Sorry for the radio silence. I’ve been both busy and a bit crabby and I write less when I’m crabby. I’m not the sort to spill it all out on the page. In fact, in the journal I have kept since I was 16, you can always tell something bad happened when there are gaps [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Crabbiness
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged colostomy, colostomy reversal, surgery on November 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In which my brains take leave
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dogs, forgetting, guilt, life, mistakes on November 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
J has been away for a little over 1.5 weeks and I’ve been going it alone. Since I can barely go it with him around, it has been a bit nuts. Not as nuts as when the kids were little, but enough. I bailed one skating lesson and one fiddle lesson, which actually doesn’t seem [...]
Things I Learned From High School Musical 3
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged HSM, Kids, knitting, movies on November 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
1. You cannot knit angora on size 3 needles in a movie theatre, even if it is only a scarf, because the moment you make one mistake, you are screwed.
2. You cannot listen to Sarah Vowell’s book Assissination Vacation on your iPod while the movie is playing – or anything else for that matter – [...]
Sixth of the Sixth
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cameras, Kids, meme, photos, sixth of sixth on November 15, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Mary G from Them’s My Sentiments tagged me for a cool meme, where in you find the 6th photo in the 6th folder of your pictures and post it. I mostly hang out here on my laptop now and it mostly has work photos on it, so that didn’t work (lots of cute children, just [...]
Sad, and not so funny
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dog walking, dogs, exercise, life, walking on November 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I starting taking more regular walks again with Jasper. We both need it. I am pathetically deconditioned.
Today, I decided I would march around the path at the dog park, as I used to a year ago. I was going to barrel along, working up a sweat and raising my heart-rate. It didn’t go as I [...]
Funny. But sad.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gay, gay rights, Jon Stewart, politics, prop 8 on November 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m watching Jon Stewart on my laptop and he just described Sarah
Palin’s knowledge of North American as, “Us, gay us up there and the
burrito guys down there.” Which I thought was pretty darn funny.
And speaking as ‘gay America,’ what’s with the actually voting in favour of
prop 8? It took me a couple of days [...]
I’m trying
Posted in Uncategorized on November 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been trying to get a post together for two days now, but work has interfered. This work thing, it kind of keeps a person busy at times.
The world seems like a different place since Obama was elected, but that’s mostly because summer has returned. Seems like the whole world has kind of tipped on [...]
Just an Ordinary Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged computers, dogs, ordinary on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, it was a pretty average day today. I worked longer than I was supposed to, but it is fun and they got me a real desk chair, so I’m pretty happy about that.
I then went to get the dog before coming back to pick up the kids. We then took the dog for a [...]
Computers for everyone
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged computers, elections, Kids, learning disabilities, politics, undecided, voters on November 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have New Yorker magazines all over, strategically-placed in the bathroom, by my bed, in the car, in my backpack. I had a bath this evening and read the bathroom one, which turns out to be one of the more recent. It has a David Sedaris column. I love Sedaris. He holds the same opinion [...]
Kindness
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged kindness on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday was a little bit of One of Those Days. I misplaced my bank card, so I grabbed a credit card to go to the grocery store and pick up a few last minute necessities on the way home from school with the kids. The plan was to pop in, pop out and then rest [...]
