work: hoo boy, where to begin on that subject? i am so effing sick of working in a construction zone. i was in the breakroom over lunch yesterday wearing EARPLUG because they were jackhammering in the hallway outside again. The whole place constantly smells of diesel fumes and, yesterday, we had ridiculously high winds which led to a dust bowl in ( Read more... )

So, tonight I went over to my cousin Nicole's at her request to adjust the length of the necklace my aunt paid me to make as the Nicole's Christmas present. Nicole wanted to wear it to work but wanted the length slightly shorter to compliment her work clothes better (translation: she likes it and actually plans to wear it, yay ( Read more... )

The girls had a great time and, honestly, other than making myself a little sick from eating way more rich food than I should have, so did I. And, in my own defense, you've got to love pumpkin pie where the recipe starts "pick pumpkin and let sit for 2 months. cut pumpkin in half and bake pieces at 350 degrees..." Honestly, though, it was the ( Read more... )

Is it truly that unreasonable to try to express your frustration and disappointment over something without getting barraged with a list of reasons why it's your own damned fault?!?!

I just wanted to spend time with my family. I don't need to hear how it's my fault I got disinvited on their last day here!!!

Still alive despite the long silence. I have a lot of LJ notifications to catch up on but not today since I'm struggling with a migraine. Hopefully this weekend :) In the meantime, update ( Read more... )

so, after EMDR yesterday, I tried to nap and failed quit horribly (too tense and also out of muscle relaxants -- i somehow forgot to refill that one along with my other meds -- a morning like yesterday morning and a lack of the meds designed to alleviate the discomfort of spasming muscles is a bad combo ( Read more... )

Time to get back into the swing of posting regularly, I guess. RL's been so tiring that I just haven't had the motivation lately, but it's time to smile, put my head up, and hop back on the horse. Isolating myself socially is a bad thing and I know that, so I'm resolving (again) to do better. Despite the prolonged radio silence, things haven't been ( Read more... )

So, survived the May 2011 tornado outbreak with nothing worse than a sleepless night to show for it. Well, that and the experience of clocking in for work looking like a wet rat:
( three cell-phone pics and one actual photo )

My sister and brother-in-law are speaking at an organic farming conference tomorrow so I'm watching the farm for a bit. It's too early for anything with the plants to be needed, but they recently got in 150 baby hens, so I'll be feeding and watering them. (The downside: they slaughtered the old hens to make room for the new so I won't be able to ( Read more... )

Oma had better like this thing because I am in a world of hurt, considerably more broke and, thanks to yet another lovely winter storm, I had to drive to Akron this morning to pick the bloody center bead up. But it's done and I'm relatively satisfied with how it turned out.

Pictures:
( rosary beads and a kitteh keepin' the faith... )