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happy cough cough thanksgiving

I've dropped the ball on Blogtober. It's funny how it's so easy to do this when you have developed the habit, and so difficult to restart. I think we lose our "writing voice." I've basically been on the couch since Monday night. I went to work on Monday, and then Monday night felt a sore throat and some congestion coming on. Woke up on Tuesday morning and felt shitty. I've been on the couch ever since. I've been tested for both covid and strep throat, both of which were negative. Turns out I'm just a big wuss with a cold. But my god, what a cold. Yesterday Elliot stayed home with me, with her newfound sore throat. Remember the days when we'd just take some tylenol and a pocketful of cough drops and go to work/school? Me too. Now we are banished to our homes. Ah well. I watched a lot of Shameless this week. Started a show called Maid. Finished off Sex Education. (All very high brow viewing, I assure you). We declined on an invitation from my aun

hello 2021

First post of 2021. It's been a wild couple of years. Covid being in the spotlight. More personally though, my kids are growing like weeds. Three of them are now teenagers. One has a learners permit. Two are in high school.  My dad passed last year. I had surgery shortly after. I've gotten out of the habit of doing any real writing at all. I tried to motivate myself by taking a creative writing course a couple of years ago, but it kind of fell flat. I keep telling myself I'm going to get back at it, but saying it and doing it are two different things, apparently.  I've read 41 books so far this year. I am an EA at a school here in town. Life gets really uppy and downy. I will attempt a post each day this month.