Office blue painted

Hurt my everything, dammit

Wanna come and see?

The masking tape blue

The bookshelves moved

The outlet covers removed

The rollers' fuzzy groove

The Colorado smokey hue

Wanna help paint my office blue?

This weekend only, volunteers are welcome! I hear it induces labor...

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I woke up early again and snuck down to the lobby so I could read more Dean Koonz. The hotel had a public computer, so I checked my email and livejournal to see how you all were doing. The breakfast area was confusing to me, and none of the staff spoke English. So, I walked through, filled a plate and handed over some money. Good food - eggs ( Read more... )

The sauce stuff was pureed raspberries!!!  I'm sure there was like liquor in there, too.  There was hot fudge lava inside the little souffle.  It oozed out of it when we attacked it with our forks.  Notice the mood lighting?  I was completely seduced by this dessert!

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I woke up early - in part because I was an hour earlier time-zone wise, and also because I'm me. I snuck out of the room to go get breakfast and journal a little. The hotel provided a nice breakfast buffet, and there were a lot of people in the dining area. I chose a table in the sun and wrote while eating. I kept an eye on the time in case I ( Read more... )

Marit picked me up at the Phoenix airport before I could embarrass myself by taking a cellphone photo of the straggly palm trees next to the highway. Instead, she whisked me away to our hotel - or at least that was the plan. Despite Marit's reservations and phone confirmation, the hotel had no record of her reservations when we arrived! Marit ( Read more... )

I just came from the MN Department of Labor where I reviewed some records. As I waited to pay for my copies, I looked up. Hanging from the ceiling was the same plastic bat that had been hanging there for years. This bat is always decorated by season. Today, it was wearing a green bowler hat and had strategically placed shamrock pasties. I didn ( Read more... )

My wonderful friend Kim died this morning in NC. She developed a fever when she was in intensive care and they placed her on a ventilator. When her fever did not go back down for a reasonable amount of time, they removed her from the transplant list. She was sedated the whole time. Everyone took shifts at her bedside so that if she ever came ( Read more... )

You may recall my friend Kim, who has cystic fibrosis and has been waiting in NC for a double lung transplant. She's been waiting nearly 2 months, now. Word has come that she has taken a pretty bad downturn. She had to move from an apartment back into the hospital, and now she's in intensive care. The phrase "touch-and-go" has been used too ( Read more... )