My blog is snowing. That means it’s December. This is post No. 27. That means I didn’t quite complete NaBloPoMo. Given that I was near death for the entire last week, I’m OK with that. In the last month, I’ve re-learned a little bit about balance — finding time to take care of stuff at… Read More 27. not quite.
I guess it would have been understandable, given this week’s circumstances, if I had forgotten what today was (besides Thanksgiving, of course). As it is, I nearly missed it. It? That’s the 10-year anniversary of Uncle Crappy. (Uncle Crappy the blog, that is. Uncle Crappy the person has been around for much, much longer.) I… Read More 24. ten.
A few days ago, I had a rough morning. I won’t recap the whole thing now — there’s an entire post about that — but I found one thing that I apparently need to add to that list. Along with my lunch and closing the refrigerator door, I forgot about my 1,500th post. Which was… Read More 21. fifteen hundred. and a couple more.
How you can tell it’s a NaBloPoMo month — we’re only two weeks in, and this is the second Facebook meme I’ve stolen from the blog. I may have bitten off more than I can chew with this one, the *insertnumberhere* Things You Didn’t Know About Me meme. The rules and conventions for this one… Read More 18. about me.
People who aren’t who you thought. Those who don’t do the simple things they should. Not living up to my own expectations. Feeling isolated. These aren’t new lessons. But they seem to have come up all at once this week.
It’s one of the reasons I’ve always known I chose the right profession: I love working on election night. It doesn’t matter if it’s a municipal election — as is the case tomorrow — or a presidential race. It doesn’t matter if I’m updating the site with the latest results and stories — as is… Read More 4. i’m a freak.
Uncle Crappy 