I finally managed to get, like, almost FOUR HOURS to run errands BY MYESLF today. I don't think I've done much of anything by myself (except be deathly ill) since right before Christmas ( Read more... )

I feel like yesterday was the first "normal" Saturday I've had in.... what, four months? Close to that, anyway ( Read more... )

I think tomorrow might be the first relatively "normal" day in.... at the VERY least, a week ( Read more... )

Home again from work today, and kept Sarah home too. She had this cough thing going on. I still sound like I've smoked three packs a day for the last twenty years. So I made both of us doctor's appointments. A good thing, too, I guess.... Half an hour before her appointment, Sarah spiked a fever at 102.8 ( Read more... )

Well, today it's official. My child became annoyed enough to continue her forays into escapism. And so now, she can climb out of her crib. Great. She still can't get out of her room, though. I put a doorknob cover on the inside. Sounds mean, but it's better than her getting up in the night and running around the house and hurting herself ( Read more... )

"Rawalpindi's police chief stopped doctors at the hospital where Benazir Bhutto died from conducting an autopsy, according to a lawyer on the hospital's board ( Read more... )

Here's wishing everyone had a safe and if-not-happy-then-at-least-relatively-drama-free holiday.  Ours was, thank goodness.

Friday night was a fun little get together... a gift exchange, and the first D&D game I've played in 20 years.  I have to admit, I had a really good time.  I came home Saturday morning, probably about 1:30, and then met ( Read more... )

 HAPPY HOLIDAYS, 
MY FRIENDS

Wishing you safe passage and warm and loving new memories as you celebrate this season.

Last post, I promise. I just have to say, that the weather was warm enough and nice enough today, and Maddie's been doing promising-ly enough, that I actually took the four-footed girls to the dog park for a bit today. The BIG dog park. OUR dog park. The one with, oh, other dogs in it ( Read more... )

There is one pleasant diversion in the midst of the fug. I am working in earnest on my thief. It's a "she," I know that much, if only because females tend to be lighter. But where did she come from? Why is she here? How did she BECOME the thief she is? Is she a charming, manipulative minx, or a rough tomboy? Sounds like overkill, I know, but ( Read more... )