phillyxmas

Okay, will be in Philadelphia from Saturday to Wednesday.
Dani, are you free on Monday or Tuesday? I have a large box I need to drop off with Christi and Thom, and they're halfway to your place, so I have no excuse not to come over if you're around.
Jenn/Tim/Drew/Valerini/Kim/Dave/Steph/Antipathy/Lex/+anyone else from the oldschool crew: any [...]

Amnesty

If you have always or ever thought I didn't like you or was mad at you, now's your chance to say, “Hey, Helen, whatever it was that came between us, can we put it behind us and be friends again?”
Not that the person I'm thinking of will take advantage of this, but I think more [...]

Achoo.

We have hit the sneeze stage of the cold. Wham.
BTW, a few catchup things. One, the visit with Beth went FABULOUS. I love that woman as much now as I did when I was 21. She says I called her while I was in labor with K, and it was one of the funniest conversations [...]

FINALLY

Some of you will recall that i contacted my best friend from college a few months ago and a couple of weeks later, she wrote back, and I was uberhappy about this.
We scheduled a reunion of sorts the same weekend that one of the hurricanes dumped a shitload of rain on us. She lives by [...]

Glad I checked my SFF net mail…

We gotta hit this. It's my former lead singer/guitarist, from back in the day when I used to make money beating up the plastic ivories. Monday or Tuesday.
> Sean Michael Dargan will bring his nifty solo show back to the East
> coast next week. I hope you can come see a show!
>
> The Loft [...]

One nation, under goth

You know it's going to be a good day when a fellow xblogger invokes “Lucretia, My Reflection”.

No, I was not drunk last night.

Exhausted, perhaps.
Funny of the day: I can say my name 20 times in 20 contexts, but I think all the hair color changes have caught up with me, as at cons the thing that makes the light bulb go off is always “I'm the artist formerly known as helcat.” I don't think I'll ever escape [...]

Good thing I didn't wait to get home…

friends?skip=380
you people are insane.
I skimmed. Bigtime. But I am caught up. Mostly.
Thank heaven for an empty business center that doesn't charge me for friends?skip=380 stuffs. And no one waiting.
Okay. I should be at parties, but I got worn out with walking back and forth among three rooms. Did have a really neat intersection with [...]

My 35th birthday party

Left row: Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, Jane — (help me someone?), Sarah Dylan Breuer, Rev. Will Scott.
Right row: Jo Guldi, Rev. Gawain de Leeuw, and Dean.

where am I, you wonder? All the pictures came out kind of fuzzy. Probably all the divine interference going on. But here's one of me the next day, when [...]

yikes

thanks everyone for the birthday wishes, but because I was gone all day I missed the shoutout to my year-older twin.
Happy birthday, Chris Rapier!

Laughter is the best medicine

Yesterday I got a surprise email saying that several of my close friends from Philly were showing up at the Md. Ren Faire yesterday and would we be interested in joining them?
By the end of the day, all my anxieties were fading and the tension and knots that have been in my heart all week [...]

Found

I am shaking like a leaf. I suddenly have contact information for one
of my best friends in college, Beth. I haven't spoken to her since
shortly after K was born, for no other reason than the
drift-apart thing.
I have a phone number and an address. I should just send a note, but
it's so hard–there is so much [...]

Other updates….

Lots of excitement around here this morning, and in the hubbub I forgot to thank WashingtonFeline for a lovely evening last night and Amaranthe for the boots, which arrived safely and fit great (good lord I'm tall in them).

Hi skip 320

After skipping 320 entries, I gave up.
But the wedding was a blast.
In case those of you [who*] were attending wondered who caught the bouquet, I was framed. I was standing there minding my own business when suddenly it was forcibly shoved down the back of my dress.
More details later, most likely.
*Yes, I inserted that later, [...]