The Year-long Winter ( Read more... )

Eliot and I leave the house tonight to drive up to Portland so we don't have to do all our traveling at once. Since we are leaving the house for such a long time, we have tried to do all the necessary things to ensure the house is ok by itself... put the plants on an automatic timer, take out the trash, clean everything, etc. About a week ago I ( Read more... )

So I am headed to Ireland, Scotland, and England in less than a week. Here is a link to the Oregon Chorale Blogwhere you can read about our tour on an almost-daily basis. I post things on it every once in awhile, but many other members of the chorale are posting on it as well. Here is what I posted recently ( Read more... )

1. I got a metal sliver in my hand from putting the order away at work ( Read more... )

Why are you not going for the person you want ( Read more... )

If you got married to your bf/gf what would your last name be ( Read more... )

Those of you who know me know that I have never in my life been allergic to grass pollen. That has now changed, I'm sad to say, and now my allergies are so severe I can't breathe through my nose if I don't take some sort of antihistamine or allergy tablet. You know why this is ( Read more... )

I decided to go out and do some gardening today, and was SHOCKED at the number of spiders I ran into (not to mention the number of snails I found that were as big as my thumb!). Those of you who know me know I don't do well with spiders, but the facts is I let them be outside in the garden because, hey, they have to live somewhere and they are good ( Read more... )

T-minus 27 days till we leave for Ireland/Scotland! I have to admit that even though it was tough to be there last time in the situation I was in, I am very glad that I am going back and will have 2 weeks of vacation! Yay ( Read more... )

"It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe ( Read more... )