Eight Years

Not today; two days ago. Eight years ago on the 27th, Mum died. The fact that I forgot it until late yesterday threw me for a bit of a loop, with a tiny part of me suggesting that this somehow made me a bad daughter. I'm not, and that tiny part of me got swatted pretty hard in my head, retreating to some corner of my consciousness that ( Read more... )

My Desk Is A Black Hole

Or more precisely, it's a black hole that can drive in reverse.

Remember how we found Bob's passport in one of the desk's drawers, one that we'd searched multiple times? Well here's what happened today.

As you may recall, I had to order new checks because the checks I'd previously ordered had gone missing. I assumed that I'd ( Read more... )

Welp ....

The day started around 4:30 a.m., with our elderly cat, Opie, showing the messy and smelly signs that a recurrent problem with the lowest portion of his lower GI tract had reoccurred. To avoid TMI, I'll simply say that carpet cleaner and repeated laundry loads vied with our sympathy for our unhappy cat, a little fellow who was obviously in ( Read more... )

Labor Day Weekend

My Dreamwidth/Live Journal output for August was better than for July, although that's not saying much. I still find it positive that I haven't given up chatting with people here, or using the space to talk about things I find interesting, bothersome, or worthy of delight.

Today we had an actually cool day, with temperatures in the ( Read more... )