Category Archives: daily updates

After 4 weeks with the new kitten, I have scrapes and scratches all over my body – but she’s still pretty adorable. She doesn’t do it on purpose – when she deliberately touches skin it’s with velvet paws. It’s just … Continue reading →

And I’m late posting, because I adopted her a week and a half ago. Meet Pinot Gris: She’s not perfect – for instance there’s her habit of walking straight up the nearest human to get up to a surface she … Continue reading →

Weird thing happened to me last night – documenting it in case it happens again, so I’ll know when it started. Around 2AM, I woke up feeling like I’d just swallowed a bit of acid – throat burning, acidic taste … Continue reading →

Labor Day week was supposed to be wonderful. We planned to pack up the cats and spend the week at the lake – Ted took the week off, since he has more vacation time, and I’d get the long weekend … Continue reading →

This weekend we stayed home for once – with the renovations in full swing, we’ve been going to the lake house most weekends. Sunday we went to a wine blending event. We were given young Syrah, Merlot and Cabernet Franc … Continue reading →

Tamora Pierce’s first book, Alanna, was published in 1983 – the year before I started college at Pierce’s own alma mater. This explains why I never read her books at the proper age, why they’re not part of my formative … Continue reading →

For some reason my computer doesn’t want to access this site right now. Phone typing is slow. Oh well. Ted heads off to the Netherlands today so I’m on my own for the weekend. I’m dithering over whether to go … Continue reading →

We we’re at the lake house this weekend but not last, so it’s been two weeks since we’ve seen the place. We have been talking to the contractors, though. The bad news is, there was a miscommunication with the garage … Continue reading →

1. When I can’t figure out if something “sparks joy”, it can be more helpful to ask myself if I enjoy wearing it – or even, in some cases, if I enjoy owning it (e.g. my 15-million-meter t-shirt from Concept … Continue reading →

It is boggling my mind to realize I was blogging and uploading poems online nearly 20 years ago now. I’ve just figured out how to log into my old old Moveable Type blog (unfortunately it was long ago hacked and … Continue reading →