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Candy Rant: 500 and Counting

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I killed a rat with a stick once.". Sunday, September 15, 2013. According to Blogger, this is my 500th post. It's a random Sunday and the biggest event of the day has been a wave of grief I've had going off and on all day, missing my dad and having involuntary short sobs visiting me out of nowhere. Posted by Candy Rant @ 7:08 PM. Oh, my friend. { { hugs} }. Hope happier days are ahead. After reading post #500, I think your dad just paid you a visit. Wow I didnt think of that, MKW. View my complete profile.

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DowntheDrain: August 2006

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When you've fallen in the gutter, And you're lying in the rain, If they ask you how you're doing, Just say, "I can't complain." Leonard Cohen. Saturday, August 19, 2006. Weigh Your Head; Lose Weight. Here’s an e-mail conversation between my sister and me regarding a scientific theory that I postulated and subsequently neglected. Hypothesis: Full Body Weight minus Weight of Head = True Body Weight. Original Message - - -. Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 9:53 AM. Subject: WEIGHING YOUR HEAD. I did He enjoyed...

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Candy Rant: Life Lesson for a Friday

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I killed a rat with a stick once.". Friday, July 25, 2008. Life Lesson for a Friday. First, let me explain the picture. For several years I made photo Christmas cards featuring the one and only Hankie. This one is my depiction of Hankie as a shepherd. The card said "Hankie was delighted to have been chosen to play a shepherd in the Christmas pageant. Though he was not thrilled with the costume department.". Now that we're all in a spiritual frame of mind, here is the lesson:. This is the funniest cat sto...

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Candy Rant: July 2006

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I killed a rat with a stick once.". Monday, July 31, 2006. Reasons I Do Not Want a Front-Butt *. Perhaps the less sophisticated reader is not familiar with the term "front-butt." Let me explain. It is a butt on the front of your body. A gut that has gotten so out of hand, so enamored with its own girth, that it has grown in such a way as to almost perfectly mirror the butt you have on the back of your body. It's just up a little higher. There. Now, REASONS I DON'T WANT A FRONT-BUTT:. 3 Your choice of pan...

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Candy Rant: Classes Start Tomorrow. What's the Word of the Day?

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I killed a rat with a stick once.". Sunday, August 25, 2013. Classes Start Tomorrow. What's the Word of the Day? It's a tricky word, because you can get so much from it. Read" for example. The joy of reading all those papers and poems my students will turn in. Red" My face. And the way I'll be fanning away the usual stage fright that never goes away, but is especially flaming on the first day. Rad" This school year will be totally rad, dude. Srsly. Posted by Candy Rant @ 1:43 PM. Then youd have something...

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DowntheDrain: July 2006

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When you've fallen in the gutter, And you're lying in the rain, If they ask you how you're doing, Just say, "I can't complain." Leonard Cohen. Thursday, July 27, 2006. Old Woman Needs Job. I get a speculation job on percentage of future sales for editing a book about suicide. This means that I have to be alive to collect reimbursement. There are signs everywhere. Ala the phrase coined- in what? I’m still trying to get over the fact that I was so desperately polite to this man. I didn’t get the job.).

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Candy Rant: June 2006

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I killed a rat with a stick once.". Thursday, June 22, 2006. The prince is scraped up off the ox-cart-path and revived. He continues his frantic search for the elusive Cinderella. He is told by the village idiot that there is another sister in the house he has just left, and that perhaps he should try again. After knocking at the door, no, wait, after having his royal. OK, that was a poor segue, but here's the story behind the story. THE SERVINGS ARE TINY. The two little round cheesecakes were the size o...

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Candy Rant: Silence!

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I killed a rat with a stick once.". Sunday, December 24, 2006. A couple nights ago, when I turned off the TV at the end of the night, my ears were ringing. It had been so long since I'd experienced silence that my poor bastard eardrums were resonating with it. Immediately, my brain stepped in to provide some noise. QUICK, Candy! But it's not just audible noise that I surround myself with. When I get into bed at night, I. Read Even if I can only last 10 minutes, I have to force more words into my brain&#4...