...I actually fired two shots from a gun last night ( Read more... )

Rich and I have been considering buying a handgun for protection from home invasion (you never know!), and recently enrolled in a gun safety class ( Read more... )

Wow, we had about 30 kids tonite before we ran out of candy (I had a heavy hand early on...) Everyone had really cute costumes - there were a LOT of Dorothy's ( Read more... )

Yay it's almost Halloween ( Read more... )

Rich and I recently joined the LA Fitness down the street from us, and tonite we're going to work out together for the first time. I've wanted this for us a long time - I think it's very motivational to work out with a partner, particularly if it is your "partner ( Read more... )

Recently I decided to take my older male cat, Louie (aka Papa/ The Birthday Boy) to get his teeth cleaned. Uglycat had died from complications of gum disease and cancer, and Rich had never had her teeth cleaned in all the 18 years he had her, so we figured if we wanted our cats to live a good long healthy life, we'd start them on the road to good ( Read more... )

This past Friday I stopped taking my cold medicine; I'd taken it for 7 days, and the instructions say if symptoms persist after 7 days to discontinue and see your doctor. I was tired of being sick and told myself I was going to get better over the weekend. And for the most part I did. My symptoms lessened, and by Sunday I even got on the treadmill ( Read more... )

So I've pretty sick since the Thursday before last...my husband had been sick the previous week, and I thought I wasn't going to catch it...heh. Well, that Thurs/Fri/Sat/Sun I kept feeling like I was about to get sick; my throat was sore, my glands were swollen, and my nose was all itchy and sneezy. But, the weekend came and went, and I didn't get ( Read more... )

This past weekend Rich and I shared his beta account for Warhammer online; now, as most of you know, Rich and I met playing EverQuest back in the day, and then moved on to EverQuest II, and then made the jump to World of Warcraft online, where we have been ever since....what, 4 years now? Something like that. I have this incredible ability to do ( Read more... )

So it's been almost 2 months since my transfer from rad/onc to surgery. I've said in the past that I'm doing alright at my new position, but I wasn't crazy about the work. The thing about this new position is that my opinion of it keeps changing, the longer I'm here ( Read more... )