Four years ago I wrote a post on this blog on Valentine’s Day, and I was happy, at least happyish (if you’re interested, view it here). I was sitting at the desk in my own house, the one I remodeled by myself into a cozy home for myself, my darling girl, and my animals. Three [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Personal’
Four Years
Posted in life, Love, Personal, tagged Family, life, Love, Personal, Relationships, Transformation, Valentine's Day on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Who is Someone?
Posted in life, Personal, tagged life, Personal, Stalkers on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t like it when people are secretive about who they are, at least when they are following me. So who are you, Someone? Someone’s email address is yawsimon33@yahoo.com. I know that much. Why would anyone want to stalk my blog without admitting who they are? I have some sociopaths in my past who have [...]
Mishappen
Posted in Personal, tagged babies, Children, Family, life, Personal, ponderings on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I got Isabel a new book called My Very First Book of Shapes. The problem is, it’s not her very first book of shapes. I wonder if in misleading her thus, I am causing her mind to become misshapen, let alone her understanding of what it really means to be first. It’s a conundrum.
Bipedal Sun Brain
Posted in Babies, life, Personal, tagged life, Personal, Winter on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’m trying not to be grouchy. I’m trying not to react to a coworker who, in his own fear spiral, lashed out at me yesterday. I’m trying not to scream at the workers next door who decided to vibrate my house this morning at 7:15 a.m. with their power tools. I’m trying. It’s not working [...]
Nail Clippers
Posted in Animals, grief, life, Love, Personal, tagged Animals, death, dogs, grief, life, loss, Love, Personal on January 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I just found some of Autumn’s nail clippers and felt a pang at the thought that these clippers could survive, but my dog didn’t. It seems unfair somehow, that this meaningless hunk of plastic and metal gets to be here and she does not. It’s such a strange feeling. I wonder if some of humanity’s [...]
STORM OF THE CENTURY!!
Posted in Personal, tagged local news stations, major news, Media, news, newscasters, Personal, Portland, Snow, storm of the century, weather on January 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t have a television, so I can’t watch the local news. It’s unfortunate. I miss out, I’m sure. I have little doubt that today I’m missing out on the STORM OF THE CENTURY!! There are pitiful snowflakes mixed with rain coming down in Portland. It’s barely at freezing and there isn’t enough precipitation to [...]
Life is Like That
Posted in life, Personal, Pointless Rambling, Random Thoughts, tagged life, Personal, philosophy, Pointless Rambling, Random Thoughts on January 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I often think of new little products, waiting patiently in their boxes to be used. They’re so new and orderly. Pick me! Their calmness and order seems to say as they lie there in their box, waiting to be chosen. They have been waiting their entire life for use, and here you are, choosing. Will [...]
I’m Glad I’m not from a Crime Syndicate Family
Posted in Family, life, Personal, Pointless Rambling, tagged Crime syndicate family, Family, Gratitude, Inspiration, life, Personal, Personal growth on January 8, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I’m so glad I wasn’t born into a crime syndicate family. I suppose had I been born into a crime syndicate family that perhaps I might not be aware how much the stress of the violence and constant disruption was harming me I’m sitting here typing this and it sounds like a cat is growling [...]
Virtually Useless Post
Posted in Animals, Babies, life, Personal, tagged Animals, babies, dogs, life, Love, Personal, Random Thoughts on January 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This is one of those extra special posts where I say virtually nothing and put it in a blog post. Come to think of it, isn’t that what all of my blog is, actually? I’m gradually discovering that I have nothing of any value to impart via the written word. Nonsense, nonsense, all of it. [...]
More Stupid Things I’m Thinking
Posted in Children, Family, life, Personal, tagged Attorney, Family, Judge, Lawyer, life, Personal, Random Thoughts, Suburbs on January 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Yes, unfortunately, there are more. It’s how I roll. Stupid thoughts running in and out all the time. For instance, tonight the local bankruptcy bar in which I practice held a CLE, a thing to go to and learn legal things, continuing legal things. Hence the C in the CLE. A judge, a court rep, [...]
Stupid Things I’m Thinking
Posted in Personal, tagged Animals, cats, cosmetics, holidays, Personal, Random Thoughts on January 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
These are some stupid things I’ve been thinking about recently. As I’m sitting here thinking of these things to write down, there are quite loud bangs going on outside. I’m not sure what the bangs are for, as it is not near midnight. However the sorts of people who seem to find fulfillment in loud [...]
