Well, it all started on Classmates.com. I joined Classmates with visions of my high school girlfriends from Cardinal Dougherty High School in Philadelphia, 1959-1963, still in our green uniforms and white blouses. "Reconnect with your old high school classmates!" So I started looking them up on the site: Eileen McEnerney, Mary McMenamin, Peggy ( Read more... )

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It's been a year since I wrote in here and I am inspired to take it up again now that I am reading BreakupBabe by Rebecca Agiewich. And I am reading it because she blogged her recovery from a breakup, and it was so successful that it is now a novel. Blatantly, unabashedly heterosexual, but I must say it is amusing me to the point where I am ( Read more... )

Last Saturday, Rose and I went to the tattoo conference at the Seattle Center. We have each been planning tattoos for at least a year, and just haven't gotten around to it. Going to the conference seemed like the right thing to do ( Read more... )

It hardly seems fair of me to have written that grim journal entry without being more clear about what happened, but I don't feel quite comfortable coming out with it. Suffice it to say that some very strong feelings hit me over the head with a 9" black iron skillet, I had to act on them, I did, I'm recovering, my relationship is intact, but I am ( Read more... )

For the past 6 weeks or so I have been imprisoned by obsession and anxiety, and came THAT close to making what would probably have been the biggest mistake of my life. It feels like I've been massively mentally ill, and that I shrunk my world down to 3/16th of an inch so I could focus on the one thing I wanted to. Stopped cooking, stopped eating, ( Read more... )

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I have to mark the passing of our beloved dog, Gracie yesterday, June 3. She was 16. Gracie, mostly cairn terrier, but maybe something else too, was the sweetest dog in the world. Just about everyone who ever saw her said she was the cutest dog in the world too. She looked exactly like a teddy bear. She always seemed slightly foggy, so we gave her ( Read more... )

Omagod I'm sick again. I knew I was getting sick on Friday, but I couldn't do anything about it because of the plant sale. I snorted and coughed my way through the sale, collapsed shortly afterwards (afterwards...is it over yet?), and woke up this morning in a full rendition of snot, coughing, exhaustion, swollen face, and Tallulah voice. Tomorrow ( Read more... )

After having been at the bottom of a cycle for so long, it is wonderful to be moving up to the top again. They love me at work. It's amazing. I was definitely not loved at my last job, but now I realize how brutal that environment was. I don't know how I lasted for 7 years. Oh...it must have been because they let me work at home. Probably because I ( Read more... )