What if we didn’t stop trying?  What if we never gave up?  What if we never decided that we no longer need to expend the effort on basic niceties because we’re so intimately related or because of how often we see each other?  What if we always said, “please,” and “thank you”?  What if we even did it MOST of the time ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to you, fieryredqueen!  Love you, babe!

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I'm taking a kind of poll, and I'd love to have your input.  Life is being...life-like right now, and I'm wrestling with it.  This is one of those things that I've always struggled with, and I would very much like to hear what my friends think ( Read more... )

I would like to have a short vacation from my life, please. Seriously, I have just about reached my threshold for bullshit, and I'd really just like to take a break.

I have to laugh a little bit at how angry I was in my last entry because, really, it SO did not get better from there. At the time, I wouldn't have believed it could get worse. I should ( Read more... )

Dear Universe, 
Please FOAD.
Thank you, and have a nice day.
~B

That's my summation for the past few weeks.

There's still no word on how long the hours cut is going to last at work, and it's a constant buzz in the back of my brain that refuses to STFU.

Mom's biopsy results were a mixed bag: they showed both benign and precancerous cells.

The high ( Read more... )

 Met with my manager today to propose a compromise, but haven't heard anything back.  I asked if, in order to save me gas money, I could work from home a couple of days a week.  She seemed skeptical, which is ridiculous considering that I worked off-site for 2 years when I was living in Tucson, a few thousand miles away ( Read more... )

 I think the title sums it up pretty well.  Basically, I have just been kicked in the balls by a company for whom I am already bent over!  Grr.  I reject RL, and will now be residing permanently in my own personal slash and yaoi filled fantasy land ( Read more... )

 Did I mention that wallpaper stripping is a heinous job?  Seriously.  It took me DAYS to get just a border off in my living room, and I was thoroughly frightened of stripping the dining room, which was 2 wallpapers and a border.  To my utter relief, it came down blessedly easy--in sheets, not tiny pieces!

The ironic symmetry of me replacing 3 ( Read more... )

 This photo doesn't really do it justice, but we forgot to take a picture when everything was still hanging on the walls.  At least you can see the very country, very 80's, very busy wallpaper that just had to go! (click for larger pic)


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 When we were little, and going through one of our brief phases of not hating each other, my brother and I used to plot.  We used to plan.  We used to come up with the most brilliant ideas about how to become independently wealthy while doing work that we loved, and doing it together.

In retrospect, most of those plans were pretty far-fetched, but ( Read more... )