure by trumping! For those of you who are not from around here, that means … oh – there she blows. ๐ Actually, that worked admirably as a means to reduce the urge to pee. I think I can last another couple of minutes easily now.
Except that I’m starting to sweat. Hmm – that could be a good thing. I’ve noticed that when I’m in hot countries I pee less. The reason for that is probably due to most of the liquid leaving via my pores. I can drink litres and litres of water and only go to the toilet once – just before I go to bed.And I only pee then
And I only pee thenย just in case.
There’s nothing nicer than being safe and cosy inside a mosquito net in the night listening to the little beggars whining outside the net. Conversely, there’s nothing worse than having to get up to pee in the night. You know full well that if they don’t get you while you’re in the act (and you can only imagine where they would aim for) one of them is bound to take a ride on the back of your hair into the net, there to wreak all kinds of havoc. And all the while, she (it’s always the female of the mosquito that sucks your blood) will be giggling to herself during the night of passion she is having at your expense. She will be easy to catch in the morning, full, as she will be, of your blood – but that is scant consolation – believe me.
That’s it – I’m off for a pee now. Four hundred and thirty-eight words.
Trumping?
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Bottom burps. ๐
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What the heck?
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Erm … have a look at this?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-applebaum/different-words-for-fart_b_3498191.html
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“Farting knows no borders”. Let me ponder on this profound statement for a while.
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La! ๐
Did you dream about it?
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No.
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Holding it is bad for your bladder.
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There are exercises that you can do to strengthen important muscles down there. I’m sure holding pee in (within reason) is one of those exercises. Or is it stopping and starting pee. Hmm – let me look it up. Not sure – I think it’s called kegels.
Lift and squeeze, lift and squeeze. ๐
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Why didn’t you say kegels? I know about those.
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I kind of didn’t know about those, but I’ve just watched a video about them and I’m totally clued in now. ๐
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They should be part of any fitness regime! ๐
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I can’t imagine it somehow. I mean, they have classes on pilates, yoga, salsa, exerboxing (I think I just made that one up), spinning and all sorts of things like that, but can you imagine going to a kegels class! How could anyone tell what you’re doing? You could just be lying there relaxing for all you can see from the outside. I guess that someone could feel the contr … but let’s not go there.
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No, no, no, not in a setting with other people, silly (there I am again, calling you silly). ๐
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But what’s the sense in doing it alone?
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To get stronger muscles down there so you don’t have to wear diapers prematurely. ๐
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I read somewhere that diapers are the new thong. ๐
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Really attractive…not. ๐
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It takes all sorts. ๐
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Yucky. (Very mature comment, I know.)
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Glad you said that. ๐
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Relieved, you mean? (No pun intended.)
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Hahaha – yes – relieved. I’m actually in need of a pee right now. Kegeling with all my might. ๐
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Don’t hold it in. You should kegel with a empty bladder. Unnecessary suffering is bad for the soul.
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I’m going home now anyway – only an hour later than my scheduled finish. I’ll empty it on the way out. Here’s a phrase for you: I’ll be pointing Percy at the porcelain. ๐
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You named it Percy??
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Common saying in the UK. ๐
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I love alliteration. ๐
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Is that a fancy word for peeing? ๐
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Claro que sรญ!
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Ah, well in that case, perhaps you can tell me what the heck this is all about:
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Can’t watch videos at this moment…will watch it later. ๐
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Okay. My food has arrived and so I’m going to desert you for Hardcore Henry (a movie) and pizza. ๐
Later.
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Enjoy!
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It was fab. Nothing like ultra-violence and junk food to pep one up. ๐
What’s for lunch?
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Peanut butter on whole wheat toast.
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Yeah, man – that’s real junk food! Oh, wait – was it sugar free and … hmm, actually – that’s relatively healthy. ๐
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I forgot to mention the M&Ms. โบ
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Hahaha – yes – you did! Baaad Little Miss S!
Are you up for videos yet?
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No, gotta wait until I’m home. โบ
When are you guys turning the clocks forward?
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Ha. You’ll prolly not find them when you reach home. Unless you are uber-organised. Or a little bit OCD like me. ๐
It’s the … *checks calendar* … the 26th when the clocks move on. Do y’all do that too?
