At Least They're Committed

You don’t get to do that anymore. Not to me. The cock has crowed three times. Read more

Making the most of the day! The sunshine is beautiful! The hour-long walk felt laborious, but good. Woke up early and spent more than an hour making waffles for 13-year-olds. They ate four apiece, and these are not small waffles! Loved that DSII said proudly to his friends, “My mom is making is waffles! She Read more

Twenty-minute coughing jag! I want sympathy! OK, 20 minutes is a wild exaggeration, but it seeeemed like it. Eh, I’m staying home again tomorrow. Not gonna spread this any farther. (Yes, farther is right because it’s an actual distance as opposed to an intangible, such as ‘furthering the motion.’) My ears are ringing. I wonder Read more

Wisps of high- and lowlighted bangs fall down my forehead and over my eyes. Perfect! I’m really beginning to like my hair! When the back grows out a little more, it will be just right. Comments in the six weeks since I cut my hair: Every female I know: “Oh my God! It’s so you, so Read more

Gearin’ up to run on the treadmill for a couple miles, interval style, then grab some beer and some wings and get back before the USA-Canada hockey final at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver! Yes!!! All right, yes. I admit I’ve paid little attention to the Olympics this go round and who could blame Read more

I promised him I’d start writing again, maybe digging out all of my old stuff and putting it on the blog for posterity — the good the bad and the otherwise. “I wrote a young adult fiction novel,” I’d told him between sighs and small sobs a couple months back. “I was thinking maybe I Read more