Miss SugarCookie

Category: backstory

  • 2017-09-23 What’s a Girl to Do (or Not Do)

    Today I had another early morning and though I am feeling a little better, again, my throat is still a touch sore and I sound like a baritone frog. That’s not going to be very good for the mentoring session I signed up to do today. Three weeks ago a thing popped up on my…

  • 2017-09-11 Sixteen Years Ago Today

    Sixteen years ago, about this time of the day I was sitting in a perpetually unbearable conference room in a temporary building being rented by the health system to accommodate an overflow of people needed to support a number of mission critical implementation projects. I was pregnant with Z and still in the first trimester.…

  • 2017-08-21 The Very Worst Thing Ever

    As predicted after we hit about 2PM yesterday things just went as they went and it was all fine, mostly. Z convinced me to book a hotel in Lincoln at the last minute so we could be closer to our Eclipse destination and NOT have to stay in a tent. They (both kids) threatened mutiny…

  • 2017-08-08 Pieces of Me

    The kids have been with Brian for over a week and it is so quiet here in the house and so.. uneventful. There is a peace I can get when they are away but it comes at a price. The price is the feeling that something is missing and I’m definitely missing my missing pieces…

  • 2017-08-05 The “Hopeless” in Hopeless Romantic

    Today I found myself feeling very anti-social and melancholy and consequently walking around Walnut Creek again. I arrived just about 45 minutes prior to sunset and when I began walking I paced myself so that I could enjoy the sunset from the path on east side of the lake looking west. Most of the music…

  • 2017-08-02 My Walnut Creek

    When you fall asleep just past 9PM after just having eaten a biggish meal and wake up at 1AM, was that a full nights sleep or a nap? Is it considered late at night or early in the morning? Should you try to go back to sleep or wake up and seize the moment? In…

  • 2017-07-21 Me and My Witches Hat

    I have two words for people who make assumptions about other people.. Just Don’t. I sometimes repeat myself if I feel really strongly about something.. Just Don’t. Yesterday I was just finishing watering my potted plants and going through the house from the back to the front door and nearly missed a man putting a…

  • 2017-07-14 PNW Day 4: I’ve Come a Long Way Baby…

    … Literally. Yesterday I drove from Rockaway to Crescent City, Ca and what should have been a 6.5 hour drive took us 12 hours. We checked out of one motel at 11AM and checked into the next at 11PM. We made so many stops along the way. Some were good and some were bad, some…