Another Christmas, come and gone. :) My parents had arrived on Monday afternoon and were able to let themselves into my house since Mom had a key and the code to the alarm system, so I arrived home to Very Large Boxes in my front hallway once again. (In this case, they were Christmas decorations, which I had asked Mom to bring.) The first couple ( Read more... )

My friends, it has been a month.

So I still have not really...had time to reconstruct myself after the wedding, and things just keep going completely inside-out all around me. I had the worst week at work - junk coming in from every side, and it turned into a lot of nastiness. I haven't done anything of use or value outside of work, pretty much ( Read more... )

It has been an adventurous couple of days! The warm weather finally hit yesterday, getting up to a balmy 40 degrees. Of course, by the time I was headed to my friend Wizera's place an hour after work, the rain had turned to freezing rain. I crossed Wacker and started up the corner cut, and then found myself standing on nothing but ice and ( Read more... )

The first week of the new year is off to a decent start. I've been making words off and on; I've done my one-workout-a-week goal. I put half a paycheck away for the wedding (the other half will come with the next one). I am working hard on leveling up in FF14, though not as quickly as I'd like to do ( Read more... )

My parents left before 10 this morning, and apparently the car sprouted wings in the garage overnight, because they are already back in DC. I'm sorry they are gone, because I enjoyed having them here, but I sure did spend the entirety of today being a very lazy lumpcat and enjoying the hell out of it ( Read more... )

It's been a busy week. And it is only going to get busier through the end of the year. Last night we went to see a panto written by my friend Wizera, which was delightful in the way that pantos are. (Also, as
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