So I successfully survived the Las Vegas half marathon yesterday! The plan was for myself, Brandon, my sister, her husband, and my parents to all run the race. Very sadly for my husband, he came down with some mysterious almost-definitely-not-faked-to-get-out-of-the-race illness that kept him in bed trying not to vomit up his insides all day. But ( Read more... )

Brandon and I are hosting our first Thanksgiving this year. It's not our first big holiday dinner - we had 15 people over for Easter dinner in our tiny condo last year and it went fantastically if you look back at it now. It's one of my very favorite memories, in fact, because Jaimee was there and being spectacularly Herself that day. At the time, ( Read more... )

10. Cletus
9. Darling Precious Rainbow Sprinkles Moonbeam
8. My Little Parasite
7. Monstro
6. Lord Tosseldorf, the Denier of Delicious Foods and Drinks
5. Frodo Harry Potter
4. Hermione Cimorene Eowyn Zoe
3. Kal-El SuperBean
2. Dammit!
1. Sparklepants the Magnificent

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Ah, we're back into that most excellent time of year -- new television time! We're trying a couple new shows this year, and we've cut one or two to make room. Brandon and I are what you might call avid television watchers, but I'm also trying to learn to be okay with the idea that there may exist good-quality television that I would enjoy that I ( Read more... )

I won my hearing, hooray! Ultimately, it was less scary than I thought it was going to be. The attorney was a real piece of work, though. Three pieces of evidence to support this conclusion ( Read more... )

I want it to be the end of the month so bad I can taste it! If I can just get past this damn court hearing next week, I'm going to feel so much better. There's nothing wrong with August really, I just can't get behind a month without a single day off or holiday in it. Labor Day can't come soon enough for me ( Read more... )

I'm missing my 10-year high school reunion tonight. I might have made the effort to fly up there for it were it a possibility, but I'm completely out of vacation days after the July trips, and I'm already in the dog house at work for requesting too many schedule changes. So I anticipated that a request for an unpaid day would not have been looked ( Read more... )

Finally! Our month of craziness is over. I so need a weekend just to sit and stare at the wall ( Read more... )

Lots of things happening right now. Pretty much all our weekends are booked until practically August at this point. All fun things though ( Read more... )