1. If you're on my friends list, I want to know 35 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine ... you're on my list, so I want to know you better ( Read more... )

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What the hell is that out there? Snow? Hail? Rain? What a weird weather day it's turning out to be...

For days I've felt a need to pop in here and write something. There seems to be a lot to write about these days. Or, at least, to reflect on. But there's never time and there's always a stack of email to respond to and Netflix is starting to feel like a job (a fun one, though) and my father was here for a week and work starts up again next week and ( Read more... )

A weekend getaway to Seattle + M out of town for several days = that weird mix of happy and sad. It's always fun to be on my own for a few days, but at the same time, M is in D.C. and that feels so damn far away. Friday won't get here quite soon enough, I'm sure ( Read more... )

Life lately has been nothing but interrupted nights with a feverish Xander and trying to catch up on sleep whenever I can during the day. He's better now, mostly -- poor baby. It's a relief ( Read more... )

Sometimes it seems, because I write for a living, that I just don't have the brain power to write here (a living -- ha! I publish 10 articles a year, if that; I'm a full-time mama and a part-time freelance writer, no doubt about it). And I know I'll regret it. When I go back and look at old entries -- the night Kate and I drove to Portland and back ( Read more... )

The driver's side seat belt stopped working in our car today. The part costs $150, and it'll be labor on top of that. Dammit! Just when we start to get ahead, we fall behind. More than the money, I'm frustrated that this may mean no trip to Seattle this weekend. I was counting the days...

I got to be an adult today and it felt so damn good ( Read more... )

The flu swept through our house a week ago, knocking all three of us down one by one. I think I'm finally ready to resume normal living...