Reality

My son and I are reading The Subtle Knife right now, the second of the “His Dark Materials” books by Philip Pullman.  There’s a lot about different worlds, alternate realities, the reality you would live in if you change your actions.  Now I’ve been thinking about my alternate realities, my different lives.  I was lying [...]

Ch-ch-ch-changes

So, this week is the first week of day shift.  Half over.  It’s not been as bad as I thought, though getting up in the dark because of gloomy weather is certainly no picnic, and getting to sleep at a “normal” hour is somewhat of a challenge.  There are good things and bad things about [...]

Mawwiage, sweet mawwiage

I put on my wedding ring again yesterday, for the first time in a few years. Firstly because I went through all my makeup and jewelry and happened to find it (and also some eyeshadows and shit I forgot I had, and all my earrings, so I’m wearing earrings and eyeliner now, too) and [...]

The Interview Post

1. What will you do with the money your dead body generates?
Well, I’ll be dead.  So I won’t get to do much with it.  Also, it isn’t that much money.  I am a cheap corpse.  So I assume my husband will use it to pay for my funeral or something.  Wait…. if you sell your [...]

I have 6000 posts to write and none of them are this one.

I really need to utilize the goodness of Ms. Maggie Mason’s book here, and I also have some questions to answer, and today I talked to my Oma (German for Grandma) and she told me some amazing-ass stories I want to get down.
However, today was also The First Day of Kindergarten, and I still can’t [...]