I’ve had an insane few months, and with Little League over, I am taking a few weeks off before the insanity begins again.

Next semester, starting Aug 29, I’ll be leaving my house at 7:30 in the morning and getting home between 7:30 & 10 PM, Monday through Wednesday.  Yikes, 4 classes in 3 days after work (only leaving work an hour early on ( Read more... )

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Nature's rhythm is cyclical. Everything alive waxes and wanes. If you're smart, you honor that flow by periodically letting parts of your world wither or go to sleep. If you're not so smart, you set yourself up for needless pain by indulging in the delusion that you can enjoy uninterrupted growth. According to my reading of ( Read more... )

The Good News, the neighbor's truck doesn't seem to be going off all night long. The Bad News, it's still waking us up at ungodly hours in the morning ( Read more... )

I've had a couple interesting convos on a couple different forums and the responses I wrote have got me thinking... So I am going to post edited versions of my responses here. Food for thought and it makes it easier to come back here instead of hunting down the threads. You know?

What does being goth mean to me:I will be honest, as a teen it ( Read more... )

It's Sailfest weekend. And as excited as I am about it, it is also a bittersweet time. Remembering Ben (Rob's uncle who recently passed away), this is the weekend he threw his pig roast. Often, this was the only chance we'd have to see certain cousins and other family to catch up - see who is fighting, who had a baby, who is with who... I don ( Read more... )

I am not sure if I am going to be able to attend a planned event yet. Things are a bit nutty. Not OMG life is too crazy, just to make neat things to do and not enough time to get the chores done too... and the house is gotten bad again. Icky, no one should see it bad. Hello, my name is Indigo and I am a slob. Anyhoo.

I don't know if kailyn25 is ( Read more... )

My little family went to a May Day / Bletaine celebration and ritual yesterday. It was a good day ( Read more... )

A couple thoughts for today:

I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. - Martha Washington

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow. - Margaret FullerMeatballs were a success. 9 dozen made and nearly 8 dozen frozen. Angel Hair ( Read more... )

Besides the Highlander allusion, quickening says spring to me. And I feel it coming.

This morning I had a profound sense of quickening. Merriam-Webster Quicken stresses a sudden renewal of life or activity especially in something inert While driving through downtown, I sat at the light at the end of State Street. Looking past the train station ( Read more... )

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. - Confucius