Posted in Blog Stuff, Travel on Feb 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
I have to admit that I wasn’t all that excited about coming to Northern Voice this weekend – but only because it’s been a busy month of traveling, and I was feeling overwhelmed. On the way to a party on Thursday night for friends who were in town I said to Bryan, ‘Would you […]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Travel on Feb 23rd, 2007 2 Comments »
Because you can never pack, unpack, and repack a suitcase (or three) too many times in a two month period, we are on the road again. On the heals of our trip to Portland last weekend in which our children also went in separate directions to be cared for, I had three days to […]
Posted in Blog Stuff on Jan 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Here I am at my favorite coffee and wine bar, sipping chai tea today as I only have time to stay for an hour (that damn snow kept me from running errands this morning, so I had to use my afternoon off to go grocery shopping).
But, as promised I held a completely random […]
Posted in Blog Stuff on Jan 10th, 2007 8 Comments »
Hey, I just found out at Notes from the Trenches that it’s de-lurking week! Since I have nothing important to say, why don’t you come out of the shadows to say hello? Still not motivated to unveil yourself? I’ll throw in a prize: Anyone who comments by the end of Friday will […]
Posted in Friendship, Blog Stuff on Jan 8th, 2007 2 Comments »
This holiday season I was blessed with a few gifts from blogging friends - gestures that took me completely by surprise, and blessed me in oh so many ways. It is one of the joys I have experienced from writing here at The Pile I’m Standing In – the community of friendships from afar, […]
Posted in Learning, Blog Stuff on Nov 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
This week has been a fun Thanksgiving preparation week, both on the hospitality front as well as the project-completion front (my basement looks pretty again!). Bryan and I are hosting seven adults and five children (including our own family) for dinner tomorrow afternoon, followed by an open invitation to hang out with us in […]
Posted in Blog Stuff on Oct 29th, 2006 No Comments »
I’ve been sitting here all evening with this stupid laptop trying to write a post while watching t.v., and it just ended up being really bad writing. It was a report. Like a fourth grade book report, only about people. And it was boring, though it had potential to be meaningful if I […]
Posted in Everyday, Blog Stuff on Oct 27th, 2006 2 Comments »
Hey, I bet you’re wondering how I did that neat trick of blogging every day even though I just said I wasn’t blogging every day. Well, it’s called POST DATING, baby! I wrote three posts on Tuesday while I sipped wine and ate goat cheese, then set them all to post on consecutive days.
I […]
Posted in Blog Stuff on Oct 26th, 2006 2 Comments »
In my continuing quest to simplify my life and feel less discouraged by all the things I can’t Get Done, I have been weeding through my blog feeds. I currently have 67 feeds coming in to my Bloglines account, and even that is after some serious deleting.
At first I loved the idea of […]
Posted in Rage Against The Pile, Blog Stuff, On Writing on Sep 21st, 2006 4 Comments »
Happy Birthday to Me
Today I am 35 years old, and that is TOTALLY okay with me. At times my body feels old and decrepit, and I’m chubbier than I want to be, but I am doing exactly what I want to be doing. I am a wife, a mother, a daughter, and a […]
Posted in Seen, Heard, Said, Blog Stuff on Sep 18th, 2006 No Comments »
For my favorite web searches that lead to my blog…
1. how to put on a protective cup for fencing
2. constantly irritated depressed bitchy
3. tired of feeling sad and unmotivated, just want to eat and sleep
4. massage sitz bones
5. coffee mugs with pile of poop in bottom of cup
6. children floating poop
7. groggy irritable tense impatient
8. […]
Posted in Blog Stuff, On Writing on Sep 15th, 2006 3 Comments »
Isn’t it funny how 68 degrees in July feels refreshing, while 68 degrees in September feels frigid? It’s cool and rainy today. My mom is visiting next week and if this cooler weather keeps up I may need to actually turn my furnace on to keep her tiny body from dropping into hypothermia.
It’s […]
Posted in Friendship, Blog Stuff on Sep 14th, 2006 No Comments »
Jen the Doula, one of the gals I had lunch with at Blogher, started blogging again. Her website is beautiful and her writing is amazing. You should check it out!
Posted in Seen, Heard, Said, Blog Stuff on Aug 11th, 2006 1 Comment »
Pierce Pettis
Pierce has headlined the last couple of years at the music festival/camping trip we take annually in the San Juan Islands. If you feel like sipping a glass of wine on a cloudy day, check out some of his music. His voice is soothing, he’s a great storyteller, and his combination of […]
Posted in Blog Stuff on Aug 3rd, 2006 4 Comments »
Hey everybody! Today my stat counter tells me I’ve had over 10,000 visitors to this site in the last year! Can you say, “super DUPER cool”?
To honor the event I’ve added a search bar to the right, a little trick I learned in a workshop at BlogHer. Bryan was WAY turned on […]