fivebyevif

I have had a few boyfriends. Not necessarily “many” or “a lot”…but a few.
Most of those have told me they like me with long hair. Not just told me, but have been pretty adamant about my hair’s length, to the point that one told me he’d break up with me if I ever [...]

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Mike got his mouth cut open by professionals, which is to say he had to have a tooth extraction. This involves two things: anesthesia and mouths full of gauze. It can also make for some amusing anecdotes.
ME:“I’m going to the store. Do you need anything?”
MIKE:(mouth full of gauze)“Tissue.”
ME:(confused)“There’s a whole box right [...]

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When I made the decision to go to a new career/state/domicile, certain things fell by the wayside.
I suspect the last do-nothing day I had was sometime during the start of the year. The last day when I felt like my job was secure, my world wasn’t going to change dramatically anytime soon, and [...]

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Thirteen years ago a small company took a big chance on a short young woman who was creative and smart, but a bit unpredictable. Unpredictable can be scary when you’re hiring people, but a few compassionate voices spoke in her favor, and so she was offered a job.
The young woman at the time was [...]

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More ruminations on being in a relationship, and how sleep medications have changed my life.

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I’ll be honest, I’m not sure this blog is necessary anymore.
You who are reading it are already with me on Facebook or Twitter. Which is a fine thing; all the minutiae of my life is happily shuffled around there, and I love that it’s more of a two-way conversation and less me dropping a [...]

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The ducky got bored.

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…asks the little voice, and the other voice answers, “Sorry to be a bother, but there’s no such thing.”
I’m poking my head back out, because somewhere in the world it’s March, and I like to think of February 2009 as a kind of temporal sacrifice that has been made and done away with. Not [...]

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So here we are at one year. He’s currently snoozing in the room next door and I am up early, not taking a shower like I should.
There is a temptation in me to do a recap, because that’s what bloggers do, but no. We are still laughing. I think that is the [...]

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SCENEA crowded post office lobby. Two WOMEN are talking loudly into cell phones, one announcing every minute that she recently had open heart surgery and a stroke. Our HEROINE (STEPH) clutches four boxes and a ticket with the number “52″. The digital counter thingie has been stuck on “51″ for the last [...]

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