The last two evenings a church near us has been playing Christmas carols on their digital bells. They can be heard all over the neighborhood. Last night, J. and I walked out to the car on the way to a party and I was humming along with “Angels we have heard on high”. “I haven’t Read more >>

I loved it. Best movie I’ve ever seen. I think I cried throughout the whole thing, and that is saying quite a lot. I’ll say nothing more on the movie, since no one I know has seen it yet. Next week I’ll post a review I wrote. Bits and pieces: 1) If one more person Read more >>

Espresso dell’Anatra is OPEN! Hooray! We’ve actually been open for a week, but I’ve been so busy finishing the POS and making coffee and sweeping the interminable concrete floors that I haven’t yet posted. Business is slow. Barista Brianna is lonely. Come to 4335 Chouteau Trafficway and bring your friends. We’ll have a coffee party. Read more >>

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 Read more >>

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 Read more >>

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 Read more >>

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 Read more >>

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 Read more >>

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 Read more >>

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 Read more >>