I had a really fantastic time at the Underground Canoe Christmas party this year! I think it helps a lot to finish the Yankee Swap and Secret Santa presents a full day beforehand. I was still feverishly working on a present at the eleventh hour, but that was just a CD of music for silentstephi Before that, I was photographing my weavings for posterity and ( Read more... )

Since returning home from California at the beginning of April, I've seen little of Tiger. I was all out of emotional energy, yes, I pushed him away. His ADHD also means that when I don't bug him with plans, he naturally spends more time with friends who do. Then he got a dog (temporarily, I hope), and then a second job, a huge time-suck. Now ( Read more... )

Right, so! Misquamicut Festival was two weekends ago. In the midst of my long, quiet, isolated summer, I was oddly uninterested in summer fun. Barbecues, beaches, and bonfires had happened in the summer of '14, the memories still close enough to warm me. Other than my still-fierce longing to see the pines of Maine, I had no interest in camping ( Read more... )

My husband quite literally shoved me out of the living room, so instead of playing a pretty phoenix, I'm banished to the internet. The horror ( Read more... )

Yes, one strong drink still has the power to make me tipsy for hours, mellow me enough so I nod off in a car without even realising I was sleepy . . . and make me feel kinda blah the next morning. This isn't a serious hangover, I can eat and tolerate looking at screens, but I don't feel up to the work I need to do, yet. Can't focus, want a nap. ( Read more... )

I've been putting my bithday on the downlow this year. I have plans, and I actually don't want to force my friends to try to put me at the center of those plans. But since both the party-hosts for tomorrow's parties don't/can't read LJ, and I trust the party-attendees to keep my secret: fuck it ( Read more... )

Mmmmmmm . . . mint chocolate chunk frozen yogurt is making me considerably less miserable. Yes, it's summer's first bright, sunny and hot day, and I'm the only one bitching about it. Well, I'm probably the only hung over person, being a fine and dandy workday for the rest of you on my Friends List, so that's that ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here, staring dully at a screen, feeling strong urges to cough and go lie down again. I'm annoyed that I'm sick again, but I'm not all that surprised ( Read more... )

I must say, I feel mighty geeky right now. Here I am, typing an LJ entry on Phoenix on Kitsune, my beloved old iMac, while Photoshop is installing on Jumping Mouse. The two monitors are both smiling pretty colours at me. I have to remember that the keyboard on my lap does not rename folders on Jumping Mouse. All in all, I feel like Otto. He ( Read more... )

Yesterday was fun. I've been more sociable in the last two days than I have all winter.

On Friday, I went to the Cambridge Brewing Company with a whole big group of people. I like being part of a gang.

The gang consisted of ottomaton, fishoutawata, friode, doctorellisdee, bunnygoth and Otto's friend plus his friend. The largest gathering of LJ people I've yet been to, unless you count TBC ( Read more... )