1. Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day, United State of Americans! If (like me) you've got the day off, I hope you enjoy it. I've heard that some people are doing a "national day of service" thing today. I actually did something like that Sunday afternoon, for a few hours. I met our high school religious education class at a place called the Social ( Read more... )

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1. OMFG I was gone less than 2 days (see below) and I'm at skip=340 on the flist, and that's excluding my political comms o_O Finally caught up. Many hugs to all of y'all who need them. Dunno if I'll get caught up on the political comms, which have been very spammy lately; it took me something like 2 HOURS to read the 15 PAGES of the sole David ( Read more... )

1. Saturday was mostly normal stuff like grocery shopping, but DD had an overnight at church. I probably should not have let her spend the night, but she was desperate to hang out and be with her friends, which she hasn't had much opportunity for the past 8 weeks. Instead of just dropping her off, I stayed for "dinner" (sandwiches) and went with ( Read more... )

1. From the "When it rains, it pours" department, yet again: We got a letter today from the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS believes we underpaid them $2,600 on our 2006 taxes (note, we have not even started working on our 2007 taxes yet). The IRS says we should have paid tax on the tax-free bonds we sold last year. We already paid tax on the ( Read more... )

1. So we got only maybe 3-4 inches of snow. Which wouldn't have been bad, had it been fluffy light stuff. But it wasn't, really, and then there was sleet, and then hail, and then freezing rain, and finally rain. I was supposed to subsitute-teach in the high-school religious education class today; I had everything prepared and was looking forward to ( Read more... )

1. To all of you in the United States, it's time to eat turkey (or tofurkey? or whatever else you want) and maybe watch some football (Packers v. Lions, GO PACK!) and probably eat too much. And mostly it's a time to be thankful for the good things in your life.


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1. Silly/fun website of the day: LOLSecretz - what happens when you cross LOLCat Macros with PostSecrets....*sporfle*

2. Bits and pieces of my weekend: Friday I had a nice lunch with ladybluestar, who was in town visiting her parents. I wish we could have had more time to spend chatting but that's what happens when you have a lunch date and you work full-time ( Read more... )