Post archive for ‘Everything Else’
A whole new year
I haven’t written much recently. I know. 2006 was a nice year though. No one I love died and everyone stayed fairly healthy though I had a scary bout of pneumonia. Coughing blood? Not fun. I had images of Victorian women succombing to consumption running through my mind when that happened. But it wasn’t quite [...]
The New Place
So I have some far away rellies who want to take a peep into the new place. So I got it in my head to use my dinky digicam that records 20 seconds of video and make a bunch of clips. And then I got a little crazy with the Windows Moviemaker Anyway, it’s shaky [...]
That time again
I’m having fun decorating the new place for Christmas. If I could just keep Spooky from eating the lower branches of our tree it would be perfect. But this year is kind of special. Not only are we in the new place and digging it (OMG a GARAGE!) but this year I’ve found some of [...]
Thou doth protest
A little protesting going on today when President Bush arrived in GI to pump up the Red team for the election on Tuesday. I was feeling curious, especially since the event center is just down the street. So the kidlet and I wandered over and caught a bunch of protestors in action as well as [...]
Placebo. So good.
After such a long wait, the Big Night has come and gone and I’m suffering from post-concert letdown which was exacerbated by the 6 hour drive home. But man, what a show. What a freaking awesome show. It was so good, so… surreal to be mere feet away from this band I love. I had [...]
The "special" hell.
That’s where I’m going, along with those people who talk at the theater and child molesters and I’ll tell you why… We parked near the garden center at Walmart and walked in the doors. Just inside the door there lay a beautiful, dazed little bird on its back. It had apparently slammed into the sliding [...]
Spookinabag
Getting close to bedtime and it’s time to round up the cat so I can boot her out of my room… Except she’s nowhere to be found. I start looking all over for her. I’m calling her name, rattling her food dish, peeking in every crevasse (and in this small apartment it does not take [...]
