I'm serious, you know.  No fooling.  We're on something like our thousandth day of heat indexes over 100.  I kid you not, I dropped a tomato on my driveway today and the heat cooked it.  It's so hot, my hair is getting straighter.  Well, not really, but a girl can dream. This is the timeContinue reading "Ok, enough with this heat…"

Tonight presents nothing particularly mind-blowing to write about, so my preemptive apologies to those seeking wit and humor.  But it's been a weird couple of days.  And the best I can say is that the weirdness isn't keeping me up at night.  Something is, but it's not the weirdness.  More on that later. Yesterday, afterContinue reading "musings…"

It's strange, indeed, that a new living space can have such a profound effect on one's pysche.  Maybe it's having a project, something to keep you busy...or maybe it's just that changing your surroundings can change your point of view.  Doesn't matter, really...it's still pretty cool.   But I've done some very uncharacteristically domestic things theseContinue reading "domesticity"

What a weird couple of days.  Cool, in the "I-don't-have-to-work-so-I-can-do-pretty-much-whatever-I-want" way of a single gal, but weird in that, despite all that I did, I didn't really accomplish much.  Unless you count being one load of laundry and a few stray electronics away from totally emptying my old apartment as an accomplishment.In the course ofContinue reading "an unproductive productive day(s)"

Tonight, I sat on MY PATIO with friends as the sun went down, eating pizza, drinking wine, watching one of the kids throw a tennis ball in MY BACKYARD.  I have furniture in my house.  The girls made my bed for me.  The boys took the door off to get the big chair into theContinue reading "I’m moved in…"