As the final days of 2006 wind down, I’m thinking about the new year. Fresh starts! Big projects! Resolutions! So much to look forward to, and yet at the same time, I find myself thinking [...]
Quick update, in the midst of ongoing holiday festivities: it has been a GREAT Christmas, complete with turkey dinners, lots of family, fun presents (final season of Six Feet Under on DVD!) [...]
Okay. So I have nothing to say. Maybe it’s just end of year burnout, or holiday distraction, but I feel like my entries have been weakening, bit by bit, day by day, and now I find myself [...]
Yesterday, I had to run over to the mall, even though I thought I was done with my Christmas shopping, to buy One Last Thing. (I capitalize that because it is not ever really One thing, but a [...]
I love the week before Christmas. It’s like you can just FEEL everything kind of slowing down, people taking off on vacation, responsibilities being abandoned. My email inbox stops filling [...]
When do you realize you’re just a LITTLE bit too much into the lives of your pets? When you call your husband at work–accidentally interrupting him from a meeting—because he [...]
Late entry today, as last night I was felled by a stomach virus. NOT fun. Now, I’m sitting in bed, Gatorade beside me, working my way through a backlog of US Weeklys and EWs. I figure I can [...]
So what happens when I finally get to a movie, after not going in ages? The movie disappoints. Isn’t that always the way? I REALLY wanted to love The Holiday. In fact, I’d been [...]
When I was a kid, my mom was always talking about honesty. How it was important to her, how it should be to me. “But you’re a good and honest person!” she’d say, whenever [...]
Hello and Happy Monday. Five days until Hanukkah begins, 15 until Christmas Day. Not that I’m keeping track or anything. Or stressing about getting everything done in time. Or sitting here, [...]
