I've gone through several different periods in my life where I've been completely obsessed with The Beatles, and then for whatever reason, have turned away from both the men and their music for periods of years.  I can blame one self-imposed drought on a bad breakup with the guitarist in a Beatles tribute band, but that was a long time ago.

I didn't ( Read more... )

I honestly didn't realize how long it had been since my last post, because time has taken on a variety of uninteresting shapes of late.  Therefore, this post will cover the blob of time between January 11 and today, almost a full month later.  WOW - I honestly didn't know today's date until typing that last sentence.

Reasons?

*  School has been ( Read more... )

So, maybe I won't be sticking to a weekly posting journal because sometimes my weeks get a little boring.  It can take closer to two weeks to have enough interesting stuff that I actually want to remember to list in a post!

Since last time, I:

*  finally had fantastic sex with the husband, in between bouts of sickness.  Funny how I stayed healthy ( Read more... )

OK, so here's a snapshot of my life over the past week, give or take a few days:

I have

1. baked 10 doz gingerbread cookies and hosted 15 kids for a pre-Christmas cookie decorating party (good)
2. cancelled my appt to have a much-needed crown replaced for the second time (meh)
3. made my mother cry, and really?  Didn't feel a great deal of remorse, because ( Read more... )

I need to come vent so I can make sense of the progress/lack thereof/actual reality of my life at this point.

It's been FOURTEEN MONTHS since we were relocated by a tornado, and here's what I know:

• State Farm is still undecided when it comes to the extent of damage/true cost of said damage to our house (which we bulldozed in November '09.)
   
• We have ( Read more... )

The following essay on the role men can, and hopefully will, play in the future of shaping our society was inspired by the reveal of actor Nathan Fillion's "supersecretthingy," as he referred to it months ago ( Read more... )