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Oh, I’ll find them. Definitely. ๐
We changed the clocks last Sunday (March 12). You didn’t know that North America and Europe (an by extension, the UK) change their clocks at different times? I thought it was common knowledge. ๐
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No, I had no idea. I guess I have the feeling, that I imagine is common amongst people in the UK, that we are the centre of the world and so what the rest of y’all do is not as important. It’s a curious thing to realise. Maybe it’s just me. ๐
Do Canadians ever feel like that?
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At least you’re honest about it. โบ
Americans seem to feel the same way. Canadians don’t tend to feel that way, especially if they have close ties to other countries.
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Honestly – that can be the most hurtful thing.
Honestly – it’s the thing I value the most.
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*speechless*
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Interesting.
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Why interesting? I just didn’t know how to respond to your profound statements.
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Hahaha – and *speechless* wasn’t profound?! I find it interesting that you would be speechless at my statements about honesty. I’m not sure what kind of speechlessness it was, but I still found it interesting to consider which meanings it might have. Of course, you could just tell me why you were speechless and we could pick up from there. ๐
Actually, I misread what you said. Skip all that. Well, most of it. I’m still interested in why you didn’t know to respond, though.
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You don’t really want me to be completely honest about how I felt about your four weeks of silence. Or maybe you do want me to be honest about it, but I don’t want to talk about it.
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I guess I do, and I guess I don’t.
I’m sorry.
It’s a feature of me.
I’m not sure what I can do about it.
I can totally understand you not wanting to talk about it.
I’m not reliable on those terms.
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Okay.
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๐
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No hard feelings. Honestly. ๐
I’m knackered. Better put on my tuque (knitted hat), jacket, and backpack and be on my way.
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Okay – see you later, alligator. ๐
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I prefer crocodiles. โบ
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Well then – after a while, crocodile. ๐
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That’s better. ๐
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Dinosaurs!! ๐
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You silly one. โบ I’m home. ๐ธ
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Hahaha – so you are. ๐
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๐
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You knew the word tuque??
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No – that’s a new word for me. I just hope it keeps you warm. ๐
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It’s a Canadian word. Can also be spelled “toque”. I almost don’t need it…it’s quite warm!
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Then I’m happy for you. Warm and happy. ๐
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No, I love sub-zero temperatures! Please read this (pretty please?): https://detoutetderien2015.wordpress.com/2017/03/16/longing/
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I went, I read, I commented, I returned, I commented. Aye, aye, aye! ๐
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Yay! ๐ Painting my face in preparation for work.
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Oh! That’s unexpected. I didn’t imagine you as a painted lady. Hmm.
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Just a little makeup…eyeliner and eyebrow enhancer. No lipstick (can’t remember the last time I wore it). Minimalistic. โบ
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Why – what’s wrong with the natural colour of the hairs on you face? ๐
Good morning, by the way.
I’ve just finished lunch.
It was fab.
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Nothing’s wrong with the colour. โบ
I went a little crazy plucking eyebrows way back when, and they didn’t grow back properly. They look pathetic now.
I just said hello to the puppy. He was so happy to see me!
What’d ya have for lunch? ๐
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I was going to laugh, but then it struck me that’s its not really funny. Sorry about that. Stick to plucking your legs. ๐
Erm … cheese sandwiches, a banana, a bag of crisps, 2 little oranges and then, as a reward, I got Nakd. ๐ What are your lunch plans?
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That’s okay – it IS kinda funny. ๐
What’s Nakd?
Lunch will be a kiwi, an orange, and peanut butter on toast again. At work, I alternate between yogurt and peanut butter toast. Very boring to the outsider, I know, but I like lunch at work to be uncomplicated.
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Nakd is a raw fruit and nut bar (no additives or sugar). It’s yummy. Sometime, just for the heck of it, I will go up to an assistant in a supermarket and say ‘can I get Nakd here?’ ๐
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Ha ha…I’d love to be a fly on the wall when you do that! ๐
On an unrelated note, would you be terribly offended if I deleted some of your comments on my blog? I don’t think I need to spell out why.
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I would be very offended, yes.
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Okay, I won’t then. But they may potentially get me in trouble.
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You’re already offended. I’m sorry, Robert.
