Anyone still out there? I'm alive. :0)

I grew up on soap operas: The Young & The Restless, The Bold & The Beautiful, As The World Turns...I know actors and actresses that almost nobody in the real world has ever heard of. So when I saw Rod Stewart singing on some "Christmas at Rockefeller Center" thing on TV, it hit me ( Read more... )

We were just outside with Daisy, and we noticed she was investigating...something. Since it was at the other end of the yard, we couldn't tell what it was, only that she was in her "hesitant sniffing" mode...sniff, back up, go forward, sniff, back up, etc ( Read more... )

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Robert Novak (aka Novakula, aka The Prince of Darkness) succumbed to cancer less than an hour ago ( Read more... )

It's the strangest thing. I looked at my bank account online this morning...and there was MONEY in there! I think this is called a paycheck. It's just that it's been so long since I've actually gotten one that I've forgotten a lot about them.

I can spend this, right?

Interesting weekend. We went up to Altoona to go to my mom's church festival (I went mostly to have pasta e fagiole, an annual tradition). Nice festival, good food (most of which I had to avoid), seeing family. Oh, yeah, seeing family was the dark side, too...my mother's family is Catholic, mostly, with at least one born-again bible church ( Read more... )

Words provided by baeritone:

Arthur - Arthur Knight Hammer...he's hard to put into words. I owe a lot to the self-styled King of the Bears, including pretty much the whole life I have now. If it weren't for Arthur and Bearidise, I'd probably still be living in my mother's house, completely alone and emotionally walled off from everyone. Arthur and ( Read more... )

My computer at work wonked out today. It got stuck on the start-up screen and wouldn't go any further. So...I spent the day out in the cubicle farm taking calls. IN THE CUBICLE FARM!!! I felt so naked...I've been working every day, all day, in the phone room, by myself, door closed, moderate privacy guaranteed for over two years. The day has ( Read more... )

I just got a call from my aunt this evening. My mother is in the hospital in preparation for the insertion of a pacemaker tomorrow ( Read more... )