My landlords came by the apartment today to install a new window unit. Our old one stopped working a few weeks ago. It didn't matter at first because it was so cool outside, but it warmed up fast last week, and Sara and I were sweating like pigs! (It made me thankful that Sable didn't have to suffer the heat.) Who knew that installing a window unit ( Read more... )

My Sassy Jewish Grandparents treated me and another friend of theirs to dinner after services tonight. We had a pizza and "Kentucky Derby pie" for dessert. The pie turned out to be delicious, but none of us had ever heard of it before, and we had a time trying to figure out what kind of pie it was. Our waiter tried to explain it to us, but he was ( Read more... )

This question popped up in the Games section of my child actress message board: “What's the furthest you've ever traveled from home?” For me, it's Voormezele, Belgium, the little town where George Llewelyn Davies is buried. Back in 2007, I spent a weekend there, looking for his grave. According to this website, it's 4,883 miles from where I am now.

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After years of constantly losing them, finding them, losing them, and finding them again, I seem to have finally lost my glasses. As in, for good. I still can't really believe it, because after being lost, dropped, sat on, stepped on, etc. for so long, I thought those glasses could survive anything. I've been wearing my contacts almost exclusively ( Read more... )

Sara got me a mockingjay pin just like the one Katniss wears in The Hunger Games. It's awesome, but it's so small that often when I wear it nobody notices. I've worn it to work a few times, and my manager would've told me to take it off, but with everything else I wear at work (my nametag, my dogtag, my lanyard, and my earpiece) the mockingjay got ( Read more... )

I haven't barfed or gotten a serious stomachache in so long that I'd forgotten how bad they can really be. Until this morning. I ate some Lay's potato chips yesterday, yes, but I really don't think I ate enough to merit that. I usually try to watch how many of those things I eat, for precisely this reason.

I finished Catching Fire last week. Forget ( Read more... )

There are few things I hate more at work then opening the day after I've closed. Yesterday we didn't get out of the store until 11, and this morning I had to be there at nine. Back to school... well, words can't even describe how bad it was. Yesterday and Tuesday, I seriously considered quitting. At least it will all be over by the end of this week ( Read more... )

\Just like Santa's elves, I working late into the night on December 23. But instead of making toys, I was making pecan pie muffins. I had wanted to make four dozen (two for all the relatives at Grandma's house on Christmas Eve, one for Teresa, and one for CJ & Company) but I ended up making just three. To top it all off, I ran out of muffin cups ( Read more... )