Lara Fauth
Posted in life, Personal, tagged Friends, Lara Fauth, life, Names, Personal on December 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When I was in college I rode on the University of Oregon equestrian team. We were all women and as is often the case with groups of women, there were arguments and disagreements that in retrospect seem juvenile and stereotypically female. In spite of this, I still remember one team member as a complete reprobate [...]
Isabelli Bear
Posted in Personal, tagged life, Love, Personal on December 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today when opening gifts, with every gift that Isabel opened, she removed the bow and placed it either on her head, my head, or Milla’s head. It was darling. I love my girls.
Laments
Posted in life, Personal, tagged Alone, Family, holidays, life, Loneliness, Personal on December 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Alone. Alone. I spent most of Christmas alone. Milla went to her dad’s and Isabel went with her dad and I didn’t have either of them for about 5 hours. Last week when I was stressed I looked forward to the break, but I’ve had some time to relax a little and I was bored without [...]
Oh, how lovely
Posted in Animals, Babies, Children, Family, Personal, tagged babies, Children, Family, life, Love, Personal on December 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I have such sweet and lovely children. Having a forum to gush over my babies is one of many reasons I enjoy having a blog. These are Christmas photos I took of the family tonight.
The Internets Suck Out My Brain
Posted in Personal, tagged creativity, Facebook, life, Media, Personal, Technology, Writing on December 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Lately, as the days have shrunk further into darkness, and I feel even stronger the urge to settle deep into the comforters and down rather than getting up and moving around, ideas flicker in and out of my mind. Clever ideas. Interesting ideas. Ideas I used to write and percolate and develop and turn into [...]
Who Took My Mother and Replaced her with a Lunatic?
Posted in life, Personal, tagged Children, life, parenting, Personal on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight while gathering up the boxes of unused holiday decorations to take to the basement, I had the thought that I would like to vacuum, and nearly simultaneously had the thought that I’m so grateful to now have a house again. The thought followed on the heels of the other because when one lives in [...]
Century Link is Still Qwest and Still Shit
Posted in life, Personal, Ranting, tagged Century Link, Comcast, Corporations, Customer no service, life, Personal, qwest, Rant, Telecommunications on November 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A little over a week before moving into my new house, I called the power company to set up service with them. They offered to help me “explore my options” with different internet companies. Because I am not thrilled with Comcast as a company, I decided to explore these options. The person who helped me [...]
Thanksgiving Sonnet
Posted in Animals, Personal, tagged Animal rights, Animals, Personal, poetry, Sonnet, Thanksgiving, turkeys on November 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
It’s that time of year again, for me to repost a sonnet I wrote in college. I’ve gone back and tried again and again to get the exact syllabic format for a completely proper sonnet, but could not find words to replace those here that would maintain the imagery and metaphoric content that I wanted, [...]
Dribble, dribble, drip
Posted in life, Personal, Pointless Rambling, tagged Craigslist, life, moving, Personal, Pointless Rambling on November 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Oh, moving is such a chore. I haven’t done one creative thing in 2 weeks. I haven’t worked on my book. I have barely played my cello. I haven’t looked at my French lessons. I haven’t taken one photograph (except a couple with the iPhone). I certainly haven’t written any useless nonsense on this blog. [...]
Little Liar
Posted in life, Personal, tagged Clothing, life, Personal, S on October 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My clothing today is bearing false witness thanks to spandex and nylon. I have more to say, but no time. I must go spend time with my favorite trustee. Good times. Hopefully the only dishonest thing there will be my clothes. P.S. The cream under my eyes lies too.
The Turn of the Screw
Posted in life, Personal, tagged life, Personal, Stress on October 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes I feel like a screw that is wound too tightly into wood, at the point where the wood is strained but not yet cracking. One more twist and the wood will splinter. I’m the wood; life is the screw.
Wish
Posted in Personal, tagged Craigslist, life, Personal on October 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I wish people advertising on Craigslist wouldn’t say Vintage for something that is really not that old and is just ugly. Not a high priority wish, but there nonetheless.
Another Brilliant Observation
Posted in life, Personal, tagged life, Personal on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What I have discovered from looking at loveseats on Craigslist is that most furniture looks really ugly after people have used it for awhile. That’s all.
BedandBreakfast.com is a Big Lie Site
Posted in life, Personal, Travel, tagged BedandBreakfast.com, Beds and Breakfasts, Consumer, Family, life, Personal, Spain, Travel on October 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I used BedandBreakfast.com, also Inns.com, to locate a B & B in Barcelona. The reviews for the B & B I ultimately chose were fantastic, not one bad one in the bunch. They raved about the owner, the cooking, the facilities, all of it. I sought reviews on other sites, but there weren’t many available [...]
