Category: general

04
Feb
2006

NOW I LAY MEME DOWN TO SLEEP

4 jobs I’ve had Bagel Deli Counter Queen; Summer Dormitory Cleaning Crew; Marketing Services Coordinator; MSU Laundry Slavey 4 movies I can watch over and over Anne of Green Gables; Ladyhawke; My Fair Lady; Toy Story 4 places I’ve lived Knob Noster, Missouri; Overpelt, Belgium; Great Falls, Montana; Chicago, Illinois 4 TV shows I love(d) Little House on the Prairie; Remington Steele; The Incredible Hulk; The West Wing 4 places I’ve vacationed Santorini, Greece; Istanbul, Turkey; Hot Springs, Arkansas; Legoland, Denmark 4 of my favorite dishes Cream of mushroom soup; Salmon with lemon pepper; Chicken pot pie; Frikadelles & pommes...

02
Feb
2006

FOR SOMEONE WITH NOTHING TO SAY I SURE TALK A LOT

I honestly feel I have nothing to say. Which is weird, because I just talked on the phone to a total stranger for nearly half an hour. And weird, because anyone who knows me would say that my not having anything to say is a thing of beauty and a joy forever unusual. *sings softly* Hey ho, anybody listening? Hey ho, anybody here? Hey ho, anybody listening? ……….Anybody caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare? Heh. That was the part of the refrain from a gospel song I sang in Messengers when I was 17. So, what the hell is the matter with me? General malaise...

01
Feb
2006

READY FOR REWINDING THIS DO-OVER DAY

When my children are bored, I put my hands on my hips with exasperation and say, “How can you possibly be bored? You have so many toys, so many books, so many friends, so many things you could be doing!” and then I start listing them one by one with my head cocked first to one side, then the other, until the kids run screaming in capitulation from the room to amuse themselves elsewhere. When my husband is bored, I kick him out of the house, which is really where he longs to be. He’s happiest doing something outside that...

31
Jan
2006

WHEN THE MOON IS IN THE STUPID HOUSE

You know, I like some of the ideas of astrology, and I think it’s fun to be a fire sign (rawr!) and it’s interesting and all, but the guest speaker who babbled on tonight at the meeting for over an HOUR really made the case AGAINST it despite his self-professed knowledge and experience in a lifelong career as an astrologer. The final straw for me, the one that tipped my eyeballs over and up into the back of my head, where they had been straining to go for what felt like an eternity, was his snippy response to one girl’s...

30
Jan
2006

SOMETIMES NOTHING IS A CLEVER THING TO SAY

Overnight, all the water in the wind made the transition directly to the vapor phase, locking on as if the frost and fog spirits had taken a high-pressure hose and sprayed white flocked velvet on the southwest side of everything up on the hill. The fog hugs every contour and hides the world. The hoarfrost is half an inch thick, it lopsides the trees with white icing. Everything is suddenly blooming again…with frost flowers, the crystalline structures built on suspended and subliminated vapor. The trees have all aged and grown beards and ghostly white skeletal fluff. I come home to...

29
Jan
2006

(UN)COMMON DENOMINATORS

The people that descended on my home last night were all women, all living in Scandinavia for various reasons, and all writers of online journals that I read. We came in different shapes and colors and sizes. We were in our 20s, our 30s, our 40s, and our 50s. We were pregnant, child-free, trying to conceive, and mothers, of children both school-age and grown. We were single, girlfriends, sambos, wives, divorcing, divorced, engaged, re-married, in love. We were newly employed, self-employed, freelancing, working, studying, and jobhunting. We were photographers, singers, readers, crafty chicas, vegetarians, dog owners, flirts, green thumbs, snorers,...

28
Jan
2006

PAJAMA PARTY COUNTDOWN!

I need to get cracking if I’m going to get everything done before the psychos from the internet all my houseguests arrive. I tried to sleep in but failed. kachunknorge, however, took my admonition to “sleep in as long as you like” quite literally and is either still snoozing or reading in her room thinking I’m still abed. Grocery shopping, final cleaning and bed-making on the day’s agenda. Then, because this IS a slumber party, I have to make room in the freezer for BRAS! muahahahaha!

26
Jan
2006

THE SOURCE OF YOUR SMILE

♥ A package full of goodies in the mail from a dear friend, including your birthday watch that she kindly took with her to the States and got fixed for you. ♥ The knowledge that someone loves you. ♥ A blindingly sunny day and a walk that takes you through snow fields, under underpasses, along the highway, behind the industrial park, and up the long road back to the office leaving you breathless and pink-cheeked. ♥ Crossing things off your to-do list at work with wavy lines made by a fat red marker. ♥ 2 little seedless perfect juicy sweet...

24
Jan
2006

THESE ARE THE GOOD OLD DAYS

Anders is packing right now. He’s leaving me and taking the kids. WOOT! Yes, the annual father-kid ski trip is approaching rapidly. They’re leaving on Friday and will be gone for a week. And yes, I will miss them. But first? I’m filling my home with a bunch of internet psychopaths good friends, many of whom I’ve never met, and having a slumber party on Saturday night. WHEEE! So many good things going on, I hardly know where to start, although I have to say, it sure is hard to keep up with you people when I miss one evening...

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