My friend Shawn’s band. It’s just him and his buddy Lance, playing guitar and singing away but I like their enthusiasm and their earnestness and I love the way they sound. It’s friendly music. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you… The Faded Yellow Line
_____________________________________________________________________ Marking the point where I dropped my expectations of what my blog would be and gave myself permission to just write bits and pieces about stuff I like. Why that wasn’t the point in the first place, I don’t know.
I’m bored to tears with a certain type of reaction I see popping up both in real life and on the internets, a knee-jerk dismissal of an entire school of thought, type of music or activity, or approach to life. I see it with people who dismiss artists, or single moms (or women in general), [...]
That’s ‘Anti-social’ Media not ANTI- Social Media, if you follow me. I’m a pretty typical INFJ. If that means nothing to you, let’s summarize it by saying that I am a fairly social introvert. I need lots of time at home or my energy flags, I find casual conversations exhausting sometimes, and I don’t seek [...]
I had thought that 2008 was a difficult year. Then I met 2009. Now THAT was a difficult year. Sure I had many marvellous moments, and I had lots of fun,so that was good. And I learned a lot of great stuff, and met some great people. So in many ways 2009 brought good things, [...]
For the last 262 days, I have written at least 1 page of fiction each day. That would be really impressive if it was all part of the same work, but, alas, about 90% is unrelated little vignettes, snippets of someone’s thoughts, pieces of their lives, utterly unconnected. I wish I could make an art [...]
I started Taekwondo (hereafter TKD) in September (the same week as AAMP’s big arts festival, the first days of school – it was all new all the time and totally overwhelming) and I’m enjoying it even as it is driving me crazy. I had anticipated it being tougher on my body, but I’m finding that [...]
In November of 2001, The Boy arrived 7 weeks early, a few days after we moved in to our new house, while we were still housesitting for my inlaws. I spent a week in the hospital after he was born, and came home to our new house, leaving him in the NICU for another week. [...]
This is the first day of The Boy’s summer vacation, so by all rights things should be hectic – no schedule, two kids instead of one, and so on but this has been a lovely morning so far. Sure, the kids are entertaining themselves with a computer game, so that’s something, but my peaceful morning [...]
When I started this blog I called myself the mombie because I was seriously sleep-deprived (as in less than two hours sleep at a time for YEARS). Obviously things have changed since then, and both of the kids sleep much better now (upwards of 10 hours most nights – I never thought the day would [...]