The last two days I've really felt happy. And I am humbled and grateful for how blessed I am in love and life.

There’s not much coverage of this, and what I have seen hasn’t really had very much information. But the Lakota on the Sioux reservations in Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana have withdrawn from all 33 treaties with the United States and have declared sovereignty. They officially turned in their declaration to the secretary of state ( Read more... )

I'm one of the lucky librarians at our library that is going on a trip to Minneapolis to the Public Library Association national conferencein March. It is going to be my first airplane ride and my first big conference. I also get(have) to share a hotel room with both my department head and the director of the library O_O *Worried about nighttime ( Read more... )

Very amusing star wars video.

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Daniel and I were able to resign our lease with Ashton Pointe for 7 months, avoiding moving altogether and getting our rent lowered. Cool. Stress level...now normal. We'll definitely be moving after that, where to we do not yet know. It is good not worry anymore about packing with Christmas and so many other things going on. In July life will ( Read more... )

I just finished watching Sicko. And I know lots of people hate Michael Moore but it really is a good documentary and something I think everyone should watch. I cried for half of it and found myself pretty angry by the end. I won't get into the gory details but let’s just say I'm going to pay a lot more attention to my health insurance. I feel ( Read more... )

Pretty good ( quiz! )

Halloween is over. I had great fun dressing up as a medieval romance novel heroine. I even got D to put on his kilt, unbutton his shirt, and go as my hero. *Swoon* The party we went to on Saturday was pretty fun. I even won the costume contest. I think it was the curtsy and the cloak/skirt swirl. For my prize I recieved a Halloween style oven mitt ( Read more... )

Hmm. The icon says it all. My computer died a couple of months ago (July) and with everything going on at the time I just let it slide. It's still broken...*looks over shoulder and glares at the traitorously silent machine* I'm not replacing it because I was counting on it lasting at least another couple of years and frankly, it is too expensive. ( Read more... )

I have been having a pretty darn bad week, mostly at work. But lots of little things are keeping me afloat. Like "Wooly Bully" playing on my ipod. How can you be bummed listening to that? It made me laugh. Also D being a sweetie pie husband even though I know he's uber stressed. And re-watching Firefly (and hearing that they're considering a second ( Read more... )