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provoked

I know I’m really shaking the flu thing because I awoke at 4am totally energised. The first thing I did was Lysol all of my computers and gadgets. Peter was sleeping, but holding the Lysol can, I eyed him - finally deciding that spraying him down might wake him up.
 
At 4:30am I texted Charles, “Let’s run” and he was grinning outside my door at 5:30am (our regular time).
 
Why did they remake the Wuthering Heights movie? We had to read WH in 10th grade - it’s like 350 pages of unhinged gossip and Heathcliff, the dark, Byronic, anti-hero is a paranoid narcissist that any modern girl would dump the first time he mouthed off.
 
None of my Grammy picks, though nominated, won anything. I guess I’m old and out of touch.

sad, fat, cat hat - I suppose I had to rhyme something.
 
see ya.
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Songs for this:
The world I used to know by Rod McKuen
Better Everyday by sadHAPPY
Kissing Strangers by DNCE
Dive In (feat. Notelle) by Westend
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Parker Avatar
February 4, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Sometimes we got nothing.
Parker Avatar
February 8, 2026 at 9:45 PM
One slap, a cry, and a deep breath. The rest is between you and God (yes, capital G).
Vionet Avatar
February 4, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Doesn’t everyone start with nothing? =]
Fallica Avatar
February 4, 2026 at 9:06 AM
<3
Vionet Avatar
February 4, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Right back at chya <3
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