bipagan: I did finally see the Sams punk rocker video and it was great! I'm glad to hear that you're exercising more as well. Now, if only I could start up again...

chinaski: Thanks for posting this poem.

exvivre: Sorry about the vomit and such. Hope the rest of your trip was good and that you and xenogeny are doing well.

fairestcat: I loved the kitty PSA. I hope your car is truly ( Read more... )

So I still don't have my car, because the guy who was going to fix it took everything apart and has only yesterday figured out what's actually wrong with it. I guess a critical wire ended up in a place it shouldn't have been and got burned through. I think that it was just poorly designed, but I still don't think it should've taken him that long ( Read more... )

This week I had two very different experiences in churches. Last Sunday I went back to the conservative Lutheran church I grew up in to attend a special service in honor of the pastor I grew up with and his wife, who were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. It went better than I ever could have hoped for. As I predicted, people who left ( Read more... )

Lithuanian Club Kaunas Knocks Sorry Gers Out of UEFA Champions League

My favorite team will enter the Champions League at the group stage this year since they were the Bundesliga runners-up. Yay!

I love this poem.Appropriately enough, I was interrupted by my folks' very loud super-annoying landline phone twice while I was trying to read this. When my stepdad calls, it plays the first 2 lines of "Let me call you sweetheart" over and over. When most other people call, it plays this version of the "Ode to Joy" part of Beethoven's 9th ( Read more... )

Last Saturday night I tried to drive my car up to TK's so that I could help him sell Special Olympics raffle tickets at the Sunday afternoon Brewers game, but it wouldn't start. It doesn't click, it doesn't go "rurr, rurr, rurr"; I get nothing. This is after driving it from Madison and parking it there at 2:00 that morning. After we tried ( Read more... )

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Thanks to bipagan and her husband's "sorry we're late" Danish kringle and fresh cherries, we had quite a feast last night. I made polenta with cheese and "peperonata", wanting to make Italian food that wasn't spaghetti for once. Even though the cookbook didn't suggest it, I guess these things do typically go together. I used a recipe like this one, but ( Read more... )

So I had a good time last weekend. I went up to Middleton early on the 4th and went out to eat with a friend, and she told me the reasons behind a very important life decision I knew she had made recently. I have mixed feelings about it, but have decided to just trust that she knows what she's doing. We were going to have that discussion out at ( Read more... )

My stepdad is driving me nuts. He set off the smoke alarm with his broiling of steaks the other day, which is always an awkward situation for me because he can't hear it, but it causes me such pain that I can't do much of anything. This time, however, he decided to get pissed off at me for no good reason and tell me that I have to turn the alarm ( Read more... )