it was a very hard week. very hard. very. very.

mr husband was home after midnight every night. and then out all day saturday, returning sometime after 3:30 in the morning. then he had to head back in to work straight after church.

i started to get sort of grumpy. angry at this stupid this. and this [...]

yes. hello universe. i haven’t written in ages because my lucky old compaq decided to visit the moon without me. and then i started feverishly painting furniture for my house. (hello orange desk! i love you.) and then on to setting traps for mouse.

so, back to the beginning. i’m mad. i’m really mad. and sad. [...]

i have been gone. i like sounding existential, but really, my laptop imploded and i’m not internetting much these days. i spend my free time buried in sewing. my bedroom is covered with pins. my poor husband asked if i would mind picking up the ones on his side of the bed.

which brings me to [...]

yeah, it was my birthday. yesterday. i’m thirty-something. not afraid to tell you my age, just like the way thirty-something sounds.

and i’m a fan of the birthday list, so here it goes. some more things you might not know.

i used to sit in the milk box.
i don’t like peas. or buttercream frosting.
i’ve never made [...]

there is a toot and puddle book titled “you are my sunshine.” i don’t want to spoil it by repeating the plot (because, really, how much plot can you have in a few dozen pages?), but i will tell you that at the end there is a rainstorm. and the rainstorm clears the air.

that’s how [...]