Pink Spoons

 
 
A pink spoon means one thing…Baskin Robbins 31 Flavors.  I’ve had my favorite flavors since childhood, & I have a drawer full of those pink spoons at home.  It’s not because we go out for ice cream very often, but because I save the spoons.  They are very useful.  I use them for all sorts of projects, rubber [...]

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Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire!!

     This picture book character is really too adorable to be the visual for this post, but the photo of “men’s briefs on fire” wouldn’t transfer as a jpeg or a ‘pdq.’ (That’s a joke.)  But enough of my technology problems.  I’d call my ’Geek Squad’, but it is a long way from Pasadena.  (BTW: I am in [...]

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Dust

    
     I have long been of the opinion that dust “is a protective coating.”  You can also write a quick note to a loved one, or a phone number, if no paper is available when you take that pesky phone call.  As Martha Stewart says, “it’s a good thing….” Yes, I know she never meant [...]

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Traffic School

 

I really am a boring person.  With the exception of the “DRAMA” of having a narcissist in my life, my life is relatively quiet.  My husband & family are great, my job is quiet - there’s lots of shushing involved…..      
My idea of an exciting Friday night is spending the evening with “scrapbooking friends.”  One evening in the early [...]

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Mac N’ Cheese Pleeeze!

    
When our youngest son was small, there weren’t many foods that he would eat.  To say that he was a picky eater, would have been an understatement.  I encouraged him to try new foods; I read books written by experts…the people I call “Child Whisperers”….but those authors have never met Sam. 
Then one day at dinner time, something [...]

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Karma’s a *#^*@!

During the past two years, I have been getting my undergraduate degree in psychology.  I am fascinated by a disorder known as Narcissistic Personality Disorder.  Specifically in regards to the devastation that people with NPD have on their victims or “targets.”  It is for purely personal reasons. You see, I was a target. 
I read everything I could get my [...]

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Silly phrase for a really dear friend…..

“Fam-ends:  n  A long-lasting relationship where friends, who have become too dear to be just friends, become Family.” 
     When work resumes after the long summer vacation, colleagues will gather for meetings and someone will ask “where did you go, what did you do?”  For me, vacation means time away in the Emerald City, with [...]

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“Word Salad, with Dressing on the side”…one year later

I began blogging exactly one year ago today. 
This was my very first post that appears below. 
The monumental event that I needed for me to start sharing my experiences with a Narcissist, had happened. 
The N was removed from my surroundings…or as my British friends would say, “he was made redundant!”  Oh happy day.  I marked my calendar [...]

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