I went to my first pub quiz night last night ( Read more... )

Just when I thought it was getting to be spring around here, good old Scotland has to go and get fucking snowy and cold. It's been snowing for the past two days and I have really shitty mittens and two hats: one that is too small, the other too big. I think I'm starting to get seasonal affected disorder from the lack of sun. Yes, I realize I'm ( Read more... )

I love it when a plan comes together ( Read more... )

I've never spent a Christmas away from the Midwest and I can't believe how much the weather affects my awareness of the season. It doesn't snow here, just cold enough to be annoying, and Christmas decorations are optional. What the fuck!!! Nathan and Ma Buck arrive on Tuesday, people. We have no toilet paper. It's Christmastime, and I'm running ( Read more... )

So I was in the grocery store the other day and the soundtrack of my personal hell came on the muzak station. It's an awful song by Paul McCartney that just repeats "we're simply having a wonderful time this year...Christmas, Christmas, wonderful time this year..." Karin and I both revile this song ( Read more... )

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It's really great when you have a friend who understands you so well that you don't have to tell them how you're feeling; they just know. They wait until you want to talk about things or if you don't they tell you jokes or funny stories about the news. They do the dishes a fuck of a lot more often then you and keep you company on your way to work ( Read more... )

Fucking great couple of days last week. Finally I feel like I'm starting on the right track after, I don't know, maybe years of distracting myself from what I really want to do. All around Edinburgh are pubs that have traditional music sessions almost every night of the week. That's where a bunch of people show up and play whatever instruments ( Read more... )

Funny how much tv really can shape your life ( Read more... )

So I haven't had time to check my email in like, four or five days and I'm thinking, "My God. I'd better get to it 'cause it's gonna take me hours to sort through the scads of emails people will have sent me." Yeeeah. One stinkin' email. Guess I'm not as popular as I led myself to believe. I wish I hadn't become such an email junkie since I ( Read more... )