I have meant to post a million times these last couple weeks, but it kept getting away from me.  Blog posts are always skittering away as soon as I turn on the light.  Or, in a less creepy metaphor, they’re like Lucy and the football. Anyway, I relaunched my Etsy shop this past week and […]

What? You didn’t know I was gone? Well, I was. My lack of posting this past week or so was due to me temporarily joining the 9 – 5 world. Or, technically, the 8 – 4:30 world. Now I’ve returned to the ranks of the gainfully happily self-employed. This is going to be a brief […]

My 30th birthday turned out to be excellent.  I can’t believe I’m starting a new decade of my life!  Anyway, it was a great birthday, despite the two hour inconclusive doctor visit from hell.  (They decided I don’t have asthma, but don’t know what might actually be wrong.  Um… yay?) On the bright side, I […]

Loud honking announcements that will chase you around the lake and beak you to death for a crust of bread! Er… probably not.  These are actually very lovely announcements that don’t resemble geese in any way.  But gaggle is a cool word.  It’s right up there with gusset. Anyway, onto the announcements! In exactly 28 […]

As I’m trying to manage my time and projects and whatnot, it’s kind of dawning on me that I have a LOT of stuff going on right now. My list, let me show you it–not necessarily in any particular order: –edit three books for self-publication –after editing, format them all for printing and ebook formats […]

As some of you probably know, I crochet. A lot. And in the last two months I started doing design work, which before then I thought I kind of hated. Because it was hard and I wasn’t passionate about anything enough to *want* to put in the work to get past that stage. And then […]

2011 was a pretty crazy year. It feels like it dragged on forever and at the same time was a huge whirlwind of hectic chaos that flew right by. I started grad school (a master’s program in Library and Information Science) and spent a week in Syracuse, NY hanging out with other people in the […]

I was watching my two cats fight yesterday. Teisel, the big one that looks like an ocelot, refuses to attack unless he’s *perfectly* calculated exactly how he’s going to do it. When he’s going to pounce, where he’s going to bite, and, most importantly, whether or not he thinks he’ll be successful. He only wants […]

Or at least it’s almost over. I have ONE MORE DAY of my temporary day job, and then I’m finished. I survived all the craziness of starting grad school, going to the week long summer residency at Syracuse (and almost not being able to get my plane ticket because financial aid took so long to […]

I leave for Syracuse, NY TOMORROW night. I’m flying through the night and getting there in the morning–fun, I know–and then I have the rest of the day to rest and get settled before classes start on Saturday. I’m going to be there for a week long residency, with 8 hours of class a day, […]