Hey everyone. I know I haven't posted anything is a really loooong time. But I haven't, and I don't feel like making my first post in a loooong time about why I haven't, so I'll just dribble and rant and whine instead.

First, I'm not sure if I ever posted this picture of the fridge fridge, but I was going through some old stuff on my hard drive ( Read more... )

So you wake up, slowly, I mean really slowly. I'm talking 30 minutes just to get to the open-eyes-and-squint-around-the-room stage. And you don't feel so great, like your head is kind of fuzzy, like more than can just be explained by morning. With tiny little edges of pain, very tentative, but you notice them, and realize that perhaps this ( Read more... )

When you step down off of something like a deck or a ledge into a nice deep drift of snow it lets you down slowly. It is like thicker air, or thinner ground, but stranger (more magical?) than either of those notions. Air is so thin we never even think of it as a thing. And the ground is, well, the ground - bedrock, solid; only mud can make us doubt ( Read more... )

Okay, I'll make this quick. Cuz it is kind of like the embarrassment version of pulling off a bandage, and I don't want to drag it out ( Read more... )

Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink.

-23C. That is the temperature right now in Toronto (which is -9.5 in American). I'm currently alternating between cooking breakfast, and using an old credit card as an ice scrapper on the insides of my windows, which have frosted up. Wouldn't mind so much, if I didn't know I had to go outside later ( Read more... )

I am stunned. I mean really, fully flabbergasted. I made it through both of the lines that stood between me and my student loan - in less than an hour ( Read more... )

I am having hand cramps from knitting. 5.5 hours straight, and counting.

I would like to award the Word Maven gold medal to hc_56 for her extrodinary contributions to the work of keeping some variety and adventure alive in the use of the English language ( Read more... )

Okee. First, big excited "woohoo!" on hc_56's latest accomplishment.

K, a couple of days ago it was time for a trim, so I start in with the hair clippers on my noggin. HC comes out of her studio and says "here, let me do that" and takes the clippers. A small handful of moments later, and, well, I had my named shaved into the back of my head. Just one ( Read more... )