Giving Up the Ghost

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Giving Up the Ghost

We Will Never Forget

I don't understand why they do this, and I hear they do it every year. The people will gather around their televisions and become transfixed by the images on the screens, images that were already...

Sep 14, 2012 Like

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Deader and Gone

He came on the day the fires went out, when the rain came in a deluge over the mountain and valley, he came on horseback from behind us, startling us right out of our panic. We had started the...

Sep 6, 2012 Like

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Broken.

I haven't been writing here because I'm going through this thing where I want to say everything, and in the background where you can't see, I'm writing everything down, but they are mostly ugly...

Sep 6, 2012 Like

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Inside.

Inside the mouth of a screaming child. This is going to be a long, long weekend.

Aug 18, 2012 Like

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These are a few of my favorite

FACES.

Aug 18, 2012 Like

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It's funny the things you remember and the things that are stolen by time. The soft, dark blue comforter on the bed, the smooth hardwood floors broken in their smoothness only by the occasional old...

Aug 16, 2012 Like

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Time to move on..

Trust me, no one is more surprised by this decision than I am, but I'm moving my site to Wordpress. In about two months. (If you aren't a blogging / blog software / CMS nerd, you may carry on....

Aug 16, 2012 Like

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Arrow.

Arrow was the prompt for today's photo.

Aug 14, 2012 Like

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Simple.

There comes a day when you want to white flag. When you want to throw up your hands and yell: "OK WORLD. I GET IT." No one wins because everything changes or does not change, and the stasis or the...

Aug 13, 2012 Like

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Spork.

Today's photo a day prompt was SPOON, but I am a rebel:

Aug 13, 2012 Like

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The 11th

Okay so I just learned a lesson that you need to attach a pic before writing a mobile post. It's Alisha's 27th birthday and we are on our way to eat delicious food at Peking Tokyo. You may not be...

Aug 12, 2012 Like

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Phoning it in

The Internet is not working very well at the rental house tonight, so unfortunately I'm phoning it in on a night I sort of have a lot to say. Shucks. Photo of the day is RING - and I bought a new...

Aug 11, 2012 Like

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Messy

Today's prompt for Fat Mum Slim's photo challenge was MESSY: What can I say? I'm on vacation with MY family, so obviously the messiest thing around is the bed that I refuse to make. I just don't...

Aug 10, 2012 Like

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I don't believe in god, but if I did, I bet I know where I'd find him.

Today, I swam. There's just something about the ocean, and I feel such pity for the people who say they hate the ocean and swimming in it - because they think it's dirty or because they don't like...

Aug 9, 2012 Like

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8

Today's photo prompt was "8 o'clock" and I took this picture on my way downstairs after putting Elise to bed:The light in the entry/stairway of this house we are renting is phenomenal at pretty...

Aug 8, 2012 Like

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When I'm really happy...

And on the one hand that's okay, and on the other it isn't. But oh, this picture. Is it so meta of me?You'd think on a day when I'm supposed to be taking pictures about writing I would spend more...

Aug 7, 2012 Like

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Shark Food.

First full day of vacation:I barely slept last night. Things were feeling weird, the bed was too squishy, and I was having half lucid strange dreams. Got finally woken up in the morning by people...

Aug 6, 2012 Like

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Vacated.

So we left for vacation today, me, Elise and our immediately family (being my parents, grandparents and sister) and headed up to Orleans, Massachusetts, which is pretty much right in the middle of...

Aug 5, 2012 Like

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Like Dominos

I'm about to set off on my family vacation tomorrow morning, a long drive to Cape Cod followed by a week of someone's definition of relaxing (I just hope I get to read at LEAST three books), and I...

Aug 4, 2012 Like

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One.

One a day is never enough. I go far out of my way sometimes to get a Bean & Leaf iced coffee, and if you are in the area, I suggest you go visit them. Their cookies are amazeballs as well.I am...

Aug 3, 2012 Like

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Outside.

I'm participating in Fat Mum Slim's Photo a Day challenge this month. I am not sure whether this is going to work... I've seen quite a few friends pull it off, and sure, I've pulled off a whole...

Aug 2, 2012 Like

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Devilish Devils

I took offense to something I read on BlogHer today, commented on it, and then someone else took me out back behind the bleachers and showed me my poo. Or at least that's what it feels like to me...

Jul 24, 2012 Like

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The longest, scariest wait.

I haven't given an update on Elise in quite a while, so if you are wondering, this is the post for you!Short story is: nothing much is new. We are waiting, waiting, waiting for a piece of paper...

Jul 23, 2012 Like

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Down In It.

I have said it before and I will probably say it over and over again - there is nothing more terrifying than a blank page.And yet, when I think overthink that statement I realize that it's not...

Jul 17, 2012 Like

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Wordless(ish) Wednesday

Lets catch up, shall we? Its summer, my favorite time of year, and the last few weeks have certainly been the best of the year so far. Heres what Ive been up to: Going to the beach... Where weve...

Jul 11, 2012 Like

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366 Days Later

A year has gone by since I started this blog... and its still online! Yay! I mentioned in the first post I wrote here on Giving Up The Ghost, that I reinvent myself on the internet all the time -...

Jun 20, 2012 Like

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Spectrummy

As I am wont to do, I started a new blog to focus on Elises diagnosis with PDD-NOS - in other words, a mommyblog. Le sigh. Follow me there, follow me here, follow me everywhere. Were going places.

May 24, 2012 Like

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THAT word.

Im not really sure how to begin this, because one of the biggest problems I have as a person communicating with people is that I dont like to share my unhappiness, bad news, or problems. If Im...

May 22, 2012 Like

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My Spidey Sense

The funny thing about this blog is that it doesnt document my burning hatred for winter because I started this one in June and we didnt really have a winter, per se. It got cold, a few times. It...

May 18, 2012 Like

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Voyeurism is for Facebook.

You know how some people like to say that to write, they need to be depressed, or unhappy, or just generally bent out of shape to be able to do what they have to do? Ive heard it a lot and Ive...

May 10, 2012 Like

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Giving Up the Ghost

We Will Never Forget

Deader and Gone

Broken.

Inside.

These are a few of my favorite

Mathematics.

Time to move on..

Arrow.

Simple.

Spork.

The 11th

Phoning it in

Messy

I don't believe in god, but if I did, I bet I know where I'd find him.

8

When I'm really happy...

Shark Food.

Vacated.

Like Dominos

One.

Outside.

Devilish Devils

The longest, scariest wait.

Down In It.

Wordless(ish) Wednesday

366 Days Later

Spectrummy

THAT word.

My Spidey Sense

Voyeurism is for Facebook.

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