Archive for November, 2008

Three of four

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

I’m feeling very very sad today, which is uncharacteristic, and for no reason that I can fathom. And I had very sad dreams last night. That’s pretty rare; they’re usually rollicking epic adventures. In the olden days, this would have been called melancholia and I’d’ve been required to write gloomy poetry. Thank goodness this isn’t […]

Teeth and washrooms

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Well, if this ain’t a kicker, and I don’t mean headlines.
I have to get a crown on a tooth that’s had an onlay since about 1975, which is gonna set me back about $800 (my half. The insurance better pay the other half). That means I don’t get to hit the Internationally World-famous Wilmes New […]

Mystery blood redux

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

On my way to the kitchen yesterday, I noticed what looked like blood spatter on my floor. Given the weird blood appearances lately, I bent down to check it out. It turned out to be mud spatter—deposited by Ms. Dog after we returned from a mountain hike in a downpour, slogging through 10″ of mud […]

Happy dance, happy dance, happy DANCE!

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

It’s taken a few days, but I’ve finally calmed down enough post-election to sit down for more than thirty or forty seconds. What a lovely election result it was, too. . . and the first time EVER, since I was 18 and voted in my first election, that I voted for a candidate rather than […]