So there was a puppy in our house today. As you may know, we're not exactly pet people. But the neighbor's dog was roaming around our property, and he looked lost, and he was hanging out on our deck and wouldn't go anywhere. So mom went down to the neighbor's while I kept an eye on the dog, and as soon as she left he slinked past me and into the ( Read more... )

So I went on vacation and it was fantastic. (Anxiety notwithstanding.) Photos are hereIt wasn't as cold as everyone made it out to be, or maybe I'm just used to northern winters. But I packed a bunched a sweaters and didn't wear any of them. T-shirts under a winter coat worked fine. I had a miserable cold the entire time, and the lack of sleep/ ( Read more... )

It's time for LJ's annual "year in review!"
(I will ignore this entry for the sake of this year's review, since I should've done this last month ( Read more... )

I'm doing that weird thing now where I get anxious about traveling and briefly consider canceling everything if not for the amount of money I've already dumped into this trip ( Read more... )

A while back I did this genetic DNA test. It was out of mere curiosity, really. We grew up knowing we were 75% Italian and 25% Irish, though part of that Italian was iffy because we weren't completely certain what my paternal grandfather was. (He claimed Italian descent, but didn't look it. Considering our last name and his appearance, I was ( Read more... )

I thought I'd be a responsible adult and come to work today post-storm, despite knowing beforehand that we have no email.

Email isn't it, though. We have nothing, and 90% of the office can't even make it into work because public transit is still underwater. So... I'm leaving early today, and won't return until our data center is back up. (I did ( Read more... )

I have this thing about genealogy. I love tracing my family history. There's this genealogy show where celebrities research their histories and build their family trees, and I'm a sucker and get teary-eyed basically every episode. I love seeing how we're influenced by those who lived generations ago.

My point is, there's this ancestry DNA test now ( Read more... )

I'm really, really getting sick of "breast cancer awareness."

1) We're perfectly aware of it by now.
2) What about other cancer?

How did breast cancer awareness become this big thing? It's like every company has some "pink" product going toward this mysterious "cancer research" and who even knows what that means? Why the focus on breast cancer ( Read more... )

I just got really excited out of nowhere because I remembered there's touristy Oscar Wilde stuff in Dublin, and I shall be in Dublin in two months' time. We know I need to take a photo with his statue in Merrion Square. (Which I learned today is lovingly called "the fag on the crag" by locals, which made me laugh more than it should have ( Read more... )

I had a long overdue visit to the podiatrist today (I hurt my foot a month ago, whoops) and he told me all my foot issues as soon as I removed my socks. And he was like, "hey, did you know you have flat feet?" And I said, "That's funny, because I thought I did, but my last podiatrist said I didn't."

I knew that guy was full of it ( Read more... )