Happy Golden Birthday to my little bro! (Who is apparently off on some secret mission to the same continent where my mom lives...)

Wow. Now I feel old.
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Last time I posted, it was all about scents. I just want to say that two days later, Bath & Body Works had out their newest fragrance - Wild ( Read more... )

Scent is the most powerful trigger to memories, it is what draws us to some people and not to others, it causes both pain and pleasure, sickness and healing.

For me, it can trigger a migraine, leave me retching from the sheer strength of it, or can soothe the tightest tension in my body. It all depends on what that scent is, how strong it is, and ( Read more... )

Trebuchet!

I just love the word "trebuchet." It's so much more fun to say than "catapult." Maybe.

Trebuchet. Trebuchet. Trebuchet.

Catapult. Catapult. Catapult.

Well, while "catapult" brings to mind flying cats, I have to say "trebuchet" wins because you can do a really silly French accent with it.

Omi's cancer is back and not responding to her current chemo.

Has anyone noticed that Frank the Goat, the LJ mascot, is typing "pants" repeatedly on the main page? He is. It's in an little ad for LJ talk. It just makes me think of JAST...

PANTS!!!!!!

So...I'm going to set up a blog on blogger.com in order to post my poetry and stories anonymously. I just want to have them up there and I think that having them up here would take up a lot of space that I want to use for my own personal life. This will be more of a...literary endeavor. Since my book is fighting me every step of the way, I'm ( Read more... )

I don't usually play with picks this big because I don't believe in hitting guitars with bricks.  - the coffee house musician tonight

( Is this the correct way to spell "picks" when you're talking about the plastic things you pluck guitar strings with?)

Okay...

Feeling much better now. Some really good conversation with Theresa, a few wonderful comments from those I love, and a really funny posting by Allison make everything better.

Moving on... (to Allison - "And we're walking…")

I caught 4 shoplifters last weekend. Yay me! I was very mean to them, apparently. "You're getting a ticket, you're banned ( Read more... )

...was yesterday. I hate Valentine's Day. Normally, it's just because I have incredible runs of crappy luck - exploding milk, random rainstorms as I'm walking, steam wands on espresso machines not working, etc. Yesterday, no bad luck, but I'm so tired of the day itself. For many reasons ( Read more... )

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