Laundry Shoot
Posted in Personal, tagged Personal, Silly on October 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I just saw an ad for a house with a “laundry shoot.” I wonder if it fires the laundry into its drawers and onto its hangers once it is laundered. Laundry shoot. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. I know. I’m easily entertained.
The only time I will use staples will be in a stapler.
Posted in computers, life, Personal, Ranting, tagged computers, Customer Service, life, Office supplies, Personal, Ranting, Staples, Viruses, Windows on October 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I have been very busy lately. I have to use a PC for work because the software I use in my job is only windows-based. As is the case with PCs, the damn thing started running really sluggy and slow. I knew it needed a cleanup and defrag and all that crap, but I just [...]
More Pithy Observation
Posted in Children, Family, life, Personal, Pointless Rambling, tagged Equality, Family, Feminism, gender, life, men, Personal, Women on October 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Why is it that so many people think that for a woman to be self-actualized and equal — in the workplace, in the home, in her sexuality — she has to act like a man? I don’t see how sleeping with a bunch of men and ignoring them later makes me any stronger or wiser. [...]
I Miss New York
Posted in life, tagged life, Personal, Pointless Rambling on October 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Most days I want to move back to New York. I miss New York. I wish I had an income to support New York. Even more I wish I had an income to support my children attending the Waldorf school there if I lived there again. Ah, c’est la vie.
More Pointless Rambling
Posted in Personal, tagged life, Personal, Pointless Rambling on October 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I keep thinking that I want to start a page on my blog that is called Pithy Observations. It would be filled with the sort of nonsense one normally finds on Twitter or Facebook, but that I generally don’t say because really, who cares? No one would care here either, but since this is not [...]
Halloween Comes Early Around Here
Posted in Personal, tagged life, Personal on October 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Some person calls our office and presses the number to get through to my mobile phone…at midnight and 2 in the morning. Creepy, freak-show stalkers like that give me the heeby-jeebies.
Long Day
Posted in life, Personal, Pointless Rambling, tagged life, Personal, Pointless Rambling on September 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Isabel turned 2 today. She’s my sleepy, snuggly bear, breathing into my side. So warm. So soft. I love my little girl. I’m so grateful she was born. The long-legged daughter came and nearly fell asleep in bed with me tonight. Are you going to sleep here, Miss Milla? Mmmm, nooo. Then more lying there. [...]
Isabel, a Polar bear, and a Giraffe
Posted in Animals, Babies, Children, Family, life, Personal, tagged Animals, babies, Children, Conservation, Environment, Family, Giraffe, life, Personal, Polar bear, Zoo on September 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Isabel went to the zoo with her cousin Sarah yesterday. We saw lots of animals because it was early and the sun was hiding behind clouds (as opposed to the last time we went in the middle of a sunny day when they were all napping). I felt sorry for the animals. Many of them [...]
Introduction to Brain Rules for Baby
Posted in Babies, Children, Family, life, Personal, tagged babies, Books, Brain rules, Childbirth, Children, Family, Happiness, John Medina, life, Personal on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is an excerpt from Brain Rules for Baby by John Medina. I have fallen in love with his book Brain Rules, and discovered the baby version on his website. I wish the school system would read this and stop trying to stuff reading in five-year-olds like they are pate’ geese on the way to [...]
Eggs in Spain, and indeed the Netherlands, too.
Posted in Food, life, Personal, Travel, tagged Eggs, europe, food, Holland, life, Netherlands, Personal, Spain, Travel on August 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I have two observation about eggs from my trip to Europe. A couple of days after my arrival in the Netherlands I was dispatched to the grocery store to fetch eggs. I could not find them. I searched and searched and returned empty-handed. Both Milla and Anne told me the eggs were by the cereal, [...]
Barcelona
Posted in Babies, Children, Family, Personal, Travel, tagged babies, Children, europe, Family, life, Mediterranean Sea, Personal, Spain, Swimming, Travel on August 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I have noticed since being in Barcelona, and indeed I have noticed in all of our European travels this summer, a lot more men carting around children than I see in the states. And here in Spain I have noticed many, many sets of grandparents or a grandparent caring for young children. I wonder if [...]
