I'm calling the first 24 hours of 2009 a smashing success.

Friends
Friends
Booze
Friends
Cat
Book
Friends
Friends
Breakfast
Friends
Book
Friends
Coffee
Dinner
Home

May there be many more of these days to come in 2009.

I usually balk at the idea of 365 days of resolving to do something that, just last year, I wasn't remotely interested in sticking to. Who am I kidding? I'm still balking at it. However, I think there's something to be said for attempting a routine. Let's try it and see how it goes, right? It's a theory I'm working on.

I only know of one person in ( Read more... )

I have ariven. Being on a plane 5 hours for a three hour flight is bogus. I appreciate the doc who had the foresight to bless me with ativan. It ensured I didn't want to kill even a single person! Amazing stuff ( Read more... )

This year will be my first year of attending a Thanksgiving with fewer than ten. I'm used to more like twenty. This year it is four. But it will be nice to have dinner at my new house, and even nicer to share cooking with the three other dear people I'm eating with.

The Menu

Apps: Crackers & cheese? Deviled eggs?

Main: Turkey

Starch: Mashed 'taters, ( Read more... )

On The Days I Am Not My Father
by Scott Owens

I don't yell. I don't hold inside
the day's supply of frustrations.
My hands stay open all day.
I don't wake tired and sore,
dazed from senseless, panicking
dreams. On the days I am not
my father I hold my son
when he cries, let him touch my face 
without flinching, lie down with him
until he falls asleep, realize ( Read more... )

I've decided I'm giving out an award for the best person/people of the week. This may be the only week. Regardless, this week's winner is...

drumroll, please...

semisweetcorn! for assisting me with software solutions, potentially getting me some side work (is it still conisdered "side" work when one is unemployed? I digress...), and, the very biggest of the ( Read more... )

May I present their Emergency Party Button.

From their website: The Emergency Party Button began as a novelty idea that has become the focus of every event that goes on in our home. A big red button is, by human nature, an object of compulsion. If you see it, you are overcome with the desire to push it. But what happens when you do?

Click to view

I highly ( Read more... )

My kitty, Elona, is being displaced. She really needs to be in a single-cat, low-key house where she can be the princess.

Elona is a tortoise shell (black and caramel) medium-haired cat. She's a perfect love, and has her own agenda. The only reason that I can't have her (which breaks my heart) is because I live with three other cats (it used to be ( Read more... )

Recipe called for 8 ounces of tomato sauce.

No go.

In lieu, I used 1 part super concentrated tomato paste (Amore) and 4 parts Mr. & Mrs. T's Bloody Mary Mix.

Trashy, eh? It's for stew, so it doesn't really matter anyhow...

I need a bigger crockpot.

Reborn and shivering
Spat out on new terrain
Unsure, unconvincing
this faint and shaky hour

Day one, day one
Start over again
Step one, step one
I’m barely making sense
For now I’m faking it
‘Til I’m pseudo-making it
From scratch, begin again
But this time I as “I”
And not as “we”

Gun-shy and quivering
Timid without a hint
Feign brave with steel intent
Little and ( Read more... )