I keep reading that most new years resolutions are abandoned by the end of january, so here's an update on mine. ( 2011 Resolutions - Two month Check-up )

The trees outside are budding in the unseasonably warm weather. Every time I notice the delicate little bud-lets, I'm filled with pity and contempt. Foolish trees, after all these years of early warm snaps followed by weeks of freezing, you still don't know winter's tricking you ( Read more... )

The plague is letting up, I'm feeling better. Sort of ( Read more... )

Thus continues my vendetta with February*: day before yesterday it became clear we'd caught the crud that's going around. It's a bad one. We both stayed home from work yesterday and (I offer this as a measure of our collective pathetic-ness) did not play Warcraft or watch DVDs, or even screw around on facebook, because all of those things seemed ( Read more... )

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The memorable quote from last year's review was "Please mister flying spaghetti monster sir, make 2010 a less eventful one."

Ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. I officially make no requests of 2011. I'm here. I'm braced. We'll see how it goes.

2010

January- Unemployed ( Read more... )

Who made the world ( Read more... )

I've been waking up feeling sort of wonderfully weightless and energized by the morning sunlight. It was getting rough there for a bit, getting up in the dark; I was full of gratitude when they clocks changed. Last night was the first time I really felt the dragging trade-off that is coming home in full darkness. I ran an errand and I was on the ( Read more... )

We're not out just yet, but I have a shovel. Jason is my hero ( Read more... )

I want very much to leave my apartment. It is getting small.

A friend sent out a general invite for people to come over to her place for spaghetti and company. I thought about walking there. It was only a couple miles away. If it wasn't still snowing I might've gone ( Read more... )