Got home 11ish.  Hung out with fam for a bit.  Back in childhood room, where dresser promptly tried to collapse on me when one caster fell out of front leg (of dresser) and couldn't be re-placed.  Propped up with ream of printer paper.  Learned that foaming face cloths labeled "deep moisture" really do leave your skin feeling less tight and dry ( Read more... )

No excuse for traffic to still be this bad this far out. Was making decent progress, and am now stuck in fucking Hagerstown.

I have just been informed that the Boss says it would be good for morale for everyone to work from home for the rest of the day, which, translated, means Get out of here. So off I go to do my couple of errands and then head to my parents' house.

My package-tracking efforts have failed, because I didn't read Lands End's fine print and UPS are a ( Read more... )

Proposition: the day before Thanksgiving is the single most useless workday on the calendar in the United States. (I think the Eves are probably right behind it, followed by any day that is normally a federal holiday, followed by the Friday or Monday before or after a long weekend; but the fourth Wednesday in November is just nonsense.) (I guess ( Read more... )

Finished my hat.  Progress on the scarf.  Dinner tasty.  Hanging out with family.  Despite my parents' decaf tendencies, there is proper coffee in the house.  Things are pretty good ( Read more... )

It wasn't actually that bad.  Not great, mind you, but I didn't mind it as I've done in the past.  I did have to stop for a 20-minute power nap at Breezewood, because my eyes were crossing and it occurred to me that it's better not to be moving when that happens.

Quality time with the fam this weekend, so y'all may see less of me.  Happy

Not only am I pleased not to be dealing with airports and airlines (and, most crucially, air travelers) today; I am also delighted not to have had to try to pack everything I'm bringing with me efficiently enough to fly with it ( Read more... )

Two and a half hours to go 90 miles.  Feh.  For no appreciable reason!  No accident, no construction hangups, etc. -- just slow traffic for dozens of miles at a time.  Rar ( Read more... )

Drive was uneventful.  Family is all safe and reasonably well.  Have GOT to start thinking productively about yuletide instead of just biting my nails and fretting.  Promised wish list earlier, so will now deliver:  mad coveting of new curling stuff, of which everything I own is aged.  Can't replace it all at once, of course, but if I could, I'd ( Read more... )

At the moment, I am thankful that I did in fact get up in time to take a shower this morning.  (Not so thankful that later, when I went to rinse my contact lens case, "no hot water" turned out to mean "no water at all", but I'm all showered, so never mind.)  Now I'm running later than I meant to be for the journey over the (Potomac) river and ( Read more... )