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.

  • absence

    I apologize for my absence the past week. This past week has been crazy. First of all, I’ve been sick with the flu. Then, when I came into work on Monday and Tuesday I had to train the person taking over my job, then the rest of the week I had to get used to…

  • The vegetarian store

    So Raf and I have been hearing about this ABC Vegetarian outlet advertised on the Air America affiliate here and were stoked to find out about it. We are no longer vegetarians, but while living in Santa Cruz got used to visiting the many local vegetarian-friendly grocery stores (and there are LOTS of them there).…

  • old yellow house

    This is an old, old house that is behind my grandparents house (which is also very old). I have fond memories of playing ball with my siblings in thier backyard. We made up this game where one of use would throw the ball up on the roof and the other person would wait for it…

  • Welcome, 2006

    Okay, as I mentioned yesterday, I wanted to post my goals for 2006 today. Stop using my credit cards. This was one of my goals last year and I failed miserably. I am going to give them all to my husband so that he can hide them from me. Then, if I really need to…

  • 2005

    It’s New Years Eve, December 31st, time to reflect on 2005. As far as the state of the world and the nation, 2005 sucked. It really did. It started out with the horrifying Tsunamis in Asia. That pretty much set the tone for the year. Then there was the Terri Schiavo fiasco. It was truly…