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True that. No, delete them if you want. I’ve kept a record of the words I like. ๐
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I can’t keep records, unfortunately. Thanks for understanding, Robert.
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That’s okay. ๐
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Sure?
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Yes – I’m sure.
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Plucking my legs? Ouch! I use a laser thing instead.
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A laser thing?! What, like those lightsabres in Star Wars? That would be exciting to watch! ๐
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A little, if you use your imagination. It doesn’t glow or make the same sound, though. It only works for people with light(-ish) skin and dark(-ish) hair, because the laser targets pigmentation. It hurts a bit to use.
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Hmm. Doesn’t sound as much fun now.
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Sorry to burst your bubble.
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You read my very first posts! Yikes…they were kind of juvenile… I’m a little embarrassed.
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I read your very first posts but I couldn’t find any way to comment. They were quite revealing. ๐
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I opted for setting a deadline for posting comments (a few weeks or months after the date of the post, I think). Yes, I was writing more autobiographically back then, and felt extremely uncomfortable with fiction.
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There was this really ace poem I found. The last verse was utter genius. I can’t find it now. Typical! If you had enabled comments I would have waxed lyrical (or, in your case lasered lyrical).
Your writing is good. You have got fiction, autobiography and poetry down pat.
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Don’t flatter me too much, Robert. It might get to my head. ๐ But really, thank you. What you think means a lot to me.
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I hope that what I think doesn’t mean too much. I have a dark side.
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You think I’m all sunshine and rainbows?
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No, of course not. Unless you have some seriously powerful medication. ๐
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I have some medication, but it ain’t that powerful. ๐
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That makes me nervous.
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Why?
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I can’t think of a way to explain this flaw in my character and thinking without offending.
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Try me. I fought tooth and nail not to take medication for the longest time. I still don’t like having to take it, but the alternative…no, I refuse to live that way. I’d rather die than live that way.
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Actually, what you just said just makes it worse. ๐
Okay then – this is it:
I just have a deep seated distrust of extenuating circumstances.
There – now you can disown me.
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Extenuating circumstances? Explain, please.
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You’re really making me think about this, S. I think it’s all to do with independence. I value that above pretty much all things. I want to rise or fall by my own efforts, and I guess I’ve extended that to other people too. It grieves me to see people lean on other people, other things or make excuses. Obviously it’s something I’m working my way through. I hope I can get to the other side quickly. I’m not at all sure what the role of people in my life is. ๐
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Typo: “abiut”. ๐
The first part of what you wrote
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Oops, premature…right, where was I? The first part of what you said sounds Ayn Rand-ish. As for dependence on things and other people, we all need certain things and support from others to live the most fulfilling lives we can. However, I can understand how you would find it distasteful when observing people’s dependences and… obsessions.
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I guess it’s the ‘please go easy on me because I’m (x, y or z)’ that I can’t handle. I’ll get there. ๐
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Sorry to be dense, but who’s supposed to be going easy in whom? Me on you?
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Everybody on everybody. ๐
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The English language needs a better way of expressing the reflexive. ๐
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Hey! You dissin’ my diacope?! ๐
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Ahem…you are the sole owner of the language, are you?
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Huh – trying to impress me with all your talk of reflexology. I was just hitting the ball back is all. ๐
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No, not reflexology. That’s to do with the feet. Reflexives. Je vais me doucher avant de me coucher.
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I know. I was punning on the words.
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I knew you knew, and you know I know.
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You teasing me?
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You know I am, and I know you know I am.
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Getting some kinda dรฉjร vu here.
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Impressed that you didn’t omit l’accent aigu and l’accent grave on dรฉjร .
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No, I like to adhere to my grave and acute accents. ๐
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Good Robert. โบ
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๐
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What are you up to this weekend?
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Nothing planned but eschewing plans. You?
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Ha ha. Love that. Just running tomorrow and Sunday, two Skype video “conferences” with boundary-less toddlers, and lots of knee-warming from my Indonesian feline.
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Sounds like my ideal weekend. ๐
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You’ve got a knee warmer too?l
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No. Nothing to warm me here.
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Too bad. You could take a hot bath or something.
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I could do all sorts of things being as I’m alone and all of that.
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Oops, I was being bossy.
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No, not really. Not that.
