Today I nudged my bedroom project past the point of no return: I completely emptied what's left of the closet. There is no rail, there are no shelves. No hooks, no drawers, no bedside tables, no reading lamps, and no horizontal surfaces left in the room except the bed itself.

( I have no clear idea of where I'm going to sleep when that goes. )

This is what the porch is for.

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( Five things on a Sunday night )

As I sat over coffee this morning with my mom, yapping about my trip (from which I got home late last night, and about which I hope to do a bit more writing soon), the piteous crying of a cat gradually impinged on my awareness.

( Rescue! )

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• Wonderful: Scale shows a reduction for the third day in a row
• Fabulous: For kicks I tried on a pair of Land's End straight leg jeans in size 18 tall, to measure how many more inches I would need to melt off to button them. None, apparently. I'm wearing them now.
• Not bad: this damn cold has sloped off ten times faster than it sloped on and I'm feeling ( Read more... )

There's an itinerant guy who comes around from time to time and offers to wash my windows. I'm both lazy and guilt-wracked, so though he does a crappy job and likes to hang out and tell more hard luck stories than I need to hear, I say yeah, okay, wash the windows, and I pay him something ( Read more... )

'Bout 1:30 a.m. last night I went out to get my sheets off the clothesline so I could make my bed and proceed to lie in it. There was a visitor.

( Evil Zombie Raccoon Says Om-Nom-Nom )

Wow. That was...really dull.

Almost exactly a year ago, someone climbed in through my kitchen window during the workday and stole some stuff. The police came, got a good solid handprint off the kitchen windowsill, and eventually made an arrest ( Read more... )

This past week hasn't been my best ever, and I still have this grand jury witness thing in front of me tomorrow, but it was getting better, right? The sun came out, the temperature rose, Christian Kane tweeted that he was happy with the weather (I'm so relieved, Chris, really), and I headed home this evening in a moderately sanguine frame of mind ( Read more... )