This past weekend I'd made our first oil change appointment for the new-to-us vehicle we have. On our way out the door, I make sure to grab something to keep myself occupied & that DH has done the same, as I have yet to go in for an oil change that takes less than an hour--even at places like Jiffy Lube--and I'd made this appointment with the ( Read more... )

I need to find somewhere that has weather like today for several months a year (instead of a handful of days, if you're lucky). Then I need to move there. Sunny, low humidity, a little breeze, and 80-ish for a high every day. Is that too much to ask?

I had a perfectly lovely (small-ish) belated birthday party this weekend with a handful of relatives & friends. And a large fistful of the friends' kids. It's crazy to stop & actually think about how many of my friends have spawned now ( Read more... )

This morning, we got up & had breakfast (during which I unloaded the dishwasher), then went to the farmer's market with our grocery list. When we got home, I put away the food while the husband (hereafter DH because I'm too lazy to type & I can't figure out what to call him now) went to do chore-things with his friends. Then I started to apply ( Read more... )

One of the most frustrating things at work is trying to obtain a purchase order so that I might get someone in to fix my broken instrument. I imagine it to be somewhat like trying to get something done in Russia in the 80's. Maybe that's my problem--to get my goals accomplished, I need to start bribing my coworkers with rubles & vodka ( Read more... )

This past weekend, I made pancakes for breakfast on Sunday. Growing up, my dad's pancakes (mom never made them) were always flat & floppy affairs, not so thin & delicate (or delicious) as crepes, but certainly not nearly so fluffy & picturesque as the front of the Aunt Jemima box where the batter came from ( Read more... )

My parents decided to come hang out for a while today & do laundry at my house like I used to do them, back before I owned a washer (theirs is currently busted). So they did; we talked about various things (wedding) while they were here and generally got along well. I'd gone to the store earlier today to make sure I had food in the house since I ( Read more... )

My childhood (young-adult-hood?) cat died yesterday during the day. My parents let me know last night when mom called. He'd been living with them since when I came back from college/Chicago I was living in apartments that didn't accept pets. When my parents moved into their new house about 2 years before I got the condo, it took him about a year ( Read more... )

I've been itching to go out for a run lately; the treadmill is great, to a point, but I can't seem to get the motivation to use it more than a couple times a week before I feel bored running on a hamster wheel & I can only pretend to be running outside while physically being on a treadmill for so long before my imagination button gets stuck in the ( Read more... )

Spring fever has been driving me insane lately; this doesn't bode well, as we've got another few years weeks before spring officially starts (and several more weeks of wintery-weather left at/around that point, generally). But right now, I could really handle hanging out (by which I mean walking around) on a beach overlooking liquid water (rather ( Read more... )