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***my husband took my son to his first concert tonight. guess who they are seeing and the first two don't count...

we saw them in philadelphia two years ago and that was enough for me. i believe this is my husband's third or fourth time to see mick & the boys, and the way they looked last time i saw them, it may very well be his last.

but who knows. they seem to have real staying power.

***i have been working on a paper which will be uploaded from draft tomorrow morning before i go to work on my writings blog. it was painful to write as it was about bruce and while i gathered information from previous posts and added a whole bunch of information, just the compilation to read over and again through editing was very difficult. thank God our professor has actually encouraged us to have someone look over our papers for editing purposes prior to submission. i am blessed enough to have a cool editor :)

***and just for the record: if you ever have anything to say to me that might be construed as something that may hurt my feelings, like calling me a name or whatever - for the record - please email me. you know, privately. we can work it out over the email, really. yeah, you are entitled to your opinion of me and i am usually pretty cool about accepting it and all, but for the most part, and i would think my readership will agree: I am extremely sensitive. i end up internalizing the whole junky feeling and fall back into personality traits that i think are long-since buried and while i have a difficult time looking for reassurances from others, the chips ahoy come through in ways one can't imagine. yeah, you can hurt me and instead of lashing out and getting overly defensive, i will find myself eating waaaay too much (like today) and now the guilt is setting in (for eating too much). and really - i know it is not anyone's fault for making me feel like hiding in a cookie bag but my own; i am a comfort food creature and it was available. justification? you betcha. better than picking up a drink or other such addiction that shall remain nameless? i am pretty sure it is, but the jury is still out as i wipe the crumbs from my mouth...

that being said, and without further ado, i am off to bed in order to arise in 5 hours to make the donuts.

mmmm, donuts.

hope all are well.

~peace~