Before the New Year commences, I have to recognize a very important event… Happy birthday, Josie! It’s hard to believe I’ve had my sweet-but-feisty Kitty-mon for 15 years! (Case in point: She wouldn’t stay still as I tried to take this photo with my phone’s camera. Ha.) Here’s to many more! >^..^<

The end-of-the-year/start-of-a-new-year rush continues! My mom (and my brother) sent me beautiful, colorful and decidedly non-holiday flowers for my birthday. :) Thanks to everyone for all of the birthday wishes. (I was a little surprised by the volume of messages and emails!) Work never seems to slow down. The last couple weeks have been devoted [...]

Another crazy-busy week, but it was accompanied by new music. In addition to a couple outstanding pre-orders, I snagged a copy of Kou Shibasaki’s most recent LP, via a fall clearance sale, along with another single I discovered on YouTube. ♪

The last couple months have been something! You can see some of the projects behind the most recent “Alison non-work communications blackout” on the workplace’s site. (The rest won’t be public until sometime in 2012.) So, honestly, just how busy have things been? See the scarf-in-progress in the photo above? I started it in mid-October [...]