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I guess I'm kinda a pill when it comes to typing. Especially when it involves a blog or a PM. I've been wishing we had a method of using Emojis in blogs and messages. I finally figured out a way to do it, although it's a workaround.

It's a serious workaround, especially in PMs, but it does the job. 1F601.png

Emoji by OpenEmoji

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The Family Girl #027: Of Shakespeare and Private Messages

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Blog #27: Of Shakespeare and Private Messages

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I got a pleasant private message early this morning, which I read before my usual early Saturday morning jog (sometimes bicycle ride), from someone named Kate, and she wanted to talk about some of the stuff I wrote.

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The Family Girl #025: Anticipation

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Blog #25: Anticipation

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My partner's done with her interviews in Manila, and she passed three of her four interviews.   So I guess we are pushing through with it.   She visited her family, and is having a wonderful time.   Turns put that she didn't need to check in at the hotel she had reserved a room in.   But the biggest, most important thing, is that she's coming home tomorrow.   Yayyyy!   I'm excited!

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The Family Girl #024: Not the Same Anymore

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Blog #24: Not the Same Anymore

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My housemate is abroad for a couple of weeks.   She left early Wednesday morning for some interviews.   From our last Skype conversation, she said she finished two of them, and she has one more on Monday, and another Tuesday.   Tuesday afternoon, she's flying to her little hometown in Kyoto Japan for a long-scheduled visit. And she'll be back Saturday evening. Which is the problem.  

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The Family Girl #023: Blonde Ambition

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Blog #23: Blonde Ambition

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I may have mentioned before that my partner had resigned from her job, for family reasons.   But as is typical with her, she had it all planned out.   Prior to resigning, she had sent out her CV and had lined up some interviews.   Moe is going abroad this week for interviews with the ADB, the Thomas Jefferson Cultural Center, the WHO and JICA.   Not for any big position, mind you, just a position with their PR or research departments.   So she had an appointent at the hairdressers this morning, to get all gussied up for her interviews.   I went with her to get a trim, but mostly to keep her company.   But as these things always seem to go with her, I got roped into trying something.   So guess what?

I'm a blonde now.

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The Family Girl #022: Road Trip

 
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Blog #22: Road Trip

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Hi.   Moe n I decided on going on a spur-of-the-moment road trip.   She had just resigned from her job and yesterday was her last day, whereas I am having a mild case of cabin fever.   So, crazy or not, we're going on a road trip to cheer ourselves up.   So we're getting an early start on the day, and just drive around, just be a couple of tourists, check in at a hotel, and be back tomorrow.   Or maybe Friday (wink wink).   Weather seems good, save for the 40-degree temp.   But we'll be okay.

So seeya in a day or two!

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The Family Girl #021: Christmas Aftermath

 
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Blog #21: Christmas Aftermath -
Tummy Trouble

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Those that chat with me regularly online know some stuff about me.   Among them is that I ain't too tall, I have chronic insomnia and, aside from chocolate, I don't eat all that much.   It's not anorexia or anything like that, or any other kind of medical condition.   I guess I just don't eat much.   But yesterday was different.

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The Family Girl #020: Being Preachy Again

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Blog #20: Being Preachy Again.

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Please check this link:

http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog/33074/worst-time-year#com...

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The Family Girl #019: Pre-Christmas Mayhem

 
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Blog #19: Pre-Christmas Mayhem.

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Ma is coming later tonight.   By some artful arm-twisting (not literally, of course) by Ma, Moe n I are playing   host to eighteen people for Christmas tomorrow. And one Shetland Sheepdog.   And Ma's invited herself to stay at the house tonight to help us prepare for the family Christmas lunch tomorrow.  

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The Family Girl #018: Back Home Again

 
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Blog #18: Back Home Again, or
I'm so tired, I don't think I can
finish  writing this blogzzzzz...

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Due to a very cooperative tailwind, our plane landed early, and I got through customs real quick on account of I only had my wheelie and my wardrobe bag, and I am now home.   I missed my Moe.  

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The Family Girl #017: Flying Back Home. Again.

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Blog #17: Flying Back Home. Again.

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It's 5AM here in Manila, and I'm all packed, waiting for the front desk to call me for my short ride to the   airport. I'm going home.   After all of twenty-one hours here... This is getting old real quick...

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The Family Girl #016: Back in Manila. Again.

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Blog #16: back in Manila. Again.

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Hi.   Just arrived in Manila, checked in, and Stinky Bobbie just had a looong hot shower, a nice meal, and is resting up.

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The Family Girl #015: Flying is fun? Hah!

