Who hit the Life on Fast Forward button? It's been a busy November!

The first weekend of the month, Jeff, his sister, and I took the Megabus from Des Moines to Chicago for a weekend shopping trip. Since we booked several weeks in advance, we only paid $35.00 for all three of us to travel roundtrip. Now that's a deal! His Aunt Linda took the train in ( Read more... )

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So... I accidentally took a hiatus from LJ the last few months. I can't say I had a real reason for it. I used to update my LJ a lot during lunch at work, but now I pretty much always take less than an hour for lunch and I no longer eat alone at my desk. Now I have lunch with friends. I'd blame being busy, but when am I not busy? It just happened, ( Read more... )

Day 03 - The best book you've read in the last 12 months

I scanned ahead to see if I might end of talking about either of these books during the rest of this series, and I'm not sure. So, I'm going to cheat and talk about two books I've read in the last 12 months that I loved. Actually, I think I've talked about them both here before, but they were ( Read more... )

I wound up being too busy at work to post on Friday, so I'm a bit behind. Nevertheless, here's day two!

Day 02 - A book or series you wish more people were reading and talking about

Meljean Brook’s Guardians series. (6 full length novels, 4 novellas in anthologies so far)I heart these books so much. They are without a doubt one of my favorite book ( Read more... )

I'm going to bashfully jump right into this book meme and beg your pardon for the lack of life updates. I've been good - busy but good. Business as usual, pretty much. :)

So without further ado, here's the first day of this book meme:

Day 01 - A book series you wish had gone on longer OR a book series you wish would just freaking end already (or both ( Read more... )

I'm home after my vacation (Thursday to Tuesday) in Michigan. We had a lot of fun relaxing and shopping and eating. Good times. I had fun, but there was a dark spot (friend related) that I'll have to talk about later ( Read more... )

This morning as I left for work I was greeted with a sight that’s bugged me for what has to be at least two months, now. As you know, I’m living in my parent’s house while they’re away and most of my household belongings are sitting boxed up on one side of the garage. Currently, a few of those box piles resemble the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and not ( Read more... )

The plan:

Jeff and I are big fans of the TV show Glee. We laugh about it, quote it, buy the music, recommend it to friends, and I know that at least I get excited when we find out that someone else watches it too. So when we heard the cast of the show was planning a four city tour this spring, we talked about how cool it would be to go see it, and ( Read more... )

I’m sorry I’ve been remiss in updating since sobbing into my LJ, dumping very sad news about Chloe-kitty onto the world, and then running off to avoid thinking about things. Even though I haven’t thanked each of you personally, I wanted to acknowledge that your kind words meant a great deal to me after that shocking event. I’m doing pretty well, I ( Read more... )