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I’ll have to deal with some practical stuff too. We could be moving in a month, two months, three months, or half a year. Don’t know where. Living in limbo.
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That sounds rather passive. But you said that, didn’t you. That you need someone to move you (so to speak).
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It IS passive. Anything but independent, right? I chose this for myself.
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Then if you chose it, it’s good. That puts you in the driving seat. It gives you control.
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True…
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Ellipses, huh. The three usual reasons for aposiopesis: that you can’t go on, that you don’t need to go on, or that you want to leave me hanging. ๐
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Number 2.
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There will come a time for you. All will be well. ๐
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What? Another shower!
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Why, do you take one only once a week or something?
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Yep – whether I need it or not! ๐
No, actually. But I shower in the morning rather than the evening. But I guess I don’t ‘glow’ as much as you do.
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No shower in the morning unless I go for a run. I prefer going to bed fresh.
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/night-showerers?utm_term=.mkPeYo909#.oqW15DLML
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Couldn’t have expressed it better myself. ๐
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Thought you might like that. ๐
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I can’t justify taking a shower after doing nothing except sleeping. That’s just wrong.
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Some toss and turn in the night. Obviously not you. ๐
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Actually, I do sweat in the night.
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Prolly have too many layers.
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No. Just a T-shirt and a duvet. It’s cool in the bedroom. Maybe a side effect of anti-depressants.
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Do you think you’ll ever tell me about that turning point?
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Do you think you’ll ever let me email you?
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Too public for that kind of thing, huh.
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We dodged each other’s questions.
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We did. ๐
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Handwritten letter?
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How would that even work?
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A mailing address you can get access to. But I don’t want to make you feel uncomfortable.
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I know, I know. There are options for all kinds of situations. It’s just that I kinda made a promise. At least on a public forum I’m kinda safe. I mean – it keeps me within reasonable limits. It means we can be friends. Pals. Buddies.
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I know all about promises. Okay, public forum it is. It’s better for both of us.
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I know that you are concerned about not showing conversations of this nature on your own blog, but if your OH were to read the comments on these posts on my blog, which by now stretch into several hundreds, would there be … trouble?
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Your honesty is absolutely brilliant, by the way. Really. ๐
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I struggle with it at times, but it truly is the best path. I wish that I could be more honest. I’m a bit of a hider actually. But I’m working at it. ๐
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Oh, another thing: that was somewhat condescending. I’m not a child.
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No you’re not. Well, as far as I know you’re not. ๐
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Why the warning, then?
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Clarify? I could answer, but it would be a guess at your meaning. ๐
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Hold that thought. My boss just came in and is about to fix my computer’s connection to the printers.
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Oh … erm … has he gone?
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Not yet
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Oh. Sorry.
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You Brits say sorry too much. ๐
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Huh? I think I’ve said it twice in … how long have I known you?
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I was just winding you up (or pulling your leg, as we’re more likely to say in these parts).
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We say both of those things here. I’m having chips, beans, tomatoes and pasta pie for dinner. There’s sugar for pudding. ๐
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Nice. โบBosses ordered pizza for all of us.
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Now that is the kind of boss you can respect – the kind that updates your computer for you and feeds you pizza on a Friday afternoon. ๐
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Yep. ๐ My tummy hurts now. That makes me sound five years old.
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I know what you mean. ๐
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The tummy aching, or sounding like a five-year-old?
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All of it. You said that kinds of things that a five year old would say. Just by coincidence, I just got a visit from the five year old girl from next door. She stole my blutack! (blutack is a sticky blue gum like substance used to fix pictures to walls)
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Quite the coincidence! What do you mean she stole it?
Speaking of kids, I’ll be video chatting on Skype withy 3-year-old nephew tomorrow evening. He’s totally obsessed with planets.
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Well don’t tell him about your anus – oops – Uranus then! ๐
Her mom says that she likes playing with blutack. She drew me a picture the other day and I stuck it up. She basically came along and took it down and stole the … well, you know what she took. ๐
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Oh. Why did she take back the picture?
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No, she stole the blutack! The picture is still here.
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Oh. Is it any good?
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Yes it is. It’s of me and Aurora (the girl), plus a bonus candle in the bottom left hand corner.
