Particularly when a lack of awesome is coming your way in the form of: paper clutter, claustrophobia, and a Let's Play!/Go Away! mood swing.

But there are things that are nice:

1. My hair.

2. Cheesy Broccoli and Rice casserole.

3. Mom taking care of dishes for me.

And really isn't awesome more justified, when you get past the negatives? 

I can't believe shiv5468 never told us about London's multicoloured elephants. The elephants themselves will go up for auction to support preservation of the Indian elephant and other Uk wildlife charities ( Read more... )

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Generally the downside of having appointments during the week is the awful station that the TV in the waiting area will be set on. It's either my bad luck or a testament to how awful the programing really is, that I will be subject to either a soap opera where some perfectly coiffed woman is having a baby in an elevator and is digging through her ( Read more... )

Shortly before Thanksgiving I went cold turkey off my anti-depressant because I'm an idiot. I am an idiot who convinced herself that she could skip a few days while she finished her semester and then hop back on. An idiot who didn't look at possible withdrawel symptoms. And an idiot who forgot just how intensely unhappy she was without the ( Read more... )

I've come up with a possible Plan B, maybe Plan B Option A. Need to think of a way to organize this, but anyway ( Read more... )

Apparently "listening" is a skill in dire need of refinement in the Powell household. And that's fine, but if we're going to work on listening skills then we better do a full communication overhaul to include speaking skills. Like pruning extraneous information and/or pauses from speech. Tangent blocking exercises, things like that ( Read more... )