My brother is here visiting this week. He is recuperating from ACL/knee surgery and he brought along his very large black labrador retriever, Zach and his very large Russian Blue cat, Zeke. Added to the three cats and dogs we already have here, it makes quite a zoo ( Read more... )

When I first started writing this journal, I wrote an entry about our new neighbors' dog and how much the dog bothered me with its barking and how mean it was. Back then the neighbor lady assured me they were getting rid of it as they couldn't control her and were sick of her barking, too ( Read more... )

IF a certain person, say one of the teenage persuasion, about 5'7" with brown hair, comes to another certain person who is suffering from Intermittent Short Term Memory Loss, and tells the second person that they are putting a large red plastic bowl of popcorn into the oven to "keep warm" while they run to the store....stay with me here....and say ( Read more... )

I've just watched my very first episode of the award winning show, "The Office". I'm not sure whether I should laugh or cringe, lol. I believe this might have been an episode from the first season since BBC America is going to start showing the entire second season beginning May 7th ( Read more... )

The Word for Today is: "Bureaucracy ( Read more... )

Finally got my car back from the shop and the mechanic sent along the damaged flywheel. Unbelievably, nineteen of the steel teeth are stripped right down to the bases. The mechanic insists the part was defective before it was put into the motor so he wants us to petition (not sure if that's the right word) General Motors for a possible ( Read more... )

This weekend, I gratefully moved my college age Sunday School class into a vacated children's classroom. Since we had been meeting in a tiny, windowless room across the hall, I was quite delighted to see that not only did the new room have a beautifully paned window that let in the morning sun, but also a large bulletin board, a white board and ( Read more... )

Question 1: Where is that THING I'm looking for ( Read more... )

The dwarf hamster in this picture is now the proud mama of three little babies. They're only ten days old and already running around fighting, eating and squealing. One of them bit my finger today, quite a strong bite for something just a little over an inch long. If I can get a pic of them, I'll put it up here. They are the cutest things I've ( Read more... )

My sister came to visit this week and we headed off to Chuck E. Cheese’s to have pizza and let our kids play with the video and arcade games there. As we were sitting there eating the pizza, it reminded me of a time about ten years ago when my best friend and I went to the same place to eat one afternoon. In the very slim chance my friend might ( Read more... )