Kangatopia

So, here’s the update on the home front. Shep and I will survive and be happy. I am going to put some muscle into it, and have decided to refuse to accept things any other way. Except that he’s been so sick lately and utterly consumed by the aches and pains of [...]

Due to the lovely weather of the last couple of days, I am for what feels like the first time enjoying spending time downstairs at the computer without wondering when frost bite is going to set in.  However, there is no time to write tonight as I have just spent a little time whipping up [...]

I’ve lost my sanity and am in the process of losing my soul. It looks like this is the end with Shep. I really don’t have any faith in myself, or my ability to get through this. So, unless things turn around, or I somehow find some sort of strength, the posts [...]

We’ve talked.  There were tears, some raised voices, lots of unhappiness.  We are going to try.  We are going to work this out.  I mean it when I say I can’t imagine life without him.

I have to give him a lot of credit. He has tried really hard with me. He walked into a situation that needed repair. He saw that we needed him, and that he could help us.
I was floundering, trying to make a life out of not very much. I was living [...]

The day has been bad. The weekend has sucked, and will continue to suck until it’s ended by a dubiously grateful return to work. It started out with some promise of relaxation and fun. Leaving work early yesterday to rush home and make a birthday dinner for my son, I felt that [...]

A few days ago, I wrote a post, “All the updates fit to post” and so that I would be the only person who could read it, I thought I had marked it as private.
This editor has a couple of cool features. One is that I can password protect a post so that only [...]

These days I have given up on my short lived addiction to coffee and gone back to my roots of drinking 2 liter bottles of Coke Zero in the relative quiet of my office.  Lugging a 2 liter to work with me somehow seems faster and easier than ducking out to go and get a [...]