...friends only. If there are some posts that are public, they ain't staying that way.

...to have a fall/winter garden. DETERMINED.

..."Gran Torino" is all kinds of awesome. I love those mean old faces only Clint Eastwood can make, and I love all that cussing he does. I laughed my ass off in places, and my eyes welled up a few times too...and I watched the credits all the way to the end, which I really never do. I wrote about this on Facebook, but I do really recommend this one ( Read more... )

...where were we?

...the price to pay for living somewhere where things are green. Otherwise, meh. One would think at this point that I would have gotten used to it, but 'fraid not.

Hopefully this coffee I'm drinking is going to kick in soon, because I'm feeling like a very slothy sloth.

That's all I got.

...the jalapeno that I put in the guacamole I made earlier this evening was of the "blow your mind" category, since my teeth and gums are pulsating 10 minutes after eating some. I wish it wasn't so erratic with jalapenos, as one can never really tell, but maybe that's part of the fun ( Read more... )

...I sort of think we dodged a bullet around here today. I was at the coffee shop, and I did notice on the way back to Raleigh from points north that the rain was coming down in buckets. The sky was dark, then lightened as I approached the city, with one of those lines of clouds stretched from horizon to horizon, and although it was sort of cool ( Read more... )

I just had lunch with coworkers at a Chinese joint (not the more authentic restaurants I like, but one of those Americanized places that leave you with an MSG headache). Over lunch, I was sitting next to a new guy at work who I'm getting to know better, and I was telling him how my house is sort of triangulated between the two titty bars in Raleigh ( Read more... )

Of course, as I typed that, I just remembered that a friend on Facebook reported they just saw the HBO dramatization of "Grey Gardens" (which I loved), and is calling everybody "chicken" like Big Edie Beale. I need to watch this again ASAP, followed by the original documentary and then "The Beales of Grey Gardens", both of which I currently have on ( Read more... )

No really...hayyyyy!!!

That being said, we are all full, no more room at the inn.