In which I get mushy

Sometimes there are those things that you can’t let go of.  Past events, things you did, things someone said, moments in time that you wish had never happened or that had gone differently.  Things you know that you should let go of, that you need to drop, that it’s time to move on from.   Learn [...]

Their lives take such strange shapes, but how together they appear from above

Did you ever sort of want to write someone a really threatening letter -  the kind where you tell them you want to gouge out their eyeballs with spoons and then feed them to them, or something in that similar over-the-top mobster-type disgusting vein?  Damn, do I wish I could write a couple of those [...]

A Litany of Complaints

1) Never drive to work in a wet mushy snowstorm with a head cold that makes it feel like your sinuses are moments from exploding, your eyeballs all scratchy and dry and ready to pop right out of your head.  Especially never do this if you are not fully caffeinated, because you will almost drive [...]

Bitching and moaning

First, thank you all for your comments on my last post.  It was kind of hard to put up and really hard to have to write, and it’s nice to think that there are people out there on the internet rooting for me (or something).  It makes me feel a tiny bit less alone.  Things [...]

It was never about you.

“i dreamt of you last night. i had taken your photograph. we were laughing and swimming in the sea. i woke in the dark and wanted to tell you. i reached out to touch you. my arm cut through the empty air around me. my knuckles knocked hard against the wall. you weren’t there and [...]

Ah, Sunday.

Also known as Laundry Day, and The Day My Mom Cooks Me Dinner, and The Day Before Monday, when the weekend is over and I have to go back to work.  I guess everything has its good and bad points.  Today has been okay.  The whole spending the day at my mother’s thing?  It is [...]

Beautiful Car

My first car was a 1987 Chevrolet Cavalier, dark brown.  His name was Harold, and I loved him with a passion most people reserve for their first boyfriends.  He had a gold velour steering wheel cover, tiger-striped velour seat covers, and so many stickers that you could hardly see the dashboard through them.  I lined [...]

hearts and music and day four!

I wrote a post for today in my Very Cute Notebook last night, lying in bed listening to Neutral Milk Hotel and Josh Rouse and feeling sorry for myself.  And I have spent the day at my mother’s, knitting and shopping with my sister and eating meatballs and doing laundry and generally being nurtured, and [...]

Day 3

Holy shit, it’s only day 3?  Kill me now.  Seriously, it’s Saturday, and I could be doing something else like… obsessively knitting!  Reading bad romance novels!  Crying softly in my bedroom, and maybe even rocking back and forth a little like a good little crazy person!
No, but today is not as bad.  Today I have [...]

Day one of the rest of the month

Reasons I love Halloween:
Pumpkins, witches, ghosts, zombies - how can you not love scary decorations?
Candy and candy corn and chocolate and more candy and just general Frenzies of Sugar.
Yesterday I wore my fuzzy pink bathrobe and slippers at work, because I could call it a “costume” and get away with it. I could’ve take a [...]