Sex and the City afterglow

No better or more eloquent way to put it: I went to see the SATC movie last night with some girlfriends — and I LOVED it. I have never cried so many individual times during a movie in my life. Each time I thought I had gotten a grip on my waterworks, Samantha (surprisingly) or [...]

Look what I got suckered into…

Favorite person (outside family)?  I would say my sweet babboo, but these days I consider him family. I’ll say him anyway, since we’re a mere trip to Vegas away from being actual family in a legal sense (I hope that comment didn’t just ruin our tentative plan to go to Vegas in the near future). 
Favorite food?   [...]

“Put DOWN the paintbrush and keep your hands where I can see them…”

I’m pretty sure I heard CJ say that sometime in the past week. I got this crazy itch to paint, and I had to get it done… I’ve had paint samples hanging on a few of our walls for over a month, trying to decide what would look good. It was time. 
There are several funny [...]

Waiting room? Hah. This is a campsite.

Yes, I’m still around — just massively busy with the academic year wrapping up and about forty individual people each thinking that solving THEIR self-created problems needs to be my first priority. Harumph. I try my hardest to stay positive and be a good example for my students of how adults deal with stress in [...]

I’ve got it! I lost it.

Duuuuuhhhhh……. this morning my brain feels like it’s powered by a gerbil running in a wheel. For the past week my brain has been so hungry, trying to soak up so much and process it all at lightening speed. I often wonder how brilliant we would all be if we actually let our minds work [...]