How do you decide where to live?
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Family, Home
Over the last two years, Sam and I have talked about moving elsewhere. Georgia has almost no consumer protections for citizens, has a crappy support structure for humans in just about every way you can imagine, and has law enforcement who don’t care to enforce laws unless you’ve got enough money to get their attention. Essentially, we want to live in a blue state, which means leaving the Bible belt. Cooler weather would be nice, too. Less humid heat, at least, would be a relief.
We haven’t really made plans, not wanting to uproot Katie while she was in school and so on. There’s a lot of inertia, too, since I’ve been here all my life (except for the few years in Alabama before my parents moved us to Atlanta). Sam was born here, and wasn’t thrilled with New York or New Jersey when he lived there. Our families are here, which means something, even if we don’t see them that often.
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Tags: Alabama, anti-gay marriage law, Atlanta, Baltimore, California, Chicago, Connecticut, Corvallis, Eugene, Georgia, high tech, law enforcement, Maryland, Massachusetts, Medford, Milwaukee, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Portland, Rhode Island, Rockville, Salem, Sam, Silicon Forest, Washington, Woods Hole
Thing-A-Day With Me!
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Announcement, Blogging, Fun
I know that Hope and Juliann are doing it—anybody else? Any other Blog365 participants should note that it will be a great source of blog ideas, and I know we all need those at this point.
Tags: Blog365, Blogging, creativity, Hope, Juliann, Thing-a-Day
Poetry: Michael Blumenthal
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Poetry, Reading, Relationships
For my Sam
A Marriage
You are holding up a ceiling
with both arms. It is very heavy,
but you must hold it up, or else
it will fall down on you. Your arms
are tired, terribly tired,
and, as the day goes on, it feels
as if either your arms or the ceiling
will soon collapse.
But then,
unexpectedly,
something wonderful happens:
Someone,
a man or a woman,
walks into the room
and holds their arm up
to the ceiling beside you.
So you finally get
to take down your arms.
You feel the relief of respite,
the blood flowing back
to your fingers and arms.
And when your partner’s arms tire,
you hold up your own
to relieve him again.
And it can go on like this
for many years
without the house falling.
From Against Romance: Poems by Michael Blumenthal, Penguin Books, 1988
Tags: Love, marriage, Michael Blumenthal, Poetry, romance, Sam
MomoCon?
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Fun, Geekery, RPGs
Anybody going to MomoCon here in Atlanta? I’d never heard of it before today. It’s free, and may be in its second year (I’m not sure). It seems quite small, which could be nice. It’s local, which is a big plus for us. I’m unclear as to whether there’s any gaming happening or not, and there’s no mention of filking that I can see.
Tags: anime, Atlanta, conventions, costuming, Fantasy, Gaming, podcasting, Science Fiction
News Flash: Decatur Teen Comes Home Early From Date!
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Family, Health, Parenting
What a weirdo! I mean, you’d think these kids were being, I don’t know, responsible or something! Just because she has an appointment early in the morning, she came home early.
Kids these days! I don’t think I ever got home an hour and a half before curfew.
Maybe she’s smarter than I was. Hmmm.
But, really, she should have given us a warning. She caught us podcasting!
Squee! Hope is Coming!
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Fun
I’m so excited! We’re going to have our very own Hope Evey visit in a few months! We finally get to meet the sweet pretty lady in person!
A Cappella Music, Babylon5, and Firefly, Oh My!
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Critters, Movies, Music, Podcast, Reading
This afternoon, I opened the blinds on the windows behind my chair, thinking it would draw Kioshi off the monitor (his tail kept obscuring the screen) to look out the windows. Nope. He turned around, so at least his tail wasn’t in the way, but he was inordinately pleased with himself because he could then survey his world from his nice, warm perch.
I download a ridiculous number of podcasts, then forget to listen to them. I can’t find my MP3 player, and it’s tiny anyway (512k), so it doesn’t hold much. Sam has the same kind, and he gets by, but he’s more motivated: it keeps him sane while he’s “out there” every day. I normally take the lazy way out and listen to Pandora or Last.FM.
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Tags: a cappella, Acapodcast, Babylon 5, Firefly, Joss Whedon, Kioshi, Music, Podcasts, Sam, Serenity
White Kitten + Mad Cake Decorator + Chicken =
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Art, Critters, Fun, Humor
Ditto showing off her new paint job!
This cuteness just strengthens my wish that we lived closer to Kimberly and her family. Click for more photos.
Tags: airbrushing, cake decorating, Critters, Kimberly Jennery, paint job
Happy Wednesday!
Posted by Cyn | Filed under College, Education, Family, Homeschooling, Reading
Sam and I had a very nice date night while Katie was out with her beau. He had started making chili last night, finished it tonight, and added corn muffins. I’m not a big fan of chili (I won’t eat it if Sam didn’t make it), but it was a very satisfying meal.
The girl is doing very well in the online course she’s taking, and I’m happy to say that my semester is going well, too. It’s hard to believe that my baby will likely start college courses this summer or fall!
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Tags: Carrie Vaughn, Firefly, Garden of Good, John Ringo, Joss Whedon, Julie Cochrane, Julie Kenner, Kelley Armstrong, Kim Harrison, Lori Handeland, Lynsay Sands, Marjorie M. Liu, Monica Ferris, online course, Serenity, Tom Kratman, Vicki Pettersson
At Fibrant Living — Working?
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Blogging, Health
Today’s post is at Fibrant Living. I want to talk about working with a chronic illness, or returning to work after you’ve developed one. Please comment there!
Tags: chronic illness, Disability, employment, Fibrant Living, working