I can't even remember all the different fun things we did yesterday, it was a day packed with fun. We watched soccer together while I played with toys. We made out on the sofa. We went out to the hot tub. We had dinner delivered and ate it outside. We watched some TV together while snuggling. A great day!

The cats are feeling neglected, heh.

I've picked up B, we'll be heading to brunch in a few minutes, then to the cinema, then back here for hot tub time :-)

The world is falling apart
He's getting older

and there's a funeral in his heart,

one of the things I like about myself is my appetite for fun

somebody's got to have some fun,

I'm the first in line

how much fun can I have while also shuddering these deadlines falling around me like WW1 precision artillery heart was beating so fast earlier this week, Bug finally dug themself a trench ( Read more... )

Today I had my most popular social media post of all time, with over 1000 likes.  All I did was share a meme on the poly subreddit.  I didn't create this meme, and I don't know who did.  I saw it on Twitter, posted by somebody who saw it on Tumblr, but they didn't say from whom.  The meme is not signed.

Something I'm finding more interesting than ( Read more... )

Lunch break post, then I'm going running -- it's finally not sleeting or drizzling or something outside.

A popular Reddit post on the poly subreddit asked how do poly people answer the question, "Are you single?"

Most people focused on a different paradigm, "Are you available?"  Because you could have a partner but still be available.

I thought about ( Read more... )

Have I ever experienced such a quiet Christmas Eve?  Ah, yes, in 2002.  I deliberately spent Christmas Eve by myself, in my studio apartment in SW DC, because my father had died a month before, and for the first time in my life I was an orphan.  I deliberately chose not to travel for Christmas.  For all of my life I'd spent Christmas Eve with one ( Read more... )

Didn't realize how deep and heavy Joy Division was, even way back then, because I couldn't process the lyrics in real time. Until I read along tonight.

Wow.

I will return again to these albums from my past. But I'm switching to something more recent and ... compatible with postmodern WTF-do-I-care-about, I'm-playing-with-butt-toys-now living :-

As interested in history as I am, for as long as I've been, there are some things that history teaches have always been the same, and other things that history teaches are new and unprecedented ( Read more... )