Wow, it’s been a lot longer than I’d realized.  :-/  Oops?

Happy is that I finally bought my house (well townhouse style condo) and the weeks of awful leading up to it have now proven to be well worth the headaches and heartburn.  And, believe me I had my fair share of both.  An incompetent loan officer can really screw you over at every turn and I ( Read more... )

Okay, I fully admit this is silly.  My mother got me into watching America's Next Top Model - she wanted someone to discuss it with and after resisting for years I finally got sucked into one of those dangerous all-day marathons.  Oops?  So now I'm hooked.  I don't care much for the drama.  A lot of it is fabricated for the show and clearly fake or ( Read more... )

On the advice of many people, most lately by a_lifestyle, I bought the Zombies, Run! App about a month ago and have been happily using it every morning while I do my elliptical.  While the Zombie Apocalypse is not particularly at the top of my list of favorite genres - I'm generally far too squeamish for those types of stories - I’ve found it highly enjoyable ( Read more... )

Ugh! So yesterday I woke up with Requiem for a Dream (well, movements II-IV) by Clint Mansell somehow stuck in my head - where it came from I’ll never know but it seems to have taken up residence in my brain as I haven’t been able to get it out since!

For those of you wondering, it’s this song:

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And, for those of you wondering why it sounds ( Read more... )

So it’s been a couple weeks since my last status update so I thought I should do another one - if for no other reason than to set everything down in one place to make it easier for me to plan out my future free time. >.First off - I AM EMPLOYED! Job isn’t all that great, pay stinks & commute is a bit longer than I’d like but, everyone seems ( Read more... )

STOP CALLING! Our number is unlisted and we never give it out unless we absolutely have to. We are on the do-not-call list. Auto-dialing bots are also not supposed to be legal. Two to three calls a day for the past couple weeks is more than excessive. And, shockingly, we already see many of your commercials every day. How could we not? Three ( Read more... )

So I spent the morning cleaning the floors. Then made and had a nice lunch - grilled cheese, grilled peanut butter and soup - with my father. Did an artsy craftsy project for my mother - gluing buttons to things. Made Swedish sugar cookies and brought some to a neighbor's for tea and gossip. Came back to make dinner - apple mushroom pork with ( Read more... )

So Christmas has come and gone - not a spectacular even for my family though we celebrate it a good half-dozen times. ^^;; (Oddly enough only one of those is actually on Christmas - go figure ( Read more... )

I took a day to do the 'girly' catching up thing with a friend, did lunch, a movie, some shopping, dinner and some more shopping. Had a great time. But, while exiting the mall (sadly not nearly as busy as it should be at this time of year) I came across two townies discussing the women who walked by, harmless I suppose, until I realized what the ( Read more... )

So the other day I went to a friend's place for a game night - on a nice large very pretty TV - and while we were playing it got dark. We finished fairly late. As we were leaving I looked up at the sky and saw how clear it was and how sharp the stars looked. My first thought was, 'oh look it's in HD.' Yes folks I'm still a ditz, guess the ( Read more... )