Yep, still alive, still here. Fabric store job is busy as all get-out, but I knew it would be. It's funny that the customers are complaining about the lines; gosh, who'd have thought that a fabric store would be so busy right before Halloween and Christmas?! Duh ( Read more... )

We bought the new Weird Al CD when it came out, have been listening to it almost constantly since. IMHO, it's his best album since 1999's Running With Scissors.

First, the cover. The picture would not be out of place on a heavy metal album cover. Somehow, I never pictured any of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse wearing a Hawaiian shirt, ( Read more... )

Looks like Harold Camping got his figures wrong. Gosh, what a surprise. Not ( Read more... )

...along comes this bit of news from my former home state ( Read more... )

Had quite an enjoyable weekend. Saturday, visited the Lane County Historical Museum and their Tie Dye And Tofu exhibit, detailing our fair city's hippie history. It was quite interesting, seeing those alternative newspapers, hippie clothing and artifacts, even a recreated crash pad and a fully decked-out period VW microbus playing alternative ( Read more... )

I used to live in Arizona. Phoenix, to be exact, but I liked Tucson a lot, and visited there when we could. Two branches of my favorite used bookstore chain, all sorts of interesting shops and restaurants and other places of interest are in Tucson. I've visited Mission San Xavier del Bac and gone camping on Mount Lemmon. I've got in-laws there ( Read more... )

2010 is drawing to a close, and so did my job at the fabric store. Today was my last day; I'll be starting full-time as an office assistant in January. Yeah, I'll miss my coworkers at the fabric store, they're a good bunch. On the other hand, I won't miss having to re-straighten a row of fabric five minutes after I straightened it because some ( Read more... )

Christmas was quite nice. Everybody got plenty of stuff they wanted (especially kiddo, but being the only grandchild on both sides, I expect him to make out like the proverbial bandit!). Hubby got two CDs he wanted, I got a Doctor Who DVD (Dreamland, animated) and the Harry Potter Film Wizardry book, which I was very happy about and have been ( Read more... )

I hope everyone has a happy and healthy Holiday Season.

Now to put the kid to bed, hope he stays in bed so I can put the gifts out...

( Roughly to the tune of Signs by the Five Man Electrical Band )