All you friends with show, I'm soooo jealous!!  It's about 80 degrees in Central Texas, and pretty windy.   Maybe when this Canadian Clipper blows through tomorrow it will turn a few more leaves and take some more down.  Right now you can't see the Christmas lights for the leaves still in the trees.  Our Texas red oak in the front yard is still ( Read more... )

YAY,my neurologist CAVED  3 weeks early and I can drive again!!!  No more having to beg for lifts or wait until someone has time for me ( Read more... )

My children will ignore me ALL DAY LONG until I am either a) trying to synchronize an audio commentary with the video or b) have JUST synchronized an audio commentary with the video *SIGH*

Oh,WAIT!!  There's a c!

C)  When I am trying to type and post something to LIVEJOURNAL, grrrrr.

There is much good to be said for  being able to breathe without pain.   Starting on the drive down to my mom's last Tuesday I got a pain in my chest...not heart-attack kind of pain, but more pulled muscle or pleurisy type pain.   Not all the time, but consistent enough that I was taking little huffing breaths rather than the nice deep expand your ( Read more... )

Saw a moose today :-)   Unfortunately, it saw me, too :-(   Fortunately, it was apparently intimidated by the mighty Toyota Yaris (*facepalm*) and ran away.  No, I did NOT get out of the car; just stopped on the opposite side of the road to take a picture.

Oh, hai there Canada!!   Jim's going back to Edmonton next Tuesday and since band concerts, TAKS and extra credit projects are all done and handed in, and all that's left is finals for Jacob, I've decided to go, too :-)  This will gobble down almost all the ff miles Jim has on Continental/United, but it's worth it.  We'll be in Edmonton Wed & Th, ( Read more... )

Somehow Microsoft Vista has decided the cd/dvd optical device on this computer Does Not Exist :(   Have tried multiple fixes, including but not limited to deleting files in the registry; physically removing the cd rom and trying it in another computer (it worked fine there);  inserting a working cd rom (it didn't work here); going to a previous ( Read more... )

Back home again! We had a wonderful time in Great Britain, after the obligatory car fiasco *dun dun dunnn*
Apparently a van that seats seven...seats seven people or four people and their luggage, but not both. We had to leave the older three boys at the airport in Bristol, ferry my mom and Jordan to the Hotel in Bath where they let us check in 3 ( Read more... )

Some idiot with a grudge against the IRS decided to burn down his house and then fly his small plane into an office building this morning. How was your day ( Read more... )

Thank goodness football season ended at a reasonable time for P'ville; now we can go watch OTHER teams play. Lake Travis continues to plow through the competition (and Bobcat Stadium was COLD last weekend!!!), and if Westlake and Stony Point both win they'll play e.o. at the Alamodome for the Div1 5A finals. We debated which game to go to this ( Read more... )