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Nice! I’m rubbish at drawing.
I’ll also be chatting with a 4-year-old niece on Sunday morning, and I’m a little ticked off by the disruption of my running schedule. Selfish, I know. What’s with people?
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Yeah – these toddlers have no boundaries at all! This five year old knocks on my door at all hours, takes my blutack and tells me she loves me. What’s that all about!
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At least you don’t have to take care of her on a daily basis. ๐
I like well-behaved children in small doses.
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Silver lining all a shining.
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Mighty brightly!
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One-upmanship tips lip tips down to a frown when pretenders send us stuff that’s tough to follow from a hollow.
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You’re the competitive one, so I happily concede defeat.
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*bows*
I am quite competitive. I’m not sure why. I was never goaded on much as a child. My reports always said ‘could do better’. I think that’s still true.
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Oh? You got siblings?
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Two sisters – both younger – neither a threat.
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Ah…okay.
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I mean – they are not a reason for me to become competitive.
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J’ai compris. ๐
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You got your tenses right too. You really do have a talented tongue. ๐
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I speak a few languages. โบ English isn’t technically my mother tongue.
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… but it is practically.
If I were to ask you which tongue is that of your mother, would you answer?
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Yes, it is practically.
No, not yet. Before you ask, I don’t know what I’m waiting for.
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*thinks* what would I have asked? Hmm. I think I would probably have made a joke and said something like ‘tomorrow then.’ ๐
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I just laughed out loud at that. ๐
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Happy to amuse. ๐
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Hands not happy. Sticking them in pockets. 4ยฐ not so warm for typing.
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You’re typing whilst walking? Not such a good idea, S!
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Okay, I’m inside now (not yet at home) and have stopped walking.
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Tower block?
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Mall
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Ah. ๐
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No posts from you today?
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Well, I’ve been otherwise engaged. I had a project to complete (two actually) before the end of the week and so I was kinda busy. I have an interview on Monday for a job. My own job, in fact. ๐
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Not a complaint, just an observation. ๐
Your own job? Cool!
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Well, not really. You’d think I would already have my own job! ๐
The sun’ll be going down in about an hour or so there. You going to be alright?
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Uh-huh… checked my IP address for my exact location? Of course I’ll be alright. I’m touched.
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It’s not an exact science. Too many cell towers and hubs for the signal to bounce between. But stay safe.
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But close enough. ๐
Okay. I know karate. Just kidding.
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You know how to run!
You’ll be passing people on the way out to the bars and clubs in their short skirts, skinny tops and high heels – and that’s just the guys! ๐ Is there much of a night life there?
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No, not where I’m walking. No scantily clad blokes out there. I wouldn’t know about the night life. It’s like asking me whether the maternity wards in this city are bustling.
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I sometimes pass them here. It’s like I’m an invisible cloud.
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Do you rain on them?
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No, not often. ๐
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I have a younger sister. She’s the mom of the three-year-old boy I’ll be skyping with tomorrow. He looks a lot more like me than her. Even he knows it!
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Hmm – are you sure the child’s father wasn’t being unfaithful with his wife’s older sister! Shock, horror!
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Yes, I’m sure. I would know if I bore the child.
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I would imagine that certain clues would present themselves to you. ๐
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Silly goose.
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Three times (or is it four now?) is the charm. Silly in perpetuity. ๐
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And I suspect my sister would’ve known as well.
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You never know. Some people are not as bright as we think they are. ๐
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My sister is intelligent. ๐
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Ah, then it’s unlikely that you are the mother of her child. You can breathe a sigh of relief. ๐
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I would remember the traumatic experience of giving birth, I assure you.
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Well yeah – there is that too. ๐
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It’s eeww.
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Not something I can comment on really. ๐
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I’m just being immature.
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Not an easy trick to pull off at the age of 51. ๐ ๐
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I thought you were 52. ๐
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I am. I was talking about you. ๐
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51 is not childbearing age, unless you’re Janet Jackson.
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I’m not. Are you? ๐
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Sorry, I’m not Sanet Jackson. โบ
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No need to be sorry for that. I mean, I’m sure she’s a nice girl and all of that. ๐
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Going back outside now. Hands back in pockets. Robert said no typing and walking at the same time.
