Wow. I can't believe this account is still here and active -- and more to the point, that I remember my password ( Read more... )

I finally got through the emails I meant to have done last Friday. Whoops.
But I'm almost caught up. Yay me! Lol ...

I just got online for the first time in, well, it's at *least* two weeks because I remember checking that I had enough in my bank account for the start of the month, but after that ... blech. So it was actually kind of exciting to get on and find all the lovely birthday messages waiting for me -- people can be so sweet! Especially people I haven't ( Read more... )

Me: Mom, I need Ruth's new cell number. Do you know it ( Read more... )

Excerpt from interview with Dave Grohl, on Grammy nods (5), American vs. European crowds, and, of course, what it means to be a drummer ( Read more... )

... that drivers apparently "forget" how to drive every year when winter comes? Last night I was the first person at two separate accidents with a cell phone. I've never even called 911 before, and last night I did it twice in the space of an hour! Sigh. And the roads weren't even that bad. What's going to happen when the snow hits for real ( Read more... )

And she's born ( Read more... )

Pre-eclampsia was diagnosed this morning -- my sister's been under supervision for the past week for an unexplained rise in blood pressure -- and she went in for an emergency c-section 25 minutes ago ( Read more... )

So I caught one of my rare nights of t.v. recently, after my nephew went to sleep and I had a few hours to kill before his parents came home. Ooh, and my brother and s.i.l. recently reno'd their basement, and, OM(freaking)G, is this a luxury reno! I'd die of envy, except I get to house-sit when they go one their many international trips.

( I did say *luxury*. )

Okay, so everyone (in HP fandom, at least) has seen at least a couple of those Hermione-makeover stories, right? You know the ones I mean, where she comes back from summer hols and is suddenly as physically beguiling as she is clever ( Read more... )