... taking a chance on Second Chance Idol...

Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve been really hard on my feet. Played all kinds of sports, but figure skating was particularly hard, especially since I rarely wore socks or stockings. My callouses had callouses, and for years afterwards, I had scars from the cuts my feet would get from being in hard skate boots unprotected for hours on end ( Read more... )

If anyone asks, I will tell them that I am in general an animal lover, but I am totally a dog person. In my nearly 50 years on this earth, I have been the human sister, aunt or mommy to Sniffy, Sheba, Sasha, Sidney, Buddy, and Jessie. My sister has had a couple of cats over the years, but although they were cute, I never trusted them. They were ( Read more... )

On Tuesday night, as I was getting ready to go to bed, I noticed that there was a message on Facebook on my iPad. I have Messenger installed on my phone, and my phone is with me all day long, so I knew it was not from one of my friends. I opened it up. It appeared to be a message from my ex sister-in-law. It was somewhat cryptic - she addressed ( Read more... )

Many of you are aware that I’ve performed in a charity show for the last 16 years or so. My main role since about 2011 has been as one of the dancers ( Read more... )

I don’t wat to brag, but I’m a pretty great tenant. Some might say, a dream tenant. Ok, maybe I want to brag a little, but it’s true! Rent is always paid, in full and on time, every month without issue. No pets. Never have parties. Full time job and loaded activity calendar, so rarely home to be noisy. Take care of any minor repairs ( Read more... )

“Hey, how are you doing?” a co-worker asks.

“I’m hanging in,” I reply, plastering a small smile on my face.

Not good! I scream internally. I can’t stand people asking me that all the time! How can I be good??My phone pings with a message from one of my many cousins: “Just checking in to see how you are - lots of love to you ( Read more... )

I will be particpating in this year's LJ Idol... hope the dreamwidth thing doesn't screw me up!

Being in customer service, I’m going to estimate that I get between fifty to a hundred emails every day. I try to clean up as many as possible, but at the end of every work day, I probably have, on average, about a dozen unread emails. At the beginning of this month, on my last day of work before going on vacation for two weeks, I stayed at the ( Read more... )

I just got back from 13 days in the sunny Caribbean. When we left on March 4th, the temperatures weren't too cold, only a couple of degrees below freezing. When our friends left one week later on March 11th, they were going back to temperatures of about -25 celcius. My husband and I kind of gloated, knowing that we would be basking on the beach ( Read more... )