I'm glad to say that Christmas went pretty well the other day both at home and at my grandmother's. As expected my cousin Derek had a funny reaction to getting his GameStop gift card that was in a tiny tin that looked like an XBox 360, and my grandmother and aunt made me laugh since they both gave me a wallet. It also appears that this year the ( Read more... )

This afternoon as I was going down to Amherst to run some errands I saw that there were a bunch of turkeys in the road, by which I mean about a dozen of them. I slowed down and waited for them to pass... but they didn't. I ended up moving forward and honking my horn just to get them to move off to the side so I could pass. Yup. Country life ( Read more... )

Well, after a year of wonky weather it seems to be trying to catch up to itself and make it actually look like December out there, and as a result we have around a foot out there, having been piling up since yesterday around noon.

In other news ( For feminine issues )

Glad to say that I made it back home in one piece in a reasonable amount of time. It was pretty miserable when I left Boston, but the bus ride wasn't too bad this time (it helps that I wasn't stuck in four hours of traffic this time) and as luck would have it the girl I was sitting next to is the cousin of someone who lives on my dorm floor! I also ( Read more... )

Little Boy didn't make it. We decided it would be more humane to put him down than to force him to keep going, but he went with the people and horses he loved right with him. I know he wanted to keep fighting, but I also knew that he was holding out for me, and I didn't want him to suffer any more than was necessary.

Here's a picture of him as I ( Read more... )

So yeah, I'm officially a high school grad now. ^_^ And I have pictures ( Read more... )

So what have I been up to?

Got to disc 2 of Metal Gear Solid, and am definitely seeing why it is sometimes referred to as "The best movie I ever played." Also... stairs! The last hour of disc 1 seemed to be made of nothing but stairs. Gah... You also know things have gotten weird when you realize that you just beat a Hind D helicopter on foot, ( Read more... )

I went to a charity bowling event for the local branch of Big Brothers Big Sisters today with a church group, and from what I can tell there is not necessarily a correlation between the lesbian gene and the bowling gene. No really, I'll explain ( Read more... )

My aunt Kate told us a few days ago that a musical political parody group, the Capitol Steps (website here) would be coming into town. We saw them a few years ago, and I don't think I've ever laughed so hard. This year was no different. They were originally a group of former Congressional aides who started singing parody songs about politics for ( Read more... )

We did over 200 cars today at The Plant. The usual number is usually not more than 100. Yup, it's Winter, and the fact that it was Black Friday didn't help since everyone was out shopping and washing their cars at the same time. At least there were plenty of tips. It also turns out that Dad's new nickname for The Chump ("Dingleshit") proved to be ( Read more... )