So I'd like to hurry up and be done with the grieving now.  (In the one-in-a-million chance that anyone reads this besides family, my mom died almost a month ago.)  I'm not one who cries easily, so grief for me seems to be manifesting as feeling exhausted and spontaneously irritable.  I'd rather just sob and get it overwith, but apparently that's ( Read more... )

Along with occasionally wondering if everything is okay at home (I'll be glad to get the glass fixed tomorrow, although who knows how much that will cost - eek!), I've been thinking about goals for 2009 and breaking them down from the grand self-improvements down to concrete baby steps to get there.  It's a work in progress, but here's some of what ( Read more... )

And that bang was someone breaking our front window.  Trying to get back to a sleep schedule more conducive to getting up at 5:00 a.m., I went to bed a bit "early" on Saturday night - 11:45.  (Hey, considering my normal bedtime had become 1-2 a.m., that was pretty good.)  At midnight I was lying in bed, my mind racing about this job and that job ( Read more... )

Only a week 'til Christmas, and this morning I downloaded "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band Aid. I love this song - it's so beautiful, and it still chokes me up! But it's fun to pick out the different voices that you recognize, and it really makes me nostalgic for the 80's when there was so much good music. GREAT music. George Michael with ( Read more... )

Wisconsin Salvation Army leader to lose job over marriage

The leader of the Oshkosh Salvation Army will lose his job if he goes ahead with plans to marry outside the organization.
Yet another reason not to support the SA.  And, according to the comments section of our local paper (which I read even though I know I shouldn't), lots of people are ( Read more... )

What can I say about the Wal-Mart mess that hasn't already been said?  Horrific.  I find myself wondering what the people who did the trampling are feeling right now.  Are they traumatized by what they did?  Were they pushed along by the crowd and couldn't help what happened?  Or are they able to just push it out of their minds as no big deal?  The ( Read more... )

Saw this on Muneraven's page and had to try it. I'm not sure I agree with much except for the noticing details part at the end.

Deanna Sylte's Dewey Decimal Section:

849 Occitan & Catalan literatures

Deanna Sylte = 45144195205 = 451+441+952+05 = 1849

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Obama won. Need I say more?? :)

Okay, I decided that I should listen to MPR. I listened for about 20-30 minutes this morning, but obviously all they're talking about are the election results, and going over the same stuff over and over. I'll try again tomorrow. So I switched to The Current. I've really enjoyed some of it ("Waltzing with Bears ( Read more... )

I've been thinking quite a lot about Barack Obama and his family this week, not in terms of the election, but as a man and a family.  It saddened me to hear that his grandmother died just a couple days before the election.  Can you imagine how proud she would have been to hear that her grandson became not only the President of the United States, ( Read more... )

Did you hear about the prank call a couple Canadian comedians made to Sarah Palin?  This is my favorite part:

"When Audette refers to Canadian singer Steph Carse as Canada's prime minister, Palin replies: "Well, he's doing fine and yeah, when you come into a position underestimated it gives you an opportunity to prove the pundits and the critics ( Read more... )