1. Tonight as I talked my daughter through her bedtime routine, I said aloud, in all seriousness, “Let’s go brush your tooth*.” 2. I spent several minutes searching for what I kept mentally referring to as a “Smoothie**.” Hint: I needed to write something on a CD. 3. I forgot how to say “car wash.” … More Country roads, take me home
Thanks for all your kind words and thoughts. I know you will understand when I say don’t want to talk about it right now. That I don’t want to talk about it is probably surprising considering the following: I took the Personality Types profile for the first time as a college freshman. I knew it … More Please understand me
She’s gone.
Remember that thing I told you about the other day, the really horrible thing? I am choosing not to speak of it at this time. It is even more horrible than I thought, and I don’t want to talk about it right now. Nonetheless, I appreciate the wishes of love and light more than you … More Expecto patronum
I found out last week that my grandmother on my mom’s side is dying. Soon, probably. Some rare and apparently very advanced form of liver cancer. I am speechless. Wordless in general, apparently, because it’s been several minutes since I typed those sentences up there, and I still don’t know what else to say. I … More Blank
And I would, for once in my freakin’ life, be on time instead of all paranoid the night before (where IS everyone? is this the right day?) or straggling in at the last minute on the day-of (oh, THERE you are–am I late?). Sometimes when I daydream about living in London, jaunting around town on … More If I had gone to Hogwarts this shower wouldn’t be virtual
1. A question (for my Harry Potter friends): if you could have any magical power from the Harry Potter series, what would it be? What magical object would you like to possess? Me, I want to Apparate, and I really dig Hermione’s magic purse from book 7. 2. A request: Amanda! When I go to … More 4 things
I was cleaning off my desk today and discovered a piece of computer paper with the following list scratched haphazardly in pencil and ink: cookies/bakies HP 2 brothers gored in ass–bulls Blogger: real name? tic-tac commercials baby arms & legs –> crib sickness Astelin–taste book 7, movie 5 I had to read over it a … More STUPEFY!
I am writing to you from the protected silence of Naptime, which, in this house, only lasts for 30 minutes at at time and only happens a maximum of 3 times a day. If you’re doing the math, that means I have about an hour and a half to myself every day. Not that I’m … More Don’t bother calling social services–I know people there and they wouldn’t believe you
You know you have been away from your blog too long when your information is no longer saved in the comment area of other people’s blogs and you actually have to log in to Flickr to upload pictures. I think the original date on this post was June 19. I got as far as the title. … More Vacation vignettes, volume 1
one small corner of the universe 