I bought some eyeliner recently on a whim & have worn it a couple times. It's weird, applying eyeliner for the first time in about 20 years.

I've avoided makeup entirely for a very long time, because it made me feel bad about myself. It seemed like a culturally-prescribed mask, like an embodiment of the assumption that women are not beautiful ( Read more... )

my response to today's writing group prompt: "perfection ( Read more... )

For the past few days, for no apparent reason, I've been concocting this list of the national/international events that have had the most vivid effect on me thus far in my life. I'm not sure what it means that the earliest one that really had a big impact was when I was 16. I remember some politically or culturally significant events before that, ( Read more... )

I've been having some kind of strange, intense emotional reaction to uniforms lately. I mean, the concept has always bothered me -- or, at least, for the last 25 years or so -- but recently it's been really eating at me more than usual ( Read more... )

The knee is much better today and only woke me up a few times last night. Hurray!

Shannon and I spent a couple hours this evening packing stuff up and moving storage bins out to our fabulous new garage with its fabulous new shelves. The closets are suddenly so spacious! We are also getting rid of a lot of stuff. I mean, is there really any chance ( Read more... )

Got *tons* of stuff done today. There was scrubbing the inside of the microwave, boxing up junk to give away, throwing away (or recycling) stuff that wasn't good enough to give away, taking out garbage, washing the bathroom rug, hunting up (and printing or requesting) various financial info for our upcoming re-refinance, attacking cobwebs (not ( Read more... )

Big surprise: I felt sick much of today. As a result, I didn't do a lot. There had been talk of a bike ride and/or a walk up by the Rose Garden, but I decided not to chance it ( Read more... )

All the wisteria seems to be blooming this week, dangling from trellises like pastel-colored clusters of grapes. I don't remember ever seeing wisteria when I was growing up in southern California, so maybe it doesn't grow there. There seem to be a lot of flowers that grow here that I don't remember from when I was a kid -- jasmine, cherry blossoms ( Read more... )