I woke up this morning with a random urge to listen to this song, and it is just about making my Monday morning.

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And yes of course it makes me think of this.

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If I were to make a film version of Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning, this song would be on the soundtrack. It's kind of perfect.

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I try to set reminders on my phone for everything, because if I don't, something will inevitably be forgotten. Today's reminder I simply set as "Bills", and this song popped into my head when I saw the word on my phone screen. I rather wish I could have this song start playing as an accompaniment to the reminder every month, only because it would ( Read more... )

Let's hear it for the folk with detached doors. You know, it fell off the track or the hinges, so you put it up against a wall or fence (but! as straight as possible!) and respond to all inquiries with a shrug. "Oh, that's just my door to the other dimension ( Read more... )

The toilet is broken. Someone send a plumber through the weather that I'm under for the water pressure that I lost today.

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One of these days in the hopefully not too far off future, I will write something that is more than a few lines or just a cut-and-paste of someone else's words with a few of my own editorial and/or exclamatory remarks. Cross my heart and kiss my elbow. Until then, you all should know that I am half in love with this woman ( Read more... )

"That's a fine looking high horse."

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I've been wanting to do one of these "all of the things with which I've fallen in love and/or been amused by as of late" posts for a long while, but I was stuck in a "Nobody cares, Kim" funk for a little while. This is me forcing my way out of that, slowly ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, when such matters were sufficiently complicated and precarious to begin with, a young queen gave birth to three sons. These three were not born all at once, naturally, but because they were not given names outright, and because their arrival in such a quantity came as something of a surprise to all involved, and, most of all, ( Read more... )