Sixteen years ago today, the most important person in my life arrived. He was a bit early, and more than troublesome, but I would not trade that day for anything. He is a wonderful person: kind, caring, funny, and smart. I love him more than anything.

Happy Birthday to the best son in the world!

So, for the past four weekends I've been cleaning my house. Not just the regular dusting, sweeping and vacuuming. No, I've taken a room each weekend and super cleaned. Cupboards cleaned out, bookshelves straightened, oven and range top cleaned, fridge and freezer cleaned out. Everything. Why am I doing this, no idea. Maybe it's just time to reclaim ( Read more... )

...because I don't think it is very productive. That being said - I'm sick. Like bronchitis and throat infection sick. Like the doctor told me today to spend the weekend in bed sick. Like I have a refill for the z-pac sick. Yay. In some ways, I'm glad I'm by myself this weekend. No one will want anything from me. On the other hand, it would be ( Read more... )

I finally have a weekend to myself. Sean is in Chicago with his dad. I miss him when he's gone, but I cherish my alone time. Today, I will try to make order out of chaos. The chaos of my house, that is. I'm also planning on making "meat essence" which is a fancy word for really concentrated consume. I have beef bones, a chicken and duck carcass. I ( Read more... )

As we all know, there was a terrible tragedy in Arizona yesterday. Innocent people died and a public servant was seriously wounded. Regardless of your political leanings, this should be seen as a wake up call. Even if the shooter was a deranged man, completely out of touch with reality, and this had nothing to do with politics (though I fail to see ( Read more... )

... some pictures from New Year's Eve!


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It's winter, so I'm in the lab. This is when I catch up on all the paperwork I've not been able to get to all year. I also write those reports that have been languishing for a couple of years waiting for someone (namely me) to get around to working on them ( Read more... )

OK, so I actually did work half a day this past week, but it was mostly vacation. I did very little, which was exactly what I wanted to do. My next vacation I'll plan something, but it's been so long since I had time off just to myself that I stayed in. The boy and I spent some time together watching movies and hanging out. He had friends over and ( Read more... )

The party was a smashing success! Apparently, the most heard comment concerning me from my friends was ( Read more... )

I've decided to try to post here more often. Facebook has made me lazy. I like Live Journal because it forces me to sit down and focus my thoughts ( Read more... )