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Good. Gracious. I’m. Melting. For someone who frequently bemoans how fast life is passing her by and loathes the first cold snap, I have to declare this too: I am so, so, so sick of summer this year. No, I can’t stand the heat, but unfortunately for me, I can’t get out of the kitchen [...]

Sometimes I have to remind myself that things won’t go as planned not matter how solid and swimmingly everything is going up until that certain point. It’s not that I haven’t figured this out on my own yet, but when I’m looking forward to something, I can have tail-wagging puppy-dog enthusiasm. And unlike the puppies, [...]

I had to work today. Usually working on Saturday is stressful and busy, plus a bummer, since it’s Saturday, but today was not bad at all. Leaving work to sunshine instead of a black sky helped too. How to tell it was the first day of spring: More bike riders than usual. Kids hanging out [...]

While I’m stuck inside, I might as well admire the beauty. I was supposed to go to work yesterday but that wasn’t going to happen. I live on a hill, and my street was (and still mostly is) buried. I watched four-wheel-drive vehicles get stuck. Oh yes, and there was a state of emergency declared, [...]

See those indents in the snow? I made them an hour and a half after this was taken. You can’t even tell I walked through it now. This insanity has accumulated in only nine hours. I keep hearing we have everything from four inches to six to eight to a foot, so I’m going to [...]

Snow: The wet, cold mush that pounded us all night and day, made the roads undriveable, the sidewalks unwalkable, turned my car sideways like the horziontal line on a plus sign, froze my legs up to my knees, and kept me from going to work today. But damn, it’s pretty.

Part of me (the dorky, childish part) hopes that the sweater keeps the tree toasty this winter. But the rational part knows that since it’s been unnaturally warm lately, it’s probably too hot. At least they tried to bundle it up.

In case I haven’t mentioned it, Sunday is a really great day when you’re no longer going to school. It’s especially great when you don’t have to work on Mondays (though that does mean working on Saturdays, a drawback). Today I spend mine at the museum (pictures tomorrow), catching up on Lost and eating snacks [...]

I don’t rant very often, but something has been said to me so times lately that its pushed me there. THANKS EVERYONE. I know its summer. I know that most pale people have skin the color of Coca Cola by now. I know that I do not. Please do not assume that I never go [...]

I didn’t even think they made this stuff anymore. I long dismissed it as grocery store folklore. Part of me wants to try it and yet…. not. Supermarket self-portrait. My hair has been doing that flippy thing lately and its rather annoying. Its surprisingly cool for July. As someone without air conditioning, I don’t mind [...]