Work was rather mundane this week - no screeching harpies and drunk guys trying on condoms. I did come back from a 15 min break the other day to hear people in the fitting rooms. I called out that the fitting rooms were closed and a woman open the big one and said with big eyed innocence - 'Oh, this door was unlocked' about the same time her 10-11 ( Read more... )

I stopped at IHOP to treat myself to the first non-McDonalds breakfast that I haven't cooked with my own hands in...I don't know how long. At first it was a toss-up between the spinach/mushroom omelet and the Bacon Temptation omelet. If they'd had a spinach/mushroom with bacon I would have been set but the bacon won out. Six (count 'em - 6!) slices ( Read more... )

LJ and DW are still refusing to crosspost for me. Eh, whatever. It only takes a few seconds to do it myself. That's better than the aggravation of continuing to try and fix it right now ( Read more... )

The wind is blowing and howling like a bastard out there and even though it's in the 60s and it's not supposed to rain until late this afternoon, I just don't want to leave the apartment ( Read more... )

Last week I was on vacation. I didn't have the money or energy to go anywhere or do much of anything and the weather wasn't quite as beautiful as I was hoping for (more like the beginning of September rather than the beginning of October - a little too warm and humid), but still nice, mostly because I wasn't at Walmart ( Read more... )

I think it's probably clear to most that I love to cook. What I might not have made so plain is that I love kitchen gadgets. Besides the requisite pots and pans and a good sharp chef's knife I have the rather ordinary blender and toaster. I also have a stick blender, a food processor, a pressure cooker, a mini food processor that I got when my old ( Read more... )

So it's a torrid 101 outside but since the humidity is only 21% it only feels like...hey! 101! But that's OK. I did my chores early and now I don't have to face the blast furnace until I get off work tomorrow. And what the hell! It's still nearly 20 degrees cooler in Chicago! Yo,
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Happy Independence Day to my brothers and sisters to the south ( Read more... )

I got pretty much between 9-10 hours sleep last night. I was in bed by 10 but watched a little TV and read until around midnight. I woke up a couple of times to use the restroom and had a couple of 'almost' leg cramps that worked out before I got out of bed. So I actually feel deliciously rested. Unfortunately, staying in bed so long has taken a ( Read more... )

About a month ago when when had our little heat wave - in March! - I realized that my A/C wasn't working. No problem though, the cool weather was coming back. So for 2 weeks I didn't say anything when it wasn't fixed. I came home last week and realized someone had been working on it. I didn't bother to try it out because we were still having cool ( Read more... )