I have decided not to make a New Year's resolution this year. I can barely remember the resolutions I made last year except for one, though I'm sure they were the usual lose weight, get organized, get  better, be something. The kind of resolutions everyone makes, and no one keeps.  Maybe because they're all shoulds and ought tos. And shoulds don't ( Read more... )

My brother took me to dinner at Shari's tonight. I'm so glad he's in town. I love my family and friends, but Kenneth is my favorite brother, and one of the very few people I can be totally myself with without worrying he'll take something the wrong way or be shocked by what I think or do or say. He accepts me. Completely for myself. And he loves me ( Read more... )

  I hurt.

    I don't know what it is about my life that is lending itself so much to compare and contrast lately ( Read more... )

   About two weeks before I was fired, my mom's husband got a job driving for Boyds Coffee. He received a partner driver, and spent about a week getting to know the guy. He talked to my mom, and my mom brought him up at our saturday scrap night. She asked me if I wanted to meet him. I said sure, why not, I'm not seeing anyone. I asked Al about the ( Read more... )

  I was delivering papers the other morning, in a nice, quiet, out of the way neighborhood; one of the nicer sections of my route, when I entered the driveway of a house set back from the road.  There in the bed of a pickup truck, along with several other things, was a forty-eight roll pack of the brand of toilet paper my roommate and I use.  In ( Read more... )

    Reading while on duty, knitting while on duty, using my computer while on duty, talking too long with other employees while on duty, being late, leaving early, eating at the desk...   any one of these things could be the last straw on my employment camel's back, so in the end, does it really matter which one broke it? Like a bad episode of the ( Read more... )

 Movie night at Miles.  Much fun was had by all.  Miles was there and her husband, her son's ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend, and me.  Oddly, I didn't feel like a fifth wheel.  We had pizza and nachos and apples with caramel dip.  We watched Man of the Year with Robin Williams. It was pretty good.  I feel pretty good.

Actually, I feel ( Read more... )

  I keep thinking I need fantastic reason to start writing again.  Just like I should have had some aweful reason that I stopped.  But the truth is, it was difficult to get to internet access with my schedule, and easier to just let it go.  Now I have internet access in my house, I hope to post more often ( Read more... )

It's Tuesday, and I'm in the internet cafe I like.  It's been three weeks give or take, since my last post.

I'm a tangle.

The first weekend of June was June Faire, and that camping trip gets four stars.  The weather was great, not to hot, not too cold, and it didn't rain.  I got three ferry rides, and it's been forever since I've been on a ferry.  I ( Read more... )