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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Monday, April 6, 2009

Retroblog April 6, 1982

As I was cleaning out my parents' attic last fall, I stumbled across one of the journals that I tried to keep when I was much younger. I was never much for journal or diary-keeping in my youth; partly because it was strongly "encouraged" and partly because I was always paranoid that someone would read it. (Ironic, I know.) I had already destroyed my other girlhood diary, but this one I decided to keep in order to post some of the entries here so that my little nieces and nephews could see that Auntie Nettie was once young and once really couldn't spell.

I'll try and post them on the days to which they correspond. The pencil markings don't scan well too these jpegs. I may have to try and upload the images another way. Names of real people have been hidden to protect them and me.

A Day Something Really Nice Happened To Me*

Monday April 6th 1982

Albert K. fially noticed me. He walked with me home. I was so suprized.


*when I was about the same age I am now (HA!)

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