We started reading Harry Potter on Saturday. We have a tradition of reading them out loud together, usually Bear reads while I work on one project or another. I can’t bear the thought of buying the book twice like a rational person would, and neither of us can wait to discuss while the other person […]
[Continue reading...]Despite my best intentions…..
July 20, 2007
A while back I got some hate mail about how negative my blog is. While I immediately wrote the person off as an internet crank, it did get me thinking that I need to make every effort to write about the great things that happen in life, instead of just using this as a public […]
[Continue reading...]I finished something!
July 18, 2007
My studio is done. Well not really, but like 75% done. I just need to fuss it up with curtains and pictures on the wall, but I actually get to use it now. Please join me, won’t you? The color on the wall is Valspar’s Cafe Blue. I wanted something that would work with the […]
[Continue reading...]Year of Pleasures #1
July 17, 2007
There’s a little birds nest that hangs under the eaves of my roof. When I first saw it I thought that I would have to find a way to move it, due to the enormous pile of bird poo that sits directly underneath it, right outside my back door. After living here for a couple […]
[Continue reading...]How many times can dead babies possibly come up in conversation?
July 16, 2007
Turns out, a lot. Especially if you vacation for a week with 16 women, 13 of whom are mothers and three of whom are nurses. The last couple of years I’ve gone to Vegas with Bear’s family, I ended up having an unexpectedly great time. This time, was a little more of a struggle. I […]
[Continue reading...]Busy Week
July 6, 2007
I just got back from the laundromat where I washed just about every single piece of textile in the house. I’m heading off to Vegas for a few days on Sunday night, and we had ridiculous amounts of laundry to do before that. So much laundry that we brought it all up to Bear’s folk’s […]
[Continue reading...]I might need a little more human interaction
July 2, 2007
I’m typing this entry with one hand because the other is occupied by cradling my cat Cheetara like a baby. She’s in heat right now, and I just love it. When Jem is in heat she makes me crazy because she turns into the whiniest thing in the world and by the end of the […]
[Continue reading...]Grammar police
June 28, 2007
Bear and I were watching TV the other night, and a laundry detergent commercial came on. It was very retro and showed all the generations of women who have been doing laundry, with the dress and the basement décor changing with each generation. It was very banal and just meant to show the history behind […]
[Continue reading...]Serendipity
June 26, 2007
I’m a big believer in the theory that some books come to us when we need them. It’s happened over and over again in my life; lessons come from literature for me. This weekend as I was whimpering in pain from my own stupidity, I finished off a book I just bought the other day. […]
[Continue reading...]To Do List
June 25, 2007
Here’s one of the many reasons why I am stressed almost literally out of my mind: It goes to three pages on legal sized paper. And while some of the things on the list have since fallen way way down on the priority list (I don’t think I’ll be building that cat tree anytime soon), […]
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