Happy Mother's Day to all you Moms out there - Past, Present and Future ( Read more... )

Went into town with Mom this morning so she could drop me at the YMCA and I could get some swimming in before I leave. Alas, as I am no longer a student, I don't have a free membership through my mom anymore, so I did have to pay the $8 for the day pass, even though I only swam for an hour. It was still very nice, though. I miss swimming, and I ( Read more... )

Today I spent a good chunk of the afternoon quite literally crawling around under Coyote's hood (yes, I am in fact using "literally" in the proper sense - there are no pictures to prove this, but I had one knee on the container that holds the windshield washing fluid, another knee on the corner of the frame right above the passenger-side headlight ( Read more... )

Went to Marshfield today to try and get together with my gramma. That didn't pan out so well - Gramma's memory is shot enough that she forgets things pretty fast; I called her just as I was leaving Point and told her I would be at her place in an hour, and she seemed pretty happy about that. When I got to her apartment, though, her car was gone ( Read more... )

Hmmm... It would appear Facebook is not working, at least not for me. Oh well ( Read more... )

Yesterday Dad invited me home for some grilled ribs, and who am I to resist free food? Invited Haley along for the ride, too, since she had been craving steak for a few days and thought ribs might take the edge off a bit. My parents happily accepted her as one of the family and spent most of the afternoon telling her stories and giving her a bit ( Read more... )

It would appear that I have misplaced my copy of Elizabeth Peter's Crocodile on the Sandbank. This makes me very sad as I have been meaning to reread that book for awhile now ( Read more... )

Went home last night to watch the Perseid Meteor Shower at my parents house. It was pretty spiffy - I was only out there for an hour and I saw at least a dozen meteors, some of which were pretty darned impressive. We also watched Bedtime Stories before we went out. Cute movie; I saw it at the theatre with some friends when I was bored, and it's ( Read more... )

In a fit of I Want Greasy Bad For You Food, I called Dana on a whim to see if she and Uriah would be interested in meeting someplace Chinese for dinner. She was game, so I drove all the way to Marshfield for a Chinese buffet. Alas, they did not have any dumplings - which is what I was craving most - but still, good food and good friends makes the ( Read more... )

Last night I could *not* seem to get to sleep, and then when I finally did, I had a nightmare about body-snatching aliens chasing us ("us" being a Random Dream Family consisting of a grandfather, two of his adult grandchildren, and a bulldog). The aliens got the bulldog first, and it ate whoever it caught and didn't body-snatch. My perspective, ( Read more... )