Valentine’s Day is over and I couldn’t be happier.  Taking my happiness up a notch is the fact that I’ve teamed with one of my favorite websites, Cozy Wallet, to do a special Valentine’s Day is Over giveaway.  I don’t know about you, but after days/weeks of nothing but posts about Valentine’s Day, I’m celebrating [...]

All day long, I’ve had the same song stuck in my head.  I woke up thinking of it and just couldn’t shake it. It’s an old song, one that few of you have ever heard.  It’s kind of odd that I find myself thinking of it as much as I do (in fact, I posted [...]

I was listening to a rather serious podcast about our economic crisis and someone said something that made me think of this ancient song. It’s Lloyd Cole & the Commotions singing Are You Ready to be Heartbroken? (this video is from way back in 1985, OMG). In answer to the question, yes.  I think I [...]

I’m not going to do resolutions.  What would be the point?  Most of the things that are causing me stress are completely beyond my control.  All I can really do is keep going.  Keep trying. Keep being as honest and sincere and open and I can be and hope that someday all of my hard [...]

I’m in tonight, trying to catch up on rest.  I spent last night at Mr. Potential’s and that was good (as usual) but I didn’t really sleep at all.  I can’t blame him.  He’s pretty much the perfect overnight companion:  he doesn’t snore or hog the covers or want to spoon me so tight that [...]