"I swear I had a life around here somewhere, but I'll be damned if I know what I did with it. It better be in the suitcase I still haven't had time to unpack, because if it isn't then I'm pretty positive I must have left it in... um. One of the five states I've been to this month..."

On the last day of the year, I stepped off an airplane gangway into Dulles International. I was wearing a bracelet I got in New York, a ring from Ireland, a shirt I snagged in Berlin. In my purse was (and is) a traveller's charm blessed at the Vatican, a pocketknife I acquired in Boston ( Read more... )

Few things will make an otherwise lame day faster than when your rockstar friend sends you a text message because you were in his dreams.

And yes, I'm in Florida again. Still. Whichever.

So it turns out that I did not, in fact, scratch my eye.
No, no. My eyes have a cold.
Just my eyes, mind you.
The extreme light sensitivity I'm feeling is apparently...the overabundance of white blood cells in my eyes that are trying to fight off the infection.

Conclusion: white blood cells are vampires.

I am... such... an adrenaline junkie...

you've never heard such war whoops of unadulterated joy as you do from your neighbors, huddled in a talkative, speculating cluster near the corner of the street watching the engineers work laboriously into the night, when suddenly the lights all come flooding back on at once ( Read more... )

So, there were big bad storms last night, and this morning. Aaaand as I was getting ready for work, the wind blew so hard that it rattled the whole house and made the power flicker. It was off, and stayed off, when I left for work ( Read more... )

Okay, so, in light of the recent flappy heart issue, I finally did something I should have done a long, long time ago and.. actually looked up the drug that was prescribed to me for my blood pressure back in December of 2006 ( Read more... )

it's .. what, December Twenty-Seventh? There are four whole days left to this godforsaken year?

...Yeah. So. My uncle, my dad's big brother, has been hospitalized with congestive heart failure.

...

At least it's not Northside this time.

Thanks for all the well wishes and words of support about my mom, guys, I really appreciate it ( Read more... )