LOVE my Irish flute lessons. I've said it before, but it bears reiteration. What's particularly great is that I think my teacher is having fun with my lessons, too. "It's so nice to have a student who actually practices!" he said yesterday. Ha ha, sadly I know what he means ( Read more... )

i can haz internetz!

ETA: Also, I tried a home remedy on the maimed nightstand: putting a thin towel over the stain and running an iron on high heat over it. It defies logic, but it worked! Well, it didn't completely work--the liquid was on there just long enough to start to eat away at the top coat of the stain, so the texture is irreparably ( Read more... )

Had an unfortunate incident last night right before bed wherein I spilled an entire mug of hot almond milk on the antique sewing cabinet that I use for my nightstand. Now I have a terrible, dull white covering half of it. Anyone know of a good way to get rid of it without having to re-stain the entire thing ( Read more... )

EXCELLENT experience getting my car taken care of this morning. I did a little researched online, nixed the dealership and some of the other chains (Tires Plus, Midas, the like), and decided to try out an independent shop that got good reviews on Yahoo. Turns out that it was well worth it! They replaced the brake pads (which had worn down to the ( Read more... )

Oh my goodness, kids, I'm so relieved ( Read more... )

. . . I've decided that I need to befriend an auto mechanic so that I 1) have someone to tell me what that noise is and 2) can get it fixed at a discounted rate.

Just sayin'.

Exhausted.

Sore.

Headachy.

Three-fourths dead.

But MOVED!

Well, almost entirely. Still have a few odds 'n ends at the old place, but most everything that matters is transferred. My amazing friends phantombluerose and kawaidesu helped all afternoon, and between the two of them, my dad, and me, we got everything over there by about 3:30 this afternoon. I took a few ( Read more... )

Thanks everyone for your kind comments and condolences over the past few days. It's been a whopper of a week, and on top of the stress already underlying everything, I've been a walking train wreck. I think I arbitrarily broke into tears at least four times yesterday. At about 11 pm (I usually go to bed around 9) I finally felt like I could call ( Read more... )

Not even 24 hours after losing Flash, my mom called me to say that my dad is in the hospital ( Read more... )