Today is The Canadian Brother's 40th birthday! That seems so bizarre, because to me he will always be like 19 years old, which was how old he was the day he got on a bus to New York City. He wanted to try to make it as a musician. He didn't know anybody there, he didn't have a place to stay or a job lined up - he just packed a duffel, his ( Read more... )

What Not To Wear is gone forever now. This show really was about so much more than clothes and it took me so long to realize it. My sister made the mistake of introducing me to it on an episode where they made some woman throw out her vintage rock tees - (which I am STILL a little miffed about) - and it took a long time for Stacy & Clinton to ( Read more... )

Ever been trapped somewhere that you can't get out of and everything is pounding, pounding and shaking and you can't get out? Yep, welcome to being stuck at home while the roofers are re-roofing your house. At the ass crack of dawn. Right over your bedroom. Seriously, they’ve been here all day and while I am glad they are pushing through before ( Read more... )

To preface this story, let me say that K's middle child - henceforth known as Boy - was born not long before I - as K so lovingly puts it - 'disappeared on him', way back when. So by the time we reconnected, this kid was around 13. And even last summer when Boy was working in the clinic - he just looked so freaking young. But this summer I ( Read more... )

Go Supreme Court! Suck it, Prop 8!! That’s one more step in the right direction - now let’s keep walking forward ( Read more... )

Today is birthday #35! Holy crap. That seems so bizarre to me because I don't feel 35, you know. Do you guys have that too, where you feel much younger than you are? It is also liptonrm's birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BABE! My sister is taking us out to Olive Garden for birthday dinner and Sunday ceitfianna is coming to grill out. And we might sneak in a movie ( Read more... )

THREE YEARS ON LJ TODAY!!! This is post #507. Holy crap, I didn’t even realize that I had hit 500! Wait…apparently this post about my monthly word count was #500 ( Read more... )

So, last year, wolfrider89 and I challenged each other to post a piece of our own original poetry in honor of National Poetry Month. I thought I'd do it again this year and I think she is going to as well! Since the month is almost over, I thought I'd better get on that ( Read more... )

Did you miss me? Oh yeah, I guess I do usually disappear from LJ over the weekend, don’t I?

Well, I was gone! I went to Chicago for two - count ‘em two - birthday parties; a 40th birthday and a 2nd birthday, quite the range. We drove down on Friday for the first party, my sister’s college roommate.

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I read 7 books last year - (I almost forgot the Buffy book!). Well, okay, 7 if you count the comic set The Nephew loaned me, which I do because I walked away with a killer headache afterwards, so I'm counting it! Now I remember why I stopped reading comics so heavily.

I think I talked about all of these while I was reading them actually. ( Some minor spoilers. )