According to my brain, last year didn't happen. It's very strange. If I think to myself, "last year", my memory goes back two years, and I've caught myself doing it several times.

I mean, I'm very happy 2012 did happen. Lots of good things took place then. All I have to do is consider Grandma's Baldwin sitting in pride of place in my townhouse ( Read more... )

Three years ago - slightly more than that - I decided to lose weight.  I wasn't horribly overweight or anything, but I'd been slowly gaining weight ever since my senior year in high school.  I carried it well (I thank my grandmother for my good build) being 5'5" and about 160 lbs was uncomfortable and not terribly pretty.  But the hard part wasn't ( Read more... )

I'm working on writing my way through my emotional life, how it all works, what it's influenced by, how to use it to the fullest.  And I think I'm drawing in threads connecting introversion, pure sensory processing, and AD/HD.  Not that it's all the same thing, not that parts aren't my own fault, and not to make myself a victim.  Just to work out ( Read more... )

My friend with the slightly-older-than-one-year-old child once told me how taxing it is as an extravert to be stuck at home with a preverbal child all day.  The one person available to interact with doesn't communicate in your language, neither does she communicate at your level.  I thought about that.  It hadn't occurred to me that extraverts need ( Read more... )

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I did something really clever in preparation for Holy Week.  I read Perelandra.

It wasn't on purpose.  What was on purpose was listening to Handel's Messiah during Holy Week, as that oratorio was written for Easter (not Christmas), and anyway, every time someone started quoting Messianic passages (in church or online or wherever), I could only ( Read more... )

So Elisabeth Sladen died.

( I wanna be Sarah Jane when I grow up )

Saw the new "prequel" clip for this year's Who.  Probably a stupid question, but ( not really a big spoiler here )

Yeargh, what a week.  There's been the emotional challenge of helping my friend with the broken heart, the physical challenge of fighting a sore throat while practicing Beethoven's Ninth (and putting some work into Allaway's Celtic Mass), and the... other challenge of regular old hormones.  The weather has been expressing this perfectly, with its ( Read more... )

A friend of mine is going through a really tough time now.  (Long story, let's just say two broken hearts are involved.)  I happen to be the nearest and most convenient of those she trusts, and am therefore the one who was on the spot to help her these past few days: regular calls and texts, encouragement, listening, strategic distraction, going ( Read more... )