My last post, 5 months ago, described the strangeness of our living arrangement. Like being in limbo, unsustainable and yet with no way out ( Read more... )

If I were the headmaster of Hogwarts, I would make the first day of class in potions consist of learning how to smelt iron from iron ore, and cast it into the shape of a cauldron ( Read more... )

Going to bed on tuesday night I felt a little bit bloated, no doubt due to the ice cream I'd decided to have at 11:30. Then Wednesday morning when I woke up I still felt a little bloated but still put the blame squarely on the ice cream. However, when it lasted all day and into the next, I was slightly disconcerted ( Read more... )

[unproofread. bear with me ( Read more... )

So, I had a birthday this last weekend. And thanks, by the way, to various well wishers whom I haven't thanked in person, for wishing me a happy one.

It was somewhat uneventful, which is just what I'd been hoping for. Just enough party to make the day feel like something happened, but no rigamarole or anything. billtsalamander and Becca came over to Santa ( Read more... )

So... we moved a couple of days ago. Yeah. That happened.

Wait, did it?

Yeah, I guess it did, though somehow the experience was a lot easier than I was expecting it to be. I mean, it wasn't so easy that I want to start doing it all the time, but there wasn't any of that "*groan* wwwhhhyyyy are we doing this!!!" that I've learned to expect from ( Read more... )

Footloose and fancy free, that is.

Maddy has already posted about this in her journal, but for those of you who don't read both of our journals (all two of you), here's how it all panned out ( Read more... )

An unexpectable turn of events ( Read more... )

I wrote this lullaby at the tail end of five songs that I wrote over the course of a few days. I had many people in mind as I wrote it, late at night with a bad case of insomnia, and one of those people was my grandmother ( Read more... )

Here's another, simpler approach to the same problem ( Read more... )