One way to make Cyn very happy: Take away the spare sofa that’s been blocking much of the living room for the last month. We can WALK into the living room, and get to the keyboard to play it! And…
Hello Thursday
Awe-inspiring: Rainbow Spectrum Photo For fun: Gay Marriage is For the Birds I just did a massive reduction on my LJ reading list again. I cannot keep up with it, so communities, feeds, and people were cut. Please don’t take…
Sick Baby Girl, Quiet Day
shadowkatt still has a touch of a migraine she got last night, so no dancing for her tonight. It is very rare for her to miss dance, especially so close to a recital. We have a laundry thief in the…
A Homely Day
Today is one of those boring, at-home days that I actually love. Being here with the family is just good. It’s not stressful. There aren’t any deadlines. We’re improving our home and our lives, and just being together. The details…
Hello
Why yes, I am still capable of doing more than posting about what’s being said elsewhere. Really. I promise. It’s been a week. Actually, most of it has been reasonably good—there were two whole days in which I didn’t have…
Periodic Pimping of TheFerrett
Breaking Free of Depression
Size Acceptance Stuff
Demonizing Fat in the War on Weight—an actual positive article in the NYTimes! I want Paul Campos’ book, The Obesity Myth. A quote from the NYT article: He said in a recent interview: “The current hysteria about body mass and…
Healing
I said this in a comment yesterday: I work through things by writing about them. I find that doing so with feedback from others works best. And hell, the only way that anything good can come of this nastiness is…
WebMD Bits
Thou shalt not heat intact eggs in the microwave. This was surprising to me: Most Child Drowning Victims Ignored: Nearly 9 in 10 Children Who Drowned Were Under Supervision Okay, well, it was surprising at first. Then I thought of…
Infidelity
For some reason, I’m thinking about infidelity again. No, there hasn’t been any in our relationship recently—certainly not that I know of! But once it has happened, it isn’t possible to “forgive and forget.” Anybody who claims to have done…