I'm into the semester; grading to do already. My lady is back to half-days, and is sleeping - wiped out - the rest of the time. Oldest Daughter and Only Son are doing pretty well.

I wanna get my writing cap back.

Sometimes I make very personal posts because, frankly, I live inside of a Southern Gothic Novel. I know my personal friends want to know, and I really don't want everyone else exposed.

However: I may have missed including you.

If you are a personal friend of mine, and interested in keeping up on my personal gothic novel, and have not seen three ( Read more... )

There are some elements to being a part of an interracial lesbian Unitarian academic household with children that ... well.

Like the month that my wife got stopped, arrested, and handcuffed for driving my fucking van through a suburb that I myself got stopped and warned in, not a whole two fucking weeks later.Warned ( Read more... )

I have all my grading done! And two classes entered; the system went down to stop me entering the third.

And it's only 1:30pm before the grades are due! Woo-hoo!

*celebrates*

My kids' public school is closed ( Read more... )

soldiergrrrl made a post for new friends, reintroducing herself. Since newjerseybadger is one of the new friends, he stole her outline; since I'm one of his, I'm stealing it to use myself, for new friends and those who don't know much about me.

1) I'm Unitarian Universalist, and Wiccan.

2) I'm eighteen years "married" at the moment, happily working on forever. It'll ( Read more... )

that two women can't get married in these here United States. But look what my beloved dreaddameagnes has to say about our recent trip to the mortgage broker's.

We are still knocking our heads together and snickering over it.

You've done it, now help me do it.

I need to know what useful things you know about looking for and purchasing a house.

ETA: Thanks for all the helpful commentary. This is my first time as a home-buyer, this late in my life, and the whole thing has always frightened me.

dreaddameagnes said an odd thing to me the other week at church, after talking to a few new people. She said: "It's important to me for people to know our kids are adopted, that I didn't give birth to them." And I immediately caught her meaning: We are not a blended family, she did not get pregnant by one or two or three men whom she no longer knows, I am not ( Read more... )

Right this very moment I'm watching curling on national broadcast television!

*chortle*