Month: May 2009

I am so lucky.  Here are some reasons why: 1)    I work for a company that values good coffee, and shuns the typical bitter office grounds.  I’ve completely stopped making coffee at home, because there is an endless supply of the good stuff here at work. 2)    Greta left the world’s best video message on…

Finally.

Itchy ankle, itchy ankle, You’re the cause of all my rankle. Damn mosquito, found my vein, Your existence is my bane. Can’t think clearly, can’t think straight, Since my blood was made the bait. All I want to do is itch, Throw my body in a ditch Of hydrocortisone.

Before getting roommates this past December, I lived alone for 5 years.  I cannot remember a time that I was ever scared to live by myself.  But last night, I started to wonder… why? I’m still house-sitting, and when it was close to midnight and I was in bed working on the computer, one of…

I never thought I’d see the day, but sure enough. Like the Terminator, like Backstreet… Scrunchies are back.

I cannot look at the Nashville Humane Society website. It breaks my heart into a million little pieces. I want to save every dog without a home. Or at least this one. Her name is Annie, too. Anyone who beats or abandons a pet should be put in jail. But instead, it’s the dogs that…

As I mentioned yesterday, I am house-sitting / dog-sitting this weekend.  Sleeping in a king size bed is weird.  I like my little double mattress.  The king bed just feels so… huge, and excessive, and unnecessary, and lonely. Oh!  But it’s not lonely when you have two gigantic Labradors to share the space! Gah.  I…

Whoa.  Didn’t mean to quit blogging.  But it happened for a second. – – – – – – – – I was invited to spend this coming Saturday on a pontoon boat with 30 other people. I would rather streak across a golf course. Many of the people who are going to be on the…

On Friday night, I attended a memorial service of a dear friend in Seattle.  While there in the church pew, celebrating the life of and grieving the loss of this amazing woman, another friend took my hand and placed it on her pregnant belly to feel the baby kick. One friend is giddy about a…

Nashville is a squeal of delight. But Seattle is a sigh of relief.