As usual, when dealing with multiple bouts of worry, fear, concern, uncertainty, suckage, money issues, etc., my brain revolts and takes refuge in the extremely trivial.

Saw Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle recently. Some stupid parts go on way longer than necessary but some truly genius bits shine forth. Including a line that goes, "When are ( Read more... )

Stuck at work on a rainy, chilly Saturday. The mall is empty. I drove instead of taking a bus today, and got a parking space on A level, right by the elevators. Which shows you how EXTREMELY empty the mall is ( Read more... )

Thanks to all who chatted with me about a Super Cheap Laptop for writing on. _Boy_'s older brother is a Professional Computer Geek with a thousand and one computers and parts and whatnot, and when Boy asked his advice, he said he had a laptop that would fit the bill gathering dust in his basement. When Boy asked what kind of deal he could give us on ( Read more... )

Guilt What is yours? Explain yourself Culinary: Munchos
"It's like eating salty crunchy air!" -- GhoulChick
Literary: Rereading I'm with Siddal on this one. I'm a terrible and frequent re-reader. But I love it.Audiovisual: Jack's Back I got this stupid, stupid movie for $4 on eBay about 6 years ago. Solely because of James Spader. Beautiful ( Read more... )

I had a lovely Halloween! celticfeministw posted her account of it, to which I will refer you rather than writing, because 1) I am very tired and 2) it would be very redundant. :-)

My nieces, the smartest, funniest, and most beautiful girls on earth, are going to be fairy princesses for Halloween. When I heard this I decided to get them a fairy gift or two, maybe a book, maybe some stickers. But I'm unfamiliar with anything for children as I don't have kids and don't carry kids' merchandise at all in my store ( Read more... )

Stolen from _siddal_.

The deal: list 20 random facts about yourself and then tag the same number of people as minutes it takes you to write the facts.

Started at 2:07 P.M.

( My facts )

Last night I dreamed my cousin had to have the fingers on one hand cut off. Supposedly it was a necessary removal, for medical reasons.

Today I wrote her about the dream, and she wrote back saying she just found out she has to have her wisdom teeth removed. So she does have to have multiple small parts of herself removed for medical reasons -- ( Read more... )

I found out this morning that my grandmother died last night ( Read more... )

( Answering my own Travel Meme )