Yesterday morning I went to the dentist for my deep cleaning. It wasn't too bad... for one thing they'd said it would take at least an hour, but it took half that time (although they didn't see me until 40 minutes after my appointment time). They only focused on the one small part of my mouth that had the gum disease. She used a local anesthetic ( Read more... )

• 18:11 Still waiting for the field trip bus over an hour after they should have been back. What BS #
• 12:21 Getting my 13 yo a size TEN shoe. Wut #
• 15:46 Tried to buy wine for the first time. Don't normally keep alcohol in the house but white zin is really growing on me #
• 15:48 When I say tried I mean forgot my ID. I'd take it as a compliment but ( Read more... )

There's some kind of creature(s?) in my attic. It's making all kinds of noise and sounds very large (this icon depicts me this morning when the noise woke me up). Probably squirrels, because there are millions of them in my neighborhood, but it sounds so big, I was also thinking raccoons maybe. Yikes. I brought the ladder up and was about to ( Read more... )

These days it seems that all I do is try to survive until the next paycheck ( Read more... )

So, the latest with my uncle. They met with the doctor yesterday and they were told that there is nothing they can do. It's time to take him off the respirator. Apparently everyone is okay with that except my cousin (his son). He's insisting that the hospital isn't doing things right and that he can get better. I think he's just upset and ( Read more... )

Juno was really great. I'd say it's a cross between Napoleon Dynamite and Little Miss Sunshine. The lead girl was so cute and entertaining, and so was the girl who played her best friend. Casey even liked it, and to be honest I wasn't sure if she would or not. It's kind of a grown up humor. Not that it was wildly inappropriate for her, but ( Read more... )

It's time for the daily summer thunderstorms to start. Here's what the sky looked like when I left work last night.


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Last night after work I stopped to get groceries. Then I went to pick Casey up, and I was ready to finally go home and kick back. Yeah, right. Casey was like "Mom, I have a problem. I need a new bathing suit for tomorrow." Erg. Today she is at Wet N Wild with the summer camp. Apparently, yesterday they were told that they had to either wear ( Read more... )

Last night's season finale of The Sopranos was ( cut even though I don't think any of you watch it... just in case )

We got a new gecko last night. Casey named her Lily. She seems to be a lot more adventurous then CJ, who tends to hide a lot. As soon as we put Lily in the tank, she started running around and exploring. She didn’t seem the least bit afraid. I put some crickets in there and she ate them up. CJ actually has started coming out more over the ( Read more... )