((taken on an unusually warm day the other week, after the snow had melted.))
We’re on to month two of 2009, and I am still feeling good about this year.  I hope saying that doesn’t jinx me, but I really feel hopeful about what’s to come.  Like we are (or maybe I am) am on the brink of something [...]

((Funnel, at Rising Park in May 2005.  One of my favorite photos.))
Right now my Valentine is sleeping in the other room.
I was just remembering our first Valentine’s Day together, in 2005, when we had been dating a little shy of 4 months.  We went to P.F. Chang’s for dinner, and Funnel bought me a bouquet of [...]

Some wonderful Valentine’s Day inspiration I found on etsy:

((Etsy sellers from top: heartspeak, able & game, armato design & press, Earmark, OceanDreamsStudio, Eartha Kitsch, Mia Nolting, bunkleberry studios)).

 
We had a happy Christmas on Thursday.  We had three Christmases in one day: Immels, Fredericks, and “ours”.  In that order.  Gifts were exchanged, way too many cookies were eaten, and we had much-needed time with the people we love.  What more could I ask for?  Especially in a time when I know many people [...]

Funnel and I were on the 11:00 news last night.
All week, we had been planning on going to Zoo lights on Sunday, but when we realized how cold it was ((5 degrees)), we decided we needed to do something which involved more warm-ness.   So dinner and a movie.  When we were on our way back [...]

 
meet me by the water, underneath the big beehive.

bring your record player and your raincoats, 45s.

we can dance together as the river washes by.
 
to wash away the cities that somebody else designed.

dance with me
 
beneath the circuitry.
 
stay awake til daybreak calls us back into our rooms

and morning always comes too soon.

((Put-in-Bay, South Bass Island, November 2008)).

This is where Funnel and I are heading today: Put-in-Bay, on South Bass Island.  We’ll be there until Monday.  I have been to this little island twice before, but never at this time of year and never with Funnel. 
I’m going to be vulnerable and share with you an embarressing story about Put-in-Bay from when I was [...]

Funnel and I celebrated our two-year wedding anniversary yesterday.

If you would have seen a glimpse of me yesterday afternoon on my way home from work, you would have thought it had to be the worst wedding anniversary ever. I was sad and crying and cursing at etsy sellers who do not get things (like anniversary [...]

Another week, another weekend.  I posted yesterday about third-party candidates, but I had to delete it because for some reason it was messing up the formatting of my website.  Sorry. I guess you will never know how I feel about voting for presidential candidates who will not win. 
It has been a long week with not enough sleep and [...]

October has been the busiest month I’ve had in awhile.  My weekends and evenings have been pretty tied up, so I haven’t had a chance to get caught up on things I need to be doing, so I’m pretty stressed out.  I’m planning on powering through some of this stuff tonight and tommorow evening (after I get home from working.. yeah, working [...]