A necessary reminder: getting out of the house, seeing humans I like, and dancing will cure just about anything that might ail me. I've been maudlin and drippy for days, maybe weeks -- everything I try to say or write comes out just unbelievably melancholy and gloomy and embarrassingly maudlin. 10 hours out of the house, talking with friends and ( Read more... )

Joe and Sarah are helping out my MIL for a few hours so I'm on my own for a little bit. I've finally come close to catching up on sleep after having mild insomnia since the week before Sarah's birthday and sleeping *not at all* Tuesday night (it's a miracle I didn't fall asleep on the drive out to renegade_geek's house for yardwork on Wednesday) ( Read more... )

I set a handful of goals for myself, broke them down into habits and routines, and started implementing them awhile ago. Days like today, when it feels as if I'm doing nothing but slogging through my days, I have to keep reminding myself that if I stick to the plan, by the end of this summer I'll ( Read more... )

Firefly cast and characters as Fetish Fuel
(it's amazing what you can find while looking for a simple episode clip!)

Man, I was doing so well with email until... Well, I was gonna say I was doing well until we started this new homeschool semester, and I've definitely gotten *worse* since then, but it looks like I really fell off the keeping-up-with-email wagon about a month earlier. I'm not sure the last time I went into email without thinking of it as doing ( Read more... )

Months ago, a friend of Joe's commented that he'd had the impression I'd never particularly liked a good friend of theirs. Joe corrected him, but the comment weighed on me. More recently a friend of mine commented that I barely tolerate a mutual friend of ours. He and I push each other's buttons, I think, but I've never doubted there's mutual ( Read more... )

Home from a long, exhausting couple of days, which followed up on the tail end of a whole batch of long, exhausting days. There were so many wonderfully delightful bits, but at the moment all I can do is thank God I'm home, take off my shoes, put on the Daria DVDs, and collapse on the futon ( Read more... )

Awake unexpectedly late (or perhaps not that unexpectedly -- I went out for tea with K, tonight, and wound up nursing a large black tea until nearly 10pm. The conversation went remarkably well. I am brave beyond the telling of it, and we cleared the air about the conflicts between the girls, and followed up with a long, wide-ranging conversation ( Read more... )

Long, exhausting day -- out of the house most of the day, doing some babysitting and giving a friend a ride, and still keeping ourselves mostly to our updated routine. We managed to do our homeschooling (including totally rocking at the narration bits, which can be a struggle for both me and Sarah), meditation, making progress at putting things ( Read more... )

It was a day of strong emotions -- a couple good conversations with friends in person and over the phone, a good but difficult conversation with my sister (she gave me solid, necessary, but very hard to implement advice about handling a situation with my parents), and lots of hard work. Sarah and I did some work on some concerns she's been having ( Read more... )