To say it's been awhile would be a gargantuan understatement. So I'll save myself all the effort of typing out long and superfluos excuses that really don't mean a whole dang lot anyway. I could go on about lack of personal access, wacky schedules, stress levels and out-and-out general chaos but I won't. Why? Because it's six in the morning, I'm ( Read more... )

One week and all this mad mad wedding craze will be over and I can go back to living for myself and myself only. Not, of course, that I haven't been doing that but I've been having to do so in secret - it's getting tiring. Nat's been on a confirmation kick. She has me calling the flower shop, the caterers, the church, the hotel, the salon, the ( Read more... )

Aye, I am still alive, for all those out there in journal-land who may have been wondering. I wish I had time for a real juicy update (and I mean juicy ;-)) but, alas, the owner of this computer, and of the house I'm squatting in, doesn't know I'm using it. So I must be stealth. I just couldn't bear another moment away! I had to get my fix, like ( Read more... )

So it's not so much a cocktail as it is a delectable after-dinner or rainy eve beverage but I do believe the original Shannon recipe has a place here. There are of course, many unique methods, but sometimes even I can be a sucker for the classic ( Read more... )

I spent most of today outside. Not because of the brilliant weather, still low teens and as gloomy as all get out. But because I've got a serious case of cabin fever. Between all the work I've got going on I haven't given myself the chance to take a real break. With my studies and my bathroom and my practice and all this paperwork yadda yadda yadda ( Read more... )

Dear Frankie as movie of the year? I hope not. But it is the best I've seen of the lot so far. I was going to dismiss it as typical sentimental mother/son sap. The kind you can find in any special of the week requiring copious amounts of tissues to get through. But it wasn't like that. It was sentimental but in an actuall feel-good manner. The ( Read more... )

How do you get rid of a toothpaste stain? Somehow I managed to get one on my new skirt yesterday (long story- big meeting, spinach salad, wanted sparkling teeth, blessed be knee-length coats) and it won't come out, no matter how much of that "Magic Stain Removal" junk I use. And it was new! From Monsoon. And is the only justification I have for ( Read more... )

This week was filled with nothing but battles.

Battles with my car. What do you mean empty? I just filled you last week! Have you seen the current prices??. Battles with my hairdryer. It's because I like my curling iron better, isn't it? Battles with Natalie. Honestly, carrot cake, fruit cake, ice-cream cake, no cake, it's YOUR wedding, just tell ( Read more... )

I was asked a question today, by Holmes of all people, that genuinely startled me.

When did I start hating myself?

And I find I have no answer.

Dancing around my living room in capri pyjamas. :-) I'm pretty sure my cat thinks I'm two steps over the insanity line.

I wonder what the people think across the street. I think I'll wave.

I'm loving, loving, loving
( this song )