I know there are tons of reasons why people hate sites like Facebook and MySpace, but sometimes, they are wonderful inventions ( Read more... )

Meet the newest member of the family, as yet unnamed.  She just arrived on Wednesday, and as I type, is less than a foot away from me on my desk.  :)  She is a psychotic little sweetheart.  Man, you can definitely tell she's a baby, though.  All the other cats I've ever had were full-grown by the time I got them, and they never acted as nuts as ( Read more... )

There really aren't a lot of things I hate or dislike about moving from the U.S. to the UK ( Read more... )

The Hubster wanted to take me to Penshaw, but it was The First Day of That Time of the Month.  Having been married to me for nearly 9 years, he knows that I would not have been able to handle walking around Penshaw during The First Day of That Time of the Month, no matter how much I would have wanted to.  (And I did!)  So rather than scrap the ( Read more... )

I've touched on the subject of my husband's infidelity before. It keeps coming up in my thoughts lately, but in a totally different way than before ( Read more... )

One thing you have to understand: head lice is RAMPANT in British schools.  I mean to ridiculous proportions.  Why?  Because of some bullshit PC law that was passed that says that schools aren't allowed to exclude children from school for something like head lice.  Most schools have a policy forbidding teachers to even say anything to the parents ( Read more... )

As I posted in the Writer's Block post a couple of days ago, this is actually my second LiveJournal account.  When wanting to come back to LJ, I couldn't remember what username or email address I used... and without at least one of those things, I couldn't think of a way to find my old account.  So I said fuck it and created a new one.

Yesterday I ( Read more... )

Money.  He's always finding money in strange places.  Why oh why can't *I* be so lucky??

I remember this one time when we were still living in the U.S.  He'd been feeling kind of stir-crazy (he was a Stay At Home Dad when we lived there, and didn't get out of the house much), so he decided to take a drive over to Best Buy just to have a look and see ( Read more... )