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"Butthole" is the funniest word in the English language. Just so you'll know. Katie said it the other day in Half Price Books and I nearly laughed myself into a coma. Don't ask me why. Some words are just funny. People were staring. It was sad. Later that night, I was lying in bed with Okie, and started laughing hysterically again. She didn ( Read more... )

I walked 25 minutes on the treadmill tonight! Who would have thought that I, the poster child for the sedentary lifestyle, would be able to do that? I got on the scale a few days ago and scared myself, so I started on my Weight Watchers stuff again. The old plan, the one I actually lost weight on, not that new points junk. That doesn't work for ( Read more... )

We had to take my mom to the ER on Monday and she was in the hospital until Wednesday. She had nausea, vomiting and stomach pain that they couldn't seem to alleviate. After a stomach-cancer-possibility scare, they determined she has a bunch of ulcers. She's home now and on ulcer medication. I am now both caffeine and sleep deprived, so am ( Read more... )

Not only did Supernatural drop its intellectual superiority and stick in a soft-core porn scene just like every other WB show, but THEY GOT THE DATE OF THE ALAMO BATTLE WRONG! Now I understand that not everybody hates seeing a fairly smart, usually well written and well acted show turn into the usual WB smutfest, but CAN WE AT LEAST GET THE DATE ( Read more... )

Let's see if I can actually link to pictures of the new house.

For fifteen more minutes, anyway. We've been married 23 years today. Can't believe it's been that long, and yet so much has happened. I had to leave church early today so I could talk to my baby online from Iraq. He said they're in whatever city they're in (I can't remember) for another week of training, then they scatter far and wide. He ( Read more... )

Ok, this week is getting away from me. I didn't get any sleep at all last night, so I slept today for about six hours. I still feel crappy. Morons keep knocking on my door or ringing my doorbell--the extreme morons do both, just in case I don't hear the doorbell, I guess... We had two different guys from the same security company come by within ( Read more... )

Now, I must rant.

A message to everyone who feels the urgent need to get us all on the "right" path (i.e.--your path) by bombarding us with "we're-all-gonna-die-tomorrow" email messages: I don't want to know what your politics are. Please, shut up!!! Do not spread your "gospel" to me through my email account. This is something I don't want to ( Read more... )

Stephen called from Kuwait last night. My baby is on the other side of the world. I've never even been out of the country, unless you count that one-hour trip across the border into Mexico when I was 16, and I don't. It wasn't really Mexico, it was tourist-Mexico. I would like to say for the record that I don't like this. I don't like it at ( Read more... )