This morning Chalain and I went to Nerdtacular 2009. It was a fan appreciation event for Scott Johnson's "My Extra Life". Scott Johnson rented a movie theater and gave away free tickets to anyone who registered (until there weren't any left). We all got to see "Star Trek" for free. It is totally awesome, a wonderful blend of humor and action. I'd ( Read more... )

chalain  and I spent Thanksgiving weekend with his parents this year. We drove to their house on Wednesday and came home on Sunday. We had a really nice time. His parents have been doing some remodeling and de-junking. This year instead of sleeping on an air mattress on the floor in the spare room that was being used for storage, they created a guest ( Read more... )

M.S. attacks your nerves, sometimes in strange ways. The tip of my tongue started to tingle last Tuesday like it was going to be or just had been numb. The tingling has spread to my lips and is making it's way back along my jaw. All this tingling is just on the left side of my face, my right side feels perfectly normal. It isn't painful but it is ( Read more... )

I'm finally feeling like my old self again, no headaches, no nausea, more energy. Being force to spend nearly a week horizontal has helped me appreciate being vertical. I no longer take sitting and standing for granted, well, not as much.

My house wasn't very clean before I got sick and now it really needs to be cleaned. This week I'm going to make ( Read more... )

The end of last week I made myself a cleaning schedule, what tasks to tackle on which days. Each day's cleaning should take me less than 4 hours. This week had extra things that shifted the schedule - a vet visit Monday afternoon, new rear tires for the car on Tuesday, Visiting Teaching today. And a lack of will to go back to cleaning when I got ( Read more... )

For the past year or five my filing system has consisted of stacking important papers on the shelf above my desk, newest items on top. Today I was going to tackle that pile, but I've allowed myself to get distracted multiple times. I have most of my folders already labeled, but it is apparent as I'm going through my papers that I'll need folders ( Read more... )

Today I finished inputing and reconciling all of our accounts (personal and business) in Quicken. I installed Quicken the beginning of June, but this week I decided I wanted our information to go back to the beginning of the year. We can now see our cash flow from January 08 to present. It will be nice to have the whole year so we can compare our ( Read more... )

A word to the wise if you've never purchased carpet before - always go darker than you think you want to (unless you like really dark carpet), especially in rooms with windows. I didn't realize this when we bought our house. My parents' living room had dark paneling and dark carpet and was a darkish room even though it had a large front window, and ( Read more... )