working on my divorce papers. (doing it myself ( Read more... )

logan says sad stuff once in a great while. yesterday he announced, "i wish my dad could move to maine so we could wrestle because i don't have anyone else to wrestle with." omg. *sob ( Read more... )

we went to see our friends' house today - they're in the middle of building it. by themselves. by hand. while working full-time. crazy awesome. anyway. i was talking to logan on the way, since we haven't been to see it for at least a month, "how much to you think they'll have gotten done?", and he says "the whole house will be done. i just KNOW it ( Read more... )

just read ten years of march lj entries and... well... a few things of note:

• i miss lj something fierce. it was a huge part of my life and a huge social support.
• there were happy times with jamie here and there, 'tho mostly forgotten now. so i'm glad they were logged somewhere.
• being a parent to two is unbelievably hard. this time is altogether ( Read more... )

this is making me feel really old. i just heard back to back covers of don't look back in anger (oasis) and yellow (coldplay). i mean, honestly! are those songs really old enough to have covers already?

same thing is happening with movies now, too. i can't remember what, precisely, other than fame, but i feel like there's a bunch of them all of the ( Read more... )

the bread is rising in the oven, and i step back and survey the disaster zone that is my kitchen (and entire house, frankly).

i've just begun watching the show mad men, set in 1960, which to me looks every bit like the fifties. watching the housewives go about their days i'm reminded of my grandmother and it's totally fascinating to see a tiny ( Read more... )

we've had a mouse (our second one since we've been here) for several nights. the traps weren't working for some reason. last night i got over-zealous and set four, SURE that one of them would work ( Read more... )

this is going to sound really weird, but sometimes certain songs "remind" me of lives i didn't actually live - or paths i never took.

right now it's david gray's babylon. i think this must have come out while jesse was in dublin; for some reason, a part of me always felt like it was there with her even though i never was.

so this song reminds me of ( Read more... )

still feeling seriously grumpy. what the hell is my *problem ( Read more... )

back from our weekend in peekskill, and feeling morose. i want to lie around in pajamas all day and play on the internet, but instead i have to entertain a toddler and while attempting to make sense out of this explosion of a home.

why is it that sometimes a return from a trip feels warm and welcome and lovely, and other times cold, empty and sad