Tag: stuffed animals

• Route 66, Peggy Sue’s Diner, and Home with the Cats – Thoughts from September 21, 2024 – Last Day Part 2

  

  Now that we knew the Bagdad Café didn’t have food, we had to pick a new place to eat. I asked, “Aren’t we driving by Peggy Sue’s Diner? We could eat there.” Patti said we were, so we did. We arrived at about 4:30 pm at Peggy Sue’s 50s Diner in Yermo, California. This was…

  Brian Kirwan

  October 7, 2025

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  2024, 50s attire, Bagdad Cafe, ball-shaped tiger, baseball with feet, baseballs, big-eyed monkey, cats, cats sniffing everything, curiosity and fear, Eddie World, fridge magnets, fried chicken, fried food, gift shop, ice cream sundae tower, Javin slow loris, mannequins, missing home, must-have plushes, not a food-critic blog, Patti, Peggy Sue’s 50s Diner, Peggy Sue’s Diner, pictures from the trip, plushes, post vacation, purple dragon, restroom, self-control, shot glasses, Sit whereever you like, sitting with cats, Southern fried chicken, souvenirs, stuffed animal addiction, stuffed animals, stuffed cowboy at a fake urinal, thoughts, vacation Brian, Yermo California

• Anxious Nerd – Thoughts from August 28 to September 8, 2022

  

  August 28, 2022 I think I used to be more of a nerd, but now I’m just a recovering nerd. Reading back on my Thoughts papers tells me how much of a nerd I was. I talked about working on computers and other nerdy technical issues I was dealing with. Today, my nerdiest issues are…

  Brian Kirwan

  December 26, 2023

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  2022, A-hole behavior, A-holes, adult children, anxiety, anxiety medication, anxious adult, anxious child, autism, cartoons, childhood, computers, earliest memory, fantasy, few friends, first grade, grade school, hobby nerd, humorous, I care about other people, I thought I failed kindergarten, internet, issues, junior first, making friends, mortgage and taxes, nerd, nerdy career, nerdy skills, Other People Exist, Patti, reality police, recovering nerd, regular bills, science fiction, stories, stuffed animals, thoughts, Thoughts papers, tickets, toys, traumas

• Toys and Charlie Manson – Thoughts from August 7 to 9, 2022

  

  August 7, 2022 Today’s Thoughts paper is brought to you by sleep. I’m looking forward to getting some tonight. I’ve dropped a lot of things today. Being tired will do that to you. I’m too tired to have many thoughts. I promise to have more tomorrow. August 8, 2022 I was going to work today…

  Brian Kirwan

  December 5, 2023

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  2022, action figures, anxiety, anxiety provoking, as a kid, Charles Manson, Charlie, Charlie Manson, daughter, driving down the street and back, dropping things, faded words, freeway, granddaughter, Harley Davison motorcycle, hateful words, living with mom, local Charlie, Manson died, middle-aged man, mobile home, multiple toys, no job, no one would employ him, one toy, open the box, out-of-control hair, parents took me to Toys R Us, regret, research, riding a bike, sad future, screaming obscenities, selling drugs, short motorcycle rides, sleep, stuffed animals, thoughts, Thoughts paper, tired, too tired, tough decisions, toys, Toys R Us, Toys R Us truck, urging his suicide, video games, wrong decision