What’s new, pussycat?

Ugh, I have been so unbloggy lately.  Well, I’ve been reading blogs, just not writing.  Why, you may ask?  Laziness.  Also compulsive reading and online game playing.  And I have bursitis in my shoulder, which I thought was an old-person disease but is apparently pretty much a strained muscle.  How does one get bursitis?  Apparently, [...]

When I die, I’m worth money

Briefly:

And also because I have life insurance, and social security will pay money. Sadly, I’m worth way more dead than alive. I’m surprised E hasn’t figured out how to kill me yet.

Etsy Porn, Take Two

Yet more hours whiled away looking at other people’s crafts and beautiful things - StumbleUpon is the mother of all entertaining time wasters for me right now, and I keep finding wonderful artistic things that I love, love, love.  Plus since I’ve been feeling depressed, it helps to make things a little  more bearable - [...]

Damp and crazy and sad

Right now, the air is so damp and warm that my skin feels as if it has an oily layer of moisture over it; the damp so heavy that even though foggy nights here usually smell like salt and tide right now it just smells like parking lot. This despite a thunderstorm today so [...]

In a perfect world

That chocolate danish would have made me thinner

I would be wearing these:

but they would feel more comfortable than these:

My job would be surfing the internets for cool sites

Therefore, I could drink beer at my job and I wouldn’t have to actually wear shoes at all - except that of course the comfort would be so [...]

(Brief) playlist for a tumultuous relationship

Last night I was listening to Clem Snide in the car and realized that I have a whole ton of songs just meant for a really crazy relationship, the kind with crying and yelling and clothes-ripping sex and booze-fueled vows of love.
Without further ado:
song for the beginning, when you first meet and you’re so in [...]

Coolest picture ever

Just found this on the blog of the lovely & talented Carson Ellis, one of my very favoritest artists. I am so in love with this picture right now!

Which brings me to the truth

I’ve just started reading Which Brings Me To You, a collaborative novel in letters by Steve Almond and Julianna Baggott, and even though the reviews that say it’s overwritten for letters (“This book is full of superb writing, and that is precisely its problem. Billed as a ‘novel in confessions,’ ‘Which Brings Me to You’ [...]

Boring and bookish

First, I am shamefaced at the way I ended yesterday’s post. It worked out better in my head earlier, but by the time I typed it up I couldn’t remember how I worked out the end, and so I just slapped something on there and shut my eyes and hit publish. You will [...]

When U love somebody and bite your tongue all you get is a mouthful of blood

Yesterday was my fourth wedding anniversary.  Four feels like so many years, and so few years, all tangled up in one.  We got married when our son was 1, so we never had that newlywed thing that most people have - we were already slogging through diapers and breastfeeding and fighting over the electric bill [...]