Another reason why I'm not posting so much, besides the cutting back on surfing whilst at work, is that I feel like I'm getting a little repetitive with my whinging about money money money. We're closing out Year Three of our Second Salad Days, and while The Mister and I continue to tread water well enough, there have been many things we've just ( Read more... )

2008 went by in a green flash. So many things happened, but they all seemed to happen allatonce and suddenly I'm having trouble remembering to turn all my "08"'s into "09"'s. (Let's not even mention the fact that every once in a while, I start out the year with a "19".) (OK, so I just did ( Read more... )

The weeks just fly by anymore, don't they?

Things are well in the Darkity household. We had a double date last night with some friends to go see "Dark Knight". With all the rest of the world I highly, highly recommend this to every single one of you ( Read more... )

Things just don't seem to be going right this week. Nothing catastrophic has happened. Nothing (thusfar) has fallen out of the sky. Nothing is irreparably broken. It just. Feels. Off ( Read more... )

Though generally I am at this very moment in the upward part of the sine wave that is my pre-Red Tent Event physical/emotional hootenanny*, I'm still using the iPMS userpic because Dammit. This has been a WEEK ( Read more... )

Looks like I'm going to have myself a serious Hunker Down day. I am feeling immensely irritated by every single person in my visual/aural range ( Read more... )

Egged on by Tuesday's literary roundup, I stopped by my local branch of the (awesome, stupendous) county library and tried to find that Isadora Duncan autobiography audreymcqueen mentioned (and it is indeed uniquely entitled: "My Life").

Dag nabbit, but it's only available in the closed stacks area of the main branch!

So I got Plan B by Anne Lamott instead. ( Read more... )

Whoa ( Read more... )

I am filled with unease, disquiet, and just a general sense of EFF YOU ( Read more... )

Yeargh. It's been years since I possessed a fresh, dewy complexion (if at all) but this winter skin situation is getting ridiculous!

Granted, I've been slowly dehydrating myself (not on purpose!) and keep forgetting to lotion up après shower (I was going to go all out French but après douche just sounds too raunchy), but really. The return of ( Read more... )