Last week and a half was crammed with bad news: Thanksgiving went all right, had a nice visit/meal with Husband's Aunt. I'd planned to go visit Mom on Saturday, but Riza started acting up about 20 minutes into the trip. It started with the Cruise Control suddenly conking out; I tried a couple times to reset it, but it didn't take. A little later ( Read more... )

Well, Friday afternoon the Guv decided to place the entire state on Tier 3 restrictions. Ironically, the state across the river is doing even worse, COVID-wise according to yesterday's newspaper. Not certain how that will affect things at work.

Bel was not the only loss in the past three weeks. My college guidance counselor and one of my ( Read more... )

... Probably because of the post- Thanksgiving snow.

Wow, last week was great! Three of my long-time friends from LJ turned up suddenly; I'm sorry that the recent Tumblr problems seem to be the catalyst, but I can't help being glad. 
( Read more... )

Well, I think I've heard directly or indirectly from all my family and friends in the path of this past week's horrible weather -- WHEW!

( Run Away NOW if You Have NO Interest in YGO or TW crackfic )

OKay, earlier today I left a comment on a friend's LJ, basically wishing her a good time at the fan convention she just arrived at, and asking her to say hello to 'the gang' for me, especially Peter if he was attending. A little bit of background: several years ago I was fairly active fannishly in several different fandoms, most notably Real ( Read more... )

Last night my husband talked to our friend up at NIU, checking in to see how she was doing (she'd fallen and fractured her wrist in January, plus of course the NIU thing); ironically she'd just gotten home from helping her mom sort flood damaged stuff from the river ice-jam two weeks ago! So after scolding her mildly for hitting town and not ( Read more... )

Despite a fairly productive weekend in terms of cleaning, unpacking and rearranging in the house, I am mildly depressed. A dear and longtime friend of both Husband and I was diagnosed this past week as having a degenerative joint disease and a slipped disc in the back. Surgery is most likely imminent and our friend is not coping with it at well ( Read more... )

To Skyla and Lediz!

Hippo birdie two ewes

Hippo birdie two ewes

Hippo birdie deer ewe

Hippo birdie two ewes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(and don't let the bakasaru eat all the cake; he'll get a tummy-ache)

I know a couple of people on the f-list have complained about Rich Text Format, but the last couple of days I've had a non-functioning "Back" arrow on LJ... WTF ( Read more... )