Blogetary (Weblog + Commentary = Blogetary)

It’s that time again!  Time for Chocolate!  Though I wrote the article on frugal gift giving, I think some of the other articles were much better. Check out the Twelve Days of Chocolate or how hot cocoa can chase away the winter blues.

Isn’t it beautiful?!?!?! You can find it on Mindflights.com, where they have some really cool stories and nice art work.

This is one of my favorites:

So, check them out when you get a chance!

One of my favoritest songs ever is Watershed by the Indigo Girls. I grew up in Washington state where I was taught that a watershed was not one of those things on stilts like in a Warner Bros., Paramount thing, or in the middle of orchards for irrigation, but was a natural phenomenon. A watershed is where streams enter into a lake, for example, mix around, and then water departs out another end.

Kinda like Lake Whatcom (pronounced watt-cum for neophytes of Washington state Native American place names out there):

Or Lake Chelan (pronounced shə-lān for neophytes of Washington state Native American place names out there):

(Note: And Spokane is pronounced spoh-kan and Wenatchee is pronounced wuh-nach-ee – okay, that’s most of the pronunciation pet peeves out of the way – let me know when you get to Pilchuck, Squilchuck, Squalicum, Skookum, Sequim, Sehome, Nooksak, etc).

It’s like a black hole or schrodinger’s box, a place where things are possible because they’re all mixing around and you’re not sure what will come out. And then when they do come out on the other side, they’re something different. Something has changed.

Today, is a watershed. All these things are changing. Piano is gone. Old chair will be gone (soon). I interacted with a former friend and it was okay. We smiled and laughed and it was natural as anything. My apartment is an absolute, complete mess, torn to pieces in getting the piano out, so it’s a good thing Christmas isn’t up yet. Now I have this wonderful opportunity to totally redo my apartment, but I’m not sure what to do. So, I’m just staring, measuring, and staring some more. And sweeping. And I ordered some pizza to feed my brain.

So, there are all these possibilities and I wonder how it will turn out. In a natural watershed, the water is the better for the mixing and the filtering, so I hope that’s the case here.

A couple of other cool things that I’ll remind you of later. December 22 will be the debut date of my short story “Santa is My Homeboy” on Mindflights.com. I’ll have a direct link then to usher you to that story. January 19 will be the debut of my short story “Scary Things” on BewilderingStories.com. More to come on that as well.

Okay, pizza has arrived, time to do something.