A Cat By Any Other Name

I woke up early this morning feeling comfortably domestic. So by the time Richard stumbled out of bed a little while later, I had not only managed to unearth the breakfast nook table from beneath the pile that’s been accumulating since we got home Friday night, I also had laundry in the washing machine, a [...]

Today started with me sleeping in as late as I possibly could – which actually turned out to be nearly 8am this morning. I’m not sure how I got so lucky that the cats decided to leave me alone, but one doesn’t look such a gift horse in the mouth. Richard popped in The Nightmare [...]

I didn’t manage to come up with any reason to go to the emergency room today, so I suppose in comparison to yesterday, today might classify as dull and boring. Gee, I kinda like it this way. But anyway. Turns out it was a good thing Richard got all the lights up yesterday because it’s [...]

Every year for Christmas, I do massive amounts of baking. And then I load up a huge plate with the results and take them in to my office, the better to foist off all these freshly created calories on other people. This year, however, I wasn’t able to do that, seeing as how technically we [...]

Dear Santa, Here’s a list of things I’d like you to bring me for Xmas this year. You’ll notice that this list is a bit different than the last time I sent you a list, but that’s probably because I haven’t really written you a letter since I was still in single digits in age. [...]

I am writing this, barely awake after a four-hour long session of the most fun AD&D game I’ve played in a long time. Richard’s a good game master, and the group is all just as warped as he and I, so we spent a lot of time with our heads down on the table, laughing [...]

We went out today with the explicit purpose of finding new cell phones. Last year, we signed up with Cingular, but we’ve both been rather unhappy about the reception and the coverage, and I’ve had the date this contract expires (December 26th!) marked on my calendar for months now. On that day, I’ll call up [...]

Last year we went to the midnight showing of The Lord of the Rings. We stayed up for it, and stood outside in the bitter cold to get tickets. There weren’t very many people in the theater at that time of night – I guess even the most hardcore of fans weren’t quite ready to [...]

Phase two of the big winter storm came tip-toeing in last night, waking me slowly this morning to the sound of our wind chimes ringing furiously on the front porch. And next came the rain, slow at first but then too hard to want to drive in. As a result, we decided that today was [...]

Today we braved the rain to drive to the Best Buy in Fairfield so that we could purchase our joint Christmas present. The reason for going to Fairfield was actually to take my mom to her car (she’s getting a new transmission for Christmas. Talk about rotten timing!), but we figured while we were there… [...]