So it turns out, for us, Sandy was more of a whimper than a bang. A few branches and leaves down with a couple of power-browning-flicker-things. Feeling really, really lucky. Or, rather, trying to remind myself to feel lucky. Right now all I'm feeling is pain and it sucks. Big time ( Read more... )

Oh my god. The story of my life ( Read more... )

Brave was amazing in ways I can't even describe. I cried. I left the theatre wanting to hug my mother in the worst way. I loved it. I'm so glad I got to go with my sister. (Turns out, dad ratted her out that she cried too after she was all 'Really? You cried? Why?') But first we went to Salsarita's after I picked her up from church (and ( Read more... )

Where to begin ( Read more... )

I seem to have let Irene derail my computer habits. Something to do with a multi-day power outage and week-long trip to see family (where I had too much fun to have time to write about it all). Came home to a house with power and will have a/c this weekend (hopefully), as the tree resting on my brand-spanking-new heat pump is due to be removed on ( Read more... )

Not surprisingly, couldn't sleep last night. Luckily didn't have to work after class, so came home and napped. Should've gone to the movies instead, solely for the a/c ( Read more... )

I'll try not to bore everyone with my allergy woes this year but days upon days of rain mixed with new-blooming oak trees is just . . . un-fucking-fair. Period. (So is *having* my period during the first week of full-blown allergy season. As is losing a whole day of work next week because they won't work around my dentist appointment. As is ( Read more... )

Wherein I diverge from the travelogue to say the following ( Read more... )

According to whomever my iGoogle homepage gets their weather from, it's 57 degrees and partly cloudy in both my small town and mom's. Wind and humidity are nearly the same too. I just thought that was weird, what with the ocean (and white cliffs of dover) between us.

Full-on crazy deluge torrential flooding wish-I-had-an-ark day. But funnier than the shit visibility on the way to work, funnier than it taking me 15 minutes to take out the trash at work because the wind blew my cart over which broke the heaviest bag and scattered the flattened cardboard boxes and left me exhausted and looking like I just stood ( Read more... )