OMG, MY CAT KEEPS TRYING TO EAT MY HAIR. Does anyone else have this problem? It's especially bad after I've washed my hair and am letting it dry naturally. Then the little snit practically falls all over himself in his attempts to sneak up behind me. The first time he did this was cute and hysterical, but now it's just creepy and worrisome. I'm ( Read more... )

The weather has finally changed, morphing into the beautiful, beautiful fall climate that actually makes living here worth it. The sun is warm, but the humidity has died away, making the days so agreeable that one feels the contentment of a sleepy harbor seal basking blissfully on a particularly warm rock. Of course, it is a mundane type of ( Read more... )

I drove past a peacock on a roof last Friday. Really, a peacock on a roof. He was standing there all nonchalant like, halfheartedly shaking out his magnificent tailfeathers while balancing on the low-pitched roof of a simple country farmhouse. No shitting - a peacock, like this was India or something, instead of the horribly mundane suburban ( Read more... )

Ah, internet! Lovely, lovely internet! I almost went bonkers after two days without a connection, especially as there was really nothing else to do but sit and wait. It got so bad that I begged spacebee to read entries off my flist to me last night while we were on the phone ( Read more... )

There are some on my flist who know, and some who don't, that my family originally hails from New Orleans. Unfortunately, divorce split the family in two some thirty year ago, after my grandmother decided she was sick and tired of the latest addition to my grandfather's long line of mistresses (that one his business partner, no less), and the ( Read more... )

larian has put out a call for pictures of Anyone but Snape!, as she put it. Sure, okay, have a wee Scotsman:


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I have been reminded that I am a poor excuse for a drinker. Horrible, horrible lightweight, I am ( Read more... )

I would prefer it if the majority of people on the face of the planet spontaneously disappeared. Really ( Read more... )

*sigh* Why isn't it June 9th yet ( Read more... )

Apparently, as it is Mother's Day, the universe is determined to make me a mother, again.


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