1. I really want to know who bought the fennel toothpaste, because it damn well wasn't me.

2. Ow. Also, I know exactly what ibuprofin does, both its intended and side effects, and I am pretty damn sure that taking less than 800 mg/day for less than 3 days/month is unlikely to adversely affect on the lining of my alimentary canal.

3. I was going ( Read more... )

Visited family over the weekend; my dad's sister and her kids. Said kids are hulking musclebound teenagers, which is kind of funny. (They did lift some big rocks into my dad's car so we can put them in my mother's garden. Whee ( Read more... )

1. Apparently silk shirts are not to be hung by clothespins and everything other than t-shirts needs to be ironed, and I have managed to go through nearly 29 years of linear time without learning how to properly do laundry. Hello, frustration ( Read more... )

By the way - re: fic. It's coming. Slowly. Being home is weird ( Read more... )

Who's heard of Devil's Lake State Park? It's in Wisconsin - this glacier lake and a ton of reddish purple rocks. It's actually quite beautiful ( Read more... )

<3 My brother's friend does paintings, and she sent him off with several. He gave one to me (which I will photograph at some point). ^^ We both think it looks somewhat post-apocalyptic (the other thing that it brings to mind is Gotham City), but she was apparently thinking of trees in a swamp when she painted it. It is lovely ( Read more... )

:D I keep telling everyone my siblings are awesome. My sister got a Fulbright scholarship to go abroad and study midwifery in Germany for a year. Congratulations~!

(Also apparently my stepfather was making inappropriate Easter jokes regarding Jesus' "coming." My family's nuts, I tell you. ^^)

/drama ( Read more... )

( This week just sort of is. )

My paternal grandmother passed away Thursday. I believe she was 92. My grandfather is still alive as of this posting. (My maternal grandmother passed away January of last year, and my mathernal grandfather in October '98 ( Read more... )