Now that Josh has an actual job making actual money, we realized we can make one of my lifelong dreams come true -- we can get a cleaning person! We just want someone to come in once a month or so and we'd do maintenance in between. Anyone have someone they'd recommend who'd come out to West Philly? Let me know!

I've never known Amazon to have amazing customer service, but I have to admit I'm impressed.

A couple months ago, right after the iPad was launched, I bought a used Kindle DX on eBay. It came in a beautiful leather case cover made by Octo. I love the hell out of it ( Read more... )

Not sure why -- perhaps the description -- made me think of you while watching this:

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Have moved from morose to jumpy and irritable. Awesome. :/ *sigh.* I hate you, caffeine.

ETA: Going to the gym helped, but I still think I ought to avoid socializing with other humans as much as possible for a while.

Kind of morose today ( Read more... )

Got presents! The second Hackers soundtrack, a lucite bangle bracelet with real beetles in it, and a neon Wonder Woman sign.

I is loved. :D

Josh and the girls are planning a "surprise" for my birthday, which I of course will be adequately "surprised" by (it was my own suggestion, I thought it would be fun for them).

Of course, it's also hilarious for us grown-ups to watch them struggling to keep a secret. It took Miriam about 5 minutes to forget and say "We have a present for you!!!"

Where ever you are now, we still miss you over here. Celebrating my own
birthday has never been the same, and I guess it never will be.

Sick again. This year has been really lousy for me healthwise, so far.

Just got a call from my mom... she will probably have to be putting my old cat down in the morning. I adopted this cat when I was 14, but she had to stay with my mom when I moved into the city where she couldn't be the indoor/outdoor cat she always had been in the past ( Read more... )