Anonymous Rowhouse (featured blog Jan 9-Jan 15)

lately, i've just been visiting with you all on facebook while i determine i'm not actually a writer for the 40,000th time. well of course i'm a writer for god's sake, but (and ala says i love to quote this statistic), i have approximately 20 minutes a day to myself these days. even less today as i cooked for p, a friend from work, and me. s is in ohio taking care of his mom and dad -- his dad was very ill last week. so, we miss him. it is the first year in 20 i haven't been taking to my bed while s deals with thanksgiving and calls me down when everything is ready.so, i was up at 4:30 and got a bunch of crap done and cleaned my house from top to bottom and bleached my hands at least 10 times. p and i got a nice walk in this evening as well. please please please won't you friend me on facebook if you haven't already: my pithy comments have shifted to there for now ... i realized it's because i can sum up what i'm doing in a sentence, thereby saving time. and i g... Read the rest of "lately, i've just been visiting with"

orange you glad you're not hazel?i am.... Read the rest of "Story"

my stitches are out!!!!::hallelujah chorus::... Read the rest of "my stitches are out!!!!:"

hazel gets fuzzy... Read the rest of "Story"

food glorious food... Read the rest of "Story"

on and on she goeshazel holds forth about family obligation... Read the rest of "on and on she goes"

now she's going on about gardeningi'm riding my bike.... Read the rest of "Story"

once again, she feels the need to write about her day.hazelnut meadowsweet, innkeeper extraordinaire(she made me write that)the hotel has another post... Read the rest of "once again, she feels the need to write"

feel much better today. i don't look too different ... (this was last night)this smile was an effort, and i was totally au naturel -- no makeup in that picture, you can tell i wasn't feeling myself.i just can feel all the vile stitches up between my lip and my gum, and i am a bit swollen, like a cabbage patch kid.too bad the weather is complete CRAP as it has been for numerous DAYS now. i just got back from driving p to karate, i feel really exhausted because of the lack of sunshine, and i should use my artificial sun lamp to perk myself up.think i'll do that now.i took vicodin last night and woke up in a cold sweat about to puke. how do people enjoy narcotics? in my limited experience, i only like them when i'm in extreme pain. even partway back from pain, and we h... Read the rest of "feel much better today. i don't look"

convalescence and me: not good bedfellows!i get so flippin' bored. i hate television. i mean, i can care about it for five minutes but in my grand tradition of feeling like i have every possible mental pathology known to mankind, perhaps i have ADHD??? i long to lose myself in a really good book but:a. there aren't that many really good booksb. i have an icepack on the side of my face, so i only have one eye, and it's not my good reading onei am a left-bodied person. i don't know what side of my brain's running all that, i always forget, but my left arm, left teeth, left eye, left ear, left leg, are all impossibly popeye strong and my right side is pathetic and vestigal, like tyrannosaurus rex arms.tooth 14 of course is on my left side. it is my main chewing tooth, which is why this is the eightieth time i've had it worked on in my life. i nearly choked to death last night on a mcdonald's cheeseburger, not because i ha... Read the rest of "convalescence and me: not good"

who is back? and why?hazel has happened by the hotel.do wonders never cease?... Read the rest of "Story"

my oral surgery is tomorrow. NOT LOOKING FORWARD!!!!! however it must be done.everything else is pretty much stable -- i love this time change, i eat way too much candy, don't ride my bike enough, and go to bed at 8 pm.i was thinking of my grandmother today and how much i miss her.this is really all that's going on -- when i take the ice off my face, i'll write more this weekend. hope you're all well.... Read the rest of "my oral surgery is tomorrow. NOT"

Rose: P, how did you get from being a baby? P: Life cycle?Rose: I guess.P: You want me to go back to being a baby forever?Rose: Yes.P: Then you would never get to see a smart and educated adult.Rose: I know.P: I’d rather grow than not grow!!Rose: Me too.P: This is a lancelet. It’s not a sea creature. It’s its own creature. It’s its own species. That is not similar to anything. Not everything needs to be related. I also think the mudskipper is its own type. Mudskipper is an unusual animal, the only fish that walks on land, walks around in it, and climbs trees.Rose: Did you like the waffle fries? What did it taste like?P: Yes. Like any other ordinary fry. Try one.Rose: No! You eat it. What’s your favorite sea creature?P: There’s like millions of sea creatures that I know, and it’s kind of hard to pick one. It’s hard to think of it. And that dictionary I have, well from that I’d like pick som... Read the rest of "the only person that talks more than me"