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Okay. I’m going to have to get to bed soonish. It’s late (early). ๐
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D’accord. I’m about 79 steps from the front door. Bonne nuit / bonjour!
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Bonne nuit to you too, S – when the time comes. In the meantime – enjoy your evening. ๐
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Uh-oh. The last time you wished me good night, you vanished for…trรจs longtemps. You better retract it. ๐
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Well okay – I wish you an awful evening and a terrible night of tossing and turning. Did that help? ๐
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Yep! Gra-th-ias! โบ
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I want to believe I as a fetus developed in a lab. Like one of Ellen Ripley’s clones in Alien Resurrection. The most viable clone.
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One of my favourite movies. ๐
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The first, second, or third?
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All of them. There are about 5, maybe 6. There are prequels now and tie-ins with Predators. They are making a second prequel now, or maybe they have done it already. Lots. ๐
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Too many. I don’t usually watch scary movies. I’m a scared cat.
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Scaredy cat? ๐
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Oui, c’est รงa.
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Scaredy cat, that is.
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Yeah – that. ๐
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So you should have some idea how old I am.
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Only by averages. In 2011, the average first-time Canadian mother was 28.5 years old and if that was three years ago, your sister will be 31.5 years old and so you will be coming up to your 33rd birthday (if your mom had you both about a year apart. Of course, your sister could be an outlier, so that could make you anywhere between 20 and 50. Considering the travel you’ve done and your mature response to life etc. I would say that 30 sounds about right.
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I’m impressed – you’ve done your research. Let’s just say I could still bear a child if I wanted to.
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Again with the averages – the average age of menopause for Canadian women is 51, so you’re pre 51. Yeah, that kinda narrows it down. Not!
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I already had my toast, but…
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… there’s pizza! ๐
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You have pasta pies often! I just got myself a piece of pizza: goat cheese and eggplant…I mean aubergine.
Last night, I was…errr…urged to review my completed tax return so that it could be submitted today. So, with that, dinner, and a shower, I ran out of time for reading and writing.
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Tax? Don’t you got a payroll department and a government to take care of that for you?
I don’t remember the last time I … oh, wait – I think that was something different. I just gave it a convenient name.
I don’t like melongene…I mean eggplant very much. ๐
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In Canada, it’s obligatory to file our taxes every year, either with the help of a professional or by ourselves. Tedious as heck.
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Sounds like it. There’s probably software for that, right? ๐
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Yes, but the numbers still have to be inputted and verified.
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Fun, fun, fun (sarcasm).
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I shared the sentiment.
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You finished them, though, so that’s good. ๐
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Yep! โบ
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Finally gone. Stupid Windows updates.
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Hahaha – yes. What would we do without Windows though – we’d have to leave the door open just to look outside I guess.
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Okay, I’ll try. You seem worried that I care too much about what you think. Is that your way of saying, “back off, you’re scaring me”?
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No – not exactly. I’m not a good crutch is all. I tend to be … too selfish for that.
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I get it. I won’t use you as a crutch. I’ve got religion for that. Kidding, kidding. I’m not religious. Used to be when I was younger.
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That’s interesting. What turned you against religion?
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That’s a tough one to answer.
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Give it some time.
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So, what did you want to say about my very first posts? Besides the fact that they were revealing?
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Oh. I just answered that on my last comment.
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Beat me to it!
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Yep.
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*an empty bladder (found a typo in my comment – deduct ยฃ1 from your invoice)
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Hahaha – I do that all the time. I spell check my emails after I’ve sent them too. ๐
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OCD? โบ
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Stupidity. ๐
Right, I’m off home. Toodle-pip!
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Cheerio!
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You still working hard? ๐
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Not really…
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What should you be doing?
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Reconciliations and such.
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Ah, I see. So you’re:
– Identifying and investigating reconciliation errors within customer and payment data
– Working with the transformation team to raise issues and defects in order to request fixes
– Providing data analysis of errors and issues identified
– Supporting the Finance and transformation team in the run to major delivery dates to ensure issues are resolved quickly and efficiently.
Sounds like such fun! ๐
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Just came in from the wet, snowy weather. Too warm now. ๐ฃ
Where’d you get that job description from? Which transformation team? There’s no ‘finance team’s here. It’s just me, myself and I.
