The Velvet Zebra

Author: The Velvet Zebra

  • And don’t call me Shirley

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    RIP Leslie Nielsen. Amazing, talented, wacky man. You probably think of Airplane, or Naked Gun, but for me, Forbidden Planet is the first thing to come to mind.  If you’ve never seen that, get over to Netflix and order it right now. I’ll wait.

  • To be Thankful For

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    So, I thought ahead and took this week off from work – which was actually only 3 days of annual, because we get Thanksgiving and the day after anyway, but I had time to use up and I though “Hey, this’ll be fun. I’ll take this week off, and we can play and have fun…

  • Diary of Madness Day 4

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    Still no phone call. Mostly we’ve written them off, but we want to believe there’s still hope. I’m on vacation now through Thanksgiving, so we’re determined to enjoy ourselves, even though she has a doctor’s visit on Monday with her oncologist that I’ll have to pay for – don’t wanna even think about how much…

  • Diary of Madness day 2.5

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    One of the things I resent the most is being back on that emotional roller coaster you’re forced to ride while waiting for “the phone call.” My sister applied for a job last week that closed on Friday, the 12th. When she applied, she had to go through the agency the Unemployment office uses, because…

  • Diary of Madness, Day 2

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    I’m furious. I got home last night to find my sister was having to fill out a form from the Unemployment office to explain why her rendition of events differs from her (now former) employer. Seems HE said she had been Fired! For the record – my sister was called into her supervisor’s office a…

  • Diary of Madness

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    If you’ve been around here a while, or know me in any way, you’ll recall that I live with my sister. We’ve been roomies for a long while now, and it’s not as unusual a situation as you might think. There are plenty of adult siblings who room together, among those who get along, of…

  • Hello darkness, my old friend

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    Every weekday morning, I’m up at 5:30, and leaving the house for work around 6:10 or so. Now that we’ve fallen back for daylight savings – or the end of daylight savings, or whatever that really is – it’s dark when I leave the house. My workday ends at 3:30,  and already it’s getting dark.…

  • Early Holiday Cheer

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    It’s that time of year again – the first of the Holiday Art Fairs.  For the next two days, I’ll be sitting in a room full of artists, people-watching (one of my favorite hobbies) and selling my wares to shoppers while listening to the same Christmas CD played over and over and over and over…

  • It’s really the shit

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    Last month, my sister and I went together and — without selling either of our cars — bought a used SUV.  It was really affordable, seeing as how we were splitting the payment and insurance right down the middle.  We’d grown weary of constantly borrowing our mother’s Jeep whenever we purchased something large or oddly…

  • Tea, tea tea tea tea

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    So last weekend, I attended my first Northwest Tea Festival, a yearly tea convention/festival that has now become my favorite annual event. My only regret is that this was the third year, and I’d only just now learned of it ! For tea lovers, this was Nirvana  – there were tastings, classes, vendors, and all…