So this is my holiday weekend, which on the one hand means I have a full extra night off before going back to work -- but on the other hand means I had Mom underfoot yesterday while I was trying to get my Monday "to do" list dealt with, and have Dad expecting me to arrive this afternoon to spend the night and an unspecified portion of tomorrow. (I ( Read more... )

This has been a very scattered weekend for me, with lots of dozing off with the lights on and then waking up and doing things when I should have been sleeping some more. But I got some stuff off the DVR, took care of just about everything that needed doing, and now I just need to post this one entry and go visit Grandma before coming home and ( Read more... )

I did an extra couple of hours at work Wednesday morning. The plan on coming home was to feed the bunnies, do the dishes, and then add the fancy details to my manicure before taking a little nap (letting my nails have time to dry all the way down and hopefully not get smudged in my sleep) and hitting the road. I got in, sat down, had a cat ( Read more... )

We're having a week of autumnal weather veering from days in the 60s to nights in the 40s or even 30s. This is encouraging the trees to blaze as brightly as they ever get in north Texas, and is appropriate for the lead-in to Thanksgiving. (Forecasts suggest we should be getting a couple of weeks of this at least, temperatures which are about right ( Read more... )

More overtime, and the first two hours of it went towards making up the deficit from Sunday morning, so I worked like an extra five hours this week and am only getting overtime for the last three. This morning I was warring with myself - I won't make any overtime next week because of the holiday and the night I'm taking off, so I felt like I ( Read more... )

Tuesday afternoon I called Dad from Grandma's. He was planning to be finished getting moved out of the house by that night and I wanted to be sure he was on track for that goal. If they were scrambling around and needed an extra pair of hands, I could chuck my plans for the afternoon and head back over there. But nope, everything was just about ( Read more... )

This has been a very ambivalent week -- a lot of bad news followed up by mitigating factors ( Read more... )

A good paycheck today, and I did a little bit of spending but not too much as yet. (Though I'm especially pleased that Wendy Davis finally has bumper stickers available -- evidently got some not long after the last time I looked, since there are now "new" and "vintage" designs. I got vintage because I think it'll look better on my TARDIS-blue car ( Read more... )

I was thinking in terms of seeing Captain America 2 today, but I came home first so I could deal with a few things and wound up passing out on my bed till mid-afternoon. Missed the most convenient showtimes and decided against going to the 5pm showing because it would mean me probably not getting into bed with much longer than an hour or so before ( Read more... )

Tuesday I was fully expecting to be taking Blackjack to the vet for the trip he wouldn't be coming home from, but things didn't quite turn out that way. ( Surprise happy ending to the story about the cat )