yay! i bought a plane ticket to go visit my grandma! it is now my goal to eat really sensibly all week so that i don't feel too bad about the fried catfish i must have while in texas. or pancho's mexican buffet. one of those ( Read more... )

i am so fed up with airline trickery. this whole new trend of referring to flight prices by how much they cost EACH WAY is just a tricky way of making you feel like you're getting a great deal when really, airplane tickets cost more than ever ( Read more... )

today i had coffee (or water, whatever) with my grandpa, lunch and shopping with my nana (and mom and eddie), and in 20 minutes i get to leave for work. so... lots to do but not a lot to say today. perhaps i'll be back with more later... but just in case, i'm dropping a line to say I BLOGGED TODAY ( Read more... )

i am enjoying the new cheap-or-free theme of my life. i mean, it's not as easy as a have-enough-money-to-buy-whatever-you-want theme, but it takes a good kind of creativity to work stuff out in a way that won't break the bank and will still be fun. especially presents ( Read more... )

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i voted! and i took my husband with me! he doesn't usually vote, so i'm proud to have gotten him registered and out to the polls. all went smoothly... no waiting, no creepers trying to bug us, no dissapearing voter registrations... let's hope everyone's voting experience runs as smoothly. i actually decided how to vote on all the propositions LAST ( Read more... )

ruby and i just got back from a walk! not quite a 45-minute walk, but i would say a good 30-40ish minute one. she's so ill-behaved on the leash for the first 20-25 minutes, and i know that's mostly my fault. a) she'd have better manners if she was walked more often, and b) she probably wouldn't be so gosh-darned excited about it if we went every ( Read more... )

ruby is not speaking to me. i have spent most of the week (oh wait, only two days... but the PAST TWO DAYS) dressing her up in clothes, and she does not like this. i am determined to break her, but i also do not want her to hate me forever. such trials and tribulations... poor me ( Read more... )

i have just joined NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month). it is not the awesomest acronym ever, but the idea is simple: post in your blog every day for a month. the only difference between this and the daily blogging i have done in the past is that now i have to post daily IN MY TIME ZONE, rather than from wake-up to go-to-bed. normally, i would ( Read more... )

yesterday katherine and i got together to work on this alleged halloween party we're having this weekend. we went through all the decorations and supplies we bought a few weeks ago, we worked on the menu and our grocery shopping list, and decided that today was the day to get some of the less time-sensitive shopping out of the way. item 1 on the ( Read more... )