So I have been looking forward to our St. Patrick's day festivities since early February. Rebel's is always a good time. Kate makes all these different stews, there's Irish step dancers, usually a singing contest (after I've had a few pints, it always seems like a good idea to participate) and then Steve Sinnicks plays us into the night. He's a ( Read more... )

So I have spent some real quality time lately cleaning up copious amounts of cat barf. Just going on record. This sucks ( Read more... )

I would just like to go on record as saying that even before Marian Hossa injured himself, I was incredibly against the trade the Penguins made to acquire him. To send two young, talented young men off, AS WELL as a first round draft pick in order to rent someone we can't afford to keep in July upset me to no end. I stuck with the Penguins ( Read more... )

Last night Darren didn't make it home until about 10. We had dinner at around 10:30. I had made homemade spanakopita for dinner - not too terribly challenging (it's just spinach sautéed with onion and garlic and parsley, tossed with a shitload of feta cheese and some eggs and wrapped in phyllo dough) but it takes some time ( Read more... )

We had our first throw-up today!! Does that make me a real cat mummy?

So this has been a most enjoyable weekend. I had a big discussion with my boss at work, which means that I am actually able to sleep at night, and I'm not throwing up due to nervousness and anxiety. That's good ( Read more... )

Smoke On The Yangtze...

I have been neglecting this thing quite terribly lately. It's not that nothing interesting has gone on - I just haven't bothered to update it. So in the interests of brevity ( Read more... )

Long time since an update. Added stumble to my web browser and found... this.

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So Darren and I have lived in our new house for a year now. And being the Type-A freaks that we are, we keep doing stuff to our brand-new house. We have painted allt he walls from the builder's beige, built a wall-to-wall, floor to ceiling storage unit in the dining room, fenced in the backyard and installed a patio and last week we ripped up the ( Read more... )