Sloth

June 16, 2010

I will eventually resume “normal” activities. Probably. If somebody (somebody BAD!) makes me give up my water hammock and go home.

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Oh, that Barkley

May 20, 2010

I needed this at 4 a.m. No wonder I couldn’t find it. I have been in a major funk the last few weeks, losing Bonnie, then being sick and miserable for so long. Thank goodness this guy makes me laugh at least ten times a day. Thanks to my husband who rats me out to [...]

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I don’t feel like a princess

May 10, 2010

Furthermore, I don’t want to. I am still coughing and snuffling and making all manner of vaguely disgusting breathing noises, and the lack of breathing is keeping me from being the energetic dynamo that I usually am (in my dreams). I am pretty sure whatever made me sick has killed several million brain cells, because [...]

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Opportunistic viruses

May 5, 2010

At first, the red eyes and runny nose blended almost seamlessly into my frequent sobbing outbursts. When I started attracting tourists who, attracted by my barking coughs, thought they had arrived at the nearby elephant seal breeding grounds, I realized, “Hey, I’m sick.” So, while my chores pile up faster than Lindsay Lohan DUI arrests, [...]

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Sweet, sweet Bonnie

April 29, 2010

December 22, 1994 – April 29, 2010

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Enough, already, with the story!

April 19, 2010

Good lord, will this story never end? Yes, it will! Today! I was going to keep dragging it out and dragging it out, but I am so bone-tired from living it that I hardly have the oomph to write about it. So, what has made me both tired and nostalgic? MOVING! Here’s the fix we got [...]

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The end is near

April 13, 2010

I’d better start zipping along in this story. If I take too long telling it, pretty soon one or two of you will start expecting it to Amount to a Hill of Beans, even though I have promised you it will not. After a few years in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of San Francisco, the next [...]

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Now, where was I?

April 12, 2010

It’s hard to keep track of The Story That Doesn’t Amount to a Hill of Beans when I’m in the middle of . . . Well, I can’t tell you that, because I would be giving away the big surprise payoff, and just think how sad you would be to lose that, er, thrill. I [...]

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