I'm still alive, just feeling very anti-computer lately. I read my email on my phone and occasionally read LJ, and that's about it ( Read more... )

We're in the process of refinancing our house. The loan we're getting is an FHA loan, which requires that there be no pealing paint on houses built before 1978 (due to lead issues). We had started working on repainting the porch, but we had only gotten through the power washing and partial scraping phase when the appraiser came out. He couldn't ( Read more... )

There has been a lot of stuff going on all over the board, and I wasn't really sure of how to write about it, or how much I wanted to share. So, I decided to skip most of it and just start from scratch with a bit of a bridge entry, and that's what this is ( Read more... )

... by kids coming out of swimming class (in an indoor pool) when it's raining. They're wearing swimsuits, still wet from class, yet they freak out because they're getting wet in the rain. I don't get it.

An actual update soon. Honest.

stolen from stormdog
posted for all my friends, but especially ya_wot_aver

Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies

I just made my son a peanut butter and chocolate syrup sandwich, with chocolate/strawberry milk to drink and Cool Ranch Doritos on the side. All of which he asked for.

He's a freak. Just like his parents.

( The good )

Belated Happy Anniversary to Little Miss sunflowerbutt and her hubby, Chris!

Happy Early Birthday (because I am a spaz who knows I'll forget) to:
sunflowerbutt
exponentialMy year in review ( Read more... )

Stolen from here.

This article really hit me this morning. Enough that I have not only decided to link to it, but to also copy and paste it in it's entirety, because I think it's important enough.

That pantheistic, mystical “Thou art God!” chorus that runs through the book is not offered as a creed, but as an existentialist assumption of ( Read more... )

( Skunk Dog update )