The American Eskimo dog we were trying to adopt ended up going to a previous applicant, who had originally been turned down because of potential issues with other dogs in their household. That adoption is back on again, apparently ( Read more... )

I'm waiting for a call back from the person fostering a dog we're trying to adopt, and it's killing me in a way reminiscent of being fourteen and waiting to see if that really cute boy/girl you have a crush on is going to call you back. Never did deal well with that sort of thing - but does anyone, really ( Read more... )

I'm still here. I've just had the busiest six weeks since pretty much ever (900-page manuscript plus two-and-a-half-consecutive-weeks'-worth of houseguests plus trip to New York plus some other things), but still here. Reasonably functional, even.

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In book news, Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project is either The Big Bang Theory Australian AU ( Read more... )

So I'm home from San Francisco and dealing with all the little things that didn't get done in our absence, and now I finally have a chance to sit down and see what I've missed on LJ/DW ( Read more... )

A plague on Achilles tendinitis. My usual cardio (bike and elliptical, mostly) exacerbates the fuckedupedness of my right ankle. If it doesn't stop pouring here soon so I can walk outside, I shall be forced go to the gym to walk on the treadmills along with the old white dudes who watch Fox news. Really excited about that prospect, let me tell you ( Read more... )

H took the day off today so we could go to the Champlain Valley [Vermont] Fair ( Read more... )

Yesterday I intended to get shit done, which I suppose I did, sort of, if googling pictures of Lee Min Ho* and making a mean batch of guacamole count. Not entirely my fault, since I was in a fair amount of pain yesterday. Still am, but I'm going to try not to lose another day completely. Proofreading menus for a freelance job and folding laundry ( Read more... )

It turns out that H needs surgery on his hip, which is full of completely and partially torn tendons and ligaments. Poor him - and poor me (this won't be the first time I've nursed him through orthopedic surgery ( Read more... )

We're having a white Christmas in Vermont after all. Looks like you're inside a snow globe when you look out the window ( Read more... )

It's time to upgrade my MacBook Pro to OS X Lion (10.7) and then create a Windows partition so I can play Star Wars: The Old Republic. Not that these two things are related to one another, but I might as well get it all done in one fell swoop.

So I need to:

• Uninstall all of my old Adobe Creative Suite applications and Quicken, since they won't ( Read more... )