Holy crap it's icy outside. I tried to move my trash can to the curb for pick-up tomorrow... Yeah not happening it's frozen solid. I'll salt it in the morning, when it has some chance of getting warm enough for the salt to free the trash can before the spring thaw does... Trash definitely isn't going out til next week. Maybe I should leave it ( Read more... )

Well, I moved to Minneapolis on Sunday. Fled Madison amidst this huge winter storm they were having that left a solid sheet of ice on my car and froze several other people's cars in 6" of solid ice after I left. It was a long drive considering it was only 250 miles (about 5 hours) but I arrived in time to greet the Comcast guy and get my internet ( Read more... )

Well, our heat is out for the 3rd time this winter. This time it was out overnight, with a low of -21 outside. Marc and I moved our animals our of the colder part of the house (where animals = hedgehog + dog) and in with us. The thermostat says it's 57 in the warmer room, while the room with all the windows (where we normally keep our computers ( Read more... )

A lot of time has passed since I updated. A lot has happened. Almost all revolving around getting a house, but a lot of smaller things too ( Read more... )

Well, I found several things today that make me very happy. This entry will be behind cut tags because there's pics. ;)

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Well, it's been one hell of a week, what with quitting my job, buying a car, and then traveling 3.5h today to Minneapolis so I can look at houses tomorrow ( Read more... )

...are very cute. Take this one, for example:


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My journal hasn't exactly had many positive things on it lately. So this will be an effort to remain upbeat ( Read more... )

Is that I have the pleasure of acting as my boss' secretary. I do all our scheduling, and when that means having 2-3 patients and between 2-6 animal studies in a week, I have a lot of people's needs to balance ( Read more... )

The past 3 weeks have pretty much been a living hell, for a variety of reasons that I cannot even articulate well enough to convey my displeasure with them ( Read more... )