Working self-employed/freelance means that there's no holiday or vacation pay, no sick days, no paid time off. If I don't work, I don't make money. It used to be that I could take a day off here and there and make it up on the weekend, but there isn't weekend work anymore. BUT my BFF Amy, who lives downstairs and whose house I live in, is having ( Read more... )

I'm a redhead again! Well... kinda. :D Just finished colouring my hair, but because part of it is natural (brown with grey... alas, much grey!) and some of it is the old dye (a yicky strawberry blonde-ish)... my hair is now kinda two different colours. The brilliant red at the top will fade in a few weeks, I'm sure. Meanwhile, I'm liking it ( Read more... )

Hey all. Never expected to go this long between posts again.

Thank you to everyone for the lovely birthday wishes. I hope I responded to every one. :) Thanks also to shadownyc, friday82, landlady_4rent and fansee for the gifts on my User Page, and to jule1122 and spike7451 for the birthday cards. Each and every one of you rocks ( Read more... )

This week has been crazed. More crazed than normal. The worst thing was that I got hog-tied into going as a volunteer on the "Drive To Niagara Falls in Rickety Bus with Obnoxious Driver, Eat Overpriced Food, and See Christmas Lights" tour with the nursing home. I agreed to this forgetting that I tend to get motion sickness, especially when the ( Read more... )

I had plans to do tons of stuff this weekend. Instead, I made rice with this flavouring packet and my best guess is that I am allergic to something in it, because I spent a lot of the next 24 hours between the bathroom and the bed. And killer migraine. Grrrr. I'm better today... just in time for work. Oh yay.

( The Amazing Race Week... Eleven? I think it's Eleven )

Computer still working yay! I was supposed to go get my x-rays done today, then pick up stuff mom needs and go visit with her... but it is storming like mad outside, and I got completely soaked to the skin on my 8-minute walk home from work. Plus, I've been up for 20 hours. So yeah, I'm skipping that, attempting to get warm in my big fluffy robe ( Read more... )

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( The Amazing Race 11 - Episode Two )