on saturday night, i gingerly chewed a cherry now-n-later (i know you're not supposed to if you have extensive dental work), and the crown over tooth 14 came out lodged in it.i barely chewed. seriously.and i live on laffy taffy. usually.anyway, it would've been fine if i hadn't've felt that telltale shoot-up-through-your-face root canal headache immediately when the crown was off, exposing whatever the hell was left over of tooth 14 after three fillings and two root canals.but i knew. tooth 14 was in trouble.i tried cementing the crown back in with the emergency crap you get from the all-night pharmacy, and for the night it worked until the crown fell out in my hand while i was eating applesauce yesterday.not good, it's pointy, and i don't want to swallow it in my sleep. i live in fear.so today, i had a half s... Read the rest of "Story"

i love you all, but i feel like an idiot still doing this. every day, of course, i have something interesting and wonderful to write about -- i guess. but i don't know, i fall into this strange space. work takes SO much time. my commute takes SO much time. i barely get to ride my bike. and so on. so this becomes one more thing i have to do, and that i feel guilty about. weirdly, this is my homepage that comes up on my screen when i open my web browsers, so you're not the only one who has to see that the last post i wrote was two weeks ago. it gets on my nerves. and it makes me long for my stay-at-home mom life. i don't want to give up the conduit to the friendships i've made here, but i feel like i have to write to have those friendships, and if i don't write about work, and i don't write about my very deep and personal feelings about everything, then what do i write about?my carping in paragraph one is just my usual carping on. i look for ANY excuse not to write, and i sta... Read the rest of "i love you all, but i feel like an"

so i finally put vincent into the hospital to have his side fixed, which i scraped last year parking him tightly next to a culvert. it's going to take five days to fix this particular thing. which is insane. especially since the other cars there were like, totalled, and my thing is a little scrape that dented in the running board on his undercarriage. (you'll remember the volkswagen guy was all, "i've never worked on a beetle without that damage" -- and sure enough, i've seen others with it. anyway, it's costing a damn fortune. and how long will the other cars take? i guess that's not my problem.but we're at the body shop this morning and all week i've been having panic attacks about having to drive a rental car for the next week. i hate rental cars, they're always too big, and you remember how i got pulled over in the sentra for rolling a stopsign on easter morning, 2007. that thing was a ghetto mobile. s had called the rental place thrice to get me so... Read the rest of "so i finally put vincent into the"

i loved the total non-sequitir commenters on the last post. they want me to refinance my home apparently. nonsense, the rowhouse is already mortgaged from cellar to chimney pot.survived meeting, it was actually quite good just a long day, and now not there today. was going to be, plans changed. just had nice long stationary bike ride because the weather is still crappy. but driving home last night wasn't so bad.left for work yesterday at ... 7:15 amwalked back into house at ... 10:15 pm.this is reason #456 that i'm not on the blog regularly.life ... life. now that my mother's death anniversary is over and i appear to have diagnostically survived another visit to my internist (otherwise known as vlad tepisch, md) judging by the quiet phone, i feel a small lull that i plan to enjoy.ah.it's over again. that's how brief the respite.no, the only thing i'm finding now is that inflation is cu... Read the rest of "i loved the total non-sequitir"

now i have two full days of meetings that go till night (tonight) and midafternoon (tomorrow). i really do like my job but it takes a lot of time and then i end up feeling guilty about the blog so, i guess i will try to write on weekends! i'm still not sure. i'm not going to delete it as a portal to my life, i just can't commit to it on a regular basis at present. wish me luck.... Read the rest of "now i have two full days of meetings"

leaves at 7:15 am. with a bad tummy, my stomach is always hurting.calgon.... Read the rest of "the new me"

i still feel totally weird.also i refuse to give up wearing capris and sandals. they're not white sandals, don't worry. i just won't let go of summertime.this is an extremely busy week at work -- one that requires the intercession of the saints. it is nice to be back but, i feel like all i'm going to be able to generate is pure crap so, sorry in advance. i'll do my best.p is getting really into barbies, did i mention? i bought two outfits for her yesterday. in MY day, outfits were pretty cheap ($1.79 comes to mind) although comparatively it was about the same i suppose. it can't be easy to stitch matinee jackets in miniature.i will die wanting barbie's clothes, all of them, and her hair. when you're a brunette there's a certain exotic "carmen" quality, which is why i'm being a gypsy pirate lady for halloween. all of which i like, but everyone knows gentlemen prefer blondes.... Read the rest of "i still feel totally weird."