With mom out of the house today, dad spent the day outside and I tackled a few projects inside. For him, part of what he did involved installing the sun shade he bought recently; this went over the little stage deck in the corner of the yard. However, with the initial installation, he realized it didn't work properly; it hung too low and was ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a fun day.

While I was eating--the real pancakes, mind you--mom was reading Parade magazine. She came across something that made her frown, then asked what synesthesia was. I told her, it's when your senses cross. She made me explain, and I said something like, when you can taste colors. It was the first thing that popped into my ( Read more... )

I came across a sudoku puzzle this morning that I felt I had to do. My father noticed me doing this and had to share an anecdote ( Read more... )

Don't worry, this has nothing to do with illness or hospitalization or anything like that ( Read more... )

( Yes, it's that time of year. )

( Hobbies--Sudoku )

I realized that I never really talked about Christmas here. Since I started taking down the tree today and brought up my gifts, perhaps I should talk about it ( now. )

I've been a little out of it this week. I was still on the exhausted side on Wednesday--I took a nap before I picked up my pictures--but now I'm just tired. I think I'll be back to normal in a few more days. Oh, goody.

Not back to normal: ( The roads around here. )

It was a mistake to wear my skinniest pair of pants to work today.
I'm not saying they ripped open or anything, but there's nothing like feeling like a sausage when you're leading a customer to a section, wondering if they're staring at your fat ass.

Welcome to Jen's version of Lent.

See, about half of you weren't here for last year, when I ( Read more... )

A few months ago, I mentioned sudoku, a numbers-only logic puzzle. At the time, few people had heard about it. Now, it's in the paper, it's in magazines, and we have about a dozen books at least that we are selling at the bookstore. Seriously, one week I had a woman ask about sudoku books, which we didn't have...yet; the following week, there ( Read more... )