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Author: Tripping Raul

  • The best day at work everrrrrrr!

    Yesterday was absolutely, positively the bestest day at work, like, ever. I came back from my vacation to find that Ken and Jon had conspired against me! YES!!!! Evidently, the topic of my failure to put a photo of ‘me’ on the website came up at staff meeting Monday in my…

  • Post-wedding pints

    It was a dry wedding and that’s OK and, in fact, I’ll drink to that! Or at least I did after the wedding as we sat in the Durango Brewery and downed a couple before heading up the mountain. (Love their beer.) And as we sat at the bar chatting with the lovely gal…

  • Whoopsie!

    Ppththththtttttt! As I sashay down the hall, I try unsuccessfully to keep my hip from brushing the corner. I chuckle and glide up to the front desk and the gals include me in what they’re chatting about but I can’t remember what it is now. Lovely ladies. And I tell…

  • Peculiar

    I find myself rather odd. I’m pretty certain that other people don’t have the sort of thoughts and visions running through their head that I do. But I’m well intentioned and I do rather like myself, so I guess it’s OK.

  • How to paralyze a blonde

    Stepping into the blistering afternoon at quitting time she triumphantly rips off her blazer and stuffs it over her right arm as she starts down the eight steps to reach the Denver city sidewalk. She looks to her left and right like a good girl so as not to be…

  • Silence

    He’s sitting on the front porch with me, in the green folding chair. I’m in the red. I sneaked us out a couple of Hoss beers from the cooler as the men inside swear at the refs who have made “fucking moronic calls” against the Denver Broncos. He takes a…

  • Girlfriends

    I love my girlfriends. We don’t get together often enough, but when we do it’s the ultimate therapy. Friday night with Caitlin, Tonya and their friend Meghan — who totally rocks — was an infusion of life. Getting to see Caitlin again yesterday at the game — amazing. Add to…

  • Tripping Raul’s back cover of a tawdry romance/mystery/ghost novel obit

    Sassy, blond and enigmatic, Tripping Raul could hardly be labeled excited for her Labor Day weekend alone at the Von Bitchen Mansion in a remote area of downtown Denver. She was, in fact, ecstatic. Tawdry novels, chapter writing, hot baths, wine and bad movies were all cued up. Walks in…

  • Extremely random thoughts on a Monday

    Please let it rain, God! The clouds are beautiful, but look mildly agitated as opposed to angry. Bah. I can’t talk worth shit. This is why I write. And it makes it worse when people are looking at me while I’m talking. Unless it’s one on one. Or if I’ve…

  • Kindergarten again

    It’s DS’s first day of classes at CU Denver and I’m all excited, but then he forwards an email to me he received from the school saying that they didn’t have my information for the Parent Plus loan and I’ve never heard of this loan so then I’m panicked, thinking that there…