I'm finding it much easier to post the gratitude posts through twitter and facebook than here. That may be because I've moved so far away from LJ as a regular place for me to be. Since this isn't about making life more complicated, but it is about sharing gratitude publicly, I'm going to continue on FB and twitter and then copy them over here over ( Read more... )

Wow, it was busy this weekend. My best friend from college is going to be visiting this week so we spent most of this weekend digging out some of the gross from the house. I was relieved to find out that the bedroom was not nearly as disgusting as it originally appeared. And we managed to get three bags of usable, but not comfortable for us, ( Read more... )

I'm still working out, which considering my history of exercise is a minor miracle. Last night was just the exercise bike for 15 minutes because I was already up a bit later than I wanted to be. I'm finding that some nights are simply going to be more of a struggle because I have other things already scheduled ( Read more... )

Over the last few weeks there has been great breastbeating in the political blogosphere and forum world over China and the upcoming Olympics.  "How dare they? I'm boycotting the games and every sponsor!" rings throughout the land ( Read more... )

We got knocked offline completely Tuesday evening - no TV no internet the night I start my vacation. I sat stunned for a minute, but figured it would be up the next morning. No dice. So I call Time Warner and the first appointment they can get me is the 27th ( Read more... )

Looks like my online homes have imploded again. And yes, I know it's stupid to get upset when people I've never met are fighting.. but I do. Because I care about these people I've never met.. I've learned from them, argued with them, prayed for them, had them pray for me.. been friends for all I've never seen their faces ( Read more... )

I knew it was coming. I knew how sick Chavi was because I'd followed along so closely for so long. And I've been checking TC religiously just waiting to hear the news because it's been known for several days that time was short ( Read more... )

So I just spent about an hour picking out a new journal layout. Oh, I got the old one back, but I decided that I wanted to play with it anyway and this was a good opportunity. It's still green though because that butterfly of mine is just perfect and it clashes horribly with purple. Oh well. Maybe one of these days I'll get it in purple also ( Read more... )

I don't get to the Thicket much anymore - but boy is that Ancient One as much fun as a barrel of monkeys on crack.

Duuuuuuuuude has issues.

On the other hand, it is more activity than I've seen there for awhile. So that's a good thing.