People are always asking me how I spend my time up here in the Hudson Valley. I mean, I can’t honestly spend every evening listening to Young Adult books on tape and putting together jigsaw puzzles, can I? Well, actually… Okay, so that’s all I did this past weekend. However, on a normal day, I [...]
Archive for April, 2006
25 Apr
In The Still of The Night
I heard once that to get the best night’s sleep ever, you have to make your bedroom completely dark. Last night I systematically doused all illumination by unplugging appliances with ready lights and draping off all the windows. As I went to bed last night, I was plunged into a cave-like darkness, unable to see [...]
24 Apr
Three Days of Rain
It has been raining steadily since Saturday morning. Therefore, I spent most of the weekend inside my cottage, listening to Harry Potter, completing my puzzle, and tending to the massive leak in my living room. The rain broke for a few sweet hours on Sunday, so I decided to walk the mile and a half [...]
21 Apr
Prune juice, anyone?
I would love to tell you all the exciting adventures of my night. However, I got home at 6PM, popped Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in my tape player, and worked on a 1,000 piece puzzle until 10PM. Then I went to bed. At this rate, I should skip the next forty [...]
20 Apr
You learn something new every couple of days.
Do you ever learn a new word and subsequently hear it everywhere you go? Every time this has happened to me, I’ve wondered if I had ignored people when they used the word in the past, or if I’ve been on the cusp of a new invention. Then I find out the word’s been around [...]
19 Apr
You’re gonna have to face it you’re addicted
Birmingham is a Harry Potter fan, and he’s been trying to convince me to read the series for two years. My argument has been that I have way too many unread books on my shelf and I can’t justify ignoring these pages, many of which were subjects of English papers in college, to take the [...]
18 Apr
The daily tally
I’m starting a new feature on the blog. It’s a tally of things that I’ve knocked over, dropped, or broken that day. I must start with the 4 wine glasses I’ve broken in the space of 2 weeks, and only one of those breakages happened when I was actually drinking wine. One was kicked, one [...]
