le sigh

Last night was, well, the last night of workshop.  It went by rather quickly, but it really was good for me to have a place to take writing and get feedback.  Next session starts in January, and I’m a little afraid that I’ll have trouble keeping up the writing.  It’s just too easy to think [...]

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Colorfast

‘But Mommy, I just wanted to have beautifully colored hair’ wails my three year old daughter, Lucy. She’s in the bathtub with streaks of chalk dust in her mousy blond hair, and I ‘m instantly transported back to the first tub of Manic Panic I bought; Tulip, 1992, Smash, Washington, DC.
It was Thanksgiving break [...]

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Two black thumbs

I’m such a sucker for other people’s stuff that I’ll take just about anything to save it from being tossed out, and this go-round the something was a box of houseplants.  I’d be more specific, but I have no idea what sort of plants these are, aside from an aloe plant, some sort of fern, [...]

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Fun with Google

For the several folks who have come here looking for information on Ronaldinho’s practice schedule and the names of his parents–I have absolutely no idea.  I’m pretty sure I have the names of his parents somewhere in a magazine, so if I come across those, I’ll post ‘em.  As far has how much he practices, [...]

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Blown Out of Proportion?

You bit a man! On the football pitch! Oy.
In other news, I have signed on, along with the rest of the world, for NaBloPoMo. Which is ironic since (it’s also ironic that I first typoed ’since’ to read ‘wince’) I am totally not doing my rewrite for workshop tonight. It wasn’t coming together [...]

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Don’t Drink and Link

This is what I was drinking last night.  Drinking alone is vastly overrated, and I ended up falling into bed before midnight.   I totally got bored before I ran out of beer.  This morning?  I have a headache.  That sounds sort of sad, don’t it?  Ah well.  I was so looking forward to an evening [...]

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Domestic Bliss or some shite

The kid is asleep (thank the goddess) and the husband is in Hoboken for an engagement party and I am drinking a lovely bottle of Blue Moon. Yeah, I try to stay away from Coors products, but since they can’t stock the Hoegaarden in the Queens what can ya do? See, I’ve totally figured [...]

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easy way to freak out your mama

“I’ve never seen a naked man juggle balls before.”
Thank God he’s only shirtless

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Control

I was really pretty surprised when my therapist discussed obsessiveness with me.  I’m not a hand-washer, I don’t lead a particularly ordered life, and I’ve never had to check something multiple times before I leave the house.  Sure I have certain ways that I have to do things, and I do feel better when things [...]

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I Did It!

Before I had my daughter, I had this glorious mental image of myself as, well, Laura Petrie. Laura seemed to have it all together without being totally pandering like June Cleaver. She was sorta hip, and I’m sorta hip, so why not? Then again, it may have had something to do with the Capri pant [...]

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