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The blog of an obsessive-compulsive who has a "purging" reaction to certain words and sights (the M-word, the I-word, the WH-word, etc.).
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War Is Over
On Wednesday, La Netta picked only Jolene, Robin and me up. We stopped by the office, where Jolene changed herself, then were ready to drive into Oakland.After hitting the freeway, we stopped at East Oakland where the Christmas party was held. "James...
Full for the holidays
On Friday, we didn't get to go to Big Lots even though it was on our schedule because I was placed with Tiffany's group (Tully, Baby Shawn, Robin). So I asked Rosa if we could change our schedule to Big Lots.She checked the schedule at the office and...
I now have as many posts in 2009 as I did in 2008
184 posts! Yay!Stan had told me Tuesday he would bring me money. Now it was Wednesday morning and he still hadn't come over to my house. "Santina", I said. "Has Stan come over to bring me money?""He called me," Santina said. "He says you spent it."I ...
The day I ate inside Taco Bell
On Friday, December 11, Darnell drove me to the office during pick-ups, while the batteries in my headphones were dead."Commercial break!", I told him when commercials came on on the radio.But Darnell said, "James, I want to listen to them."I continu...
Bluish-greyish-greenish stuff
The week before, I had made an especial request for La Netta to put Grocery Outlet on the schedule. And Wednesday, December 9, was the day we were supposed to go to Grocery Outlet in Berkeley.As we were about to leave the office for our journey to Be...
There goes my dinner!
On Thorsday our CIWP group went to Trader Joe's. I visited the frozen food section, looking for Mexican food, and decided on some green chili burritos, which came two in a pack.Tonight, I came out of my room at 7:10 and my staff Claudette asked how I...
Ross
You'd think that after going to Ross on Thursday we'd go somewhere else the next day, right?Wrong.On Friday, I found myself in Ross once again.Shortly after we walked in, I heard a song about Christmas. The singer said that she ate two gallons of ice...
Emanuel plays with purge words
On Thursday I had asked Stan for more money, and he said he'd give it to me before he left. Friday morning came, and he never gave it to me.La Netta and Darnell picked me up. Ken said "axx oxxx the pxxxx" during our morning drive, which became the fi...
A delay in getting to Barnes & Noble
On Wednesday morning, I came out ready to enter the van. But Rodney would not get in."Are you coming back for me?", he asked La Netta and Darnell."No," one of them said. "Get in the van now".He asked his staff whether they would come back for him. Ro...
Mxss, mxss, mxss!
On Tuesday, I brought my headphones to program, cannibalized so that one CD player was connected to the headphones of the other CD player. I brought along the older headphones, just in case La Netta wanted to help me place the puffs from one headphon...
Four P-words to purge off
I was venturing out of my room, with thoughts of calling Lamesha. I wanted to see whether my staff-cum-friend was home, so I walked towards the telephone.I asked my staff where the new telephone was, and she pointed it out to me. I wondered whether S...
Emanuel music
Yesterday, I went to Wal-mart and got my juices. Then the group split for Barnes and Noble and Ross. La Netta was going to Ross, while Rosa was headed to Barnes and Noble. I went to Barnes and Noble, and told Emanuel that I wanted to show him the New...
Rodney shoplifts
On Thursday, Rosa and Alejandra took us to Wal-mart, where I got my juices.Then we went to the 99-cent store. We got the batteries I needed for my headphones, then Alejandra took me over to the section where they had Easter eggs left over from Easte...
Problems with the medicine
Taking this new liquid Prozac in the morning is turning out to be a problem.On Monday morning, I was lying atop my bed when I heard the door open. With my exes closed, I opened my mouth thinking Stan was still here and he was about to give me my medi...
Dreaming of medicine
At night, I asked LaKeisha for my clotrimazole and my liquid Prozac. I told her she could bring me the clotrimazole first.She went into the office and came back with a pill. She handed it to me. I felt the pill package inside a wrapper."That's my Ris...
Terrible Tax Day
Today, we were driving to Krispy Kreme when I felt the sides of my nose itch. I scratched the left side, then I scratched the right side, then I scratched my left nostril. I felt a wet itchiness inside. Was blood already falling from my nose?I looked...
April Fool's Day
Today I was picked up by Rosa and Darnell. We visited the office, where I went to the restroom and then came back.After I came back I sat in the middle seat of the back row. Darnell let Rodney out to use the restroom. After the left seat of the back ...
St. Patrick's Day
Today I came to program with Rosa and La Netta. Rosa was talking about her children's teeth. The baby Melchor, she said, already "had some pxking out".I growled in the back seat and hoped we would be finished with drops soon. We picked up Kweisi, the...
Just as I got in
Today I heard a word just as I got in the van.I had just left the house in the morning and entered the van when I heard La Netta talking on the cellphone to one of her children. "And don't stay in your pajxmxs all day", she said."Rrrrrrr!", I growled...
It was going to be Darnell and Rosa
When I walked out of the house it was raining this morning. As I sat down in the van, I realized that Rodney was with the group too. I heard Darnell, but La Netta was not there. It was going to be Darnell and Rosa today.We stopped at somewhere Jolene...
A lazy Friday
On Friday, La Netta went home early because we only had three clients: Jolene, Mon and yours truly. Rosa was driving us.Mon was talking about not liking to get dressed for program. "I don't wear a bra at home", she said. "They bounce around.""They bo...
Christmas party
We were on our way to the annual Christmas party this year. La Netta was in the middle row, while Rosa was driving."I'll let you drive, and you can just drive with your eyes closed, like you're at home", said La Netta.Then in Rosa's next sentence, I ...
A trip to the clothes section
At the Wal-mart in Concord today, we hung around the sections that sold shoes and also looked at toys Rosa or La Netta might want to buy for Christmas. But then La Netta took me to somewhere else.She looked at clothes. "Close your exes", she told me....
A lot of P-words
Friday we went to the Pacific East Ranch Market. I bought Japanese rice crackers and some chocolate wafer rolls before we left off for Wal-mart.As we got into Wal-mart, Rosa pointed out the Hawaiian punches, which were priced off today. I picked up a...
A mouth full o' spit
"An old Buick LeSabre", said Mike Williams. "An old Buick LeSabre."Today we were parked in front of Burger King when La Netta asked Mon about what she wanted to buy at Marshall's. Mon said she wanted to buy baby clothes."What kind of baby clothes?", ...
My dipser trap
My mother told me that she had sent me a dipser trap in the mail. Eventually it arrived.I called Santina and told her that the package needed to be opened and the trap needed to be placed. My mother had said the instructions for setting it up were on...
I lose a button
When I came out of my room at 8:45 this morning, I was listening out for the word "mxss". I heard something that could have been "mxss". Then I walked into the living room and listened closely. The news was on -- and they were discussing traffic! Oh ...
I can't hold it in!
Today we were going to visit a mall that had a Wal-mart in it. Sounds like a great day, doesn't it? After that was the Natural Grocery Company, Bo's Doughnuts and the library.Well, then we drove to a park that had police cars. Ken said, "There are co...
The Way He Screws the Folks He Screws
I didn't sleep at all last night, and came to program feeling tired and cold.Our first stop was Krispy Kreme. I heard a song on the Intercom that sang about "quicksand". It sang "tinkering feeling". I had to ask La Netta to make sure it wasn't "t-ngl...
Two pairs of pajamdras
Early this morning, Rosa said the word "pajxmxs". I purged in the back seat, with no one beside me to see.I spent the bulk of the day in the office, sleeping on the couch. Well, not sleeping, but resting. I never fell asleep.Then my group came to get...
