What a delightful apocalypse we've had the last day or two. Yesterday began with torrential rains, and the first hint we had that something was up was that I couldn't make it to Star Mall- every road I tried had barricades up, giant puddles, or both. Traffic was routed in bizarre ways, making it impossible to get through on the roads that were open ( Read more... )

Just got back from Centralia where we went to dad-in-law's 60th birthday, and spent two days with Kevin while Tim, Dad, Sascha, and a buddy of Kevin's re-roofed Kevin's building. Kevin hurt his knee after ripping the existing roof off, and it was leaking like a seive during the recent rains. So everyone pitched in to finish. Backbreaking messy ass ( Read more... )

Still alive.

The person that rammed my car this time was the same one that did it the first time too- same exact unusual turquoise paint color. That's just great. Makes me feel all cozy, knowing there's someone out there, personally out to get me. I hope it's just my car they hate, and that they don't actually know me. I'm trying to believe that. The ( Read more... )

On Wednesday, the boy stayed home. He tried to fix the broken washer, full of rancid moldy clothes. He thought it was fixed, so he tried to run it to clean it. In the five minutes his back was turned, it blew like Vesuvius, and somehow triggered the building fire alarm besides submerging our hallway in inches of water. He then ripped the fire alarm ( Read more... )

We have a Polyphemus moth perched on our back deck right now. It was driving the cats batshit, flapping and blundering around like mad, very noisily. We went out to investigate and found it- it's 4 1/2 inches in wingspan (when it perched we measured it, we're nerds). It flapped around my leg, and felt all soft and tickly. OP lunged outside, ( Read more... )

Me=Idiot. This is the second year in a row the boy and I both utterly completely forgot our wedding anniversary. That would be March 31, and it didn't occur to me til just now ( Read more... )

Some jackass stole my welcome mat. What the holy hell? Would you steal someone else's dirty welcome mat?

I suppose it was a cool one. I got it at Le Target on Halloween, and it had a black cat and a full moon on it.

So I got a couple of pictures of the paintings I'm gong to have in a gallery showing tomorrow. I'm madly trying to finish, and procrastinating just as much. Ah, reminds me of Cornish! Yep, I'll be hanging some wet paintings tomorrow. Also a picture of my hair, it looks a ltitle better by now- it takes a while for the curl to calm down after being ( Read more... )

Some buttnugget totally mangled my car while it was innocently parked. We're not talking about a modest side panel denting (like the other three hit-and-runs on my car). No. This is a complete fucking of the driver's side. I have absolutely no clue how they could have done it in an angled parking spot. It had to have been a giant, poorly piloted ( Read more... )