Please mark your calendars! My next concert is a week from tomorrow. I will be singing with the choir (The Chalice Singers). Hope you can come ( Read more... )

I had my appointment with the retinal specialist this morning, and was surprised to find that I was also getting the laser surgery there. I went to work afterward because that had been my original plan and I wasn't thinking too well. Once I arrived, I realized it was not the best idea and went home to rest until around 2:00 and then went back in ( Read more... )

I have contact lenses now! I got them last Thursday, and I'm getting better at putting them in and getting them out. There is still lots of room for improvement. My new icon is from my second day with them ( Read more... )

I’m hoping to find someone (or several someones) to be a kind of study partner - I’m trying to do an online course (one of the actuarial exams) and I hate it and it's kicking my ass ( Read more... )

Thanks for the sympathetic comments on my last post. I'm feeling less self-pitying now ( Read more... )

Happy new year!

( pity party ahead )

I just checked my phone messages. One of them was ( Read more... )

Check out the Helsinki Complaints Choir - about 6 minutes long. Most of the complaints work for Canada - except maybe the ones about saunas. Totally hilarious:

I picked this up from plaidrabbit75 and got the results I was expecting, since when I google my name the only results are for me and a woman in Ontario. There are apparently 420 people in the US with my surname.

HowManyOfMe.com
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My aunt Nancy has a coworker who has a tendency towards malapropisms. The only one I can remember right now is "Six and a half dozen of the other". On Thanksgiving I asked Nancy for any other stories about the coworker and discovered that she has passed it along to her kids ( Read more... )