Hope everybody in the U.S. had a lovely Thanksgiving and for those living not in the U.S. I hope you just had a wonderful weekend! Today’s mug seems pretty boring. There’s no cute picture, no clever witticisms or anything. Just your standard issue blue coffee mug. So, why is it here? This is one of [...]

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Hey everybody, just a quick note today as I’m taking the week off. We’ll be traveling to see family this week, and it was a hard choice between driving with 42 million of our closest friends or getting groped by TSA workers, but driving won out. We’ll save the groping for Christmas. At any rate, [...]

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A little late with the mug shot today. I pulled something in my back whilst taking out the recyclables, so I’m moving a little slow in general today. I’m sure there are a variety of self-deprecating remarks I could put here, but I’ll leave that up to you guys! Please, feel free to have a [...]

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I got up before the sun, opened my NaNoWriMo project and wrote a total of five words. It would appear I’ve been “second weeked.” I had no idea such a condition existed, but apparently it’s fairly common during NaNo. Go like gangbusters the first week and then like Wiley Coyote, crash headlong into the fake [...]

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Mugs always make good gifts. Or, at least I like to get them. And as I was out shopping this weekend and seeing that retailers are taking Christmas even more seriously this year than they typically do, (from Halloween to Christmas in 1.2 seconds!) I was reminded of of a mug I got for Christmas [...]

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I don’t usually toot my own horn, mostly because it’s a broken horn and there’s not usually much to toot about, however, yesterday, I got a surprise. I entered a Writer’s Digest short story competition so long ago, I scarcely remember entering it. The month they were to announce the winners came and went and [...]

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Another Monday, another Mug Shot. And technically this is a tea cup, not a coffee mug, but I drink coffee out of it all the same. I got this in a Yankee gift swap at the Christmas Party for my day job. It was the first year I’d been there, which was 10 years ago [...]

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