I've lived in my house for almost four years. And today I *finally* got rid of the crappy carpet in my bedroom! Tom is on vacation and it's my day off, so we decided to yank up the carpet at long last. The floor looks great. Not perfect, but much better than a floor its age ought to. And so the last of the stupid carpet is out of my house. Now the ( Read more... )

I spent most of the day outside. It was hot, but wonderful. First I mowed the lawn, which isn't so interesting, except that it definitely has fewer dandelions than it did last month. Other weeds, like clover, seem to be taking over. And I don't mind clover. I actually quite like it. If I could have all clover instead of grass, I'd do it ( Read more... )

Hi. It's been some kind of forever since I've been here. Feeling guilty about that. But I've been missing my old friends rather desperately lately, so here I am, hoping that some of you are still around to say hi ( Read more... )

When I was pregnant with Moira, one of the great perks (along with clear skin and not being cold all the time) was no more headaches. I used to be able to look forward to having one (sometimes two) nasty migraines per month, but since May of 2010 I have had exactly two, total. Well, until January, that is. I had one in the middle of January, and ( Read more... )

It's been ages since I last posted here. I haven't lost interest - only time. Everyone advises me to write when Moira is sleeping, but everything else in the world has to happen while she sleeps, too (including my own sleep, sometimes), leaving a large percentage of nearly everything unfinished. I'm getting better at keeping up, though. I have ( Read more... )

I'm in the mood to prance this morning. The Half-Price Books warehouse manager called today for Tom - he wants him to come in for an interview on Monday! :hops around: There's no guarantee he'll get the job, of course, but I can get him some good recommendations, so his chances are better than he's had yet. ♥ So keep your fingers crossed on ( Read more... )

It's been a pretty uneventful vacation. Today I finally was able to get into my mom's garden. Ugh, it's a lot of work. The ground is crazy wet from all the torrents of rain we've had lately - I'm sure that added to the difficulty of it all. Tomorrow I'm going to till the ground and transplant a few things. I'll be happy to see the results ( Read more... )

So tired ( Read more... )

I hate being up this early ( Read more... )

Gardening today. Mom and I went to Straders and bought just a few things, the most substantial being a rose for the back garden. It's totally not the rose I'd've gotten--it's red and fancy and the epitome of everything a Rose should be. I prefer the single-petaled, wild-looking rose. In fact there was one there called "Wild Spice" that was ( Read more... )