It has been an exciting couple of days! Well, not really. But here is a recap, anyway ( Read more... )

My great-grandmother was a medicine woman, of sorts. A few weeks ago, one of my aunts or uncles gave my mom a copy of an article written by (my guess is actually that it was dictated by) my great-grandmother when she was 83 years old, detailing her old home remedies and the role she played in the community as she shared her knowledge throughout ( Read more... )

How awesome would it be for me to reply to my high school reunion (on September 8th) invitation simply with:

"Sorry. Cannot attend. Next parole board meeting isn't until end of September." ?

So, yesterday, I left work to go to my dentist. My Invisalign aligners had finally come in. It has been a long process to get everything prepared and correct. I'm excited about it, and they aren't *too* weird to wear, although I'll need time to get used to them. I have a little bit of a lisp sometimes ( Read more... )

A few months after free credit reports became available to me, I decided it was about time I checked my credit. At the time, I pulled all 3 reports at once, and paid an additional fee to get my FICO score from one of them. Everything looked good, my credit score was very pleasing, and I was able to spot some tiny, extraneous, old credit card ( Read more... )

So, my plan is to make the move back up to New England around the first of June. By then, all of my essential loose ends should be tied up. All of my official graduate student/work related obligations should be finished. I will hopefully be able to sell the things I can't take with me... a little bit of furniture, barely used (about 10 months), ( Read more... )

Congratulations to beffie777, who received the perfect proposal from her man this week! Now the wedding planning can officially begin, and sort of out of character for me, I'm wicked excited about the wedding planning stuff ( Read more... )

So, made it through another birthday.

Thanks for all the birthday shout outs!

Also, thanks to anais921, mosenahobsie, archaica, and pbregularjb for the splendid and entertaining goodie basket! I wore my "I <3 Brad" ring all day. And thanks to non-lj-user (yet...) Beffie and Eric for a lovely dinner at Olive Garden, bookmark, and flowers ( Read more... )

Last night I had a dream that I was in a classroom. I had decided I was going to kill myself, but then there was something going on, so I was hanging around trying to see what was up. I think whatever was going on made me forget about whatever troubles I had had that made me want to kill myself. It was dark and somehow this classroom place had ( Read more... )

I was just pulled over basically for *not* speeding.

I left the library at about 2 am, and thanks to archaica's Denny's story and my hunger, I decided to see if the Camellia Grill was still open (I don't even know for sure they'd be serving pancakes, but it would be worth the try). So I went in that direction and noticed that a police car had pulled up ( Read more... )