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I have a submission up at 1000words. Here’s the story - click the link to see the picture.
This photograph was taken one morning as I stood at the kitchen counter of a friend’s apartment in Paris. I know I was barefoot, because when I look at the picture I remember how cold the tiles were. [...]

I can’t believe I haven’t written about this yet.
Last weekend, J. got a buck while hunting at the farm. He said he had walked a ways out of the woods to relieve himself and when he turned a buck and a doe were standing behind him. The doe fled when he walked toward his gun [...]

1) Funniest thing to happen so far today: my cat is trying to get us to light a fire in the fireplace. I know this because he’s grown accustomed to the heat from our recent spate of indulgent pyromania, and is sitting inside the fireplace right now yelling because it isn’t warm.
2) I spent [...]

I signed up for a free hosting account at 1and1 and I’m just thrilled to bits because hosting accounts turn me on. I don’t know why. I love Unix.
Speaking of hosting accounts however, today I found Sustainable Host which runs its servers off of solar power and has awesome rates for Unix hosting.
There’s my [...]

How come every time J. goes away for the weekend, I “pamper” myself with food and beauty necessities? My idea of “gourmet” always seems to involve fruit, bread, and soft cheeses of some sort, so for today’s indulgence I bought fruit, bagels and cream cheese (I know, not what you were thinking when I said [...]

I’m strangely loathe to do much self-documentation lately, but I finally put November’s cover up at Utopian.net and was forced to write a brief entry for that. So I figured I’d come on over this way and bitch a little. :)
The cafe is opening shortly, and we’re in the last tense homestretch of getting crap [...]

The problem with going to bed before 2am is that if I wake up any time after 5am I am irrevocably awake.
This is a new development in The Life of Brianna, a girl who has been known to crash out for fifteen hours straight for no good reason at all. This ties in with my [...]

Amount of money I have spent on pomegranates this season (beg. October 1st):
$24
At $1 a piece or thereabouts, that evens out to nearly a pomegranate a day for the last month.
Some things you just don’t want any self-awareness about. But I have a fruit problem.

Just a quickie to let all the people I forced to read my dramatic whiny recounts of the California wildfires know that NOT A SINGLE PERSON I know on the mountain ended up losing a home. Not out of my family, my extended family, or my immediate friends. No one was hurt, every pet was [...]

Is there anything a good cuppa tea can’t cure?
Well, the Outkast helps a little bit too. Seriously though - all my tea-snobbery from being the wannabe tea-sommelier for the new cafe doesn’t change the fact that Twinings’ Lady Grey tea makes my all time favourite cup. It is so lovely and light and soothing, and [...]