Düsseldorf
Posted in Children, Family, life, Personal, Travel, tagged babies, Children, Düsseldorf, europe, Family, Germany, life, Personal, Travel on August 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We spent 2 days in Düsseldorf, Germany. Actually, we stayed in a suburb called Ratingan at the in-laws of my friend, Anne. However we went into Düsseldorf both days we were there. The weather the entire time was pretty abysmal, especially for August, but this did not stop us from exploring. Sunday morning in Ratingan we were [...]
Amsterdam, I love you.
Posted in Children, Family, life, Travel, tagged Children, Family, Family travel, life, Personal, The Netherlands, Travel on August 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
August 15, 2011: Magical, magical, magical. I fell in love with Amsterdam nearly immediately. Exiting the central station and moving out into the sun was no more unusual than any other such exits, except that the sun was shining and we’ve been trudging through thick raindrops since we arrived. This alone made the departure special. [...]
Legerdemain
Posted in life, Personal, Pointless Rambling, tagged Busyness, life, Personal, Pointless Rambling on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, WordPress. Every so often you feel the need to change things, to switch them around a bit, move words slightly left or slightly right, make lilliputian adjustments. One might not notice if one had not spent some time in this place. I wonder about this need to adjust and mark. I have been working [...]
Lucky
Posted in life, Personal, tagged Honey, life, Personal, Stoves on July 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Our house smells like roasted sugar. Well, burned sugar actually. This smell is the result of a confluence of unplanned events. First, Milla turned over a plastic bear bottle of honey in the cupboard above the stove in an effort to extract every last molecule of the stuff from the bottle. Second, I forgot to [...]
Anticlimactic
Posted in Babies, Children, life, Love, Personal, Writing, tagged babies, Children, life, Love, Personal, Writing on July 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The interesting thing for me in finally finishing one of my books is how anticlimactic it has been. I finished it, then sat here and thought, Okay, it’s done. I will have to read through it and edit, but the bulk of it is complete. It seemed as if the occasion deserved something more, but [...]
European Vacation
Posted in life, Personal, Travel, tagged life, Personal, Travel on July 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I love that when European hoteliers, and beds and breakfasts quote you a price, it includes all the taxes and fees and whatnot, rather than the lying American version that tries to make the price look smaller by leaving that stuff out.
Rick Santelli is an Idiot…Still
Posted in Finances, life, Personal, Ranting, Society, tagged Economics, Employment, Finances, Foreclosure, FOX news, life, Personal, Ranting, Rick Santelli, Society, USA, Work on July 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I posted this a while back. See it here. I was responding to this moron the first time he opened his idiot face and let venom spew. Of course, since he’s still slithering around out there, the post continues to garner hits, over two years later. I reread what I wrote, and I can’t [...]
This is Tonight
Posted in life, Personal, tagged life, Personal, Pointless Rambling on June 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Milla, desiring to become the next FooPet idol, sings bland, corporate lyrics over and over while washing dishes. I am grateful she is washing the dishes; I am not grateful for her musical choice while doing so. Isabel slumbers, stirring quietly as she dreams. She likes to stand on boxes. Tonight the box she chose [...]
An Observation
Posted in life, Music, Personal, tagged Ella Fitzgerald, life, Music, Personal on June 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I am rapidly discovering that if you spend most of your time listening to Ella Fitzgerald singing, then listening to most other singers will be a most unsatisfactory experience.
Pointless Rambling
Posted in Babies, Children, Family, life, Personal, Pointless Rambling, tagged Children, Family, life, Personal, Random Thoughts on June 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Do you ever have a day where it feels like there is a burr in your ass? I didn’t start out the day feeling that way, but ever since I woke from a midday nap I have felt increasingly cranky. I’m sure a lot of it is that I did not get enough sleep last [...]
It Continues Unabated
Posted in life, Personal, Society, tagged America, Corporatism, Environment, Globalism, Imperialism, life, Personal, Planet, USA, World on June 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I have believed my entire life that good will prevail, that the greed of imperialism and corporatism would fail, that eventually in the battle against those who seek power for its own sake, who destroy this lovely planet for their own narrow gains in the moment, would all lose in the end and we would [...]
Oh for Cryin’ Out Loud
Posted in Finances, Personal, Ranting, tagged banks, Borrowing, Credit, Finances, Financial institutions, Loan sharks, money, Personal, Ranting on June 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I’m a bankruptcy attorney so I am often in contact with collection agencies and whatnot. I have been doing it long enough that I have also seen a bunch of financial institutions come and go. It is amazing how many bottom-feeder, rotten-ass lenders turn around and change their name because they are such scum, even [...]
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