Thanks for accepting my friend adds, people.  I'm hanging it up.  You can find me on myspace if you'd like:  http://www.myspace.com/grapeswhiz  Thanks for the great reads.

I have not posted here in a long time ( Read more... )

At least my hair has been returned to its usual eye-hurting shade.  So it's not like I've gotten NOTHING done.  Better to slop on the henna and get on with life than prattle on about the things none of us really want to talk about, like parking-lot battles and near-shoving matches in stores this time of year, right ( Read more... )

Can I use this as an excuse to get nothing done?

Is this the most boring blog in the history of the WWW?

Why not tackle next the place where I spend so much time procrastinating?  My desk.  It's a sea of documents and scribbled-on scraps of paper right now and I'm going to make it into a sleek workplace a neurotic secretary would be proud of.

Went to a school music concert the other night and almost got smashed to smithereens on the way home.  Mini- ( Read more... )

Since most dressing and undressing seems to be done in the one room in the house where you can keep others from barging in, it seems natural to let a week's worth of clothes pile up here.  Yes, we're slobs - no defense I can offer here.


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Bathroom makeover photos are coming...

We are in the trenches now, today and yesterday, doing stuff that does not produce pretty photos - at least not yet.  Sorting through 1,000,001 items of clothing and 1,000,001 toys and parts thereof.  There is lots of trash being generated.  There are big boxes of donations being generated.  Someone will be getting very new clothing and perfectly ( Read more... )

The aquarium, which has been sitting there half-full of unsightly water for __ (not sure how many)  years has been dismantled, scrubbed, parts have been replaced, and happy little fish (that don't poop much - that was one problem with the last inhabitants of the tank which nearly scared us away from fish ownership forever) are swimming around in ( Read more... )

So I get an e-mail from Amazon saying this was sent to me as a courtesy as requested from Daveyxxx.  It is Daveyxxx's wish list.

I open it, knowing that he has expensive tastes.  I am thinking that maybe I can scrape together some credit card money and buy something for him that he doesn't think he should buy for himself.

Thankfully there is a $15 t- ( Read more... )