Welcome to my newly updated, multi-purpose post. As my personal technological skills do not lend themselves to creating some fancy LJ background, I need a picture to make me smile when I log in. The photo may change from time to time, but if you come here and find a picture of butterflies or baseball ... or even a different guy (unless he’s in ( Read more... )

Last night was rather different at my house. The first different thing was that we were going to bed around 10:30 pm, which is somewhat earlier than usual. That lead to the second thing that was rather different.

No, not THAT. Get your mind out of the gutter.

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I wish I had the time to reply to everyone individually for their expressions of kindness since I lost my Dad, but at the moment, we're still very busy organizing things for the funeral tomorrow. Please know that I appreciate and love each and every one of you, and I truly do thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your thoughts, prayers and ( Read more... )

Some of you are already aware my Dad was diagnosed with Alzheimers last summer ( Read more... )

Just wanted to pop in to make a quick post to let anyone who might be wondering know that I am not dead.

January has been a whirlwind of a month for me, getting over the holidays, doing all the first of the new year stuff at work, finishing up a few ongoing beta projects, catching up my reading on all the yummy fics that were posted in various ( Read more... )

When I drove up in front of the house at lunch, the mail truck was at my box, so I got out of the car and walked up to the mailbox.  The usual mailman (a very nice older man ... probably nearing 60ish) was not in the driver's seat.  It was a fairly young girl, apparently someone filling in for him to have a day off.  She was still sorting through ( Read more... )

I'm very annoyed with Wal Mart at the moment ... ( well, their online store at least. )

I know I've bitched a bit recently about Hubby (even more to folks around me than I have on here), but it's 11:30 pm here as I'm typing this, and he is still not home from work. I'm really starting to worry about him ... not because he isn't here yet, but for his health and mental well-being.

( His employers are uncaring assholes! )

I did something today that I swore many years ago I would never do again.

( So much for famous last words... )

... or maybe I'm just in denial.

Even though Hubby's company was told yesterday the Chapter 11 filing by their parent company wouldn't affect local operations, they were told today that their local outlet store will be shut down at the end of the year.

Makes it a little difficult to remain optimistic.