1. Happy Mother's Dayto all the U.S.A. moms on my friends list. I hope your children, at least, were nice to you today. I received a hand-made card and a freshly drawn little watercolor landscape (done on a sheet of copy paper) from M, while Mr. Annearchy gave me something I actually asked for *gasp* - a new cordless phone (actually 2 of them, with ( Read more... )

1. My work computer has been disinfected and seems to be working just fine. Naturally, after it got infected with the Troj/Small-EOG trojan, I saw this article, Web browsers are new frontline in internet war - I suspect this is how I picked up the virus on my work computer. So, gah, which website did I get it from and how many other computers is it ( Read more... )

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1. Gah, I spent a lot of money this weekend. Besides the normal (huge) amount on groceries, I spent $31+ to put 10.6 gallons of gas in my car, and $150 at J.C. Penney on various household items, including a memory-foam pillow for moi. Ahhhh. That doesn't include the money I spent on clothes at resale stores. So now I must figure out how to pay for ( Read more... )

1. So today was generally not my day. First it took us at least 15 minutes to get out of the house from the moment darling daughter said "I'm almost ready". Then once I'd dropped her at school, I caught pretty much every red light between there and where I park for work (6 miles west). And of course, I got stuck in the right lane behind someone who ( Read more... )

In the cosmic scale of things (given the events of Monday and various anniversaries this week), this is a drop of spit in the ocean.

However...I am a small, petty person.

It appears I've managed to break my MP3 player. The ON button doesn't work anymore. Waaaah.

Well, at least the long national nightmare known as Sanjaya is over ( Read more... )

So darling daughter is sick again (some let's feel sick all over but don't have an elevate temperature virus that's going around her school). And I don't feel so good either, mostly due to a headache that is probably due to allergies and the weather. What I ought to do is take a nap.

The news from Virginia Tech is so depressing. As purebloodgryff said, what ( Read more... )

1. Getting the sad stuff over first - I can't believe what happened at Virginia Tech:( What is it about April and crazy people with guns? *thinks back to Columbine, for starters* My heart goes out to the victims' families and friends.

2. An online resources for parents: Keep your kids safe online - a CNet website.

3. For minisinoo, the Spring 2007 issue ( Read more... )

I've been really busy (so it seemed to me) the past few days, which is why I'm just updating now at midnight (but I get to watch Without A Trace while I update, so that's cool).

( Bizzyness )

1. Darling daughter had the whole week off (and next Monday too) for spring break, so I took a vacation day Tuesday and today while hubby is off buying books for his business. We don't have any appointments today so we can be fairly lazy. It's bloody COLD here (something like 25F, which is crazy for April) and there's no snow on the ground, so it's ( Read more... )