Everydaystranger

It is estimated that in 2005 over 5 million animals were euthanized in the US alone. The RSPCA and ASPCA had bumper years last year, with reports of some clinics being filled beyond capacity, particularly around the holidays.
In some ways, the ones who were put to sleep were the lucky ones.
What about this poor [...]

There’s a cool chick I know that has a bit of an email routine going with me. In said routine, she always addresses her emails to me as ‘Dear God’

I’ve heard stress impacts the immune system. Something about how too much of it can have a negative affect on the immune system, or something like that. I even decided to Ask Jeeves about it, since I figured it might shed a little light on my current situation. I found this:
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Sometimes I look around and think that I have someone else’s life. Before, I had nights full of harsh sodium glare, a cityscape gouging out the humanity in me. Footsteps were loud and the rush of traffic drowned out my every thought.
Then came you.
You taught me that the sodium glare was from low [...]

I have been dreaming about dogs for months now. Before getting Gorby, before ensuring that our new house was indeed ours, before all of that. When I go to sleep at night dogs lurk at the corners, they walk through the woods, they amble silently along corridors, their toenails clickless on the floors. [...]

Our new house is at the end of an unmade road, off a side road that is traversed only by residents. It’s nearly impossible to find the house without explicit directions, and even then so far every one who has come here has gotten lost on the way. The life we are living [...]

Today we are finishing up the goodbye jobs in our old rental home in Hartley Wintney and get ready to hand it over tomorrow morning.
Then we are back at our home for further work. This weekend is earmarked to install a shower in a our currently shower-less home (we only have a bathtub in [...]

The older I get, the more green I am getting.
Seriously.
Now, I haven’t always been a crunchy-granola kind of girl. Once upon a time I owned a shotgun and a few home alarms and supported the NRA. No it’s true. I really did. Then a little thing called Columbine came and happened [...]

So I’ve been quiet again, for two reasons:
1) Yesterday I had a headache the size of Mt. St. Helens and spent the morning hurling my guts up over our downstairs toilet, losing even the water that I’d had that morning.
2) On Monday, I drove to a studio and was on a recording of The Weakest [...]

We had lost internet access from Wednesday on, and suddenly we find, today, that in our new home broadband is working. I would say that there is a god but I am still a hardcore agnostic, so instead I give you this: Coke would like to teach the world to sing, and it has [...]

We are so close, we are nearly there with the upstairs bedrooms.
I am so tired, sore, depressed, stressed, and flat-out exhausted I could cry.
So I think I will.
-H.

So my birthday was lovely-great presents and then we spent the day sanding floors and painting, and then when we were done with that, we painted some more. And more. And after that, Angus packed us up for a fabulous meal at a fantastic place (the waiter didn’t comment on the paint stuck [...]

30 April 2006
The Waiting Game
We are now in the dreaded time period that is called the 2ww-the two week wait. Everything before this seems easy by comparison. Although this is now my third visit into 2ww territory, it’s still something that weighs heavily on my mind. The stress, it’s true, feels somehow less this time [...]