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March 28, 2015
Cherry Saturday 3 – 28 – 2015
Today is Something on a Stick Day. Avoid the corndogs.
March 27, 2015
No, That’s Bears
Meg sent me a link to this post, Women Having A Terrible Time at Parties in Western Art, to cheer me up and I’m passing on the favor:
March 24, 2015
April Will Be Better
You know how it is when all hell is breaking loose in your life, and you just put your head down and keep on going because quitting isn’t an option, and then the sun comes out and you look up and realize you’ve been clenching your jaw for three months and it’s not over yet?
Yeah, that.
I’ve been dealing with heating contractors (that one’s done and working beautifully), car repair, vets, the IRS, Blue Cross, and the damn bears that keep tipping over my garbage cans even when there’s no garbage in there (Jesus, wild things, learn to smell). Krissie is emerging from the Winter from Hell and flying to the Pacific Northwest, so that’s good except I don’t get to see her until May. Toni is fighting the good fight with two different moron neighbors and we’re stalled on the book (me, too, not just her). And then there’s the serious stuff.
I really do love winter, I think it’s amazingly beautiful in its austerity. I love the monochrome landscape and thin, clear, gray light of day. I love the way snow transforms the landscape, especially the way dogs and kids look when they race through powder. I love sitting in front of the fire while the snow pelts the window and I even like shoveling powdery snow for a week or so. And then I just want sun again.
But now the sun’s out and I’m gearing back up to work–it’s hard to write when you’re cold but I’m lovely and toasty now–and I have big plans for April as far as clearing out and finishing things like crochet projects and house projects, maybe even getting a second bathroom because I haven’t had a bath in two years and I love baths (I’m clean, I shower), so really spring will be good. Or better. All I need is better.
So, plans for spring anybody?
March 22, 2015
Happiness Sunday: New Words for Happy
Mary (Egads) posted this link to this great post on Buzzed about foreign words we should steal immediately.
Tell us four happy things that happened to you this week so we can get all mudita-y.
March 21, 2015
Cherry Saturday 3 20 2015
You know sometimes we miss a winner of a holiday by just one day. Yesterday was Extraterrestrial Abductions Day. Today we have National Quilting Day, but it’s just not the same.
Quilt pattern available at Shiny Happy World.
March 16, 2015
March 14, 2015
Cherry Saturday 3.14, 2015
Today is National Pi Day, honoring pi, an irrational,infinite, transcendental, and constant entity, much like the people of Argh Nation.
Have a piece of some damn fine pie in tribute.
March 12, 2015
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
This morning I woke up and read that Terry Pratchett died as he wished, at home with his family. It’s been a terrible winter, but it wasn’t until this morning that I cried, for the loss of future Pratchett books and his imagination and his company in the world inside my brain where all the people I love live. There are more people in there than are in my real life, not just the people I’ve lost in the past, but the people books have brought to me. For Pratchett, that means Susan and Vimes and Moist and Lady Sybil and the Luggage; they’re all real inside the L-space of my mind. In fact, I have an L-space in my mind because of Terry Pratchett. The disease that attacked him is vile and vicious, but he took back his life from it and met another of my favorite characters on his own terms. My life is richer because his books were part of it; the future is poorer because he’s gone. But I also believe that what he wrote in Going Postal is true, that as long as his name is spoken and his books are read, he’s not gone. And his name will be spoken in libraries and bookstores forever.
He was just that wonderful.
March 8, 2015
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