AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16679)

Boston, Massachusetts

Joined myLot 17 years ago

I am on a quest to litter the internet with as many words as I can write. Feel free to follow me and help clean up the mess. http://blogjob.com/?ref=anjapoulsen

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Hitting Delete

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 21 Jul 21

It’s another soggy morning. The sky is dark, grey and heavy with pregnant clouds. Although there is no sun, there is no lack of heat. The air is a warm, wet blanket that swaddles me and threatens to smother me. This is July....

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Both kindness and cruelty can make you memorable

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 10 Jul 18

My brother - who is more likely than I am to read local newspapers, and more specifically, the obituaries - informed me that my childhood dental hygienist had died. My childhood dentist died years and years and decades ago. He...

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Don't Sit Down for This

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 13 Apr 18

This morning's news included a shocking new study (there's one a day, you know - this was Friday's shocking new study) that absolutely proves that sitting at your desk all day will damage your brain. In fact, it makes your brain...

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Don't Be a Coward

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 28 Mar 18

I do enjoy social media, though I am sure that it occasionally gets sick of me. I don't start fights - well, not usually. But I don't shy away from fights that somehow I have been sucked into, And it's not that hard to suck me...

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Practice

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 10 Feb 18

I need to learn to write again. Even more, I need to learn to converse. I can talk. I can type. I can spew out words at breakneck pace. But conversation requires more of an investment. It takes time. A conversation is a...

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Morning Confusion

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 25 Jan 18

They say that when you're about to die, your whole life flashes before your eyes. The same thing happens when you're making coffee at 5am. And it flashes in waves of good and bad. Of course, even the good images are...

coffee senility

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Why did the chicken stand on its head?

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 8 Dec 17

I have something embarrassing to admit - I find it difficult to determine the proper orientation of naked, headless chickens. No, this isn't some weird, naughty, chicken obsession. I mean the kind you cook. I cook whole...

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The goose is getting fat!

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 6 Dec 17

Or maybe it's just me getting fat. Christmas is coming and once we hitDecember, it feels imminent. I read about a black Christmas tree on another discussion by @koopharper, but I couldn't really picture it until I saw them...

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Be Prepared

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 21 Nov 17

That's the Boy Scout motto, isn't it? Oh well, I am borrowing it this week. As many of you know, this Thursday is Thanksgiving in America. And for the first time in my entire life, I may be prepared enough to enjoy it, even...

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Twenty-eight percent

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 23 Sep 17

There's one simple rule that I have yet to learn. Under no circumstances, whatsoever, should you allow anyone to borrow your phone/tablet/device charger. Know this: You will never get it back. It isn't even because the person...

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Itching Where You Can't Scratch

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 20 Jun 17

The Boy has come up with a case of poison something. We thought poison ivy, but the rash looks much more like poison oak. But really, does it matter? The earth poisoned my child. The first day he noticed it, he woke up with...

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No Day at the Beach

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 13 Jun 17

It was a hot weekend. The sun beat down relentlessly, the mercury rose silently. With temperatures hovering at 96F, large numbers of locals fled their stuffy houses and gathered near the shores of the Atlantic at any beach with...

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The day is ticking away

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 9 Jun 17

Ever since I got up this morning, I've had a little twitch in my right eyelid. A pulsating little tic. A half-blink. Drives me crazy. A box full of nails fell on the floor. There arose such a clatter! There is nothing more...

air conditioning

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Manchester by the Sea is a wash for me

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 25 May 17

It seems to occur fairly regularly that if I finally get around to seeing a popular film, my opinion of it is wildly different from the majority of theater-goers and movie buffs. For instance, I hated Steel Magnolias. I could...

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Those Uncomfortable Groundhog Weeks

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 21 Feb 17

I heard a strange noise coming from somewhere outside my kitchen window this morning. At first, I noticed only that there was noise where noise didn't usually exist. It took my foggy brain a moment to realize that it was a bird....

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Fashions Change

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 17 Jan 17

When major (and minor) appliances for the home were first invented and marketed, they came in a range of colors. Everything from Bright White, to Shiny White, or you could have Plain White - which went with everything. Soon,...

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Fish, Coffee and the Incredible Lightness of Space

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 17 Jan 17

This morning, I sent The Boy off to school with an assignment: Ask your Physics teacher about Fish in Space. Before that happened, I made a cup of coffee in the Keurig. I didn't want to make a cup of coffee in the Keurig, I had...

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A Zester's Life For Me

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 11 Jan 17

Zest is not something I oft confess, or express, except when pressed. And yet, there are times in life when one needs a little zest. Yesterday, for instance, when I decided to make an orange sponge cake. I had oranges and...

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I have Shakespeare's missing tablet

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 6 Jan 17

The problem with autocorrect is not that it wants to suggest that you really meant to type something else - sometimes we do type or swipe things badly. The problem is that it doesn't suggest, it doesn't even ask. It just assumes...

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Fridge Surfing

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 3 Jan 17

I am hungry and I want something for breakfast, but I don't like anything I have. I want pancakes, but I have to make them and I may just be too lazy. There's some yogurt that's well past its "sell-by" date. There's some other...

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