A Barrel of Nelsons

I have a bad tendency to come late to stuff I like. I joined color-guard as a junior in high school. I didn’t start playing DND or other role-playing games until college. I didn’t really drink coffee until I was dating Jeff.
I’ll admit that I got stuck partway through Fellowship of the Ring the first [...]

I’m withdrawing a bit, consciously and unconsciously. I’m sorry if you’ve emailed me in the last 3 or 4 weeks and I haven’t replied.
There is some stuff going on, but I’m so emotionally knotted up that I don’t trust myself to talk about it. I’ll likely say something that I should regret later, though I’m [...]

Somewhere in or around my office at work, there is a something that has started chirping. Like smoke-detector with dying batteries chirping.
But we checked my smoke detector. And my computer. And the copier. And my PDA.
And the smoke detector that’s shoved in the back of one of the drawers in the cabinets because there’s [...]

My birthday weekend wasn’t bad. Jeff cooked which is always delicious. We went to Feast of the Hunter’s Moon here in the Lafayette/Tippecanoe County Area. Then we drove up to Michigan to Jeff’s Aunt Martha’s resort/retreat.
This morning at work was insane. We got a memorial bequest (of the large monetary variety) so the deposit was [...]

Though I’m pretty sure it will take a turn or seven at some point.
I have really deep-set eyes. It’s kinda part of having high cheekbones, which I love to death, but it also means that I get and have dark circles a lot and because I’m so pale, they really stand out. Of course, I’m [...]

Sometimes I don’t know if it’s good or bad how close my birthday and The Sweetling’s are. I know that Sara has talked about how she didn’t want to deliver on her birthday (and she’s past that now) because she wanted a day and a time that was just HER. I can absolutely see that [...]