Why am I always the last person in my family to be informed of anything?

OK, so it's been a while, but this needs to be recorded for posterity. I live in an old townhouse that still has the external vents in the awning outside from the ancient heating system that used to be in here. These were just covered in flimsy wire mesh ( Read more... )

Dear dark_shaydI don't really know how to tell you this, but our horoscope doesn't match ( Read more... )

So, after a June that made history as being the coldest June on record (averaging 5-6 degrees Celsius...that's 41 F for those who don't speak in Celsius), I find myself an oozing puddle of me as we did a quick jump to 33 ( 91F). There was no middle ground, nothing. Just cold to hot in under two days.

Fegging hell. I've been unable to do much in ( Read more... )

I had this great idea to spend the day working on home things. Even though it doesn't feel like spring, doesn't mean I can't do spring cleaning.

So yeah...didn't happen.

I got through a good chunk of the living room and got rid of quite a bit of crap, took out some garbage, came back inside and contined working. At about three-ish or so I sat down ( Read more... )

I have a headache and evil cramps. In front of me, placed by one of my evil cohorts at work (namely my boss, just before he left for PDAC), is a box of chocolat macadamia nut cookies.

The smell is killing me.

Estrogen, I hate you.

I found a great site. It's a word game, actually, that has a great purpose. You are given words you have to define, and if you get them right, a certain number of grains of rice are added to a bowl, and your next word is harder. If you don't get it right, no rice is added, and you get an easier word. Each correct word equals 10 grains of rice, ( Read more... )

Last Monday evening...Gramma. This morning, my Aunt J

I'm completely numb right now.   

 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH, I have insomnia, it's not ok ( Read more... )

I did a whole crap load of writing today and managed to get to the point I wanted to. It's a story I've been working on for some time for
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