I've decided I'd like to be known as "Deacon Blues ( Read more... )

Our time in Portland visiting barlow_girl's cousins has been sweet. Since we're only here for a couple of days, we purposely didn't come with a "see and do" agenda-for me, it's too easy for that to be a distraction from actually spending time enjoying the people we came to see. So we've been pretty relaxed. Yesterday we took a road trip (more of an expedition ( Read more... )

So fun hanging with the Andrewses last night. Last time we did this (three weeks ago), we all felt a little rushed-we had more BSG episodes to watch, and barlow_girl and I had just gone through a day full of repair work outside of/blocking our door (which was, of course, estimated by our landlord as a "one hour job" but instead drug on through the whole day ( Read more... )

barlow_girl and I returned yesterday from a few days in Iowa visiting my family. heartflyte and her clan were wonderful hosts, and Amy really enjoyed getting to meet and spend time with her nieces and nephew. We also spent some time with my folks, had a Christmas gift exchange, took a tour of the Iowa State Capitol, and enjoyed lunch at Big Daddy's (which I haven't had ( Read more... )

Full day of work gearing up for our trip to visit my family in Iowa this weekend. Plenty to crank out before we go, but no major roadblocks yet. Catching my breath is a luxury, though, and all my best intentions to be better about reading and writing are mostly vapor these days. Maybe after we get back? Wednesday of next week is my first ( Read more... )

Holiday get-togethers have pretty much cornered the market on this week's calendar. Scroogish as I may be about the abundance of gatherings (we've had twelve Evites within a month, plus other events), it's really been fun, and we have more to come today (two get-togethers). We head to Iowa for a few days at the end of next week, and once we get ( Read more... )

Lots of getting things rolling today; it feels good to be in motion ( Read more... )

Reasons it's a good day:

• It's Friday.
  
• It's cool and rainy.
  
• It's my sister heartflyte's birthday.
  
• barlow_girl and I have been married two months today.

I'm sure there are other reasons, too, but I don't want to be greedy ( Read more... )

For her birthday tomorrow, barlow_girl and I set up my sister with a LiveJournal. So stop by and say welcome and happy birthday to my sister heartflyte! She hasn't logged in herself yet (I just finished setting it up), but it'll be nice for her to have a warm greeting when she does.

Been sitting here for some time puzzling how to put words to my tiredness. Not really getting any farther, so I'm just throwing it out there.

Whether it's good stuff, bad stuff, family stuff, or friend stuff, nearly everything social or relational feels forced on some level. There's not much that just works. Of course, that's simply the way of ( Read more... )