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One year later
On Monday, I found out that my ex got a job, local and with a decent salary. I was so excited that I jumped up and danced around, telling co-workers. This means that I will have help paying the child care costs - yes, that still has to be ironed out, but it will happen. So it is a huge relief, financially speaking ( Read more... ) -
Three nights of dreams
Night 1. The disturbing
My ex, trying to convince me we could still work things out, persuaded me to go to a baseball game with him. We had very good seats, close to home plate, except we had to turn sideways in our seats to watch the action. Abruptly he stood up and he was naked. I asked him what the hell he was doing. Look at me, he said. I'm ( Read more... ) -
Definitions
This morning I had to call my ex (and yes, it is legally “ex” now!) to ask him to sign a document I emailed him. I knew I had to call because I need him to get it signed and notarized for me today or tomorrow, and he doesn’t check his email regularly. He was generally curt and somewhat hostile, which is what I expected, but didn’t say anything ( Read more... ) -
Soren and our new house
Last night Soren really surprised me with how much he can understand already. (He is two and only recently began putting multiple-word sentences together.) Although he has heard us talking about plans for moving to a new house for some time, I hadn't talked to him about it directly, because I thought it would be hard for him to understand.
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What I've been reading
- The Patron Saint of Plagues - Barth Anderson
- Her Smoke Rose up Forever - James Tiptree Jr. (I read only about 2/3 of these stories, but when the stress level in my life went up, I needed something lighter.)
- Mennonite in a Little Black Dress - Rhoda Janzen
- Concourse - S. J. Rozan
- Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula LeGuin
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Do Something Big
Sharing our 2010 awareness campaign for Be The Match (where I work) -- for which I've been frantically coordinating development of all the online elements for the last month. (And I made this widget.)
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Book # 2 - The Sun Inside
So much for my plans to keep up with posting my book-reading. I actually finished the novella, The Sun Inside, by the amazing writer David J. Schwartz (snurri ) a month ago. Okay, he's also a friend, but that isn't why I think he's a great writer.
Since it's been a month, so I'm going to note just the two things from this short book that I'm still ( Read more... ) -
Soren is two!
Two years ago today my Soren insistently made his way into the world. I'm sitting in my cube at work, where the photos on my wall are a full year old, taken when he was one ( Read more... ) -
Books, 2010
Last year, I kept meaning to write about books I was reading and never did, so I’m trying to start the year off right. I’m not aiming at proper reviews, just my quick reactions.
So here it is, the first book of 2010:
Alan DeNiro’s Total Oblivion, More or Less
Oh, I really liked this book a lot! I liked it so much that I didn’t want to finish it, ( Read more... ) -
just dreams
Lots of vivid dreams last night that keep rotating past the consciousness, begging me to share.- Playing with a huge black bear in piney mountain woods. When he wasn't playing with me, I saw through my window, that he was playing on the frozen ice with his friend the polar bear.
- First day at a new college:
- A man asks me if I wanted to go out for ( Read more... )