“OH MY GOD GET ME OUT OF HERE.” I scream this to myself irrationally because it’s really ridiculously gorgeous outside and I’m stuck in a room for appearance’s sake. For the sake of appearing to be doing work, which I’m not doing because there is no work for me on this late Friday afternoon ( Read more... )

It is about to rain outside and I'm actually home for an entire day contemplating spackling the areas of the drywall in the bathroom that were damaged from my wallpaper removing spree that ocurred last night. Yes, that early nineties-inspired, vine-like design wallpaper is no more, in fact, already taken away by the lovely garbage people who work ( Read more... )

Visibility is better today, but everything still smells like smoke. I can smell the fires getting closer, too. Before the smell was sort of barbecue-y, but now it's definitely pine-scented ( Read more... )

Once again JEA brings us the hard salami. This time canceling our service because of a check we stopped on purpose and told them about. We stopped our check because after twelve days they still hadn't processed it and our bill was due, so we paid our account in full over the telephone in effort to expedite the payment process. So even though our ( Read more... )

It's too quiet
with the ceiling fan whirring
and kicking up the dust of what happened earlier today.
Someone took a picture of a concrete slab
and I walked into it.
The sound an email makes
is deafening, sometimes.

Finally, finally I had my eye appointment with the Mayo people today. I had to reschedule the first one because the person who sold us our house wanted to close on my appointment day. I had to reschedule the second one because I wanted to drive down and see Ellen while she was in Florida. So almost three months later I got to see a real MD who ( Read more... )

My Dad came up this weekend and helped me with tasks I don't have the expertise to tackle. I'm learning, slowly, how to do things like change out ceiling fans and light fixtures, how to re-screen a sliding door, and how to change out an old light switch for one that actually works. I feel like I should be able to do most of these things on my own ( Read more... )

I don't cry a lot but for some reason this put me over the edge. Yesterday in the mail I received a bill from JEA, the electric, water, and sewer company, for almost $500. They're billing us for a sum I already paid via online banking that they're now calling "past due," for our regular service, and for a $300 deposit fee, which I was told when I ( Read more... )

I don't know where all of these random bruises are coming from. Every morning I wake up and there are more of them. Maybe they multiply while I'm sleeping. I'm starting to do a sort of bruise study. I've been noticing that sharper, longer objects make brown bruises and shallow, flatter objects make purple bruises ( Read more... )

Flurry just ate a section out of the rug in the second bathroom. I just bought that rug yesterday. And two second ago I caught her having another go at the black shag rug.

I am going to get a muzzle for that dog. What gives? She has PLENTY of chew toys. She is the devil dog.