Last night when I was waiting for my mother to come home,1 I decided to do her dishes. It’s funny, how with housework, it’s easier to steel myself up to doing someone else’s dishes,2 yet so much harder to do my own. I wonder if this thought represents a much larger pattern in life.
My mother [...]
I wish I had a device that I could activate to act like a shield around my person. It would create an “ozone” layer so to speak to regulate my temperature. This way, despite Mother Nature’s best efforts, I would be neither too cold, nor too hot. As it stands [...]
In the past little while, I’ve developed quite a fondness for Owls. I mean… I’ve always liked them in general, but lately, I’ve found my self almost inadvertently collecting owl things. They’re just so cute, so quite, so calm and serene. Maybe it’s because I associate them with wisdom and truth. Or because I crave [...]
There’s a student at my work who is in love w/ cherries. And she’s very kind and gave me a big bag of broach back pins. So I decided to whip her up a little broach as a thank you.
I just kind of made up the design on the spot. I crocheted two red balls, [...]
This is my new coffee cozy. The coffee shop I go to on a daily basis every morning on my way to work started selling these for $5. However, I did not purchase one. Being the crafty and thrifty girl that I am, I promptly went home and knit one of my own! It was [...]
I was talking to my director about… something, can’t remember what. But what it led to was a comment on the new law that was just passed in Afghanistan.
It basically makes it illegal for a woman to refuse her husbands sexual advances. In short, it legalizes raping your wife, and that’s not even the [...]
and yet here I am, at my desk. Working on financials and prepping Student Loan breakdowns. Yuck.
Insteaddddddd, maybe I’ll write a little about my weekend. I got four whole days off1 and I tried to enjoy every minute of it.
Friday morning Andy and I drove up to Parksville to relax a little and spend some [...]
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