Last week, I started my month of nights at work. I am now one long week through it, with only three more to go. Yay! But I'm already losing sight of the plans and goals that I had had prior to starting my month of nights, and I'm not sure how to motivate myself to get that back (hopefully, this might help ( Read more... )

I've been reading My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead for the past month or so. It is a collection of short stories, all dealing with love--not the typical kind, not what you think of when you think of love--and I guess also includes some allusion to sparrows at one point in each story (although they must be very well-hidden, because I haven't noticed ( Read more... )

It's not personal, I swear it's not. But see, now there is Facebook, and, well, there are just a lot of people on Facebook who aren't on LiveJournal and Facebook is easier ( Read more... )

Between going on nights, joining Facebook (again), and then beginning the vacation that never ends (except it ends at 6 a.m. on Wednesday morning, omg), I've been sort of off-kilter, and I'm sorry, LJ, I mostly just forgot about you. Nothing personal. Why are you taking offense ( Read more... )

Most of you probably didn't see the original, but here's the complete version:


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...but thank-you notes from our wedding (almost) one year ago are finally finished! Hurray!!!

Right now, Jon is in the room below me, playing Rock Band with his best friend. He does this a lot, and I'm cool with it.

Except this time, he's singing.

OMG.

It's the little things. I'm sure it will be worth the $130 that I just spent on it ( Read more... )

I have a to-do list that is half a page long and I'm hungry. Who wants to bet my to-do list won't get finished today???

I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned this here before, but Jon is a total sucker for our cats. I may be their original "mommy", and they may come to me for comfort and for food since I've been here the longest, but Jon is constantly thinking of new ways to play with them, fun things for them to enjoy, ways in which they might be entertained, etc. ( Read more... )