crucible of ennui

It’s time for Girls’ Night. I’ve put it off for too long. I need to have my friends come over with gossip and wine. Everyone has come so far and done so much since the last one.
Beth, Christina, Angela, Bill, Lisa (if you can get away for a night) - it’s time. Details are on [...]

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Besides being a pajama-jammy-jam weekend, Catherine and I have been discussing our hair.
Me: Your hair is very pretty, Cat. Thick and shiny… you’re very lucky! My hair is fine…
Cat: and funky.
Thanks for that editorial. Much appreciated.

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott

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I got my newest charm a few months back… and I LOVE it!!! Cindy totally exceeded my expectations! I can’t wait to get a new one started. I think I’m going to ask her to create something with an “Alice in Wonderland” theme, maybe a bottle with a “drink me” tag or a little [...]

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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker

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We were latchkey kids. On the weekends Andie and I were left mostly alone - to do chores, homework and keep out of trouble until either Mom or Dad got home.
Saturday mornings rocked. Scooby-Do, Robotech, Looney-Tunes, Thundercats - OMG. I loved cartoons. But after cartoons, my favorite show came on.
Kung Fu Theater.
Every Saturday from 11 [...]

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I love the sun. If there’s a patch of sun, I want to be in it. I love the warmth and that wonderful drowzy feeling you get right before a heat stroke. Nowadays I limit my sun exposure to 1-2 weekends a year. As I get older, I’m getting paranoid about wrinkles and sunspots. It’s [...]

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I’ve been kinda relaxin’ on my already relaxed look since the incident. Needless to say - I’ve been lookin’ kinda homeless.

Check out the streaks of white at my hairline. Bride of Frankenstein goes suburban. So I went to see Laura at the salon this last week and got a cut and color. The color [...]

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I’m not the best driver. But to my credit I only hit stationary and inanimate objects. So you’re completely in luck if you’re a person or animal. Not so lucky if you’re a parked car or mailbox.
Two weeks ago I accidently hit an air duct while backing into a parking space in an underground parking [...]

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Catherine is finally at that magical age where the most socially inappropriate things come out of her mouth. Most of the time she is very considerate of other people and refrains from calling people ugly or silly-looking (unlike her mother).
This self-censoring ceases to exist while in the presence of little people.
At the grocery store where [...]

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