Feeling frustrated and ripped off. Hired Amado to plant 4 small trees for me, but was not around to supervise. He did NOT do a good job. Am wondering how big the holes he dug were. Did not clear near enough ground cover from around the trees, and left in the ground cover that he had severed which will soon turn brown. Not good ( Read more... )

This came in an e-mail from my cousin. Boy, does it hit the spot for me (except the last sentence - which I realize provides the justification for what precedes it. I have my own justification ( Read more... )

This weekend promises to be packed with fun in Eugene ( Read more... )

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Bless me LJ, for I have neglected you. It has been 19 weeks since my last post ( Read more... )

Bob spent a half an hour on hold yesterday, conferencing with Devan and Blue Cross to sort out the pre-existing conditions they wanted to impose and to decide what to do about insurance for Devan. What a guy ( Read more... )

Vicki thinks that people are missing the point of Obama's election. It's not wonderful because he is a man of color, it is wonderful because he is the right man for the office: intelligent, articulate, principled, centered ( Read more... )

I think I over did it on exercise last week: spin class 3 times; centergy once; a vigorous walk; cross-country skiing (with a couple of falls ( Read more... )

My Friends Page on LJ has been blank, empty, day after day. Abandoned.

People have moved on, I guess, to MySpace and FaceBook; the next big thing. And here I sit, typing away, forlorn, into the emptiness...

I'm getting a slow start today, after a luxuriously lazy day yesterday. Surveying the damage and making lists; what to do now that the big event is over ( Read more... )