This day has sucked baboon butt. Seriously.  So, instead of bitching, I give you my top ten things that have made me happy today.

10.  Fresh blueberries that don't cost $5 for a handful.  Fresh fruit season, in fact.  Delightful.
9.  Recipe Blogs.  The Pioneer woman, in particular.
8.  The story for ronpansy_fest rocking right along.  seegrim  and I have a nice little ( Read more... )

It's no secret (or maybe it is) that I've been in a funk for the last few months, for most of the fall, actually. But just in the last week I've seen the light at the end of the tunnel and I feel happy for the first time in a long time. It isn't that I haven't had anything to be happy about, because I do: Great husband, great kids, great family ( Read more... )

"Sometimes it's difficult to be alive, you know? Just to try to function.  There are all these people to deal with.  I used to find it difficult to leave the house because of them.  People, I mean."   - Laughing Wild, by Christopher Durang

That line's been running through my head on a loop for the last week. It was from a monologue cutting I did for ( Read more... )

I posted a chapter of my story today ( Read more... )