Posted in Just Rattling On, tagged April, post-birthday blues, sluggish blogging on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
“My” month is over. Funny how post-birthday blahs and some chilly weather can break the spell prematurely. It was a good birthday, though, and a good month. And more beautiful than I anticipated. Now, on to May — with summer just beyond!
Back on April 11 I challenged myself to write a post about April (or [...]
Posted in Birthdays, Holidays & Celebrations, Just Rattling On, tagged 40th birthday celebration, birthday surprises, birthday themes, Gettysburg, mystery trip, theme parties on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
For several years back in the 1990s, Diamondqueen insisted that our birthday celebrations have “themes.” Fortunately this only applied to me, Mom, and Diamondqueen, not the entire family. We had some creative themes, though. And those celebrations took a lot of work and planning.
I celebrated some really interesting themed birthdays during those years. There was [...]
Posted in Just Rattling On, Uncategorized, tagged earth tremors in Midwest, earthquake, earthquakes in Cincinnati, San Francisco earthquake on April 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I slept through the earthquake this morning (i.e., tremor; the epicenter of the actual earthquake was considerably farther west). My apartment is a combined ground floor/basement unit (I have to go down steps to reach it, but it opens out onto a patio and a wide lawn), so maybe that prevented me from being awakened by [...]
Posted in Just Rattling On, tagged April showers, April weather, sunny day on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
I have this image of the perfect April day. It’s sunny, with a soft blue sky untouched by clouds, except maybe for a few feathery, atmospheric white vapors. The temperature’s around 72 degrees, but it’s just warm enough to feel comfortable without a jacket, and it’s not humid. There are yellow highlights throughout this image, [...]
Posted in Just Rattling On, tagged American Civil War, April is the cruelest month, Columbine, Fort Sumter, Lincoln's assassination, Oklahoma City bombing, T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland, Titanic, Virginia Tech shootings, Waco on April 16, 2008 | No Comments »
As fond as I am of April, I’ve grown paranoid about it, too. In “The Wasteland,” T.S. Eliot calls April “the cruelest month.” I’m sure if you studied a timeline of history for other months, you’d fine them rife with tragedies and disasters as well. And maybe I’m just more sensitive about April, more keenly [...]
Posted in Just Rattling On, tagged April 15, income tax, IRS on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Actually, I don’t have a lot to say about this feared deadline day for income tax. I’ve never made enough money at one time, or in one year, for it to matter. Maybe if I went to a tax preparer, he/she could find deductions and such. The thing is, I usually get a refund. I [...]
Posted in Just Rattling On, tagged April, being a bad blogger, birthday month, Easter, T.S. Eliot on April 11, 2008 | No Comments »
For the past six weeks or so, my blogging has sucked. Okay, maybe it’s ALWAYS sucked; right now I’m referring to my infrequent blog posts.
It’s been a combination of things: general burn-out (I wore myself out with overtime on my job), a slight case of writer’s block (which I don’t understand — I don’t suffer from writer’s [...]
Posted in Birthdays, Easter, Holidays & Celebrations, Just Rattling On, Needlework, The Hooligan Chronicles, embroidery, tagged birthday cake, Dewey's Pizza, flooded basement, heavy rain, overworked, post-operative recovery, signs of spring on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Geez, what a month March has been! First, I’m going to be whiney about how many hours I’ve been putting in at work. And the sorry part of it is, I felt as if I wasn’t seeing any results all those nights I stayed until 7 o’clock or later, or those weekends I brought work [...]
Posted in Just Rattling On, tagged Academy Awards, craft blog, MyCraftivity.com, needlework blog, not more snow, Oscars, too busy to blog, wish winter was over on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ll admit it, I haven’t been blogging much lately. I’ve been crazy-busy with work, bringing stuff home in the evenings and on weekends. It’s got me worn out, and I usually don’t have energy left for blogging. Today I got a welcome extension on a tense deadline, and it was like someone pulled the plug [...]
Posted in Just Rattling On, tagged F+W Publications, kidney stone, KP Craft, needlework books, quilting books, time flies on February 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s already been a month since I wrote this post about the January doldrums and waiting for things to happen. I guess time passes faster when you’re not waiting, just kicking hard to keep your head above water.
Regarding the job development: I got the position I wanted! Because my previous editorial position was eliminated, I [...]
