Tag: Patti

• Cabinets and Bun Bun – Thoughts from November 11 and 18, 2023

  

  November 11, 2023 Today is 11/11. Need I say more? It would be funny if that was all I said, but I actually have thoughts to write about. I don’t know what they are right now, but I’m sure I will come up with something. My thoughts are happening all day long. I just need…

  Brian Kirwan

  October 8, 2024

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  2023, attaching cabinets to the wall, bouncy nose, Bun Boy, Bun Bun, bunny, cabinets, cat ears, eating a dead plant, eating our grass, finishing the cabinets, gaining weight, grocery shopping, I speak cat, memory, neighborhood animal, paint the wall, Patti, petting rabbit, rabbit, rabbit ears, rabbits eat hay, remembering past thoughts, running out of time, sniffing my hand, speaking cat, speaking rabbit, Thanksgiving, thoughts, what can be done in one day, writing, yelling at other drivers

• Halloween as a Kid and Changing Oil as a Fancy Adult – Thoughts from October 31 and November 3, 2023

  

  October 31, 2023 In honor of Halloween, I’m going to talk non-stop about pickles. It’s the perfect scary snack. They’re green and look like fingers when they’re in a jar. It’s a jar of fingers. People used to make Frankenstein hands out of various sizes of pickles. I’m sure the pickles went to waste. Who…

  Brian Kirwan

  October 1, 2024

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  2023, buying a house, candy, chocolate, clown costume, eager home buyers, Elm Street, eyewitness accounts, Frankenstein, Freddie Krueger, Halloween, Halloween as a kid, hard candy, Honda Civic, Honda dealer, house buying show, in stores with a dog, jar of green fingers, KISS, KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, labeling yourself, looking for a house closer to my work, luxury car, man with a dog, new thoughts, oil change, parents’ house, Patti, pickles, Redlands, regretting tattoos, riding bikes, ripped costume, sad clown, scaring kids, Sister, spitting up blood, tattoos, thoughts, tiger, tiger tattoo, tiger tattoo on neck, too small bike, trials, trick-or-treating, TV, waiting area

• Knowing, Accepting, and Pointing Out My Thoughts – Thoughts from October 28 and 30, 2023

  

  October 28, 2023 “I don’t know why I did that.” I have never said this phrase unless I don’t want to admit why I’m doing something. The statement may come out of my mouth, but I always know why I do things. If I trip over something, I know why I tripped. Usually, the answer…

  Brian Kirwan

  September 24, 2024

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  2023, accepting all realities, admitting why, aware of what I’m doing, bad behavior, being appreciated, being distraced, believing the lies, cats, completely accepting, crap I accept, explaining my actions, hyper aware, I don’t know why I did that, I’m full of crap, ignorance, incorporating lies into personality, lying to yourself, not based on my opinion, Patti, people don’t want to accept reality, pointing out lies, professionals, proven realities, quantum physics reasoning, Reality Acceptance, RealityAcceptance.com, silly reasons, theoretical realities, thoughts, Thoughts papers, words being ignored

• Not Our Bunny or Our Holidays – Thoughts from October 21 and 22, 2023

  

  October 21, 2023 It’s time to talk about the bunny in our yard. I first saw him when I was mowing our lawn. I walked to our backyard, and I saw something hop away. Convinced that it was a hopping cat, I didn’t think too much of it. Patti asked me to look at something…

  Brian Kirwan

  September 17, 2024

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  1800s, 2023, bunny, bunny news, Christmas, Easter, editing, exaggerated humor, feeling old, garbage in the streets, Halloween, holiday months, honest as crap, hopping, horrible people, horse-drawn buggy, humorously exaggerated, illogical and rude, junk from holidays, median age, not our pet, Patti, pet rabbit, petting, psychics, psychics are liars, rabbit, sarcasm, stupid sandwich, Summer, thoughts, Thoughts papers, time fliest when you’re having fun, too honest, traveled back in time, typewriters, typewriting lessons, typing, ugly car with souped-up engine, white cars, white tail, white vehicles are work vehicles

• Misunderstanding Words and Loving Vacuuming – Thoughts from October 9 and 12, 2023

  

  October 9, 2023 For many years, I have misunderstood what “tenure” meant. Much of my life, I thought it meant when a teacher reached ten years of teaching. If they lasted that long, they couldn’t fire them. Recently, I heard some talk about getting tenure after two years. I told Patti about what I thought…

  Brian Kirwan

  September 10, 2024

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  2023, A-holes, better off not knowing, cats, Civil War, days off, days off in a row, different President, English degree, enjoying vacuuming, guilty vacuuming, hard time firing tenured teacher, history of horrible things, ignorance, ignoring people, lack of interest, learning from our past, Mason-Dixon line, my sci-fi world, not creating something, Patti, phone on speaker, seperating states, slavery, strange person, teacher reaching tenure, teaching, tenure, thoughts, using technology politely, vacuuming house, walking and talking on the phone, watching videos, weekends, what should be is not what is, working on my computer

