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Boo and Hooray

I survived the holidays with only a few days’ worth of crushing black depression and nauseating anxiety! I can now get out of bed and do not have to force myself to shower or eat. Hooray! I found out someone had taken the Patreon bits of Steelflower 2 and put them up for torrenting. (This […]

Going Dark

It’s time for me to take a little holiday from blogging. Everyone is busy this stressful time of year. I did have a couple of other posts planned, but said busy-ness and stressed means I don’t have the spoons, so to speak. The Yule candles will keep the place warm; I’ll see you, my dear […]

Happy Yule

This is the Longest Night, and we hold vigil for the birth of the Year King. It is the night the Lady renews her promise–for at least the next few billions years, until the sun explodes. But who’s counting? There will be sugar cookies today, round and golden like the returning sun, and a candle […]

Costco Run

Me: I knew I should have brought my large pie server. Princess: Your son is a Limey fork-flinger, Mother! Me: I <3 you so much. Princess: Jeffrey, are you doing druuuugs? Me: Mom you are breaking so many rules right now… Princess: Costco run? Me: Costco run. Texting with my beloved children is always a […]

A Gift for Yourself

This is, for me, the least wonderful time of the year. The crass commercialism is merely annoying. Crushing seasonal depression mostly responds to medication. Anxiety hits a high whining note of stress. The desperation, aggravation, and just plain miserable anger swirling in almost every public place is worse, since it rasps on all my edges. […]

Well-Practiced Douchebags

I highly recommend this piece on the (transitory) appeal of bad boys. The reality of life with a bad boy, however, is a drip-fed diet of gentle criticism and push-pull affection to keep you exactly at clutch-biting point – even if it means being routinely chucked out of bed post-coitus because “I’m not ready for […]

Someone Liked Gallow

YOU GUYS YOU GUYS. Trailer Park Fae made Library Journal’s Best Books of 2015 list. I am thrilled to the gills. If you need me, I’ll be dancing in the corner, making a very shrill sound of joy. As one does.

New Beware

My old office “welcome” mat had a skull and crossbones, and shouted BEWARE. It lasted a long while, but was looking seriously ragged, helped along by the fact that there is very little Odd Trundles loves to chew more than things I might eventually step on. So I found a new coir mat, and the […]

Treefoam

Twice. That’s how many times I fell yesterday, slipping on the slick floor in the garage. Water had run off the car after I took the Prince to school, and I was (as usual) moving too quickly for my own good. As a result, I ache all over, and my long run will not be […]

Rain Chicken

So. Much. Rain. We’ve had almost an inch already, and the roads are more like rivers than anything else. Although I did see a wet chicken running across the road while driving this morning, all puffed up and moving startlingly quickly. It’s going to be one of those Mondays. Flood advisory and wind advisory, and […]