Late last year, my old alarm clock decided to become a paperweight and stopped doing its appointed job. My dad and Laura both gifted me with replacement clocks and I knew I wanted to keep both. I ended up putting dad's clock in my room and it works great. But what to do with Laura's ( Read more... )

Happy New Year ( Read more... )

I mentioned how mom made Junket, and it didn't really turn out, and she wanted to re-boil it to see if that made a difference. Well, she did, and it did, and now it's all my father hoped and dreamed. Instead of individual ramekins, though, mom poured it into a big bowl. It's the same bowl we'd keep hard-boiled eggs in. Mom very nearly reached into ( Read more... )

Back to Sunday. After I hurt my foot, and the pain subsided, I went about my business. That meant laundry and, noonish, lunch. It's about 12:45, I need to get stuff out of the dryer, but I need to wash my hands first. Mom comes downstairs and goes, there's a package! She goes out and grabs it and tells me, ...and it's for you! Wait, what? I don't ( Read more... )

This is more of a "later Sunday into Monday" post, but I'll sneak the Block Party in too ( Read more... )

Today ended up being way more exciting than anticipated ( Read more... )

I needed to go to Target to buy a few cards tonight, and while I was out, I figured I'd run another errand. A certain coworker is celebrating a certain milestone birthday next month and he likes to shop at a certain small-chain grocery store, and one is near my house, so why don't I get him a gift card? Easy enough ( Read more... )

I'm going to need at least a day to let my thoughts coalesce, but I can go into what I did on my way home. I left the luncheon at 2:30 and, despite not having used the washroom since I left the house at 8:15, still decided to run a couple errands since I was out. I tend to come straight home after work because I'm not up for shopping, and if it's ( Read more... )

Mom has been wanting to go visit grandma ever since the holiday. She didn't want to go Christmas weekend since it was too close to my being sick. (It was just two weeks out from the second positive test. She didn't want to take any chances.) Then, last weekend, the weather was so crappy that no one wanted to leave the house, not to mention ( Read more... )

One of the things that upset me the other day, aside from the gallon of milk and the not-quite-right mouse pad, was the realization that dad hadn't gotten me a calendar. That's, like, a go-to gift for me. I've gotten one since I sold them back in the day. I'd honestly forgotten that I hadn't gotten one until I went to update my ideas list and ( Read more... )