Saturday I made eggs and toast for breakfast. This was accompanied by much complaining by my mother, although it was not directed at me. Jamie's last night here was Thursday and we got crawfish for supper; as usual we got sausage and potatoes with them but reserved them for breakfast. But between Thursday night and Saturday morning, David ate them ( Read more... )

Rian is arriving on Tuesday. I used to complain about him staying for an entire month, but he was a lot of help with the 'rents last year. He huffs and puffs and complains endlessly, but that's just how he's always been and I've long since learned to tune it out. It's just how he gets stuff done, I guess. Jamie needs music when she cooks; I need ( Read more... )

My work keyboard developed a sticky 0 key this week, randomly inserting strings of 0000000000000s into my emails and documents. I knew if I asked work to replace it they would give me some crusty old piece of junk from storage that was full of other people's ancient lunch crumbs, so I just decided to buy my own. And if I was gonna buy my own, I ( Read more... )