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Welcome home. ๐
The job description came from here: https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/reconciliation-analyst/31819093#/jobs/reconciliation-analyst
Self employed? One man (woman) band? ๐
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Thanks for the warm welcome! ๐
Ha ha – I used to have a profile on Reed.
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I notice you avoid questions that would give personal information if you answered them. Not a complaint or a judgement – just an observation. ๐
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No, not self employed. Small office. We have an office ‘mascot’ now: a puppy!
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Oh, wait – I retract that last statement. ๐
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I’ve told you a lot. ๐
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I suppose.
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You don’t think so?
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I guess it’s all relative really. I think that I tell someone a lot about me, but because she is, like, a hundred times more open than me, it makes my open door seem like it’s barely open a crack. I suspect that you are open a crack, but because you are … Oh, I don’t know. Like I say – it’s relative. It’s not valid to judge someone by how open or closed they are. It’s a … it’s personal. It’s a personal choice. Not good, not bad – just personal. We are ultimately free to be ourselves. At least – we should be. ๐
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I’m more open in person. In some ways, at least. Not in a group, though. Yes, it’s all relative.
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I’m more open one-on-one than in a group. I can decide to be open in a group. And I can even ignore the odd looks I get. And sometimes I can even ignore the way they make me feel. But ultimately, I’m more comfortable alone.
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Why do you get odd looks?
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I can be ebullient. It can be … off putting. The English are kinda reserved. I think that I’d be better in a more boisterous environment. Or maybe not. Maybe I’d just shrivel.
Apparently it’s easier with alcohol as a disinhibitor, but I don’t got that. Do I miss it? Interesting question. No. But only because I don’t give it head space. I used to have loads of friends. I guess I still could if I stayed open to people.
Hmm.
It’s actually quite likely that I don’t get odd looks. That I’m actually hypersensitive. That people are just being themselves and I’m (erroneously) interpreting their looks as being related to me. But really they’re not.
Yeah – that’s probably more likely.
You’d make a really good bar tend, S. ๐
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So you went from having lots of friends to having none. Was this a gradual change?
I did a tiny bit of bartending in Indonesia. I wasn’t very good.
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When I stopped drinking, I guess I became a different person. The ones who liked me like that dropped away. I think. Or maybe I drove them away.
Relatively suddenly.
I meant – you would be the person that the customers would pour out their troubles to. ๐
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I understood what you meant. ๐
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Good.
I used to work behind the bar in a nightclub and it was the one I usually went to. I would know pretty much everyone. Not so many people asked me for free drinks as I would have expected. Although there were always some. ๐ But it wasn’t like I had time to talk to anyone. It was always tree people deep.
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Tree people deep? ๐
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Tree people are very deep. Take Walt Whitman for example. ๐
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That made me smile. โบ
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Way to distract me from another ยฃ1 loss. ๐
Good to see you smile, though.
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What?? I missed a typo?
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I thought you were pointing out that I said tree instead of three deep at the bar?
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No, I thought you were using an English expression I didn’t know! ๐
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Oh! No – just a typo. ๐
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Hee hee! ๐
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Robert, gotta love ya.
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Hahaha – I try my best, Jennie. ๐
You know, sometimes I wonder if I’m being too open and honest on this blog, and then I look at all the things I keep hidden and I wish I could say more. All trivial stuff, I assure you. It just seems big when it sticks in my (metaphorical) throat.
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I get it, totally.
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Robert, I think you are missing your home here in El Dorado.
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I think you could well be right, sweet brother of mine. ๐
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You so make me laugh! And now, woman of a certain age that I am, I have to — well, you know all too well ๐
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Hahaha – I understand that laughing too much can be dangerous at times. ๐
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Very true ๐
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I agree with Jennie.
I couldn’t stop grinning childishly when I read this post and even showed it to my mum and brother. They loved it, too ;”)
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What?! But you’re brother’s only, like nine! Are you sure he’s ready for my sense of humour? ๐
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He’s nearly 13, Mr Day. I think he is, yeah.
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Then yeah – he’s prolly at the age where those things are funny. ๐
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Now I have to pee…jeeez…
Funny post though ๐
XxX
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Hahaha = hope you had a good one. ๐
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