Went to the gym last night and gotta love those endorphyns. I was in a much better mood last night. Unfortunately today, while I’m still in better mental space, I have a bit of a fever and a cough and a headache. So I’m staying home from work today and just resting. Enjoying some calm. [...]

I know I have to just get over it, but today I’m in such a foul mood. Yesterday was the crying and weeping part of “dealing with it.” Today is the “please don’t talk to me, I’m too pissed to deal with you” part. I said sometime earlier this month that I wasn’t going to [...]

The title of today’s post comes from the opening lines of Harry’s new song, All These People, which speaks to the horrible conditions at the Convention Center that Harry witnessed first-hand and that the rest of us saw through the lens of the news cameras. It is availalble on from the iTunes Music Store and [...]

I am making a better attempt to put something out on my blog every day, be it serious and profound or fluffy cat pictures (more of those coming soon!) This post is a test to see if I can make entries on my lists on 43Things and AllConsuming and see if they will show up [...]

PAUL SIMON: NEWS I see that Paul simon is playing in Rosemont on my 30th birthday. I’ve always wanted to see him… maybe this would be a fun way to celebrate…

Finished this baby quilt tonight for a friend’s baby shower this weekend. I sure hope I heard her mom correctly this summer when she said they were using primary colors for the baby room… The pattern was thirty squares of two colors each knit on the diagonal, then sewn together into the final layout. I [...]

After working on Saturday, I came home craving pancakes. I busted out my box of Jiffy Mix and looked up the proper mix for pancakes. Whipped up a nice batter and got out the syrup. I don’t have a pancake griddle, but my roommate has a nice stainless steel skillet and I thought this would [...]

There’s a lot going with my life as of late and I don’t know what to do with it. Its getting bottled up inside and occasionally exploding in an unnecessarily needy IM conversation or as a torrent of tears in the Village Inn parking lot. I really just want to write it all out here. [...]

This chatty goldfinch comes and perches on the deck and chirps for ten minutes: [bird not blurry in real life] and Mac’s reaction to this is:

What’s worse than spending your weekend alone at work? Answer: freezing to death while doing it. The A/C in my part of the building is totally whack. I’m freezing worse than normal. I finally found the closest thermostat to my cube. See blurry cell phone photo as evidence: Its set at about 70 degrees, but [...]