so i'm in NYC right now, helping Kate pack up the last shreds of Chez Rood before she leaves for Oregon on Monday. our illustrious father is on his way to help. if anyone wants to come over tonight and dig through the MASSIVE pile of "free to good home" stuff (dishes, furniture, mirrors, just...stuff) we've got going on, and/or say goodbye, and/or ( Read more... )

Rochelle and I had a lovely dinner date here tonight:

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-I am baking lemon chocolate chip muffins. They are in the oven right now, and I have high hopes. I intend to bribe/reward the various folks in various departments who have been particularly helpful to me this week ( Read more... )

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A pictorial reminder not to take celebrity-induced poor self image too seriously. ( Read more... )

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I'm home alone for the first time in ages- in fact, I think this is the first time I've spent an evening alone since...well, I can't remember ( Read more... )

Thanks, all, for your sympathy in the last post ( Read more... )

My cousin, whom I loved very much and grew up very close to, died two weeks ago, very unexpectedly. I got the phone call as I was walking in the door from a hike, and I sat down hard on the kitchen floor, and life hasn't been quite normal since. Rochelle got me to a train to NYC, and my sister and I got a plane to Seattle early the next morning, ( Read more... )