domestic dilettante, humorless feminist shrew

So, as some of you already know, we got a dog! Which, of course, means pictures. It took some doing, but I found decent pictures of all ten of the pets.

Ginormica, Maura’s fish

Charlie and Tibby

Rupert, who is trying to sleep and would like me to leave him alone.

Howie, who slept right through this.

Lotte, who is [...]

Last week, I stayed home from work on Friday, feeling miserable.
When Maura got home from daycare on Friday, she went to her room and crawled into bed. I went upstairs ten minutes later to check on her and found that she was dead asleep. She hadn’t put on a movie, she hadn’t taken off [...]

Maura’s birthday is on November first, and–obviously–we’re gearing up for it. We’ve accumulated most of her presents over the last month or two, a Barbie here, a DVD there, Bendaroos (which she’s wanted desperately for years, literally) at the wholesale club. The only thing left was books.
The nearest bookstore is a Borders a mile or [...]

A list.
Caramels. I made salted, chocolate-covered caramels on Thursday night, and they were awesome. They’re definitely on the things-to-make-for-Christmas list.

Sleeping cats. I love how they get all stupid and floppy, like they’re made out of Slinkies and Jell-o.

I also like that our kitties tend to sleep in piles. Even the standoffish ones who don’t [...]

A list.

This judge who feels that interracial couples shouldn’t marry because it’s somehow unfair to the children. Yes, I can see how having two loving parents who love each other would totally fuck anybody up. Only–no, wait. I also hate the ACLU spokesperson quoted, who comments that “the government cannot tell people who they [...]

Back from Romanticon, which I think was a giant success. I want to talk extensively about it, but for the moment am just posting a handful of pictures, because I’m so damn tired.

The Cavemen performing at the awards supper.

Janae Kingston, Joey W. Hill, Tawny Taylor, Violet Summers, and Laura, who I cornered in the hallway [...]

We took this about two weeks ago down on the riverfront. Stupid pretty not-baby. She’ll be seven in three weeks.
And yes, she always looks like she’s smirking. Because, you know, she’s indulging her crazy, embarrassing mother. I swear, sometimes I think that she’s going on thirteen, not seven. I have no idea what I’ll [...]

A blog post of bullet points, because it’s Monday, and Mondays are hard.

Had a lovely weekend. Emily came up, and we spent a lot of time hanging out on beds and chatting. (Hanging out on beds is maybe my very favorite form of social interaction. I realize that it’s very seventeen-years-old of me, but it [...]

I think it’s officially autumn. I keep finding cats under blankets, in laundry piles, and sleeping like sardines.
It’s gotten cold enough that all the windows are shut, and tonight we have a frost warning–apparently we’re meant to drop down to 34. I’m delighted–autumn and winter are my favorite seasons. Summer wasn’t bad this year, [...]