My (old) job, for a long time now, was like reliving the beginning of Rumplestiltskin over and over again. I’ve felt like the miller’s daughter, being locked in a room with piles and piles of straw and told to turn it into gold. And everyday, by hook or by crook, I managed to get it done. I went home tired,…

When I was a kid, probably 6 or 7 years old, I had this giant metal see-saw. I mean when I was a kid it looked huge, it had these big handlebars on the sides that probably came up to around my waist if I were standing next to it. At some point I got it in my head that…

I loved the song “Voices Carry” by Til Tuesday when I was a kid. For YEARS I thought they were saying, “Hush, hush, keep it down now, this is Carrie.” It wasn’t til I was in my teens that I realised it was “voices carry.” DUH. And when “Livin La Vida Loca” came out, the line “Lips are devil red”…

Things I need to stop doing: automatically assuming the worst about people.

Well, we don’t know if maybe Chase had food poisoning or a virus and I caught it, because yesterday morning I got sick. I tried to go on into work, but after an hour of sheer exhaustion, fever and nausea I realised it was futile and went home. I couldn’t even walk from the living room to the bathroom without…

I cleaned out my bag this morning in preparation to switch to my TARDIS purse for Chicago next weekend. This isn’t the weirdest haul I’ve ever seen but I thought I’d take a pic: Wallet Bp gift card a ton of receipts (already thrown away before the picture) a business card from Greyhound Adoptions camera charger chapstick 4 (!) medication…