September 2010 – The Bloggess

UPDATED: I probably need to stop watching True Blood so much.

My neighbor Charlotte told me that last week she was home alone with her kids and had to shoot a rattlesnake on her front porch and then right after that our water got cut off and then Hailey came down with the stomach flu and Victor was out of town and I felt a lotContinue reading “UPDATED: I probably need to stop watching True Blood so much.”

sigh

My travails with marketers have been widely documented but sometimes they really outdo themselves. Email I recieved today: I did, of course, respond. Otherwise, how will they learn?

And a bustle. A bustle would be cool too.

This week I’ve had terrible insomnia and I’m kind of in that strange territory of chronic not-sleeping where you’re not sure if you’re about to go crazy or if you’re about the break through to the zone where people don’t need sleep anymore (which would be awesome because I would use that time to honeContinue reading “And a bustle. A bustle would be cool too.”

Six years ago today.

She shouldn’t be alive. The first miscarriage should have killed me. The second nearly did. The third chipped away at what was left. Four was always my lucky number. She was born and everything that had been burned away in me started to grow again. I gave her life, and then she gave me backContinue reading “Six years ago today.”

Part two: The Stanley Hotel and the reason why Ghost Hunters should hire me as a permanent member of their team. Or Destination Truth. Which one is less likely to look for giant squid? That one.

This is part 2 of my ghost-hunting trip to The Stanley Hotel so you should really read part one first. Or just go watch tv instead. That’s probably what I would do. (As usual, this is copied directly out of my journal so there’s no real flow and the tenses change constantly but technically thatContinue reading “Part two: The Stanley Hotel and the reason why Ghost Hunters should hire me as a permanent member of their team. Or Destination Truth. Which one is less likely to look for giant squid? That one.”

The Stanley Hotel: Totally fucking haunted. Maybe.

So this weekend Victor and I dropped Hailey off at her grandparents and went on a one-day vacation to the Stanley Hotel. (This is not a sponsored post, by the way. We totally paid for it ourselves. Which is why it was for only one day.) I’ve always wanted to go to the Stanley. ItContinue reading “The Stanley Hotel: Totally fucking haunted. Maybe.”