uuuugghh ( Read more... )

i've been realizing. i have all these boxes and containers on shelves. i have stuff all out of place on floors and counters and in corners. along walls. a surprising number of those containers are empty. i don't think brian even knows this.

( i wasn't designed to handle these things. )

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on my way home, i remembered ( Read more... )

i have lost sympathy for my children.

this sounds terrible, but it's actually a workable tool. with sympathy, i sound like, "i know he didn't clean his room, but i'll feel so bad about him missing activity X."

and i sit here and think i'm completely not serious as my catchphrase is pretty much, " that's it, i've had it, i'm totally done with this ( Read more... )

sometimes, i get a word stuck in my head, as we all do.

for awhile, it was demoralizedit described my internal state of being. it still does, but i guess the word fell a little out of popular usage ( Read more... )

my vintage golden spoons, which brian said i should buy, though i have no good reason for buying golden spoons at this present point in my financial history, arrived yesterday. they are especially golden. more golden than i thought would be possible ( Read more... )

i went to florida last week. i believe this was my 29th visit. i went with my family. brian, two children. we met my father and mother there, in florida ( Read more... )

i don't think i have ever managed to be so unaware of a birthday as i am of the one arriving tomorrow ( Read more... )

if anybody is still around here ( Read more... )

a note for myself, really ( Read more... )