So today is Rhiannon's second birthday. I know everyone says the time flies when you have little ones, and while I can't say it's dragged, I don't feel like it's flown. I think it's because when I think back to two years ago when she was born, it's like it happened in a different life, to somebody else. There have been so many changes, that the ( Read more... )

We started ripping apart the house a bit yesterday in the afternoon. I ended up taking Rhiannon over by my mom's to hang out while my mom put up her tree and got a call from Chris saying he'd moved a cabinet in the basement that probably hadn't been moved for upwards of 25 years and found a live bird behind it which promptly started flying all ( Read more... )

It's about 20ºF here right now, and last night was the first time I'd gone out of the house in three days. Between being sick for most of the Mississippi trip, the trip itself -- almost 12 hours each way, and getting home and being hit with a snowstorm and plummeting temperatures almost instantaneously, my blood pretty much feels like sludge in my ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here in the kitchen, transcribing some tapes, and listening while G, the handyman I hired to fix my poor, pathetic bathroom, is hammering away at the old tile to get it off the walls. After he'd stripped the first few tiles off the area where they were buckling, he tapped a bare section just a little bit, and a chunk of wall the size ( Read more... )