I started mailing my stuff to Alaska.  It's...expensive.  *sigh*

18.6 lb. box: $43 for parcel post with insurance
35.5 lb. box: $54 for parcel post with insurance

Number of boxes left to mail: too damn many

So much to do, so little time.  Seriously.  I feel like my life is stretched so thin right now, with everything that needs to be accomplished in the next 4 weeks.  3 university classes, a wedding, packing almost everything I own, selling off what isn't coming with me (or being put in storage), and trying to arrange all the paperwork for my new job ( Read more... )

Well, I'm finally back from Alaska.  I haven't slept in two days, I'm gonna go crash and hope I wake up in time for the appointment I have scheduled for tomorrow...*sigh*

So, I'm leaving for Alaska tomorrow!  But only to attend this cultural exchange program, so I'll be back on the 20th with many stories and hopefully lots of photos.  :)   I won't have internet, so don't expect any contact from me until at least the 21st.

( Bond Falls & Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park )

Anyone else gearing up (literally) to watch the transit of Venus on Tuesday?  Your next chance is in the year 2117.

http://www.transitofvenus.org/

It is way too hot and humid.  I need to move somewhere more temperate, where it isn't 83 degrees in mid-March.  I should not be sweating while typing on my computer at 10:30pm.
Of course, if my electric bills weren't so high, I'd be running my A/C all night...

I think this is the first time I've used the "hot" mood icon.  Which, for me, looks like a ( Read more... )

How sad is it that I make more money selling items online than I do by going to my job?

Happy Valentine's Day!

Because it is the Holiday of Over-Eating, I felt the need to share one of my favorite recipes with you.  This comes from kurage_no_hone's mother.  Who got it from some Mormon lady.  It is made of deliciousness.

MORMON POTATO CASSEROLE
( Several billion calories, ahoy! )