Yesterday went south really fast.

At 1pm I got a call from KK to inform me that Pixie had broken out of her crate and had gone on an absolute rampage in my bedroom (I keep the door closed to prevent Rika from coming into my room, because she likes to poop under my bed, and also to keep the cats out because the dogs lose their damned minds when the ( Read more... )

No, not THAT 'Q' word. ;)

It's a long-standing superstition/tradition working in emergency response (or any kind of call centre), that you should never, ever, comment on "how quiet" it is during a shift, because that's just inviting in the forces of chaos. If you're a dispatcher, it means there's going to be a multi-car pileup or a huge fire or ( Read more... )

Weirdly, I forgot that DW existed when I promised myself I'd start my journaling again this year. To be fair, I spent most of my journaling time on LiveJournal over the years, and DW for the longest time was my "backup account." So I naturally gravitated back to LJ rather than DW, and was only reminded of it a couple of days ago.

So, now I shall ( Read more... )

The hunt for the probably-not-perfect house continues. Our newest real estate agent Jenny, the 19-year-old granddaughter of our original real estate agent Anna, sent us a new listing yesterday. Technically it's not a new listing but one that went up a few days ago, but she sent us the link again and asked for our opinion.

The main thing this ( Read more... )

... and I'm going to call it "Good Intentions ( Read more... )

I am on the computer at work that blocks Dreamwidth, so I will have to repost this there at some point tomorrow. I don't know why the firewall is okay with LiveJournal and not Dreamwidth--the ways of the firewall are many and mysterious ( Read more... )

Got my booster shot today. I finished work at 6:00, left at around 6:30 after taking some time to talk to some of the other supervisors and offering what insight I have into some issues they’ve been experiencing. I ran home, drove the dogs to training, ran home again to have a meeting with the person I’m mentoring at work, then napped for about 30 ( Read more... )

I am SO TIRED. I worked a night shift and then I didn't really sleep much today because I took Peggy and Pixie out to see Santo's (their trainer) new property (he had to move in the fall after his partner decided to sell his half of the property at a price he couldn't match). It's slightly smaller than the previous property but has a lot more open ( Read more... )

Those of you who are more recent arrivals to this LJ (i.e. less than ten years ago, ahem) may not know that I actually have crazy nutbar prepper tendencies at heart. One of the reasons I've always wanted a hobby farm is to be more self-sufficient. I don't have any delusions about rugged homesteading and becoming 100% self-sufficient, because that's ( Read more... )

We didn't TPK last time but we're about to start another fight that could prove just as deadly. Our poor, tiny, squishy party with no healer. XD ( Read more... )