Royal blue, reads "Founding Member, Est. 2016, Nasty Woman Society, They call us nasty because, they fear our strength," which I am wearing in part because RAWR and also ironically because 55 yo woman wearing apparel that implies woman didn't stick up for themselves until 2016 ( Read more... )

I say sort of because I have a very old school definition of employment that includes stodgy things like permanency (sp?) and retirement plans and prospects for advancement, most of which I'll need to let go in order to be a successful free range English teacher ( Read more... )

State of Georgia is warning residents to be prepared to stay in for three days stsrting some time between Friday night and Saturday morning ( Read more... )

Given that I haven't let go of the ordeal that was getting a "secure" DL that was supposed to go five years but says it was issued 2015 and expires this year, karma was being very, very kind to me today. Renewal was painless and the next one is meant to last eight years. Yay!

I'm from the South, okay? And I grew up in a temperate to warm part of California in the 70s, so "layering" meant sweatshirt over T-shirt as a kid and blazer over blouse as a young woman. My point is that longjohns or any other sort of base layer are mythical or Grapes of Wrath kind of legendary, and not something that applies to me ( Read more... )

DO NOT food prep (nor use sharp objects for any other reason) while jet-lagged.

( Finger scar under the, heh, cut )

"Vacation" while unemployed means "sponging off visiting my parents in California" for two weeks.

Given the tendency of pounds to flee in terror in the presence of The World's Greatest Weight Watcher, I am unsuprised to have lost five and a half pounds over Thanksgiving. Mom's not judging my second portions, she just taught Captain America his ( Read more... )

I was going to wait until Haloween or (best case) Thanksgiving, but cold snap. At least we'll get the serious autumn color now!

The board are down, if not nailed down. My personal cabin fever deemed it safe.

Or, 55 years in the making.

Yes, I did my own toes today as part of a post "retirement" money saving drive that includes letting my hair go gray and fetching my own groceries instead of summoning Instacart.

( OMG naked feet here )