I hope those of you who celebrate the holidays had a nice winter break with family and friends, or even just enjoyed the opportunity to loaf around and take some time off ( Read more... )

I've never been so glad to see a year end as this one. The fire that burned down our garage and destroyed our house was right at the end of 2021 (see this post), and the aftermath of that has taken up this entire year. It'll probably take up most of this coming year, too, but at least the house plans have finally been approved and the rebuild can ( Read more... )

For My Sisteridol survivor | daily-fic challenge, day four | 201 words ( Read more... )

in just a few hours for this week's Idol Survivor poll! If you could throw a vote my way, I would sure appreciate it. ♥

I got very little of my TODO stuff done yesterday, apart from biking outdoors and calling my mom. I can't do much while I'm on the phone with my mom, but the hour of "doing other stuff-ness" I lost was worth it. The good news is ( Read more... )

First, a couple of things I forgot to mention from President's Day weekend. :)

On Valentine's Day, we ordered dinner from a local Thai restaurant via UberEats. We'd never tried their food before, and I couldn't specify my default spiciness ("on the mild side of medium") via their App interface, so when The Boy chose "Thai spicy" for himself, I ( Read more... )

Just to let you know-today is the last day to vote in this week's Survivor Idol poll. My entry is here, with a link for voting at the bottom. Thank you for your help!

It was a big week for HalfshellHusband. About five years ago, he had a bicycling accident in which he broke his wrist and damaged his hip (leading to a later replacement). Really, ( Read more... )

Speed-reading for LJ Idol, since votes are due today and there are approximately 90 stories total. Mine for this last week are here and also here. I hope you like them! I'd intended to take a bye for that second one, since we were going to be out of town, but I had an idea right away that was too much fun not to write.

The trip to Oregon was great ( Read more... )

Whoo, just squeaking in before the day ends.

Wishing all of you a Happy New Year, and a wonderful year to come.

We've been lazing around, enjoying having the kids home for the holidays. Our daughter stayed through the end of the Rose Bowl today (Oregon won-what a knucklebiter of a game!), and our son has to drive back to L.A. in a few days. Too ( Read more... )

during an online work meeting from higher-ups. Rah-rah-rah, blah-blah-blah. \o?

The kids came and went for Thanksgiving, much too quickly but it was great having them home. Our son spent too much time having to work on an 8-page essay paper due Monday (Finals start next week), and our daughter tends to flit even though she is unemployed as of last ( Read more... )

We got home from Hawaii last week, and I've been flailing around unpacking, working, and catching up on chores ever since ( Read more... )