I just spent 3.5 glorious days in a tropical paradise. I arrived at the hotel Wednesday night to a waiting princesskaite who had spent the week getting her SCUBA certification. She introduced me to her favorite hotel bartender, who happened to be a PSU grad and he made us some strong drinks. We went to another bar/dance club down the street for a bit, but ( Read more... )

We had some friends over yesterday to help us drink the leftover beer from the party on Saturday. They are hashers, so they did a great job of emptying our keg. I also got a surprise visit from an acquaintance who had literally just gotten off the plan from eight months of traveling. He spent most of his time in Indonesia and Spain. I now have ( Read more... )

I am getting rid of my DVDs, as I never watch them and they are just taking up space. I have a bunch of homemade DVDs that are up for grabs. These were all recorded from the TV, so the TV shows have commercials and none of them are in HD. The movies are listed per disc, so I can't give them to you separately. But, hey, they are free ( Read more... )

Dharma has taken to sleeping on the floor the last few days. This is odd for her. She's normally a sleep on the futon or hang out by the window sort of gal. Max's new spot is on top of the squishy leather chair. It's perfect for him in this warm weather, actually. I expect that to take him through the summer ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago, one of my cats starting puking all over the house. Now, I know that puking is part of a cat, but Max only pukes about once or twice a month. Dharma is a 1-2x per week puker. I've tried every kind of food for her and I settled on the one where she pukes the least. Anyhow, it was really odd for Max to be puking so much. At ( Read more... )

Poll Eating Habits

February and March were not good months for my back health. I knew that there were two issues. One, I solved about a month ago, with a new desk chair. I had just been using an IKEA folding chair for my desk, but that's when I would only spend a few hours a week in it. Teleworking meant lots of uncomfortable hours in that chair. We also ( Read more... )

The main problem with planning other people's vacations is that I want to go with them. I'm currently looking at some gorgeous guest houses in Bath, England and I want to go retire in one ( Read more... )

I was responding to a "where were you?" post on Facebook about the Challenger explosion. I was reminded about how we had a snow day and that me, my sisters and my mom all saw the coverage on the little black and white television in my sister's bedroom. I then remember how I inherited that black and white TV when my sisters went off to college a ( Read more... )

I've had a pretty good week. I've done very well with the exercising and even with the eating. I only ate out once this week, for lunch today and made some good choices. I even went on a cooking spree earlier this week and made some low cal, low fat, protein added banana nut muffins. I have a couple little things I want to change for the next ( Read more... )