I have nothing substantial to write today, nothing earth shattering or of importance to anyone other then me. Regardless, I did feel the urge to engage myself in a good old fashioned gripe session. Consider yourself forewarned; read on at the risk of your own boredom ( Read more... )

Today has been one of those days when I woke up and the colors just seemed brighter! The sky outside my window was the most beautiful shade of blue, and things in general felt hopeful ( Read more... )

Tatiana's teacher sent home a note to the parents last week that the class would be celebrating the traditional story of St. Nicholas on Monday, a celebration complete with the children leaving their boots outside the classroom for St. Nick to leave little gifts in. She mentioned in the note that she would need parents to help out by bringing ( Read more... )

Friday evening was the spiral garden at Tatiana's school.  Andy watched Ethan, so Tatiana and I had the benefit of sharing each other's company for a few hours sans little brother.  We share some of our best times together singing along to the radio in the car (evil consumer of fossil fuels that I am!). We heard U2's Vertigo twice in a row and sang ( Read more... )

One of my friends had a chart done on herself a couple of months ago and was surprised howe much of it rang true for her. I've been wanting to do one on myself for a while, and found a website that does free charts. This is the first chart I've had done that takes into account the time of my birth. Wonder if that accounts for the eerie level of ( Read more... )

well, that felt good ( Read more... )

One thing I know with certainty: the support I've found in Andy as of late rivals anything I ever felt while we were married. As our post-marital relationship has evolved, hostility has slowly dissipated, assumptions about each other have be examined, re-examined, and discarded if deemed incorrect, new levels of understanding have been reached, ( Read more... )

I replied to my mom with the following ( Read more... )

I sent a blind carbon copy of that email to my mom. She's been calling me non-stop the past few days and I've been avoiding her calls. I thought doing so might give her an idea what's up with my life without actually having to talk to her about it.

Here's what she wrote back:

"Golembowski, Elfriede (US - Phoenix)" wrote ( Read more... )

All right, this is the easiest way to get the info from one place to another, so all netiquette aside, here's the text of the email I sent to my advisor today. It's gets the point across AND I don't have to re-type anything! Weeeeee ( Read more... )