I love to laugh.  Really, truly love to laugh.  I honestly believe that there is no problem that can't be cured by a good joke (or at least ignored for 60 seconds or so).  This is why when things get truly stressful at work, I'm the one cracking jokes while Lucy is banging things around and Mark is growling under his breath and in general being an ( Read more... )

My stockpile of books has finally just about run out, so I thought I'd see what you guys are reading these days, or if you have a must-read book to tell me about.

The best books I've read lately are Lone Survivor, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Bookseller of Kabul, The Nazi Officer's Wife, Stardust and Fairest. I've also really enjoyed The Other Boleyn ( Read more... )

I had grand plans to post pictures of my kitties here and go on and on about how cute and lovable and smart they are ( Read more... )

A while back I caught a show on Discovery Health about the Duggar family. They have 17 children to date, all with names beginning with J (Joshua, Jana & John-David (twins), Jill, Jessa, Jinger (pronounced like Ginger), Joseph, Josiah, Joy-Anna, Jedidiah & Jeremiah (twins), Jason, James, Justin, Jackson, Johannah and Jennifer).  The ( Read more... )

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Happy birthday!  I hope you're relaxing with a cold drink in your hand, you definitely deserve it!

My physics teacher never told me that inertia affects humans, not just objects.  And I'm not talking in a "car stops and the human goes through the windshield" sense.  I'm talking in the "You don't know what it took to get off my ass and start cleaning the house, please don't stop me until I run out of gas" sense ( Read more... )

I have a post all planned out for I, but I'm just not feeling it tonight. I'm cranky, my stomach hurts, and reflux really sucks.

And ( Grey's spoiler below cut... )

My massage therapist is a God.  It's been over a month since I've gone to see him, due to various family illnesses and finances and vacations, but I finally got to go tonight.  Two hours of bliss.  Seriously.  I can't say enough about the benefits of getting a regular massage.  I feel much less stressed and more relaxed, my body doesn't hurt as ( Read more... )

Mandy had to go to the doctor about two weeks ago, because she got sick when we were on the cruise.  Her doctor wasn't in, so we had to see one of the other docs in the practice.  Turns out the cold she got was on the verge of turning into walking pneumonia.  Even after she got antibiotics, she still wasn't getting better, so we took her back to ( Read more... )