Rough weekend this weekend, and I'm going bonkers ( Read more... )

It appears that we've become a halfway house for wayward animals lately. While it's adorable, it's been a bit strange ( Read more... )

I took the dogs on a _long_ walk today to wear down their winter talons (Luna is deathly afraid of the clippers) and met some folks on our block who were out with their 9 month old dogs in the yard. I ended up spending about a half hour talking to them about stuff and generally had a great time, and now I'm pissed, again, about our block ( Read more... )

It's 3am and I'm just finishing up wrapping the gifts ( Read more... )

I had a really good birthday yesterday, despite my attempts to keep it small (or non-existent... I've gotten weird about my birthday in recent years)...

On the getting part, sugarcoatedlie completely surprised me by signing me up for the early February knife skills class at Mirepoix (a local cooking school, which happens to be within walking distance of the ( Read more... )

Hey, all.. meant to post this a few weeks back and never got around to it ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to my fantastical girlfriend, sugarcoatedlie!!!

I love you! Happy birthday! Be prepared to eat ten tons of crepes!

Oh dear... there goes my evening... _someone_ got me sucked into the timesink of watching old Cranes videos on YouTube. I haven't seen any of these in at least 10 years.

I know what I'll be listening to tomorrow at work...

There's something I've always loved about the word "jackass." I've always felt that liberal and judicious use makes you seem a bit older and wiser, and gets the knowing nod of others that have joined that secret club... that secret club that gets you $2 warm Budweisers at the Elks lodge, or the right to talk about your eczema with strangers, or 10 ( Read more... )

Today is November 4th, which is that day you do that voting thing or whatever. I guess that's important, but not nearly as important as this (at least, in my mind):

8 years ago today I started a new life path that I wasn't looking for ( Read more... )