I am very good to our pets. Excellent even. I am a superior pet owner. I love them and they love me. I feed them and pet them. And make goo-goo-gah-gah noises at them. Well, most of them. I've never petted Squirtle the Turtle. Actually, I've never even touched him. Gives me the heebie jeebies to eve...

I have a very good friend who I hadn't seen in years. We happened to run into each other at a business function last week, but didn't have time to talk. And I was disappointed. Because talking to her has always been one of my favorite things. Or rather, what she says when she's talking to me. She di...

All I need is a TV show, that, and a radio. That, and a knock at my door, where yesterday a neighbor stood to hand me a small package that was accidentally put in her mailbox a few days ago. I...I...opened the package. There were three CDs enclosed. I ran upstairs and popped the first one in my comp...

I'm sick. And tired. And probably sick and tired. Of lots of things. Which isn't helping. I slept the day away yesterday. I woke up around 5:00pm and stumbled down to Blue Kid's room. "Will you go get me some ginger ale? And soup? I'm hungry and thirsty." From the looks of me, he could tell I was al...

It was the middle of the night and my sister and I were sitting at my mom's dining room table with the hospice nurse. A man I could have sworn I'd seen on MSNBC's Lock-up a few weeks earlier. Short and stout with huge forearms, a shaved head and a handlebar mustache, Ricky was telling us the story a...

Accepting all I've done and said I want to stand and stare again 'Til there's nothing left out It remains there in your eyes Whatever comes and goes I will hear your silent call And I will touch this tender wall 'Til I know I'm home again In your eyes Love, I get so lost, sometimes Days pass and thi...

I followed Jennifer's lead who followed Bill's lead and took this personality quiz... Found out I'm a Romantic Extroverted Self-Knower They forgot... Loser!...

In the immortal words of Dan Leo: And, finally, for Best Diarist, give it up for Blue Girl. If she comes in last we’ll never hear the goddam end of it. The old me would've said, Pshaw! But, the new me says, Damn straight! You're not like Jon Swift's readers, are you? All lazy, apathetic and good-f...

The Weblog Awards go on way too long. I am growing tired of hyping it. I realize now that I could never be a PR guru. But, I'm losing! Will has been good for about three votes. He even put up a special Vote for Blue Girl button on his blog. But, did he copy and paste the message I so conveniently wr...

I was nominated for Fastest and Most Awesome Blog Awards Badge Putter-upper of the Universe! And I lost. I came in dead last. I am so not The Fastest and Most Awesome Badge Putter-upper in the Universe. See that awards badge over there to the left? I read Typepad's help page 42,000 times. And I put ...