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1. about 19 hours ago on For Better or For Worse

   Just the other night I had a series of dreams all beginning with me hitting my alarm clock…which is funny because I haven’t used the alarm on my clock in years. The clock itself is still there but I use my phone for the alarm. Anyway, there was a string of about 3 or 4, all starting the same as this strip. Different times, tho.

2. 2 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   My maiden name is Coutermarsh; “Cootie” is a family nickname. It was miserable when I was a kid because, while there were “Girl Cooties” and “Boy Cooties”, I had “Cootie Cooties”…the worst of all. (Yeah, I was bullied horribly all through school…right up to graduation.)

3. 2 days ago on FoxTrot

   Sadly we couldn’t afford to get our girl tix to the actual concert, but for her 21st birthday we got her tix to the Eras Tour movie…and she was just as happy. She went with her college roommate (whose birthday is close to our girl’s) & they had quite the good time.

4. 3 days ago on FoxTrot

   Personally, I think it’s one of her best. Of all of her albums, it’s my #4 (after “Speak Now”, “1989” and “Fearless”.)

5. 3 days ago on FoxTrot

   It’s been their tradition ever since that, every time TS comes out with a new album, we order it for our daughter, but my husband gets to listen to it first.

6. 4 days ago on FoxTrot

   In 2010, Taylor Swift released “Speak Now”. My husband & I preordered it for our Swiftie-daughter’s 8th birthday. Just days before her birthday my husband ended up in the hospital with a 35% chance of survival (thankfully he beat the odds). Her birthday was celebrated in my husband’s ICU room, with the lovely nurses “decorating” his room and bringing her & her little sister ice pops. She was so happy to get the CD, but that first night she “loaned” it to my husband to listen to in his room. The next day we brought the CD home and put it in the bedroom CD player, putting it on loop to have playing while we slept (the girls wanted to sleep with me while Daddy was in the hospital) every night until he came home. Not only did I never get sick of it, but to this day it’s my favorite TS album; it’s my daughter’s 3rd (after “1989” and “The Tortured Poets Department”.

7. 5 days ago on Baby Blues

   When I was a baby my grandfather – my mother’s father – lived with us. He had cancer. He wanted more than anything to hear me say “Mama” before he died. One day he was watching me while my mom took the older kids swimming at my grandmother’s house. He called: “Therese…come home quick!” I wasn’t the healthiest baby so Mom thought something was wrong. She bundled the kids & raced home. He met her at the door with a brilliant smile: “SHE SAID ‘MAMA’!” I was sitting on the floor pointing up at HIM, saying, “Mama!” (He died one week before my first birthday. It was understood in the family that I was his favorite grandchild.)

8. 5 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

   My husband is a loud snorer. When we first got married it bothered me…until I read a letter on Dear Abby. A woman wrote saying that for years her husband’s snoring bothered her…until he died. “Now” she would give anything for the chance to hear it again. Suddenly my husband’s snoring wasn’t that bad. We’ve been married for 38 years and I sleep better hearing it (which I only do 3 nights a week as he’s a 3rd-shifter).

9. 6 days ago on Baby Blues

   I don’t believe in the modern conceit of buying ripped jeans. However, one time my younger daughter ripped a knee of her capris jeans. Someone thought that it was bought that way & complimented her…so I left it.

10. 6 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

    I wish I had thought of that, but 1) we didn’t have an answering machine when I was a teen; 2) the results would have been the same; 3) I shudder to think what kind of messages WOULD have been left (I was a huge bully-target).