I had new windows installed in my apartment today. Hopefully this will positively affect my heating bills this winter! The guys who did the installation were nice, and cleared out for a bit while I had a phone interview. Hopefully the interview went well; I really can't ever tell. It always seems to go well, but then I don't hear back, and don't ( Read more... )

Every once in a while, I'll click on a random tag to see what I've posted in the past. Today it was "winter." And I noticed/remembered that I used to call my old apartment "The Batcave." It was sort of cave-like, being on ground level and lacking much light ( Read more... )

...and tomorrow, I get Internet at home, so I don't have to steal moments at work, or go to the library, to check my email. I've been listening to audiobooks (I scored the first five Harry Potter books on tape at a yard sale, for free) and watching DVDs (Firefly from my collection, and Buffy from the library). I will be glad to have TV and Internet ( Read more... )

I don't have internet at home yet (they didn't have any Saturday appointments until after the holiday, and my next weekday off is next Wednesday), so I have fallen hopelessly behind in all my social media. I don't miss most of it, except for LJ. I hope to get caught up someday, but I doubt that's possible at this point. Please let me know if I've ( Read more... )

I really haven't given a lot of thought to preparing for this so-called FrankenStorm that's heading our way. We're not on the coast, and it looks like it will hook around us and not hit us directly, so I was prepared for some minor inconvenience, perhaps losing power at most ( Read more... )

Mercury goes retrograde in a couple of days, and it's already started ( Read more... )

I just had a fabulous idea for making more space, this time in the bedroom. I have a small dresser that I got from my old packrat landlady (yes, corachaos, that landlady), and I started wondering if it would fit in the space between the bathroom & bedroom doors, where I now have one of those modular, plastic shelving units. I whipped out my handy ( Read more... )