Recital

on June 22, 2008

Every year for the last ten years, this time of year is eaten up by ‘recital’. Some years it coincides with graduation, two years it coincided EXACTLY on our anniversary. Sometimes Mate volunteers to be security, and before the second wave of kids, I was doing some sewing and piecework for the costumes. But every… Read More


And the Parade goes on….

on June 20, 2008

** I started a second scrap blanket with some Lion Brand Homespun leftovers. I was going to give it to a student, but that time came and went, and so it was a blanket without a home. The Cave Troll was sitting on my lap yesterday as I finished it (with some yarn I can’t… Read More


Meditations on a Farting Dog

on June 19, 2008

Imagine a completely destroyed suburban home, late at night. Mate is working hard on WoW in the living room, I am working hard (don’t laugh!) on Bitter Moon II, when suddenly our peace is interrupted by a series of intestinal sounds that would frighten the dog…if she wasn’t half deaf and the one emitting them…. Read More


The Parade of Weird

on June 18, 2008

First of all, a couple of pictures to show that the babies are growing just fine, and that I have yet to off Mate as part of an elaborate insurance scam. Plus, the kids are just damned cute. And speaking of Mate– Yesterday was our 19th wedding anniversary. No, I didn’t forget–I’d just done a… Read More


Roxie’s Meme

on June 17, 2008

Okay–Roxie tagged me, and this sounded very covert and fun… “PS – you have been meme-tagged.Pick up the nearest book.Open on page 123.Find the fifth sentence.Post the next three sentences.Tag five people,and acknowledge who tagged you. “ Now, the book I’m READING is Lover Enshrined, because sometimes, I am a sheep. But the NEAREST book… Read More


Dad’s Day…

on June 15, 2008

When I was five, and my mom and dad had split, my dad went in to talk to my Kindergarten teacher before school started and told her, “She’s going to be left handed.” The teacher didn’t believe him–he was a man, it was 1972, and men didn’t know jack about parenting, and so the useless… Read More


Colleagues

on June 13, 2008

Okay, graduation is over, and just in time for the end of school, some of you will notice from a certain missing post that yes, Amy Lane, showing a learning curve the shape of a dead vampire’s heart rate did, indeed, screw up her almost perfect record this year of not shooting off her big… Read More


OMG OMG OMG OMG…

on June 11, 2008

Okay–as a long time crocheter who still visits the dark side on occasion, this blog–snarfed from the place where goddesses bitch has totally entranced me. You can tell. I just did two links in one post.


As random as turkeys in space…

on June 11, 2008

Yup. I’ve got 3 days left before graduation. I am physically incapable of profound, and mentally incapable of organized. Hell, I’m not even sure I qualify as sentient! But I still have lots of crap floating around in my head, and so, in Cory’s words, I’m going to unload some of that “shit into my… Read More


Soundtracking…

on June 7, 2008

Where have all the bloggers gone… (long time passing…) Seriously–you can tell the weather in the States is hot and bright these days because not many of us are inside on the computer! Okay, well, I was, but Nor-Cal has been like a hair-drying pollinator these last few weeks, and as a result I have… Read More