Because My Life Needs More Irony Department: I was granted a continuance in my traffic court date, as the first one was scheduled to be while I was out of town. They very nicely rescheduled it...for my birthday.

I have applied for another continuance, on the grounds that it's my 50th birthday, darn it, and I'd rather not spend it downtown in ( Read more... )

Even though I got a decent amount of sleep last night and I saw Despicable Me with dremiel  (which is very, very funny and extremely silly and we both want squid launchers now), I woke up feeling blue. The feeling has not gone away. I'm just....sad.

I finally figured out why. This is the anniversary of my mother's death. It's been 18 years, and like ( Read more... )

...for various values of junior high, anyway.

I got my second Swatch watch in the mail today. They were wildly popular when I was in junior high *cough*late '70s*cough*, but I only had the one. The popular and rich kids wore 2 or 3 at once.

I got one for Christmas, because they have resin cases and resin clasps. (I'm damn allergic to nickel--I get a ( Read more... )