At WWU
At BTC
In Fairhaven (Bellingham)
My pumpkin
An especially awesome bloom
and new rain boots!!
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
new 'literary' blog
I'm not sure if it really deserves the title 'literary', but I did start a blog for any of my original writes. It will include humor, candor, opinion, memory and whatever else seems interesting to write about.
Check it out: www.whenwriting.blogspot.com
Saturday, September 26, 2009
carefully constructed ramblings
oxymoron: a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms
I am fascinated by oxymorons. While I am generally guided by a desire for the literally correct, somehow I have a deviated admiration for contradictions. I search for oxymorons in the books I read, in the names of products, in peoples' speech. I write with oxymorons, because "two sides to every coin" are still a part of the same coin. Light and darkness are opposites, but one doesn't exist with out the other - how else would they be defined? A person is alive, but dying slowly every second they live. Lemonade tastes both bitter and sweet. Contradictions are a part of everything.
So perhaps, my fascination with the contrary is in fact an embodiment of my desire for the literally correct. It is a paradox.
I am fascinated by oxymorons. While I am generally guided by a desire for the literally correct, somehow I have a deviated admiration for contradictions. I search for oxymorons in the books I read, in the names of products, in peoples' speech. I write with oxymorons, because "two sides to every coin" are still a part of the same coin. Light and darkness are opposites, but one doesn't exist with out the other - how else would they be defined? A person is alive, but dying slowly every second they live. Lemonade tastes both bitter and sweet. Contradictions are a part of everything.
So perhaps, my fascination with the contrary is in fact an embodiment of my desire for the literally correct. It is a paradox.
Monday, September 21, 2009
couple weekends ago
I made chocolate zucchini cake
In the back yard of my parents house
We like the hammock
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
nightmare snatcher journal
I would love to give these to my nieces, (and get one myself) they are awesome!
Check out other journals designs at this etsy site, The Spiderbite Boutique.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
we are in an apartment
I had forgotten the woes of living in an apartment building, and this particular apartment has more than it's share.
The first on my list is that, as far as I can tell, everyone else in the building smokes. Smoking is not allowed inside the apartments, so they smoke out on their decks and patios. Inevitably, when I go to dry my clothes, I have to take someone's clothes out of the dryer. Even the clothes stink of cigarette smoke.
During one of the hottest days this summer, we had the windows wide open and a fan in the next room pulling a draft through our bedroom window. The person living beneath us, stood about 6 feet below our bedroom window on his deck chain smoking with a buddy. We were asleep, since it was 2am, but I woke up gagging as the entire apartment had been fumigated with cigarette smoke.
Courageous with indignation at 2am, I managed to immediately stomp down the stairs and confront the smokers. They were fairly polite, and said they would smoke in the front of the building from then on. It lasted a week. They like to smoke at night.
Second on my list of woes, is that the property manager(s) don't manage well. The first manager who rented the place to us, lied about the apartment. We weren't able to see it before we moved in, so we didn't know the bathroom was basically a closet. She told us there was off street parking, or a parking garage across the street for 35/month, both of which were lies. The current property manager has said she will send out letters about the smoking issue, but that was two weeks and several emails ago, without response. She doesn't even respond to an email asking for the utility bill!
Third, and last that I'll mention, is that all of our neighbors are musicians, which is fine when the violinist is playing, but the pianist isn't very good, and the drummer, is well, a drummer.
I'm impressed if you read this far, you are tenacious.
Good things about the apartment:
The first on my list is that, as far as I can tell, everyone else in the building smokes. Smoking is not allowed inside the apartments, so they smoke out on their decks and patios. Inevitably, when I go to dry my clothes, I have to take someone's clothes out of the dryer. Even the clothes stink of cigarette smoke.
During one of the hottest days this summer, we had the windows wide open and a fan in the next room pulling a draft through our bedroom window. The person living beneath us, stood about 6 feet below our bedroom window on his deck chain smoking with a buddy. We were asleep, since it was 2am, but I woke up gagging as the entire apartment had been fumigated with cigarette smoke.
Courageous with indignation at 2am, I managed to immediately stomp down the stairs and confront the smokers. They were fairly polite, and said they would smoke in the front of the building from then on. It lasted a week. They like to smoke at night.
Second on my list of woes, is that the property manager(s) don't manage well. The first manager who rented the place to us, lied about the apartment. We weren't able to see it before we moved in, so we didn't know the bathroom was basically a closet. She told us there was off street parking, or a parking garage across the street for 35/month, both of which were lies. The current property manager has said she will send out letters about the smoking issue, but that was two weeks and several emails ago, without response. She doesn't even respond to an email asking for the utility bill!
Third, and last that I'll mention, is that all of our neighbors are musicians, which is fine when the violinist is playing, but the pianist isn't very good, and the drummer, is well, a drummer.
I'm impressed if you read this far, you are tenacious.
Good things about the apartment:
- Within walking distance of the library, restaurants, parks, buses
- Between both of our schools
- Sort of cute
- Cozy, in a sort of cramped way
- We have a fridge
- Oven
- Internet
- Sink
- Shower
- Roof over our head
- Heat (I think)
- ....
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