I cannot be trusted to write when I am depressed, it seems. Even when I know it mat help me feel better, and make a pledge to try. Bah at me. This last year has been very hard for Gav and I, our longest time apart so far. It was actually a full year between visits this time. I got so depressed that I rarely got out of bed. All I did was work, when ( Read more... )

Just to update: My flight got in fine on Wednesday, and I have been trying to rest since then. I have a dreadful cold/flu type thing, just as after the last flight, so I cannot sleep for more than a few hours at a time currently. It doesn't seem as bad as last time (I lost my voice for weeks and was so dizzy and out-of-it that I fainted and did bad ( Read more... )

Saturday, Gavin and I visited the island of Loch Leven Castle, accessible only by ferry. This island is located scarcely twenty minutes from Abernethy, and we deemed it a lovely last adventure, given that I will be flying back to the states on Wednesday.

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Needless to say, news of my return to the internets was greatly exaggerated.

( Of Depression and Technical Maladies )

Computer trouble is temporarily and indirectly fixed:

I am safely arrived in Scotland with hairyscotsman!I arrived yesterday. Holy blessedness. I shall be here until Dec 7, still not posting too often, but I do have Gav's computer to use here ( Read more... )

Since we have moved to the new place, a good six months, I haven't completely unpacked. I have not decorated, not put anything up, not made the place Ivy. Those of you who know me know how serious that is; I decorated The Flat days after moving in, as much as possible ( Read more... )

Here are a few photos from the trip to Scotland last year to see Gav. I cannot wait to be back...


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Greetings

Here I present what are, in my mind, the most beautiful and breathtaking of all the sights from my trip to Scotland with Gav. He is gathering his shots as well, and will likely post them soon. It was so difficult to limit these,and there were at least 150 pictures from this excursion. We woke and drove to Dunnottar Castle, scarcely 45 ( Read more... )

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Oh, darlings, I miss him. It seems foolish to attempt to use words to describe it. It is so intrinsic, and so primal...some part of my being is not with me. We will be together again, not soon enough, but soon. In the meantime, to fill up my lonely moments, I am going over photos. I have so much beauty to share with you, my dears ( Read more... )