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Blog #15: Flying is fun?
Hah!

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I am leaving for Manila at 8:30 this morning.   It's for work, not fun.   I'm arriving in Manila thirty-eight hours later, or Monday 10:30AM Manila time.   And I'm flying back Tuesday 8AM Manila time, and arriving in Reagan twenty-five or so hours later, or Tuesday, 8PM Eastern Standard.   Sixty-three hours, or more than two-and-a-half days of flying time, for all of twenty-one hours in Manila.   and much of that would be time on the road, getting ready, or whatever.   I'd probably just have eight hours with the office guys... yeesh...  

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The Family Girl #014: Being Mr. Heckles

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Blog #14: Being Mr. Heckles

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this was supposed to be a comment, a piece of unsolicited advice, actually, for dorothycolleen, in her blogpost, "Disassociation" -

http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog/32731/disassociation

i originally wanted to post it as a comment, but looking at how involved i got in writing it, i thought i'd make it a blog instead. so, i think you'd best read her blog first, so this one will make some sense.

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The Family Girl #013: A Discussion About Story Universes

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Blog #13: A discussion about
Story Universes

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I just had a long discussion about story universes with someone here in BCTS, via Private Message, and it was a long discussion.    Pretty long discussion, though it had the feel of a slow motion kind of discussion since we did it by taking turns and responding to each other's PMs.   

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The Family Girl #012: Channeling Mary

  

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Blog #12: Channeling Mary
Or, "Retro? What retro?"

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Does anyone know where the word/prefix "retro" comes from?   I'm sure many do, but I didn't so I had to google it.   Anyway, it's a Latin prefix that means "backwards" or "in the past."   Hence you now get words like "retrospective" or "retroactive" et cetera.   Last Monday, I indulged in a little bit of retro-ing.

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The Family Girl #011: The pluses with the minuses

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Blog #11: The pluses with the minuses
Or, "So that's what it's like?"

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Two weeks ago, I was scheduled to go abroad, but that got changed quick, coz, the Saturday before, one of the guys in the office died.

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The Family Girl #010: Waiting for the other shoe

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Blog #10: Waiting for the other shoe,
Or, "after 9-11, what next?"

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Since last month, I have been dreading September.   I was informed by the bosses that, because of my recent work, I was put on a short list of middle/upper-middle managers that were supposed to be part of the company's so-called "flying squad."

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The Family Girl #009: The shopping excursion of death

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Blog #9: The shopping excursion
of death! or  "Killing your credit card
with kindness"

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Last weekend was Labor Day Weekend, as you all know,  which as most know is when sales usually happen.

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The Family Girl #007: Blackout Bagels

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Blog #7: Blackout Bagels

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Moe hasn't come home yet, which is a good thing, I suppose.   At least she skipped the power blackout.

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The Family Girl #006: Ghost Girl

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Blog #6: Ghost Girl

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It's 2:30am now as I start writing this - a dark, windy and rainy early Sunday (or is it late Saturday evening)   Appropriate, I guess, for what I am writing right now.   Yes, honey - this is a ghost story.   It's even true.   And I'm all alone right now, writing about it.

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The Family Girl #005: Gonna make it after all

 
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Blog #5: Gonna make it after all

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I'm sure you've had one of those. You know - one of those songs that refuse to go away, that keeps on rolling around in your head and you keep on humming or singing it for days on end. And, sometimes, you even end up "infecting" those around you, and they end up with the same song in their heads, too? I've had my share of those kinds of songs. And I have a new song to add to this list.

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The Family Girl #004: Going my way

 
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Blog #4: Going my way

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This blog is a little explanation for  
http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/29402/playing-part-cou... - it was a little bit unorthodox, I have to say, putting a story in the comments section, but...

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The Family Girl #003: Getting back to writing

           
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Blog #3: Getting back to writing

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After about seven months of being away from BC, I finally posted a new story.

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The Family Girl #002: Bob the bear

                   
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Blog #2: Bob the Bear

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I just found out Bob Arnold passed away.

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The Family Girl Blogs
as featured in BigCloset TopShelf
(also known as "The New Working Girl Blogs")

This is Bobbie's latest blog in BigCloset TopShelf, which is, as usual, just about a whole lot of nothing. A sort-of continuation of the Working Girl Blogs, this is a series of day-in-the-life blogs of a certain  TG girl - me.   And, though the blogs will be boring at times, at least they will have nice pictures.

The Family Girl #001: The not-so-prodigal daughter

   
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Blog #1: The not-so-prodigal daughter

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