Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Category: Life

It’s mostly what this blog’s about.

  • Socks for sale

    Last night my mom and I attended First Friday, which has kind of been a tradition for us since I moved here a little over a year ago. Does your town do First Friday? It’s actually kind of cool. The first Friday of every month the galleries Downtown stay open until 8:00 and invite people…

  • A Halloween Story

    One Halloween when I was around 10 years old instead of Trick-or-Treating my mom decided to throw a Halloween party for all of the neighborhood kids. My little brother and I were friends with every kid in the neighborhood, so the party was huge. There were kids everywhere. My parents invited their friends over, too.…

  • Happy Halloween

    Hope it is and was fun! I’m working tonight. Bah humbug. Yeah, I’m feeling a little bitter about it. I usually love Halloween. I love to decorate the house. Raf and I have a little tradition of going, well, up the coast to a pumpkin patch on the ocean and then coming home and carving our…

  • strange dream

    The strangest thing happened to me last night when I was dreaming. It’s actually quite creepy. I had a scary dream last night. I can’t remember the plot of it, if there was one. The significant part was that there were these ghosts that were hanging around me and my co-workers that I couldn’t see…

  • owwww

    I had quite the exciting morning. I was cutting open a box of tofu and snipped the tinest corner of my left ring finger off. It bled all over the house. And we were out of bandaids. I finally found one in the first aid kit. it was a ginormous band-aid but did the job.…