Serena has been mourning the fact that Rylenn, who is supposed to have been her cat, spends all her time in with Cave Troll- probably because they both have a liking for small, enclosed, dark, quiet spaces.  So for all intents and purposes, Rylenn is Haeley's cat, Stormie is my cat, and Serena doesn't have a cat of her own ( Read more... )

Everyone I know is out at a giant party.

I.... worked until 7PM and came home to fill out long-overdue paperwork on life; insurance, tax forms, special education surveys for my kids. They're all happy and healthy. And I found out today I got a 15% raise to my base salary.

Supposedly I'm winning at life. Why does it feel so shitty?

...naturally ( Read more... )

It's odd, this is still my starting page on my home computer. I open this every day and read those of my friends who are still here, but sadly there's such a gap in my own posting. Whenever I go back and read the chronicles I've left here it helps me remember, and thus refreshes my desire to take it up again ( Read more... )

I firmly believe that a relationship is nothing more than what those parties involved in the relationship want it to be. To that end, truly anything is possible as long as everyone involved is amicable to the terms ( Read more... )

On Monday I sliced my fingers open on the edge of a laptop keyboard. I know, it doesn't seem like it's all that likely, but as computers get smaller and thinner so do their components. I was prying this extremely thin sheet metal component from the case when it popped free and gashed my right index finger so deeply I needed 8 stitches to put it ( Read more... )

It's snowing. It's been snowing since noon and it's going to snow until midnight. I was done with winter a month ago, which is unusual for me. Maybe I'm getting old. Maybe it's the fact that despite each year globally being the hottest on record, each Minnesota winter is progressively becoming colder. Climate change is a bitch ( Read more... )

So, besides the whole job thing, there have been other developments as well.

I have recently been diagnosed with Meniere's disease. In my case, it's probably a mix of both having had that bout of Bell's Palsy years ago and the constant effects of caffeine. The severity of the symptoms are directly related to my caffeine intake, so in order to ( Read more... )

A catch-up would be very long. ( So I'll do the courtesy of cutting it. )

She sat on one of the clean linens laid out on the floor while he stooped over her on the stripped down bed frame, meticulously sorting through her hair with a fine metal comb he'd produced from one of his many bags.
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