I just picked up my wedding dress.  It's pretty.  :) 

I'm having a hard time getting started with the writing tonight.  I'm up to 39,640 words and I need to do about 2000 tonight to be where I should be.  I feel like once I pass the 40k mark.  Of course, now that I turned the tv off and turned on music, I will probably be more productive ( Read more... )

Julie's surgery went well, no complications, and while she still feels pretty crummy, every day is remarkably better than the day before ( Read more... )

I spent the last five days in St. Louis with my dad and my grandma.  They're doing relatively well and it was good to see them.  Grandma is 84 and still dancing, still driving, still enjoying herself, but she has definitely slowed down a bit.  Her knees get stiff when she sits too long and she has to take heart medication a couple times a day.  Dad ( Read more... )

1. Obama wins!  History in the making - and good luck to him with all of the problems he's inheriting ( Read more... )

*singing*  Danny likes me; he really likes me.  We're gonna get married.

Tee hee.  I've been smiling a lot today.

My day ( Read more... )

really?  When did Albuquerque grow a big enough lindy community to have an exchange?  http://www.abqlx.com/index.htm

very interesting indeed

I was in DC for work this last week.  The meetings went well, which was satisfying since the project we're working on is mine.  I think the Canadians and the Brits might have agreed upon a new job title for me: Chief Chicken Herder.

While I was there, one of my co-workers wanted to visit a restaurant he'd seen on Food Network: Dr. Granville Moore ( Read more... )

What the hell!  I finally got the bloodwork results back from my first physical in years (the time it took to get them is another story entirely), and my cholesterol level is 199 mg/dL, which is on the absolute upper range of healthy.  While I admit that since I've been sharing food/meals with Danny, I eat more meat than I would otherwise, it's ( Read more... )