Our contractor, Victor Faustino, arrived with swatches for new carpet and new sheet vinyl and our estimate. The price is only a couple thousand over State Farm's payment, which will come out of our tax refund - funny how life works out like that. Happy birthday, we're getting a new kitchen. Dark granite-like kitchen floor, dark gray carpet, honey ( Read more... )

Adam and Luna.
She really is such a precious and royal cat to us.
And she adores him so so much.


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Adam is now home after putting in 176 hours in two weeks and we just had WATER DAMAGE because there is a leaking pipe in the downstairs hallway closet that contains, oh, the water heater and the A/C unit ( Read more... )

Okay, so, I need to tell this story... because. Just because. Facebook is a breeding ground for trolls who try and yell at me because I am not like them. So, here is a story ( Read more... )

Adam and I were going shopping at Big Lots and its neighbor dollar store. But first, Adam went to Office Depot - and suprised the hell out of me by letting me try various task chairs so he could buy one for me ( Read more... )

This may be the first time I've ever said this, but I am grateful for who and what I am and what I can do and my own potential ( Read more... )

We spent the day running little random errands, and I got to completely geek out with our friend John who is awesome ( Read more... )

Adam is home. At least until Saturday, when he may be off to Chicago for another job. Ahh, the life of a field computer technician and IT/AVproject manager. On Friday, we go back to his Kaiser Permanente doctors for follow-up appointments, and then... who knows. A couple of days off is lovely, though. Now that I'm on Disability, there might be more ( Read more... )

Adam and I got on the road at 7:00 PM. Made a few bathroom stops. Blew through Brooklyn at 90 miles per hour. Jersey Turnpike was quick as well. I tried to sleep through most of it. When we reached our parking lot, my head felt foggy and upset and dizzy ( Read more... )

According to Adam, I had one of those ridiculous complex partial seizures in which I froze in place for a few seconds, staring blankly, upon which my first garbled words after were "What? What now? Oh. I'm so cold." And the rest of my words were jumbled by momentary dysphasia, and also a bout of sobbing and apologizing. There was much use of the ( Read more... )