Fantastic afternoon today. B & I went out for a walk to the bank to deposit checks, and took a shortcut through the woods behind the development next to ours. I dropped my sunglasses (of course—I lose more sunglasses than anybody else I know), and we turned back to go find them. Something in the [...]
I’m not completely happy with my chopped liver recipe and how it turned out. It’s in the freezer for when I’ll get a chance to go see my grandmother and get her to help me fix it. In the meantime, I still need things to eat, so this afternoon, I broke out my old stand [...]
The income from a career in theater has been, well, much as I expected. Unfortunately, that isn’t high. I’ve been struggling lately between bills and income and the balance between the two, quite frankly, has not been what it should be. Two months in a row, I’m running in the red, and finally I decided [...]
kritha: Fashion and other concerns.
I really couldn’t sum up what happened closing night of Fashion. Fortunately, Lei did it for me. Since she plotted it all out, her version sums things up pretty well.
Through impenetrable fog, Mom, Amanda, and I braved our way down the parkway through mists thick enough to choke small animals to drop Amanda off for her flight out of BWI. To make matters worse, this was just before eight in the morning, a time whose existance I would dearly love to forget. From there, [...]
There’s a few things I’m learning during this post-op imprisonment within my own room. A few I already knew, but they’ve been reinforced rather firmly. Here they are, in no particular order:
Always get it in writing. The surgeon gave me a bunch of instructions the day before the surgery, and a bunch more after the [...]
Alright, so my dental debacle is getting more and more complex every day. Originally, I had been scheduled for a cleaning this morning and the consultation on the 2nd. However, I was called on the 29th and told that my consultation couldn’t be scheduled because it turns out the doctor wasn’t actually going to be [...]
I went to bed at 9 and woke up at 11. Yes, that’s fourteen hours of sleep, not two. When I woke up this morning, my back was sore, my shoulders and back radiate enough heat to lightly toast a loaf of bread, and my face is tight from the remanants of sun. And I [...]
A Prayer for Lucy
Jul. 12th, 2005 | 12:10 am
Got home from the family reunion in Wisconsin at 8:30 tonight. Trip was great. But when we got home, it was clear Lucy was acting very strangely. Wouldn’t purr, wasn’t interested in dinner, and when I tried to spoon-feed her, she was repulsed by the food. We [...]
While we Trachtenbergs are busy eating our way across America (coming soon: Family Reunion T-Shirt art!), I thought it might be about time to write about my family.
The Trachtenbergs are an amazing group. All descended from six sisters, we’ve got an eclectic group all connected by blood. And really, that’s all that matters. None of [...]