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Ireland Day 3: Climb against the slime
Even when we're on vacation, we think of our friends often - who would be amused by what. This week, we've been thinking a lot about Rich and Genie who are headed once more into the breach with complications from the odd and evil ooze that invades Rich. We hates it, we do. There's green everywhere in Ireland, and much moss and, well, slime, so ( Read more... ) -
Ireland Day 2: Antennae down!
West of Trim is the Valley of Boyne, rife with the passage tombs built by Neolithic man. Older than Stonehenge, older than the pyramids, built before man invented the wheel, the engineering is incredible sophisticated. The passages are carefully aligned with either the solstices or equinoxes. Like cathedrals, they took generations to build. The ( Read more... ) -
Ireland Day 1: But the cat is from Poland
[I'd post pictures, but I'm lucky to have the internet at all. Later, I'll get to it later ( Read more... ) -
Coconut oil in my hair
I have coconut oil in my hair; my pursuit of health is toning up my body, but my hair has been frizzy lately. Perhaps age, perhaps I need to tinker with conditioner - my stylist was horrified I've been using the same Herbal Essences for five or ten years. At any rate, coconut oil - yes the stuff I use to season my stainless steel - was ( Read more... ) -
Drinking spring
Social media found me a date for Saturday night. Aine and Aedan were off to stalk cherry blossoms. In all the years I've lived in the area, I'd never hiked about the tidal basin while the trees were in bloom, so I hopped on Aine's idea and gave them my guest room for the night ( Read more... ) -
Stargazer
17 months ago I lost a friend, colleague, and student, to a tragic accident leaving behind two young children under the age of three and a devastated husband.
My boss stopped me in the hall this week as I hustled about my busy day.
Sensitivity check. Can I hang this up?It was a picture of a plaque. A plaque containing her name. A plaque for ( Read more... ) -
Time passes anyway.
It's been long since I journaled online, easy to get out of the habit with Facebook's soundbites. Let's see ( Read more... ) -
What is wrong with this family? ;-)
Me: It's cold, I'm tired, you've drug me out shopping past my bedtime and you would not let me buy the 15" machete. What is wrong with this family? I grumble as we exit Walmart at 11 pm on Christmas Eve.
Roland mutters under his breath, We don't have that kind of time...So Christmas was. We went to see my family. There was less drama than usual ( Read more... ) -
This is why married people live longer.
Me: Great. Now there's a steak knife under the couch.
[Don't ask how that happened; just go with it.]
Muttering, I start digging under the sofa, until cute husband says Groping for a sharp object you can't see is not the smartest idea ever.I freeze in place and bang my head on the floor in the universal sign of I-am-an-idiot. I murmur against ( Read more... ) -
Maybe it's the sugar
We're in a tense and intense time at work, doing the impossible, under a crushing workload, never allowed to concentrate on anything for more than ten minutes and actually being in your office rather than running amok is a vacation. It's team bonding time ( Read more... )