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Allen: Your phone is offline from gchat
Allen: How am I supposed to properly send you cute kitty pictures?

It's rare that I want to listen to a song more than a couple times in a space of 24 hours, but I've been grooving out to this cover of Sweet Dreams every few hours and I'm not sick of it. When I heard a snippet of it elsewhere, I spent some time tracking it down, and I'm so glad I did.

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Allen and I marked the one year anniversary of our first date this past Thursday. We had a quiet celebration at home, and it was perfect. I feel so lucky to have met him. He makes me feel safe, and loved, and valued for everything that I am. I could go on and on, but I don't want to be that girl who just posts about her boyfriend. And given ( Read more... )

My weight has always fluctuated up and down over the course of the year - but over the last year, I've put on more weight than the normal fluctuations. It's not a weight I'm happy at, and I also don't want to buy new clothes. My weight is headed back down - I'm currently down about 5 lbs from my high weight - and I wanted to post about how I've ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago I noticed that my water heater had a little pool of water around the bottom of the tank. Eek! Since it was very old, I assumed it was time for a new water heater. I had it replaced last week. As it turns out, there was a slightly broken pipe that might have been the source of the water. But, given how old the water heater ( Read more... )

Those of you over on FB have already seen this, but Figaro passed away sometime during Friday night or early Saturday. When I went in to feed my birds Saturday morning, I found him dead. :( It looked like he'd collapsed forward from the perch he had usually been sleeping on, into his food dish. I want to think that this means he died peacefully ( Read more... )

I've been battling a leaky sink for a number of months now. First one handle on the faucet was leaky - Allen helped me replace the O-ring, and the leak just moved to the middle part of the faucet. Allen took it off, and realized the threads were pretty close to bare. He got some plumber's putty and put it back on with that - it worked for a ( Read more... )

For the fourth year running, I gave each of my nieces a sushi date for their birthday. (Their birthdays are both in late September, but my sister's family had a lot of travel during October so they are only just getting around to being able to redeem their sushi dates ( Read more... )

My old-man lovebird, Figaro, either has an inner ear infection or a neurological disorder. If it is a neurological disorder, it is likely not treatable. My vet gave me meds to treat for an ear infection, which I am going to do for the next two weeks. I am hopeful, because (per my vet) lovebirds are susceptible to inner ear infections. I have ( Read more... )