See, I know we don't have the best of neighbors.  We live in publicly funded housing. I get it ( Read more... )

Life's a bit slow at the moment. Nothing really exciting going on ( Read more... )

It's my birthday, and damn, it's been a long year. I can finally say I'm 29 with a straight face (next year it'll have to be "29 and...").

I expect to do much of my actual celebrating next weekend at Fantasci, but I already got roses and my favorite cookies, and more surprises should be in store. The most anticipated "surprise": a new video card ( Read more... )

We put Mark's son back on the plane to Texas Saturday (use Richmond International if you need to fly into or out of VA at all...it's the best airport I've ever seen). Met a geniunely friendly lady who had put her fourteen year old sister on the same plane and talked with her at some length. We came home after the two and half hour drive and ( Read more... )

Well, it's official: we're not going to LibertyCon this year. With three kids here most of the summer, and the related food/clothing/travel bills, we can't justify going all that way and spending money we don't have to when we could save it for DragonCon and have much more fun with it.

I'm taking this entry down, and its related comments ( Read more... )

Been a while, hasn't it ( Read more... )

My depression's been getting the better of me lately. I'm looking at the dishes piling up, the laundry unfolded, the clothing strewn everywhere, the carpet not vacuumed...and as bad as it sounds, I haven't given much of a damn. I really just don't. It's not fair to Mark, or the kids, or anyone else that happens to come around...but I don't care, ( Read more... )

This is going to be an interesting summer. Here's the equation:

Me

+ boyfriend, who's a huge kid

+ boyfriend's 14 year old mood box of a son who tends to whine when he's not happy

+ my eight year old smartass know-it-all daughter who has an answer for everything

+ boyfriend's seven year old daughter who has CRS disease and is extremely girly (which I ( Read more... )

Woot! The cable works. I only had one latency spike last night for two minutes, and the internet was useable the whole night!

World of Warcraft, here I come! (Again.)