Global warming.  It freaks me the fuck out.  I haven’t been so in the past much, but I am becoming more and more aware of my surroundings… and the hurricanes and the tsunami and the bizarre weather… I don’t like it.  I don’t like that people are dying and that it could be an effect […]

So I’ve given up smoking.
I’m not doing entirely good,  but I think that one a day is hardly the worst I could be doing.  Not that that’s really the attitude to have.
Smoking for me was extremely conscious.  It was me time.  I took a book,  a hot drink and a cigarette went outside and left everything […]

self portrait tuesday

I’ve learned to knit socks.  And I’m pretty sure everyone I know is getting a pair with their Christmas present.  I still need some practice as the ones for me are far too big and Duncan’s are far too small,  but whatever.  Fit,  doesn’t matter so much,  the very fact that I have made two pairs […]

How come Chinese leftovers are better than the night before when it was fresh? 
How come, even though Katrina destroyed a city and killed over a thousand people, things like this are in the news?
 
A mandatory evacuation order was in effect for the entire east bank of the Mississippi, and some 500 buses were standing by at […]

Me : carrying duncan out of the room where he is scaring the cats
Duncan : "OUCH, you are hurting my feelings."
—–