Recently I took a week off from work - nothing fancy, just a staycation where I relaxed, did some spinning, did some knitting, did some yard work, and did some other stuff.  The best part was that by the time it was ready for me to go back to work, I felt like I'd had a nice stretch of time off.  The second best part was that when I came back to ( Read more... )

We shall overcome
We shall overcome
We shall overcome, someday
Oh, deep in my heart
I do believe
That we shall overcome, somedayI grew up on that song. My mom sang it to us every night when I was a toddler, and encouraged us to make up new verses ( Read more... )

We're coming up on the first anniversary of my father's death. I'm not really sure what I want to do about that. I have this vague impulse to commemorate it somehow, but nothing has sprung to mind yet ( Read more... )

It's Dad's birthday tomorrow.

November is a difficult month this year. November is the month of my stepmom's birthday, their wedding anniversary, my father's birthday, and of course Thanksgiving, aka the Mega Family Get-together Holiday ( Read more... )

So far I've talked to a contractor, dealt with the firm handling my dad's estate, dealt with our credit union, and done dishes. Oh, and I blocked this shawl:


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So, this weekend I had a dream where someone came and removed our live oak without our permission, and when I ran out of the house to yell at him, he claimed he had a work order, which led to me yelling about why he didn't confirm the work order with the resident first, followed by me calling the company and raising holy hell, and I was just ( Read more... )

I'm going to be interring my share of Dad's ashes on Father's Day weekend. Right now his ashes are in a tall plastic box sitting on a shelf in my office, which isn't nearly as strange as it was back in January ( Read more... )

We were watching a documentary about the National Film Registry and the movies it preserves, which I figured was a safe choice. Better than Deadliest Catch, since we'd previously been in the middle of the season where Captain Phil dies, and I'd stated pretty clearly that I was not ready to watch that again just now ( Read more... )