Saturday afternoon Bob and I hauled it down to Small Town, Minnesota for my cousin Jamie’s graduation party. Little Jamie, the first of many babies my mom took care of from my mid-teens and on. Little Jamie graduated from high school and now I feel So. Freaking. Old. Attending her party meant seeing members of my dad’s family I see all of once a year…if that. This is all well and good, they generally save…
This Reunion story is certainly living up to the “from hell” title lately. My brain keeps digging up these little “what if?” scenarios and then I spend far too long trying to figure out if and how they would work in the context of the story. I try writing them out to see how they fare and piece them in little by little. Last night I asked Bob his opinion on one of these what…
Bob is gone on the annual company fishing trip up on Mille Lacs and won’t be home until tomorrow. From the day I moved in with him, we have not spent one single night apart. Tonight is the first time in over four years that I will be sleeping alone. I kind of don’t know what to do with myself. After Bob left this afternoon, I started laundry and then started the unnecessarily daunting task…
The Ben & Marina story has the unofficial title of Reunion From Hell. That “working title” really has nothing to do with the story. Or at least not anymore. The original premise was completely different than what it is now. It was something I started sometime around 2005. It was also supposed to be two separate stories. The first was to take place on a movie set, chronicling the actors and their relationships while they…
I have a low-grade fever. I have no idea why. But I feel crappy and I’m fekking HOT and despite taking a lukewarm shower to cool down and prevent myself from overheating, I feel like I haven’t showered in days. It’s also somewhere around ninety degrees outside. Two words: Air Conditioning. I made pizza and garlic cheese bread for dinner on Thursday. We will be eating the last of it for dinner tonight. Pizza four…
It’s 11AM. I’ve been up since about 2:30. I’ve washed dishes, vacuumedswept the kitchen floor, baked a cake, made frosting for said cake, and now the dishwasher is running. I even took chicken out of the freezer and set to thaw in the fridge so I am forced to cook it for dinner tonight. I have no idea what the hell is wrong with me either, but now I’m getting a headache that is presenting…
