Recovering Californian

Actualizing narrative since 2009, or 1975 depending on how you look at it.

Do You Miss Me?

Steve has the day off so we’re spending time together. One must plan these things for a healthy relationship. That’s my advice today — schedule time to see each other. Commit to having sex X amount of times per week. Two bits of advice.
I’m up on Bookslut.
And I’m up on Culinate.
See? I’m not really gone [...]

Social Networking

I’ve written about social networking websites a few times on my blog. Basically, I don’t get them. And to catch up my new readers, I’m not on Face Book or MySpace because I just don’t get it. I am on Linked In (where I have one friend) and Twitter (which I haven’t updated in a [...]

You Wanted Another PSA. Be Careful What You Wish For.

This one was taken at 6:48am. I’m trying to decide what to call these things — The 6:55 Chronicles, or maybe The Happy Feet Diaries. PSA’s: Melissa Lion’s Message to the World? Who knows.
And to Joe in Vegas – yes, the mug is from Starbucks. It has Alaska on it. It is so good to [...]

Our Lovely Lawn

Here’s our lovely lawn. Steve’s been working on it. Can you see that center strip where it’s been mowed and the outside area where it hasn’t been mowed in more than eight months. What happened is, we bought a lawn mower for $25. For my long-time blog readers, you’ll remember two days ago when I [...]

Me at 6:55am

This blog post is dedicated to Surviving Myself who wants to hear me speak and to Kiala Krazybee — my muse.
Recovering Straight Girl posted today about going to hang out with the Governor of Oregon. Because RSG is a lezzie a writer, she hasn’t worn tights or pantyhose for many moons and has forgotten, I’m [...]

Where the Hell was I Yesterday?

I have no idea. No, I do know. I was busy whoring myself out on the metaphorical street corner that is being a freelance writer. And I was working on a super-secret project that I’m totally stoked on. It will be revealed very soon.
It’s so funny about freelancing because the more I stand around and [...]

Day Five of Being Alone with a Toddler

That’s my empty bowl after I ate canned soup for lunch because I couldn’t get it together to do anything else. I heated it up on the stove, and not in the microwave because if I had used the microwave and taken a nap in the middle of the day and I was still in [...]

I got nuthin’ today

Here’s a sweater I finished yesterday. It’s the puff sleeved feminine cardigan from Stephanie Japel’s Fitted Knits. I used cotton wool yarn, instead of all wool. I did this because I had enough cotton wool in my stash and because I don’t want to wear a short-sleeve sweater that’s all wool. The problem is [...]

Proof (Sort of)

A few days ago I posted about how suck-tacular Portland drivers are. And I felt like there was a wee bit of blowback and disbelief about Portland drivers from my readers. From Nels (who I still worship because he thinks I’m famous) who thinks I need to chill out behind the wheel, to Qanzas (who [...]

I am the Pope of Bear Country Jamboree

Gentle reader, I’ve written two articles in the past two days.  One was a food story, one a book review. I love writing food stuff, don’t get me wrong and I’m a total writing whore, which means I’ll write pretty much whatever a person wants to pay me for. So, send more food stuff!  But, [...]

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