Unicycles

Yesterday was a really rough day for me.  It started with the writing issues, worked its way into a lunch out cut short because I had to scoot home for a delivery, wound its way through a truncated trip out to the drug store, and ended up with me clinging stubbornly to feeling low. Because, [...]

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In Charge

It is virtually impossible to write anything meaningful while one’s child is singing ‘On Top of Spaghetti.’  This was going to be the first line of this post (ok, it still is).  It was composed while perched on the john at around 9:06.  I was interrupted by Lucy attempting to scale my lap at around [...]

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Lovenote from Con Ed

I got our green power certificate dealio yesterday from ConEd, letting us know that we used 3521kWh between January and December 2007. We used 5560 kWh for the same period of the year prior, meaning we used 2039 kWh fewer. Our Riot numbers (June 07-May 08 ) have our home usage at 3349, which is [...]

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Impossible Gardens

During my brief stay at college, I had a poster of SARK’s How to Be An Artist bought in one of those huge poster sales at the campus center (I got a Skinny Puppy poster at the same time, which sort of exemplifies how much I was caught between stompiness and hippiness, but that’s not [...]

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Fear (of looking foolish) and (self-)loathing in NYC

Last night. C and I scrubbed the academic/hippy off of ourselves and put on Grown-Up Clothes for a dinner for the organization that I volunteer for. I was instantly reminded upon arrival of how much social settings make me feel like I’m playing adult for the night. Which I am in a way, I suppose. [...]

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I *heart* chard!

Mmmmmmm.  C sauteed ours up in oil and merlot vinegar with red pepper and garlic, and they were delicious. Lucy and I had a nice walk to the CSA pick up, and she has expressed interest in trying new foods again like we did last year with the farm share.  I don’t know if I [...]

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My Victory Garden is decidedly not victorious

On Saturday we had a guy come in to fix the wall around our a/c where the plaster/paint had gotten all screwed up by a clogged weephole.  He took one look at my pitiful seedling collection and commented that we should’ve started earlier.  I was a bit defensive at first, but even I had to [...]

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My semi-weekly rundown of household horseshit

I totted up my numbers for the Riot so far this month and overall they aren’t so bad.  Except for consumer spending, but that’s getting ready for summer and, of course, making sure I have a pair of shoes I can live in until I can cram my toe into a toed shoe.  You know, [...]

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Wherein I channel Alice Cooper

I am damn excited for summer.  Well, for now.  I reserve the right to be desperate for the summer program to start after a week of full-time, 2 kid parenting. Last night, we sat up and drank wine on a Thursday without fearing the oversleep-Lucy-late-for-school.  It was embarrassingly divine.  Yes, I am that lame.  It [...]

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And you will know us by the trail of craft supplies

Today is Lucy’s last day of school.  It is a bit melancholy; only last year I was terrified by the prospect of my baby being away from me all day after so many years of doing everything together, and now it seems strange that she won’t come home every afternoon beaming and glowing with tales [...]

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