Yup, today was the brunch charity event for me and Mom! The whole thing was organized by a friend of one of my coworkers -- she found something called a "disappointment's room" (basically a room in which a disabled or otherwise different child would be hidden in so they would not embarrass the rest of the family) in her house a while back, and ( Read more... )

As promised, a good chunk of my day was spent watching Helloween's LP of Nier: Automata! It's been a good run so far -- the story concerns an android fighting force trying to take back earth from an invasion of alien machines while the humans wait on the moon. Except that these "machines" are looking less like enemies and more like people now. . . ( Read more... )

Yeah, that's how I first woke up today -- with my leg suddenly screaming in pain because a muscle in it had cramped up. Somehow I managed to get back to sleep once the worst of it had abated. . .only to be woken up at 6 because I'd forgot to turn my main alarm off. -.- And then I went back to sleep again only to briefly wake up at 7:30. My brain, ( Read more... )

While it isn't supposed to be pretty tomorrow, it seems the worst of this upcoming storm is headed above Rhode Island -- we're just supposed to be mainly slush. It's also supposed to be worst in the later afternoon/evening hours. So I'm risking it and heading out tomorrow for my mall day. (Helps that my parents have offered to bring me up -- ( Read more... )

Something of a frustrating morning -- there was a check thing I was hoping to clear up but couldn't, one of my coworkers went home not feeling well (which, you know, worries me), I had another big import to do, and to top it all off I was still feeling sour about the weather situation this upcoming weekend. *grumble ( Read more... )

Another miserable, rainy day today. This morning was more just foggy (hella foggy, in fact), but the rain moved in this afternoon and has been on and off ever since. It's coming down pretty heavily right now. Tomorrow's supposed to clear up and be reasonably nice, same for Thursday --

And then Friday they're calling for rain and possible wet snow ( Read more... )

Though fortunately not to the level of full on "oh God why" busy -- just a lot to do and less time that I thought to do it in. But I made it through (mostly -- spreadsheet I have to complete tomorrow morning), and that's another day in the bag. And another day closer to the weekend ( Read more... )

Mostly because I had somewhat less free time than expected today -- went out for a drive with Mom that started out with a trip up to Shaw's (we had to pick up some groceries, and some Monopoly tickets (they're doing a "collect this stuff and win prizes!" thing), plus a free donut we won through the Monopoly tickets), then proceeded to the beach ( Read more... )

Temperatures were decent, though, which is nice. I thought it was going to be a lot worse. No driving though, as my parents first went to see a house in Smithfield (verdict from outside -- looks okay, on a hill but isn't steep on both sides, seeing the inside on Monday), and then went grocery shopping as we basically had almost no food. We'll see ( Read more... )

Work was busy, but in a not-too-stressful way -- just me cleaning up my big import, handling some questions, doing a little maintenance, and then helping out with a spreadsheet for a project one of the guys who handles big gifts is doing. Stuff that makes the time pass but doesn't drive me up the wall. I appreciate it ( Read more... )