I recently re-found my sunglasses, the lack of which was fortunately not as annoying in the fall as it would have been in the summer. However, I found them just in time because my "eye irritation from not wearing sunglasses" was starting to crop up again. The sunglasses were in a purse (I hate that word but I feel like pocketbook doesn't quite ( Read more... )

I was randomly thinking about my Livejournal this morning (mostly how I used to enjoy posting in it so much) so I decided to see exactly when I had posted last, and my last post was more than a year ago, prior to having a baby. As they noted on "Up All Night" last week, you can't post somewhere "Hey having a baby/going to the hospital" and then ( Read more... )

Did you know that the last time I posted on LJ was February 8th? That's a long time ago ( Read more... )

I do a lot of really excellent thinking in the car, and since I am in my car often enough to put ~2,000 miles/month on my dear vehicle, I am able to accomplish a lot of thinking.

( Lately I've been thinking about how much time/money my hobbies use )

Is anyone else still seeing a moose ornament and a candle in an evergreen tree as their header ( Read more... )

This is an annual tradition!

1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?Group Power (powerlifting) class at gym, joined and helped Herring Ponds Watershed Association, won Stickleback Award, won CC Wahines "best-dressed" trophy at Spring Pa'ina, sang with MARS, did intense 6-hour horseshoe crab survey protocol, saw the following bands ( Read more... )

So hey. Let's pretend I haven't been away for as long as I have, ok? I mean, yeah, I've been hanging out a lot with Facebook and my new friend Twitter, but come on, LJ, baby. You know I love you. I was thinking the other day that I've been with you longer than I was with Diaryland (ok, we won't talk about that phase of my life, that's cool ( Read more... )

This morning while getting coffee in a chain that has a reputation as the Hooters of Coffee but makes good flavored coffee (this sentence contains the word "coffee" 3x not including the one right there), I heard a song that sampled Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek", which is a very beautiful and somewhat heartrending song (listen to both at that link ( Read more... )

The breezes taste
Of apple peel.
The air is full
Of smells to feel-
Ripe fruit, old footballs,
Burning brush,
New books, erasers,
Chalk, and such.
The bee, his hive,
Well-honeyed hum,
And Mother cuts
Chrysanthemums.
Like plates washed clean
With suds, the days
Are polished with
A morning haze. - John Updike, SeptemberI wonder if September will ever ( Read more... )

I have had the unfortunate "opportunity" to be part of a two separate conversations (one very recently, the other about 2 years ago) about rental properties wherein the people discussing it have mentioned something along the lines of being concerned about the condition in which the property would be left if it was rented to someone gay. Both ( Read more... )