So far, my goals to save money before vacation have not been going well. I lost three shirts (two work shirts and my recycle sign t-shirt) in the dryer incident last month, and getting them replaced has been way harder than I expected. Shopping for clothes is torture to me. (But shopping for anything hasn't been fun lately. Between employment ( Read more... )

It's raining much too hard right now, and heavy rains usually get me freaking out about the roof/gutters, so let's see if I can write something to distract myself.

Well, the highlight of September was that Sara and I went to the movie theater down the street one weeknight and saw The Golden Girls on the big screen! They aired five episodes (The ( Read more... )

I let all of June slip by without an update to this journal, but I don’t want to do that for July, so here I am on the last day of the month! Even though there’s not much happening around here that’s worth talking about.

The summer has been so HOT here that I’m almost melting, and Texas is leading the nation in new Covid-19 cases and lowest ( Read more... )

Too many intense dreams last night. In one, I was in a big city watching a big building burn down, and there was a replica nearby of the Bridge of Sighs. (There is a replica of it in Philadelphia, and it kills me that I didn’t know that when we went on vacation there.) In another, I was at Mom’s house with Aunt Carolyn. We were in Adam’s room, ( Read more... )

I guess we all dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic in different ways this year. I started posting quotes from books I read on Facebook back in 2018, and around the beginning of the shutdowns, I started keeping an Excel list of each book as I posted them. I have fields for title, author, year published, year read, and author gender. I've probably spent ( Read more... )

~ Sara has recently gotten obsessed with the Twilight franchise, and boy, there’s a sentence that I never thought I’d write. The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting us all in weird ways, I guess. She found all five movies on one of our streaming channels, and I watched the first one and most of the third one with her ( Read more... )

Well, this Jewish girl made it all the way to Easter Sunday and kept up her "sacrifice" for Lent. My goal was to eat out only once a week. Obviously, the Corona virus outbreak became a thing during this time, so that made it easier. I don't think any restaurants are even allowing dine-ins anymore. Sara and I have both been trying to eat out less ( Read more... )

I’m writing this at my desk at work. P--- and W--- are gathering up all the trashcans and loading them onto a pallet on the forklift to haul out to the dumpster. J--- and K----- were just outside K’s office discussing whether one of their kids whose college closed down should start working at the grocery store ( Read more... )

Last night was another rough night. I had a too intense dream that Sara and I were in the car with Mom. It was her old van, the one we called "The Deathtrap" because she kept it for longer than she should have ( but who am I to talk there?) It was at night and Sara was driving, and I think we were going over the Mississippi River bridge in Baton ( Read more... )