My mood *had* toned down a bit, until 20 minutes ago. Now I am blazing twice as hot as I was yesterday ( Read more... )

It feels like Thursday. I don't know why, seeing as I've not really altered my usual "slow week" schedule. I did not end up going to the Meat Packer yesterday because the owner is ghosting me. You'd think he'd have the courtesy to respond to my text, but I am nothing to him but a Borg in an alcove that he is only required to interact with when he ( Read more... )

I told myself this morning I needed to sit down and write more about the present. Even if it was something as mundane as what my daily routine is like. I am still going through the old entries and I've found it very entertaining when I am going through the uneventful routines of my days. Don't get me wrong, I do love reading about the dramas and ( Read more... )

I just made the sad epiphany that if we were going to New Orleans this year for Mardi Gras we would be leaving tomorrow night. I had thought it was still weeks away. I am relegated to watching streaming webcams from Bourbon St while everyone around here will go about their days through next week as if nothing special is happening ( Read more... )

My whole life I was never political. I never cared about politics. I only had passing knowledge of them. Through my twenties and thirties all I really knew was from my gay friends, whose stance was always that "conservatives were evil", "fox news was bad" and "Christians are hypocrites". It was only on rare occasion I even attempted to have a ( Read more... )

This past weekend was Mother's Day. I spent Sunday down in the burbs doing my usual routine of planting and prepping my parents yard for the summer. My mom has somewhere around 35+ pots and planters to fill and arrange. Not to mention flowerbeds around the property ( Read more... )

Before the move I had already hotly (internally) debated another Halloween party this year. Last year's party was truly the greatest Halloween endeavor I have ever put together. It took so many intense weeks of planning, designing and creating the small little world that lasted only a few short hours on a Saturday evening ( Read more... )

Yesterday, after spending half the weekend priming the walls in my apartment to paint them, I went out for some cocktails. It was a typical Sunday when the weather gets nice in Chicago and everyone wants to be out at the bars, on the patios, burning under the sun and sweating their asses off. The usual parade of gym bunnies and vacuous queens ( Read more... )

I needed some "background noise" on the TV tonight as I worked on a playlist so I decided to pop in 'Kiss Me Guido'. I hadn't seen the movie in over a decade. I'd bought the DVD and never watched it. Once done with that, I popped in 'Trick', which I also have not seen in years. I'm left feeling the aching of nostalgia, for times that are gone and ( Read more... )

I've come really far in my work ethic I think. Years ago, even before the Playpen, I was ranting daily about the boredom of a job not done and being under the oppressive fist of that crazy Dearest and his need for all-encompassing control over everything that happened in his department. These days I have the Boss who is the polar opposite, who ( Read more... )