I’ve been getting gifts. Little/big gifts. Supremely welcome gifts. Makes me wish I was a better person to deserve them gifts. I mean, how am I going to keep up the appearance of being an angsty, neurotic mess when the universe keeps showering me with rewards for having good taste in friends? I can’t–so today,… Read More

Let’s see if blogger will post pictures… (and because my damned computer just ate four pages of Rampant and I’m PISSED!) Now, I’m going to go pick the Cave Troll up from kindergarten (I’m off today) and hopefully, by the time we get back, there will be pix! (Tada! The knitting pic has my fingerless… Read More

I couldn’t figure out why my writing brain seemed to be drying up… I mean, it was revving at a mile a minute most days, why couldn’t I seem to put anything on the screen? And then I fell asleep…HARD… last night at around 9:30, and it occurred to me: You have to have sleep… Read More

I’ve really got nothin’ this time! Kid’s okay, me okay, knitting okay (more than okay, actually–I’m really hitting a KNIT MORE groove.) This means that for me, it’s all about the TV. You guys know what my favorite is– (*Channelling Springsteen, who, btb, rocked my world as always when he played the Superbowl: Do I… Read More

Item the first–my aunts and I went to visit my grandpa in the care home yesterday. It was great to see him, and he was very lucid. That’s the short version. The long version is that Time is a sadistic mother fucker, and I know when he starts taking strips out of me, I’m gonna… Read More