I sat down here a few minutes ago to check on torrents and to IM a quick question to a friend... and I look down and see that Bella is lying next to my computer chair, almost impossibly close, her butt wedged up against the roller wheel on the left... a position not easy to get into unless she was really trying to get as close to me as doggily ( Read more... )

The gingerbread turned out nice and cakey... and tasting mostly utterly unlike gingerbread altogether and was quite dreadful ( Read more... )

Ah, well. The husband abruptly thought he'd like to get on the road back to Kentucky where he works to forestall post-holiday traffic blues through Nashville in the morning. I'm not upset as I half expected this and I want him to beat that traffic. We already celebrated plenty, after all, starting from a big chicken dinner (baked in the ( Read more... )

The first is Swedish - "Good Yule" or as we pagans are wont to say, "Merry Yule" - the first word pronounced somewhere between "got" and "gut", very short, and the second like "Yule ( Read more... )

I just talked to my sister, Jan, on the phone (she's been in the hospital for a week with a collapsed lung)... and they've told her that there was cancer in the fluid they took out of her lungs. She's understandably shaken and scared. There is more cancer in the family. Jan is 14 years older than me and my only sister (I have a brother who's 7 ( Read more... )

I didn't understand the text preceding the questions, so I'm just omitting it. Am thinking I'm not alone in ignoring that, heh ( Read more... )

This damn cold virus is getting me after all. Have taken massive doses of Echinacea (my usual quick virus-fix), two doses of Airborne, juice, water... turned up the heat... slept more than usual ( Read more... )

Am heating water for herbal tea because I can't seem to get warm after being at someone's very cold house all afternoon ( Read more... )

Argh. AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH. Just... UGH ( Read more... )

Found Saint Beast 4-6 finally - downloaded...

It's in French.

Argh.

I *think* I may have them on my old, old laptop, but it boots so slow, I don't even want to hook it up.

*sigh*