I tried to go out on Friday and not be a shut-in. I really did. But I took one step away from the back door and promptly fell, barely catching myself from going face-first down the steps to the alley. On the plus side, my bruises make it look like I'm in roller derby. Of course, I've also proven to myself that trying out for anything that even ( Read more... )

Our lovely Minnesota weather has recently taken a turn for the... more normal. Our seasonally appalling mid-30's have dropped to a nice round zero (disregarding the wind chill). Our living room, which has a wood fireplace (and so loses heat fastest), was getting a little chilly, so I figured I'd turn on the radiator in the dining room, thus ( Read more... )

Woo. You know, I may have been wearing my bright orange not-even-hip-hop-hip down jacket, and my trousers don't really fit that well over my long johns, but I'm glad for all that looking like an idiot. Why?

Because I spent over an hour of my day today outside standing around, waiting for busses. This was made even better by the so-full-they-can ( Read more... )

If you were going to drop everything right now, go home and pack a small duffel, and spend the rest of the week somewhere else, where would it be? Like any other fantasy-adventure, remember, money is no object ( Read more... )