9. What architectural style was your childhood home ( Read more... )

- is nearly two months past. I've been thinking about it because debris4spike posted about St. George's Day recently and we got into a conversation about it and St. David's Day and St. Piran's Day in the comments. She asked if I celebrated the other two and I mentioned that I celebrated St. David's Day quietly on my own. I don't really want to wear a leek and ( Read more... )

My relationship with Facebook, that is. I want to dump it now more than ever - the number of people (sometimes people I know! sometimes people who I know are intellectually intelligent but apparently have no discernment whatsoever!) who post lies and misinformation is saddening and sickening. It's always the case, but because of the coronavirus, it ( Read more... )

At least not photos yet; there's a long way to go before my craft room is really organized, but it's usable now, which is great. Actually, I like it so much that I'm finding I'd rather be there in the evening than in the living room. Our little Lucy cat likes to come up when I'm there just to hang out, too. I've been downloading things from my ( Read more... )

Last night when I was trying to think of how to describe Christmas this year, "subdued" was the word that kept coming to mind. I didn't decorate, didn't send out cards, did no baking - and didn't miss it. I'm pretty sure I'll want to do all that again next year, but this year I never did get in the spirit of things. Actually, it seems a lot of ( Read more... )

Back in January, I accidentally rolled down the car window. It had stopped working several years before but I hit the wrong button and of course it went down 3 inches. We never did get it back up again and I spent the winter and early spring driving around with layers of sweaters, coats, hats, scarves, and gloves on as well as a blanket over my ( Read more... )

Georgia, that's where. Oh, yeah, and the ER. Actually, I wasn't in either place for very long, but I've been worn out. I didn't realize how exhausted I was until the antibiotics finally kicked in.

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My cousin Roger died this morning. He was 58, nearly 59, and died of brain cancer, which was discovered less than a month ago. He left a wife and children, including a newborn (born the same week they discovered the cancer). Roger's youngest brother died of pancreatic cancer in 2003 and his older brother has also been fighting cancer this year, ( Read more... )

This is what I took the writing sample from that I used on the "Who I Write Like" meme. I wrote in in October 2006, after my cousins sold Aunt Lizzie's house and asked for us to post our memories on the family web site. I don't think I've posted it here before! Apologies if I have ( Read more... )

The day is mostly over for many of us but I wanted to post and say Happy Easter! I hope all my Christian friends had a blessed and joyous day and that all other friends also had an enjoyable day (hopefully with some Cadbury Creme Eggs thrown in - yum ( Read more... )