The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Yay! After untold trials and travails, my new laptop arrived this afternoon, completely unexpectedly ( Read more... )

Wow. It's been a while. A long while, in which I got pregnant, graduated from university, had my beautiful little boy and have watched him grow into the almost-nine-month-old that he is now. And stick a trip to New England from hell and going to Scotland in amongst that stuff. Also a funeral and a wedding and being ditched by one of my best friends ( Read more... )

I have ZERO time. This sucks. It's making my life go by far too quickly ( Read more... )

So my mom got herself a knee replacement. She had the surgery on Thursday, and we brought her home yesterday, which is quite phenomenal ( Read more... )

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So the trip wasn't that bad, mostly it was just cold. I got sick from the change in climate, as I should have expected because it always happens that way. I love the way everything (well, most everything) in The Netherlands is old, and you can just imagine how people wandered around those streets hundreds of years ago ( Read more... )

I ordered some "Peruvian Pink Salt" today. It's supposed to be outstanding for sliced fresh tomatoes. I hope it is, because paying $17 for 4 oz of salt seems a bit over the top. (although admittedly $8 of that was shipping) But with a description like this, how could I resist ( Read more... )

So it looks like we'll be leaving for the Dutch place far too soon. Only one more Thursday spent at home, and then it's off on the next Thursday for a God-knows-how-long flight and then there'll be the jetlag and the in-laws. They don't like me much ( Read more... )

Yesterday my bed fell through the floor. We knew this was going to happen eventually. And before anyone thinks the entire bed fell through, it was just one leg. Thankfully it didn't go through the carpet too, so I moved everything out of the way myself... I had to skip work entirely, and then Alexis also skipped work, we got the majority of the ( Read more... )