My first poem in a veeeeery long time. Please be kind. I do know that my poems are not to everyone's taste ( Read more... )

I picked up my computer on Friday, but it has to go back to the doctor. They were supposed to fix the power jack, but if it is jostled at all, it loses the connection. It's so frustrating. Lee has been a darling about letting me use his computer, but there are several drawbacks to that ( Read more... )

My laptop is in the computer hospital. The power jack needed to be replaced and it had trouble recognizing the cd/dvd input. Turns out Windows Vista was corrupted. Of course, Vista was corrupted from the planning stage. It never really worked properly. They will have to wipe it clean and reinstall everything. Now my computer will come back home ( Read more... )

Sunday, Lee and I went to the grocery store, and as we opened the trunk of the car to put away the groceries, I noticed that exposed wires ran across the entire rear of the trunk.  And the panels over the wheel wells were missing.  And the back panel was missing.  For a full minute, I stared in astonishment before realizing what had happened.

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I recently watched a couple of episodes of the reality series about kids in a prep school.  It doesn't actually show them in school, just gadding about, shopping and whatnot.  It made me realize that prep school kids are just like any other kids, except maybe much snobbier ( Read more... )

I won the Outworlders Spring Picnic Iron Chef Contest!  For the third time! (I've entered three and won three.)  Alan said I'm the "winningest" chef so far.  The secret ingredient was peanut butter and I made a peanut butter drink.  I found a recipe for something called Peanut Butter Punch and thought I would start with that as a base.  It was made ( Read more... )

A few days ago, I was in the kitchen chopping bok choy while Lee was outside doing yardwork.  The sound of the electric hedge trimmers abruptly stopped.  Moments later, Lee stomped into the house declaring, "The internet will be out until I return from Home Depot!"

LOL, it took him 3 hours to fix the cable he accidentally cut!  Poor Lee!

Sadly, once we put them to use, the condoms did NOT work out.  After two test runs, it made things ... err ... burn and ... err ... go numb.  Sigh.  So it's back to the annoying polyurethane condoms.

Sigh.  I hate my body.

Ain't that a mouthful?  It is often shortened to POTS, which cracks me up.  Whenever I say POTS, it makes me feel like a stoner.  Yo man, I got some POTS here, LOL.  Yes, I finally have a diagnosis (and there may be other things as well!  Yuck, more tests).

So, what is it?  The super simplified answer is this: Basically, my autonomic nervous system ( Read more... )

Why does "holiday" = "WWII" on the History Channel?  I just turned the television on and up pops the History Channel.  The network bug (that is the channel identifier) on the bottom right corner of the screen said "Happy Holidays from the History Channel" and was decorated with joyful holly.  While on screen, a man in a foxhole was screaming and ( Read more... )