First of all, let me apologize to all of you active posters (all five of you) who got random comments from me today on posts you wrote months ago. I really wanted to catch up on my flist reading, and that meant going in the way-back machine ( Read more... )

I think the big difference this year with our holiday trips is that we made waaaaaayyyy more time for friends. This just seemed imperative, because from now on, our holidays will include a plus-one, and grabbing french toast at the local diner will become a huge, un-spontaneous production ( Read more... )

I felt like I had gotten into a better posting pattern, but the holidays made a mess of that. I apologize in advance, because this is going to be choppy and long. Heh. Choppy and long ( Read more... )

I was only back in the city long enough to drop Greta with Wes and do a packing u-turn. Then boom- I was in Minnesota. I'd been there in the summer twice, but as you can imagine, winter in Minneapolis is an entirely different experience. Carey's parents had moved out of their home and into a duplex on Lake Calhoun. It's smaller, but still had ( Read more... )

I thought that being unemployed would make juggling the holidays so much easier to handle. But when your family knows you don't have a job, they feel totally comfortable making incredible demands on your time. For Thanksgiving, I went to my sister's for dinner, and then drove up to NH with my parents and stayed for almost a week. When I went over ( Read more... )

I'm a little late on the New Year stuff. That doesn't mean I have no resolve, though. Ringing in the New Year oceanside, with champagne in my hair and sparklers in my hands in Maui was such a terrific start; I feel like I have a chance despite the gloomy economy and my sketchy job situation ( Read more... )

Life's been a little crazy lately. Let me put it this way: Today was the first morning I could shower on my own. The cuts the air conditioner left on my hands were very deep and open, and I had to keep them dry until they stopped...well....oozing. Carey has been an absolute doll, making the sacrifice and bathing all 5 feet 9 inches of me until I ( Read more... )

Allison sent me an email reminding me about last year's resolutions. That's what happens when you publish things on the internets. It is, as she put it, time to "assess [my] success!" Old stuff in blue, new stuff in black.

January 4th, 2007 ( Read more... )

One line camera-phone entries don't count, so I figure I'm a couple if not a few weeks behind on regular posting. But I also know that the world isn't waiting with baited breath on January 4th to find out how my Christmas went, so I'll try to fail to limit this catch-up entry to things I want to remember about the tail-end of 007 ( Read more... )

I will be ringing in the New Year St.Louis-meets-Denver style! I haven't been on skis in almost a decade, but broken bones heal and crutches are sexy. The one thing I had to take care of was the flight (and finding a Greta-sitter, but I'll think about that tomorrow). ( And of course, things went wrong )