The rigors of the grandeur of real estate. Signed up a nice fat listing this morning, got an email an hour later from the seller telling me to "hold off on it" just for now of course. So my excitement took a nosedive and I am back to square one. But am watching Nurse Betty with the boys tonight, which would cheer anyone up. Sad to be on the other ( Read more... )

So Grayson and I went to the Rialto for one of our frequent movie dates. we get the huge extra butter popcorn and take in our water bottles. The one place in town, not sebastopol, where my birkenstocks are a perfect fit. The movie was in German, very odd, very sweet. A fat retired German mine worker who plays polka on his accordion hears zydeco ( Read more... )

Nothing like having the wolf at the door to get my ass in gear. Leapt out of bed this morning to scurry around and do everything on my *list* so I wouldn't have to ever read the want ads again as I did this past weekend. There were jobs that looked mildly interesting and with decent pay, but I would actually have to go to them, and keep doing ( Read more... )

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My characters are taking on a life of their own. I just realized that one of them secretly gives himself enemas! eeeewwww. And one has a condition called alopecia universalis, which he was born with, which means he has no hair on his body or eyelashes or anything. The odd thing is that his wife has always found it somehow alluring (except in ( Read more... )

I am so excited! I am all signed up for the novel writing and I am happier than I have been in so long. Although to be honest, I am always happy because I have a wonderful life. But right now I am thrilled with the new characters who are evolving under my direction. I find myself chuckling, as I walk in the woods with Dora, at the things I ( Read more... )

Oooohhh I am so excited! Its coming in just a few hours! Sign up time!

So the visit is over....three weeks this time. Having a long time with your parent is interesting as it reconfigures the look of the past. I was such an unhappy depressed and angry child and I see that I misunderstood the motives of my parents. Where I thought they didn't like me, were disappointed in me, now I wee that they were wierdos too, and ( Read more... )

Today is day 14 out of 22. For the most part, we get along well and humor each other when tension rears its head. The boys have been exemplary in their manners and of course the oldest child's visit was a high point. The matriarch was on her best behavior the first week, plus drinking vats of wine. Now, as with anyone, her true colors are ( Read more... )

Life is lurching on. More business than I truly care to have, and that just leads me to spend money. I think on some level I believe that if I have money I must spend it as quickly as possible, get rid of it. Then I have a sense of relief. I have been eating too much sugar making food recently and have had that feeling of impending doom I get ( Read more... )