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Turning one
Quiet late night here. We’re all gathered in the study, on and around the big square table I use as a desk and work surface. The kittens are sleeping. Coco is just a foot or two away, draped ...
The glory that was Rome
Watching “Treme” a finished HBO series set in New Orleans just post Katrina. I missed it when it was being broadcast originally because I didn’t get HBO, but it’s showing on Amazon now, so, well...
Near miss
It’s strange how your mind can alter the elsewhere highly disciplined passage of time. Joy seems to disappear in an instant, while moments of “oh god, this is going to hurt” stretch out forever....
How to be a passive aggressive landlady
Background info Rent is due on the first of the month. Tina, my tenant, prefers to drop the check (sans envelope) in my mailbox. Right now, my bank account is running very close to empty on a d...
Definition - with edit
I have no idea where the word came from. I may have heard it anywhere, found it kind of shiny, and ferreted it away in my brain to have it pop up stripped of history for me to use later. I may h...
Pop off that roof
An hour ago I was sitting on the sofa, unhappily concentrating on the physical discomfort which refused to let me put my mind anywhere else. The pain wasn’t a new thing, unexpectedly sudden. yes...
Good Friday
Good Friday? Honestly, is there any other kind? Today, however, is a day off of work, so I’m thinking it should be called One of the Best Fridays. I appreciated a joke I heard the other day abou...
Nathe-mail
March 23, 2016 - 1:56 PM, Nathe wrote: Somehow, someway I have lost my mind.... okay.. now that the peanut gallery has stopped laughing I’ll continue..... I’ve lost my physical notebook with all...
Paper noir
The kitchen floor, like all the floors save the bathroom in this wreck of a house, is a hardwood stained dark mahogany brown. Don’t let anyone tell you dark floors are easy to keep clean. They a...
'Lo to you too
I stepped on my electronic scale just a few minutes ago. “Lo” it said in little black letters. Now, I know it was telling me that its battery is on its last legs, but I ignore such warnings. For...
Tempest in a tuna wrap
The clock ticks away the minutes as I overwork diligently at my desk. It’s the same old story of too many tasks and not enough time to do them, but today I am strangely content. It is Friday m...
Tempest in a tuna wrap
The clock ticks away the minutes as I overwork diligently at my desk. It’s the same old story of too many tasks and not enough time to do them, but today I am strangely content. It is Friday m...
Proof that I am in need of a life
When there’s nothing you really want to watch, you try something completely different. So now I’m watching (Amazon Prime summary) Hong Kong Retro Cinema - The Haunted Cop Shop (English Subtitled)...
The ugly human
It matters not that they will knock over the garbage and play in the contents or that they will splash in the toilet or sleep with their faces inside my stinkiest shoes or greet each other with a...
Word from the unwise
When the label on the exceedingly cheap plasticware says “Not dishwasher safe” - Believe it. Your dishwasher will thank you. I need to store this in my brain for future reference. ‘Nuff said.
Etiquitte / Eticat
Very late Friday night. Sitting at my study table doing overwork I brought home to process and prepare to enter back into the school master program when I go back in to work tomorrow (Saturday!)...
How very sweet of you
Today was the last day of work until after the holidays. Huzzah! There were flurries of gifts being handed about. I don’t celebrate Christmas much but, being as it’s a school and I’m very visib...
Have need
Have runny nose. Have watery eyes. Have body aches. Have cough. Have pervasive yuck. Am alone. Need meds. Went to store in less than sharp shape. Needed meds and tissues. Wandered about store. Co...
War!
It’s a war of opposable thumbs versus the one-working-braincell-between-the-two-duo. For the last few days the kittens have been winning, striking major blows in their natural need to destroy a...
It may not kill, but curiosity sometimes bites
Esme, like most of her species, has an inborn aversion to water. Unfortunately, also true to her species, she is a slave to curiosity. Sometimes the combination of these two traits can get a si...
Concerning that comment
It was a private comment but it did make me think about what other people might make of my journal. Being what I’m thinking about tonight, that train of thought becomes my entry and most of my e...
I shouldn't be here now
I’m on a deadline. I should be working, working, working. I’ve got less than two weeks until my first craft fair, my first sales venue since Katrina, and I think I don’t have enough inventory o...
Eight feet, one working brain cell
The kittens are doing quite well, thank you very much. The plan was to get two kittens, rather than one, to fill the void left in Lucy’s life after Tessa passed. It seemed cruel to me to let Lucy...
Jai guru deva om
It’s a beautiful song. I’ve known it nearly all my life and it moves me in ways I can neither understand nor articulate. Yet every time I hear it, it stirs in me both these inexplicable emotion...
Sometimes it's better not to ask
There’s the old question about the glass. How you look at the glass, how you answer the question, is supposed to say a lot about you. I suppose that’s true. Some people say the glass is half empt...
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