http://karenmichelle.net Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:09:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We've been back from Vegas for a couple of days and, with the exception of a profoundly upsetting dream (so fun!), it's been a great week. We had a lovely time with our entire team in Vegas, we've landed two new clients since January 1st, and it was great to ... http://karenmichelle.net/fado-tempura-and-tulips/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fado-tempura-and-tulips I think today is the day that everyone finally caught up on all the work they had slacked off on over the holidays as I saw a flurry of facebook and twitter posts about the age old question: what did you get for Christmas/Hanukkah? I found the answers very interesting on ... http://karenmichelle.net/holiday-ruminations/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=holiday-ruminations spreading red screams my silent failure to the world bereft of a gift made of sand slipping through anguished fingers unspoken unmourned unnamed a nothing a noone to everyone except my soul who counts the exacting toll like thorns shoved deep in a palm the wound mends yet the rent and rendered flesh is never again whole forever mismatched cobbled together with unevenly ... http://karenmichelle.net/march-19-2011/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=march-19-2011 My Grandma Kay passed away a week ago today. It was peaceful and mercifully fast...and lest you think I'm being callous about it, my grandpa Bill suffered grievously for years and it was heartbreaking over and over and over. She passed away on Valentine's Day, the same date she had ... http://karenmichelle.net/valentines-day/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=valentines-day Fair warning...this is a rant. There are swears. Deal. I like to consider myself fairly modern. I work, I share chores and child-rearing with Joel, heck we even split cooking duties. I don't mind getting my own door, though I love it when I'm treated chivalrously. If we're out to dinner ... http://karenmichelle.net/im-sorrywhy-are-you-here/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=im-sorrywhy-are-you-here I've been dealing with some medical falderal the past two weeks and I've been tired, incredibly irritable and exceedingly impatient to the point of downright rudeness. You know that horrid little inside voice that you keep clamped down internally because its monologue is so amazingly critical and nasty that you'd ... http://karenmichelle.net/true-friends/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=true-friends Saturday was like most days around here, just with a bit lighter work load. We got up, had breakfast, made plans to do some yardwork before it got hot then go out for some ice cream in the afternoon with the kids to cool off. Perhaps we would even make ... http://karenmichelle.net/perspective/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=perspective Today, was a difficult day. By far one of the hardest days of my adult life. Today we buried Stephen. He was my brother's very best friend, so much so that Stephen was the brother he never had and vice versa. They brought out the good in each other and ... http://karenmichelle.net/stephen/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stephen My heart screams in anger caught in the web of deceit thrashing against the barbs bleeding like so many times before. Never again! It rages like a caged beast beating itself senseless against the bars knowing its futile vows are just that useless against the inevitable. Scuffed and bruised, torn and bloodied in the gutter of its own making. http://karenmichelle.net/rage/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rage Ok, it's not that I fear change, so much as I'm stubborn. My mother will back me up with this one, I'm sure. If I find a way that something works for me, then it will take a lot of convincing for me to change my ways. Now, this doesn't ... http://karenmichelle.net/adjust-this/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adjust-this