Hello! I am still here! I have groceries enough to wait out the oncoming snowpocalypse. Considering the constant hammering the East Coast has gotten this winter, I'm feeling pretty lucky if we just get this one really bad one, but talk to me again tomorrow and see what I say. I may have turned into a total baby about it all ( Read more... )

Huh. I just found myself with an hour to kill and thought, "I've been bitching for months about how LJ ate half my icons and saying I need to reupload a bunch of them." So this afternoon I went to fix the situation, and lo and behold, my icons were back! Weird. I've added a few oldies but goodies. I need new/differnt ones. Except that I don't, ( Read more... )

So. Hi there! I've been absent again, but this time I've been actually absent instead of just absent from LJ. Marc and I went on vacation on July 1 and just got back yesterday afternoon. We had an amazing trip during which many good things happened and many people I love were in the same spot and all got along and liked each other ( Read more... )

1. Had a wonderful weekend with Marc. Between my mother and The French Kid, I hadn’t seen him for more than dinner (and then only twice) in about three weeks. So it was very good to get some time alone for just the two of us ( Read more... )

Am fairly horrifically depressed today, mostly because of the worst PMS I've had in recent memory, magnified by several other things that shouldn't bother me nearly as much as they do. My mother's at the top of that list. Conflicted, confused feelings toward a parental unit, thy name is hiyacynthHowever, I went over to Debbie's after work tonight to have ( Read more... )

On the last legs of my trip here. Off to the airport in half an hour or so. Have had a very good time. Got almost zero writing done, but oh well. Hope to get some done on the plane ( Read more... )

Heading out to California tomorrow to spend a week at my mom's, where my sister and her three kids currently are. Looking very forward to seeing everyone, but tense about the various dynamics involved, all of which seem heightened this time around ( Read more... )

Wow. So I think it's Monday night, yes? And my keyboard is American again, which is why my commas keep coming out as n's and vice versa ( Read more... )

Have just arrived at the staging area (my sister's parents in law) after a week with absolutely no news--no radio, no tv, no papers, no internet. Good thing the water heater flooded when we tried to turn it on and had to call the vacationing in-laws, or we would have had no idea at all about the whole terror plot thing and the new airline ( Read more... )

Here with Johanna getting ready for bed and making sure all the packing's done for tomorrow. It pretty much is. We are supremely well organized. We had Marj's birthday dinner tonight, a month or so early. Mom cooked and baked all day; I helped and now have nasty burns on two thumbs and a finger from the caramel. Bad words were uttered ( Read more... )