Here at my new travel assignment, I've made some good acquaintances - much better than my last assignment, and they invited me to go to a concert with them this past week ( Read more... )

So I've been purchasing things online. Not too many things, I can still fit everything I own in my car...but I've needed a little bit of this and that, most of which would require me getting up in the middle of my night to fetch, and so I've turned to the almighty Web to find it.

My God, it's so easy. Why I didn't do this years ago is beyond me.

So I decided when I first moved into this apartment that I'd develop a healthy respect for all the spiders who seem to want to live here, especially since my building is on the edge of a protected nature preserve. Regardless of how often I swept away the little arachnids the first few days, they always came back ( Read more... )

So I was cleaning today for the company I'm having over tonight, and as I'm on my hands and knees on the floor of the kitchen, scrubbing - I notice a couple of dead spiders under the toekick next to me. No big deal, I say, I'll just sweep my cloth over them and bring their little shriveled bodies out here, and dispose of the evidence ( Read more... )

So my new apartment is awesome in so many ways, including the fact that I have not one, but two neighborhood kitties who frequent my front door. One is a mottled turtle color, the other is an orange calico, both medium-hair. I've donated one of my small mixing bowls as a milk bowl that I fill every night, and by morning it's been licked dry ( Read more... )

There is a spider the size of a silver dollar on the wall of my living room.

And he's moving.

Thanks to Cassie, I now have a blender and can make the smoothies that I've come to enjoy at home.

4 ice cubes
1/2 cup Apple Kiwi Strawberry juice
1/2 cup lowfat vanilla yogurt
1/2 cup frozen berries (I use organic raspberries, blackberries, strawberries and blueberries)
2 tsp flaxseed

Blend until smooth. Make your tummy happy.

I dream every night, and when I wake up I am usually going over my dream in my head for the next few minutes. Mostly nonsensical, I remember snippets and pieces from certain ones to this day, even from my childhood ( Read more... )

I grew up a tomboy, and I still love all things animal. Okay, MOST things animal. Those of you who know me know what I mean ( Read more... )

You can't know intense joy without knowing intense sorrow.

I think I'm learning this.