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I'm laughing enough I had to share--my three current special categories that Netflix has determined are areas of interest for me (and thus are giving me recs from) are Girl Power Movies Based on Children's Books, Family Features from the 1980s, and Time Travel Movies. lazy_hoor , time to come and visit! -
hurricane!
Hurricane Irene, or rather Tropical Storm Irene by the time it got to us, didn't turn out to be much of a problem at all in Boston proper. There were high winds, there was rain, but nothing too dramatic. We have a rather large tree in the backyard and a branch came off, but it fell into the neighbors' yard. I am going to be a not-asshole and ask ( Read more... ) -
perspective
Once upon a time I thought I drank and swore like a sailor. Then I moved to Dublin and realized I was actually some sort of Girl Scout. Apparently I...acclimatized to Irish standards a little and now that we're back in Boston I keep catching myself language-wise and realizing that by local standards I am totally crass. The first week we were here, ( Read more... ) -
Doy you ever...
...have a moment where you're just smacked in the face with the sheer privilege of being you? I don't mean yay to be me, I am personally so awesome, I mean the sheer luck of being who I am in the time I am in. I live in a first-world country, I am not poor, I am reasonably well educated, my life is full of friends and family and comfort and the ( Read more... ) -
so then we moved...
and wow, look at how the time flew. Two months gone already. And STILL I do not have my stuff. I have a bit of a quibble with the moving company in that they told me they shipped groupage roughly every three weeks and instead there was a FIVE week interval this time, and of course the previous groupage left the day BEFORE they picked up our stuff ( ( Read more... ) -
losing my mind (predictably)
I started this entry right after getting all worked up about how no one wanted our things and what were we going to do and aaaaaaaaaaaargh, and going ahead and posting a couple things to Freetrade.ie. I only got so far as typing the entry's subject line before the phone started ringing. APPARENTLY in this time of economic crisis, people are sitting ( Read more... ) -
today has flown by
There's a cute little terminally middle-class shop that opened in our neighborhood a few months ago. They do coffee, baked goods, a bunch of poncy (read: I buy tons of them) foodstuffs, and a wide range of Melissa & Doug brand kids' toys. Clearly I am in at least once a week. Today I stopped in for pesto (I mean seriously, is there a more middle ( Read more... ) -
faint from shock
I sent a web-based enquiry to a new relocation company today at approximately 1 pm. Someone called me from said company at 1:25 pm. NOW THAT'S MORE LIKE IT. This is a company I found randomly online, not from anyone's recommendation, but so far I don't care about that. She sounded quite together and brisk but still friendly and chatty. They're ( Read more... ) -
that sound is just me grinding my teeth
I am running into the Irish web conundrum again, which is where a company has a website and purports to allow you certain actions on it, but doesn't actually follow through. Say, a moving company that allows you to request a quote and so you put in an assload of information and all your contact deets and then you sit and wait and no one calls or ( Read more... ) -
a lovely Monday
This morning T decided that he'd take a vacation day and we'd do something as a family. I think he was feeling a bit guilty that he hadn't got me anything for Valentine's Day. I'd told him it was fine, that what I bought him was really for the both of us (Father Ted boxed set; finally one of our own), and I knew he'd not had a chance to shop anyway ( Read more... )