( long wandering ramble through my anxiety at returning to idaho )

if you want to see me tonight, that is. pressing demands on my time tomorrow have made it impossible for me to drive all the way up to A2 tonight, as that means i would have to stay over & of course we would get all likkered up, which means coming back tomorrow at a reasonable hour is unlikely. however, if you are reading this & feel at all ( Read more... )

less trauma & torture than i expected. weird cousin #1's kids are getting old enough to have personalities & be interesting. weird cousin #2 was working & couldn't attend. punker conducted much of the conversational business, and i got to assemble the my little pony ferris wheel in rainbow fairyland. kinda feeling poorly right now due to the steady ( Read more... )

about to be off to see our puffy-paint sweatshirt cousins & the aunt & uncle who raised them. despite my ongoing stresses w/my sister (which have been patched up for several days now, btw), i love my immediate family immensely & i enjoy most of my holiday time with them. however, this annual gathering with this other side of the family fills me ( Read more... )

...merry-merry, happy-happy! my holiday was family-based, but restful & relaxing nonetheless, and i hope yours was too. love & joy to you all!

so, here i am, uncomfortably ensconced in the twin bed from my childhood upon which i jumped so many times that i broke all the springs. it's now like sleeping on a bag of twisted. mangled rebar with sheets stretched over it. i have begged and begged and pleaded and cajoled and whined and passive-aggressived for YEARS about how horrible it is to ( Read more... )

making cookies now... chocolate crinkles, mmmmmm...

also, listening to barbra streisand's xmas album. does anyone else think it's amusing when good jewish people like babs & neil diamond record xmas music? tee-hee...

so, i'm "working from home" this morning, which hasn't exactly been as good as it sounds, considering i was kind of not-so-officially informed yesterday that my project is likely going on indefinite hiatus as soon as january rolls around; right now there is a jan 12 release for which the development staff in china is polishing up the code, which is ( Read more... )