So the wall in our bedroom that clangs when the heat is on has started to leak. Melting snow must be getting in somewhere. The paint is peeling, and apparently the water is leaking into the heating apparatus somewhere, because that whole corner smells like cigarette smoke and a thick dark sludge is also leaking down the walls. F theorizes that ( Read more... )

Yoga # 113 ( Read more... )

I'd been planning to go jogging this morning, but last night it was so nice out walking home, and then I checked the weather and saw that today's low was supposed to be 31, so I thought jogging last night might be a better idea. It was a good jog--I went my usual route and cut through the park, but then I cut over to the right and went up the hill ( Read more... )

F and I went jogging this morning. It had been since (checks) July 13 since I jogged (I was sick the week after that, and this week we had some late nights and also my birthday, so I didn't go this week, and I really wanted to get back out there). We jogged for a while (out past the school and then looping back past the school again) and then ( Read more... )

I had a great birthday evening. F and I had a fabulous dinner out in Media, and Wanda Sykes was at the next table ( Read more... )

Saturday F and I went to IKEA. We love IKEA. It's so much fun. We came home with a new rug for the office, and new curtains, and a bunch of other things (most of which were actually on the list) and we have ideas and measurements for what we want in a new TV stand now. (The current TV stand is a repurposed microwave cart that the wheels fell ( Read more... )

I once again have the weird non-curable cold/flu/allergy thing. The thing that starts with a sore throat and continues to have a sore throat but adds on stuffiness and exhaustion. The thing that doesn't respond to cold meds or allergy meds or OJ or vitamins or herbs. The thing that I at one point suspected of being related to taking Flonase ( Read more... )

Fire alarm went off at 4:10 AM, stopped about ten minutes later, then went off again at 4:27. Our building's fire alarm must be automatically linked to the town fire department, because we heard the town fire horn go off twice (or possibly three times) in conjunction with our building's alarm going off. It's ridiculous ( Read more... )

Yoga # 62 ( Read more... )

My dad had spinal surgery this morning. My parents were up at 4 AM, at the hospital at 6 AM, and my mother called me at 9 AM to let me know she'd just talked to the surgeon and the operation went well. Go, efficient surgeon man, go. Dad just called me from Mom's cell phone to let me know they're on the way home. (His SPINE was operated on this ( Read more... )