Adulthood seems to just be an endless state of tiredness punctuated by sleep. I cannot say that I enjoy or recommend it.

For the most part I have been really careful about sleep, especially when I was working shifts and by necessity was getting a lot less sleep and less quality sleep, so I was very protective of the sleep I was getting at the time ( Read more... )

Many, many years ago, my friend fearsclave turned me onto TEOTWAKI, or "The End of the World As We Know It" ("and I feel fiiiiine!"). At that time, he was concerned about Peak Oil and the collapse that would inevitably ensue. Being a lawyer, he was pretty convincing when talking about this stuff, and so I started to look into it myself, and that's ( Read more... )

Southern California and Los Angeles are on fire, and tens of thousands of people are being forced to evacuate. It's something to do with the atmospheric rivers bringing so much rainfall to the area last year, which was a good and bad thing. Good, because the area had been suffering from a terrible drought. Bad, because it resulted in lots of new ( Read more... )

Honestly, this whole affair of having to work in order to eat and keep a roof over my head is really cramping my style. I could really do with being independently wealthy at this point.

I am mostly not a fan of having to go in to the office during my weekday shifts. I don't mind going in on evenings, nights, or weekends, but day shifts are the bane ( Read more... )

I absolutely intended to update my LJ in depth earlier today, and instead I ended up adding a few kilometers of pavement to the road to Hell. Oops!

I spent most of today puttering around. I tidied up part of the kitchen and downstairs in general, and the rest of the time I went through my seed stash and not only organized it, but also put them all ( Read more... )

I jinxed myself by loudly declaring my intention to go to bed early and be rested. My darling parents' godawful guest bedroom decided to turn itself into a Chamber of A Thousand Tortures, unaided by the fact that I developed a headache (likely from the wine at dinner) which felt like someone was sticking a hot poker into my right eye. Two nights in ( Read more... )

My parents took me to Philinos, a frankly delicious Greek restaurant on the Plateau. Did I have Greek food with Luanna yesterday? Yes. Do I care that I had it twice in a row? Absolutely not. Philinos is pricey (I am so glad my parents paid for it as a birthday present), but oh my God it was so good. Mouth-watering. We shared  entrées of calamari, ( Read more... )

Today has been *busy*, holy cow. I got up early-ish (I wanted to get up at 5:30 but ended up hitting the snooze button until 6:30 because I have perilously little self-control about the snooze button) in order to get all of my ducks in a row before driving to Montreal.

I managed to get showered and packed and ready in a more or less reasonable ( Read more... )

I've been working on a shawl for my mother since the beginning of December that I have now dubbed The Hubris Shawl, because I seriously underestimated how long it would take me to finish. I was hoping to have it done by this weekend, but I have now run into a new snag, namely that I have run out of yarn. I went back to my FLYS (Friendly Local Yarn ( Read more... )

It's day 1 of 2025!

I'm trying to be at least a little optimistic about the smaller things in life, because the big things are, well... *gestures broadly*

I just checked the date of my last post (not counting yesterday's), and it's been almost three years since I last updated this LJ. Oops? I complained about the Freedom Convoy disrupting my life, ( Read more... )