i was browsing netflix yesterday for movies that i'd like to see. most of them are not available in canada yet, but they had a feature that would helpfully point you in the direction of movies they did have that were, perhaps, like the movie you wanted to see. for some reason all dogs go to heaven kept coming up, which made me start ruminating ( Read more... )

i've fallen off of the posting wagon and would like to get back on it, but i don't see that happening much this week due to various obligations. still, some things of note:

i got rear-ended on saturday, a street away from cliomuse's doorstep which was wretched timing. this pretty much sums up my initial reaction to the situation and details the damage ( Read more... )

by all means i should be snuggled in bed with my sick husband and i feel bad for not being there right now. so i'll make this brief ( Read more... )

for the past few nights, we've evacuated our bedroom and moved the mattress into the office/den. it's farthest away from the noise of the dehumidifiers and fans that have been constantly running since wednesday ( Read more... )

last night logical_low, waster60268 and i went to the media club to finally see horse feathers in concert (the first time they've ever been to our town and LONG overdue, in my humble opinion).


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this weekend saw me, cliomuse, lady_ofthelake and waster60268 attending the wedding fair downtown. as i ordered the tickets the day before online, there was a question:

is one of the women in your group the bride?it occurred to me that i am now categorized as a "bride." it was a weird sensation to realize that this title -- one that i traditionally figured i would never hold ( Read more... )

it's a new school year and with that come the frantic fall orders hurrying in with a flurry of teachers. i don't mind it. there are challenges lurking in the requests for this textbook in braille or that graphic novel in large print, but this year i'm much more confident in my position and today, when a teacher called asking about consumable ( Read more... )

thanks to monstro_draw's latest post i broke out the sketchbook last night (when i should have been writing) and did the following meme:

draw yourself as a teen.


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did my first full day of house/cat sitting and i woke up with the lightest of scratches on the side of my nose. otherwise the kittens are very well behaved. fiametta likes to follow me around and even deigns to sit on my lap at intervals while tika does her own thing and follows curious noises along the floor from the people that live downstairs ( Read more... )

so i just sat myself down at the computer desk here and i heard a coin drop on the laminate floor. it was as i feared: a penny ( Read more... )