I'm buying Mom's Christmas presents again, because she just cannot shop online. She kept buying duplicates of things, or not buying things at all--like she'd put them in her cart and start the purchase but never actually complete it--and then getting mad when they never showed up. Although so far only David has given me his wish list; as always, a ( Read more... )

And boy do I need it, because me and everyone else in the house spent a good chunk of early this morning shivering out on the porch while a dozen firefighters stomped through the house ( Read more... )

I indirectly owe my current job to triskaidekaphobia. The woman I replaced was so superstitious that she refused to come to work on Friday the 13th. And she didn't even have the good sense to lie about it and claim she was sick or her car broke down. It's not why she got fired, but if the owner wasn't already annoyed at her, the fuck-up she made ( Read more... )