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91Stress Leave
Recently, I approached my doctor about taking some stress leave from my job. I was terribly nervous about doing this, and most of that stress has little to do with the fact that I'd never seen this doctor before and I don't do well with strangers....
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8621 Things To Do That Don't Cost Money
A lot of people love to claim that entertainment these days is expensive and that it's nigh impossible to have a good time without spending a lot of money. They're right, so long as your idea of a good time involves going to concerts and seeing a...
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82Recycling Yarn: Frugal, or Just Plain Cheap?
Tan cotton worsted weight yarn, and spring green angora/nylon yarn, both recycled from sweaters. With the cost of living continuing to rise, and wages not really increasing much to reflect that, many people have been forced to do more hard budgeting...
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80Veiled Pagans
In a move that has surprised and baffled a great many of my friends, I have started to cover my head for religious reasons. Now, with that sentence alone one might think there's nothing odd about it. Plenty of denominations of many major religions...
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81The Therapeutic Benefits of Cats
It's been six years since I got my first pets, and they were cats. My roommate and I fell in love with them instantly in the pet shop. They were older than the other kittens, off in a corner playing by themselves in exactly the same way that two of...
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79Auditory Processing Disorder
Imagine someone says the word "apple" to you. The individual sounds of the word go in your ear, combine to make a cohesive whole that you then recognise as a word. That grouping of sounds then travels to the...
3 comments79Living with Tourette's
Just call me Twitchy! I have Tourette syndrome, and though I make jokes about it quite often (like calling myself "barking" mad because, yes, I have barked at completely random moments before), it can be a difficult condition to live with sometimes....
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77How to Make a Hotel Reservation Over the Telephone
It sounds easy enough, doesn't it? You call the number, you tell the person what you want, they book it for you, and then you hang up. Easy as pie. And ideally, that's how it would work. But there are a lot of...
2 comments78How Green Tea Helps You Lose Weight
Green tea seems to be one of the "in" things these days as a natural weight-loss supplement. More specifically, green tea pills seem to be popular, much more so than actually sitting down and drinking a cup of green tea. But like most diet fads,...
9 comments78The Responsibility of Driving
Unlike the majority of people in North America, I don't actually own a car. I walked when I need to go somewhere nearby, or take the bus if my destination is further away. My lack of a car puts me in an increasingly uncommon position to assess how...
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