Got my car back!  YAY!  Wit' a nice, shiiiiiiny clean windshield.  The tint on the new passenger-side front window is tan, rather than the bluish grey on the other windows, but I don't mind terribly.  I doubt anybody makes the bluish grey kind anymore ( Read more... )

Aw, man, you guys are so awesome.  I ask for advice and a bunch of you reply with thoughtful, encouraging things.  ::hugs you all ( Read more... )

One of the funniest things I've ever seen is a two-year-old playing with a kitten.

'Cause Liam was terribly excited to see a kitty.  Pixel was terrified of Liam.  But Liam had Pixel's favorite toy.  So Liam's walking around my parents' living room yesterday evening, with this fluffball-onna-string that Pixel likes so much dragging behind him, and ( Read more... )

In the further adventures of my car, I've filed an insurance claim, alerted my apartment complex to the presence of trigger-happy BB-gun wielders, filed a police report ("No, sorry, I didn't see anything, I don't have a suspect, I'm sure this is completely useless to you but I thought you'd like to know"), and gotten an estimate from the body shop ( Read more... )

To begin my story today, last week the sun shade on my car's sunroof got stuck inside the roof.  I tried to get it free, but only got my arms covered in bruises for the trouble (my lower arms just fit between the car roof and the inside ceiling).  I ended up paying $50 for the priveledge of having the sun shade removed entirely, since it would no ( Read more... )

Am very pleased that my physical therapist has decreed that I no longer have to come to physical therapy. Yes! I mean, the place was a good 14 miles away (a 20-minute drive if I used the freeway). My arm's still a bit sore from time to time, but I can live with it.

However, not all my health problems are so easily fixed. ( Possible TMI, feel free to skip )

Answers to my Four Truths and a Falsehood:

1. I play 10 different musical instruments.
True. I at least know the basic techniques of 1.piano 2.sopranino recorder 3.soprano recorder 4.alto recorder 5.clarinet 6.violin 7.french horn 8.guitar 9.vibrophone 10.five-hole ocarina. I didn't say I could play them well ( Read more... )

I had another brain-freeze today. One of those side effects of being concussed. It's getting very frustrating ( Read more... )

Two months and my mind is still doing weird things to me ( Read more... )

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