• I’m a Cat Trapped in a Dog’s Body – Thoughts from September 24 and October 8, 2023

  

  September 24, 2023 Flourishing in my own filth is the first thing I typed for this Thoughts paper. Where do I go from there? There’s only one place to go. I’m going where I always go. Here we are in my usual talk of wondering when the world is going to stop being so predictable.…

  Brian Kirwan

  September 3, 2024

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  2023, autobiography, barrier to moving, book, bring up images, caring about other people, cat trapped in a dog’s body, comparing men to dogs, creativity, depressing thoughts, driving on the freeway, editing and scheduling, feminist author, hiatus from writing, I’m a Cat Trapped in a Dog’s Body, lack of time, men’s behavior, moving closer to my work, my own filth, not collecting new stuff, our stuff, Patti, plosives, problematic letters, retired, sibilance, suicide for horrible men, the word moist, the world is predictable, think like a cat, thinking, thoughts, Thoughts paper, Thoughts papers, tired of my stuff, wishing people dead, writing

• Ignoring Facts, Wearing Glasses, and Movie Cliches – Thoughts from September 9 to 16, 2023

  

  September 9, 2023 I figured out what my greatest skill is. I can listen to someone spewing facts at me and ignore them all. Facts don’t stay in my brain, so I ignore most of them. When I hear the other person express an opinion based on the facts, that’s when I listen. People who…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 27, 2024

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  2023, absurdly humorous cameos, acknowledging people, birthday, cliche villain, cliches in movies, Competition ruins everything, cotton candy, Disneyland, exaggerations, glasses, hard contacts, I wait for people, ignoring facts, kindness, Marie from The Aristocats, nerd, Nightmare Before Christmas, opinions based on facts, other possibilities, overeating, overly polite, Patti, pink eye, politeness, popcorn holder, questionable facts, questionable opinions, responsible kid, Roku, rude as a group, soft contacts, spewing facts, thoughts, understanding possibilities, unworthy of my niceness, Velma on Scooby-Doo, walking through crowds, wearing glasses, Weird Al Yankovic movie, where facts come from, You’re not my husband

• Kidney Stones and Vehicle Emblems – Thoughts from August 7 and 13, 2023

  

  August 7, 2023 I started feeling a pain in my lower back. When I noticed it was only on one side, I worried. I had kidney stones once in my life and I vowed never to get them again. A pain in only one side of your lower back is how it begins. The pain…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 30, 2024

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  2022, 2023, back pain, being distracted by pain, blog, Buick, Cadillac, Chrysler, constant distractions, dash cam videos, dealing with incidents, dehydration, distractions, drinking water, expensive vehicles, idiots on the freeway, ignoring problems, irregular circumstances, kidney stones, looking for problems, out of the ordinary, pain in my lower back, pain scale, Patti, preparing extra water, random subjects, reading, rude drivers, showering at night, showering in the morning, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, Thoughts papers, valuing other people, vehicle emblems, water shut off, water to drink, white river rafting, writing

• New People, Laundry, and Insecurities – Thoughts from August 5 and 6, 2023

  

  August 5, 2023 When I meet someone new at work, I try to find out work related things first and then move on to their interests. No one completely loses me with their interests, but I find myself less enthused about what some people find interesting. Sports is one of those things. Many people assume…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 25, 2024

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  2023, atheism, baseball fan, behind-the-scenes, being an atheist, blog, Brian Kirwan, difficult discussions, dislikes reveal insecurities, emotional distress, ethical problems, fake smiles, fears and emotional state, flaws are interesting, forwarding to Facebook, highly cultivated version of the world, interests, laundry night, lyrics, meet someone new, Patti, people hide interesting parts, perfect people are boring, perfection doesn’t exist, presenting your fake life, religion, religious discussions, religious phrases, religious symbols, songs are good despite their lyrics, sports, sports conversations, subjects of songs, texting, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, Thoughts paper, Thoughts papers, waiting on the towels, wife, WordPress postings

• Stressing Over Bills and Presidents – Thoughts from August 1 and 2, 2023

  

  August 1, 2023 I talked to my dash cam today for the first time in a while. I realized the last time I dash camed was before Quest started getting sick. My dash caming stopped when I was changing out my NAS (Network-Attached Storage) hard drives. I didn’t want to add any videos to it…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 23, 2024

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  $666, 2023, being a good person and not good at being religious, blind cat, by Christians for Christians, cat, cats, charges against Trump, checkbook, credit cards, dash-cam, defense mode, electric bill, Excel worksheet, freeway shenanigans, groceries, high electric bill, I don’t watch the news, leaving the door open, NAS (Network-Attached Storage), Obama, Patti, paying the bills, Payless Shoes, pure shock, Quest, seting the tmperature, stupidity on the freeway, technology, thoughts, Trump on the news, US presidents have been Christians, videos, working from home