Today was the first day of the online gongfu cha tea tasting class from Tea Geek, about which I posted here before ( Read more... )

Well, last night's meeting with RR certainly went far better than expected. Although the first hour was full of awkward pauses, small-talk, and sincere attempts at normalicy, once we were seated at the Thai restaurant we dove right into the hard topics ( Read more... )

Tonight I have an appointment to meet RR after work to talk. It's not something I'm looking forward to. Not because I don't want to see him, but because I have a hard time imagining any outcome tonight that isn't a renewal of recent wounds. But I also thought that of my meeting last Fall with DB, and that turned out to be an entirely cathartic ( Read more... )

This weekend was chock full of goodness -- despite a few downers it ranks among the best in memory ( Read more... )

Amid the overwork, drama and depression of the last couple of weeks I'd totally lost track that my birthday was fast approaching. I don't put much importance on birthdays, but two things are causing me to anticipate this one more than most ( Read more... )

This weekend we made our trip to Richmond for new tea for Chinese New Year as well as decorations for the same, and a sim sum splurge as well. RR backed out of joining us (it would have been his first tea trip with us) for obvious reasons. Instead we invited KK and her roommate M, both big tea drinkers ( Read more... )

My heart hurts. Not from the few incidents of cardiac arythmia that I've had in the past few weeks. Rather it's that asphyxiating, hollow crushing in the middle of the sternum one feels when one has been uncontrollably crying for too long ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I updated this journal. Mostly I've been posting on the tea journals I belong to, particularly one set up around a "traveling tea box" that I'm participating in ( Read more... )

In a moment of whimsy I dug out the DDR dancepad from storage this evening. At first the kids were less than enthusiastic ("Can't we play 'Raving Rabbids' Instead?!") but after asserting a little dictatorial parental perogative I booted up Dance Dance Revolution and created a fresh save file ( Read more... )

Trying to catch up while things are ALMOST slow for the moment ( Read more... )