We got the mattress here without any problems, Dominic and Becca helped us get it up the stairs so we didn't have to pay through the ass for someone to carry it up for us (seriously, we would have had to pay double the cost because it only covers two floors and we're on the fourth). And oh, it is so very comfortable ( Read more... )

Oh hurray, we found a decent price on queen sized pillow top mattresses (discontinued models). And by Wednesday we will have a new bed to sleep in ( Read more... )

I just slept for twelve hours, and finally I actually feel kind of good again. A little further confirmation, as though I needed it, that sleep has been terrible ( Read more... )

Yeah, I was awake to see the clock roll over, had a brief mini celebration with Renee, then we went back to whatever it was we were doing. What can I say,. New Year's has never been that big a deal in my little world ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving morning, as Renee and I were leaving to pick up our dinner, on our door step I find exactly ten pennies on one step, lined up very neatly very deliberately left there, and on the next step down there is a key, duplicate car key freshly cut ( Read more... )

It is apparently Invisible Illness Awareness week, and a lot of people on my friend's list have been posting about their own various struggles with such. I wasn't sure if I should participate or not, but I've been encouraged, and so here it is.

The big reason why I was going to bow out was because I have no official diagnosis on any of my problems. ( Read more... )

Its been an icky last couple of weeks. I haven't had much energy to post or even do a lot of commenting ( Read more... )

Its been a blah last couple of days ( Read more... )

The wake will be held on Tuesday and the funeral Wednesday, on Friday I will be back in Baltimore and back to my normal level of online activity. :-)

For the last two days I've been sick, the cold I had threatening when I first came down finally acted up. I've been camped out on Jean's couch just trying to take it easy, and it seems to be going away ( Read more... )

We had a scheduled outage last night for some sort of repair work. I managed to go twenty-six years without ever seeing the power company deliberately cut people off for some alleged repairs, I don't fucking know. You'd think they'd try to avoid such things in the dead of winter ( Read more... )