January was exciting overall, I guess, but I feel generally sludgy and therefore have decided to make some changes. These are, as follows--

Change one: Stop eating pre-made stuff with sugar in it; this covers chocolate, obviously, but also all drinks aside from water, herbal tea and coffee.
Change two: Work coffee down to one cup a day, then switch ( Read more... )

I've been keeping a list of movies seen since the beginning of 2020, and it's up to thirty so far, which is like...approximately 1.42857143 a day. Plus TV, of course. The most recent thing I've been watching, on Netflix, is a K-series called The Firey Priest that often provides a spirits-lifting chaser to whatever other crazy/disturbing/emotionally ( Read more... )

...is the song Cal's listening to most, these days. Selena Gomez, his fave pop idol. She has good taste in songs, as does he, IMHO. (He's also figured out that the chord progression of that song mimics that of "From Now On," from The Greatest Showman, as well as part of Maroon 5's "Payphone," his almost constant go-to. We sang a version of "From ( Read more... )

Nothing huge right now, but I'm going to start posting again, because...well, I think I probably should. Maybe I need to. I've been doing most of my business on Facebook, which I get is probably collaboration with the enemy, but--better yet, or worse--it's also super-public, and I need some place a bit more private to occasionally pour out my heart ( Read more... )

Has a very weird dream in which I was touring the Royal Ontario Museum with Steve and my friend Nancy Baker. Parts of it were familiar, while others seemed to have been hooked together with the Planetarium (now up and running again, but showing things like "Asgard and the Nine Realms: The Tree-Shaped Universe"), an art museum full of weird ( Read more... )

So Cal is very much officially a teenager. I've taken to calling him "Teenaged Groot" when he gets gruff and huffy and annoying, which he really hates ("Uh, you have to call me Callum Barringer!"). He's definitely taller than me now, and his giant feet have grown a whole size, rendering all his boots obsolete. He's also going through phases of ( Read more... )

Yeah, so apparently, there are a whole lot of people here who post almost every day! How bizarre, as the old song goes.
I'm still very tired, to the point where this is the second day in a row that I've crapped out halfway through the day and been forced to lie down because I literally felt as though I might lose consciousness. Not sure what that's ( Read more... )

Well, it's finally happened: as of April 4, I am officially fifty years old. I kind of feel it. My insomnia is so bad now that today I posted on Twitter:

Gotta turn my clock around/Start living like a person./Don't keep vampire hours/Or things will much worse than...they already are. Forgive me, I think that might have been three hours' sleep.
And ( Read more... )

Once again, such a long, lonnnnng time coming. I apologize for that. It's been an odd intervening period; I got an opportunity to go Costa Rica with almost no warning, subbing in for my Mom, who suddenly found out (right on the eve of leaving for a singing retreat at a yoga studio/compound in the middle of the Caribbean-side rainforest) that she ( Read more... )

Last night I had what I can only describe as an anxiety attack. I think it would have been far worse without my Cymbalta, but I gotta say, it wasn't great. It was, in fact, so bad that I ended up taking Trazadone just to get to sleep, even though I stopped taking Trazadone some time back (on my doctor's advice) because I figured out that taking two ( Read more... )