I think that this may be the longest I have gone without writing a blog post in quite some time. I don't know why I went silent. All I know is that somewhere in the first week of November I tried to write a post about attending the Day of the Dead parade in furs and facepaint, with an armload of marigolds, but I couldn't make it come out in a way ( Read more... )

I would like to stop being sick. No sooner did I mostly recover from this terribly stomach thing, then I came down with a new round of Death Cough and sinus headaches. Rather than staying home and clutching my head, I was determined to go out. I swallowed my pride (along with some Sudafed) and attended the Hubba Hubba Revue's Prehistoric show, ( Read more... )

I am sitting on my couch in the middle of the week, in the middle of the day, next to the decapitated head of Barney the Purple Dinosaur and parts of a chin strap, sobbing like an idiot because I just had to cancel my rope act for tomorrow's Hubba Hubba Revue ( Read more... )

This weekend I did nothing ( Read more... )

J calls me "inconsolable," not because I'm in hysterics or anything like that, but because there is nothing that can be said that might make me feel better. I do not respond to "everything is going to be okay," or "it will work out all right," when it is really not okay at all and it may very well get worse. I am not comforted by empty reassuring ( Read more... )

On Saturday, J calls to tell me that Ada's skin has turned yellow. This is a problem because our cat's skin is ordinarily white. We're not talking about a slight tinge of yellow either: Ada is Smiley Face Sunshine Lemon Highlighter Yellow. This is the most cheerful color on Earth, unless it happens to be the color of your cat, in which case it is ( Read more... )