Halloween 2010

It's a haunted house. And it has ghosties in it. And monsters. And other scary things. Probably cockroaches.

You can see the entire album of Halloween photos here on my Facebook photos page. I spent three solid weeks getting things made and the decor set up, working from the time I got up until 1 or 2 in the morning every day. For that length of time, it should look better, but there Continue reading →

Difficulties Continue

Stressed. Out.

We had my daughter back in the emergency room last night because she has steadily gotten worse since leaving the hospital, when she was much better. Her pneumonia is gone, but the allergy situation here (pollen etc) is horrible, ranking “highest possible” every day, so her situation has been exacerbated by that. She got another Continue reading →

All is Well

If I had leaves, they'd be gray.

Kara came home from the hospital today. She’s got like 7 prescriptions and a breathing treatment apparatus to get her through the next two weeks. Fun times! We also need to make an appointment for a sleep study, so I’ll be calling her doctor tomorrow to let them know. But she’s fine, is breathing much Continue reading →

My Daughter is in the Hospital

I lack witty commentary.

Just a quick update. We’re still sick here, though I’m definitely on the road to recovery. We went back to the ER today because my daughter kept getting sicker. We got there at 2:30 and she was finally admitted to the hospital (for her first overnight stay ever) around 9:30. Her oxygen level is low. Continue reading →

Things Are Definitely Moving

You know how it goes when you’re trying to, for example, clean out a closet or garage or other area that’s very disorganized – you make a much bigger mess before you actually create anything like order from the chaos. Yeah. That’s my life for the last two months, and it’s accelerating, compounding, and taking Continue reading →

Speechless, Are We?

The email issue appears to be fixed. I know I shouldn’t be surprised that no one commented on my Valentine’s post after clamoring for it, but I am. It irks me, because it was difficult for me to put myself out there like that. I haven’t decided yet how I’ll deal with it. For the Continue reading →

Headdesk Times Infinity

Due to a disagreement with Comcast (I fucking loathe-despise-hate-wanna-nuke Comcast), our internet connection went south on Monday morning last. I had already been trying to set up Verizon DSL via a bundle with my DISH Network, which got fubared when the bot choked on some detail it read as an already active line. So on Continue reading →

Getting Hard For Me, Again

It’s time for another cycle of “Where do I really need to be?” introspection. This whole magazine move for Rending the Veil is falling apart. I am starting to think it might be time to seriously consider giving it up. I don’t want to do that, but I can’t continue like this. When I put Continue reading →

An Open Letter to All Concerned

I’m crossposting this to relevant places (and email) to reduce my catch-up time. I bet some of you are wondering where I disappeared to for so long. I live on Trinity Bay just east of Houston, about a mile from the mouth of the Houston Ship Channel. Hurricane Ike forced a mandatory evacuation of my Continue reading →

Just a Warning

Well, the site crashed again and I’ve lost a variety of settings. I’ll try to re-upload the database again later and see if they return, but if not at least I have my posts. My life is chaos and I’ve been alternately stressed and depressed with random bouts of deeply morose reclusiveness. I need to Continue reading →

Heads Up for the Unwary, and an Apology

I’ve adapted this post from an email I sent to my staff list (the staff of Rending the Veil). I feel it is pertinent enough to pass to others who may have to deal with me. The first paragraph is business, then it gets personal. I have a couple of things to bring up, if Continue reading →

Notice Regarding RTV and Other Stuff

In recent weeks, my personal life has been very stressful. This includes reaching a critical period in food vs starvation, food rationing and so forth. I’ve been in eat-once-every-two-days mode for a while; the one time I had an abundance of food my body went into OMG-MUST-EAT and I was so hungry that I thought my stomach was going to eat its way through my back. Going without food = being less hungry. Suddenly having food = sudden intense hunger that won’t stfu. I prefer the former. heh.

The food situation is stable again for the time being since I was able to borrow funds from my mother. That’s not the point of this post, but it illustrates the worries I’ve been dealing with. It’s all dominoed now, to the