► So yeah, it's my birthday. I'm now 36 year old and I have no idea how that happened, as I still keep thinking of myself as a 20-something kid ( Read more... )

► I'm not sure how much of it is Stormy getting closer to me, or whether I'm just the warmest thing in the apartment available to him since the temperature dropped, but for the past week he's been sleeping with me a lot. When I woke up today I was surprised to discover him curled up atop of my groin. After awhile he moved down to my thighs, then ( Read more... )

► My worry and fear and trepidation regarding going out tomorrow peaked this morning when I finally decided I was sick of it. For the past year or two my neurosis have evolved to my needed to fast the day before I go out, least my nerves wreck havoc on my full stomach and bowels when I'm away from the safety of my own home. At noon today I ( Read more... )

► For the past few days I've been going to bed very early as I seem to run out of steam in the early evening. I'm a lot better, but I'm still not fully over whatever it was I had last week (cold? flu? I have no real idea).

Because I went to bed early I didn't see the email artist Michael Powell sent me until this morning. As I mentioned a ( Read more... )

► That's a bit of a relief. My aunt and maternal grandmother stopped by yesterday afternoon. They couldn't stay long, and my grandmother couldn't manage the steep staircase to get to my apartment so it wasn't a long visit. My grandmother gave me envelops, one for myself and one for my sister. She's apparently giving each grandchild a few hundred ( Read more... )

► This hasn't been a fun week. Late Monday afternoon I started feeling rundown and had developed a sore throat. By Tuesday morning my sore throat had worsened and I was definitely sick. While I suppose it could just be an aggressive cold, I seem to have the flu this week, with body aches, chills, and fever. Not having any energy I've spent ( Read more... )

► So yeah, it turns out that the television Dad picked up yesterday was the right one after all. We went to Sears early this afternoon and found out that the specifications card in the display for the TV was actually for a 42" television, and that they don't have any 32" TVs with 1080p. So it's the right television, and despite only having 720p ( Read more... )

► My cat Stormy's feeding routine is as follows: a bit of dry food around 7:00am, 1 can of wet food around 4:00pm, and then another bit of dry food in the evening around 10:00pm. Dean was the one who fed Stormy the canned meal yesterday and the day before. Both times he barely touched it. I wasn't sure what to expect when I fed him today, ( Read more... )

► Today has been a spectacularly low-key, quiet and uneventful day where the highlights have been finally finding a spot to hang up my framed autographed print of cosplayer extraordinaire BelleChere as Ms. Marvel and finding out that the Apache Chief "collect-&-connect" figure I won and bought on Ebay Friday night does indeed come with his vest. ( Read more... )

► There was an incident this morning with the cat that scared the hell out of me. I was spending the morning in bed reading, when Stormy kept jumping up on my desk and repeatedly shredding at my bulletin board. He did this at least 5 or 6 times in a row, getting squirted with a water gun each time. My nerves haven't been very good this week, ( Read more... )