I have, at the very best, a sordid history with housekeeping chores. Now, in fairness, I have lots of sordid histories, most of them emotionally-unavailable brunettes. In this case, though, I feel like the word “sordid,” with its connotations of dirt and squalor, is much more fitting than in most of those cases. Toxic codependency […]
A word, here, about valuable discoveries. I had what I am going to politely term an “interesting experience” today. Yesterday I took my car to my mechanic to get it checked on before I drove to Florida. I didn’t want to find out in South Carolina somewhere that my battery was dead, or my brakes […]
A word, here, about fighting the tides. And with much less fanfare than I normally prefer for things, we are now well and truly into my final winter in this house. This place is actually pretty great in the intermediary seasons. Fall and spring in this house are very nice. Summer and winter are awful, […]
I am so, so close. My list of everything that needed doing before I woke up tomorrow to ensure my Five Days of No Work is almost finished. All that’s left is to dry and fold the last of my laundry, fix up the mess I made last week of my piano-desk (there were issues […]
A word, here, about flashes of brilliance. As the moving prep continues and things leave this house at a prodigious rate, I am somehow still running into space issues. I suppose it is theoretically possible that this is happening because as I get rid of various boxes and storage areas and whatnots full of stuff, […]
A word, here, about turning points. The papers are signed, the searches are turned on, and checklists are being made: I am officially vacating Philadelphia. I am weirdly excited about this because even just a few hours of dealing with this today has shown that the next however many months are going to be an […]
A word, here, about newfound strengths. I got up this morning! The whole sheer bloody-mindedness plan actually worked! I set my alarm last night for 6:45, and when it went off this morning I rolled over, turned it off, got out of bed, and said, “alright.” And once I got back from the bathroom instead […]
A word, here, about thinking things through. When I got home from Costco earlier this evening, as I opened my freezer to put the food away, I heard a sort of sickening crunching noise from down around my feet. I looked down to see that the bottom of the gasket on the freezer was hanging […]
A word, here, about overcomplicating things. I have spoken in the past – perhaps not here – about my curious relationship with art. Mostly over the years I have maintained that I am not an “art” guy, but that mostly pertains to quote-unquote fine art. Paintings and shit whatnot. When it comes to that, as […]
A word, here, about constant reinvention. I should really start tracking my moods. I mean seriously tracking, with a spreadsheet and everything. Or just put it in my notebook, even, because I am pretty sure that they are progressing in a cycle that is getting easier and easier to predict. Obviously I don’t have scientific […]