My birthday today! Working on trying to get my bike rides back into a decent shape. My arm is still bruised from the fall, amazingly enough. My husband says he's run out of ideas of how to convey to me just how hard I hit the ground. Been Riding Springwater Corridor out to Boring, which is a decent elevation gain and about a 40 mile ride ( Read more... )

My eye still keeps swelling up. Head injury has made me a beer virgin, so that's something ( Read more... )

I am just now coming into the clear after a gnarly concussion/closed head injury. It's been a little over 6 weeks and I am just this week able to stay awake ALL DAY. Seriously ( Read more... )

So. Yeah. My husband is close to his Gramma. He and his sister spent every summer with her out in the country while growing up. When Bryan did firefighting one summer during college he stayed with her. In the two years we've been in Portland we have been down to see her and work on her house and stuff a half dozen times. Gramma found out December ( Read more... )

There are not really any bad things about helping people get clean clothes. I mean like when I was working in bars all I felt like I was doing was helping people drink and act stupider. When I was working in allied health I felt the most lasting thing I was doing would be helping insurance rates go up ( Read more... )

I am not down with Christmas this year. There has been no baking or making of anything. We live a block away from Peacock Lane which has a long legacy of every house on the block being decorated with lights. It's a Portland tradition. So every day, from the time it gets dark (about 5:30) until 10 when they turn the lights out, for the two weeks ( Read more... )

So last night I stayed on Skype with my son until the South Koreans finished up their military drill and it seemed like the North Koreans were not going to blow anything up in retaliation ( Read more... )

We have been managing a laundromat since May of this year. It's up on Powell and 82nd in a strip mall that has a Food for Less grocery store, discount stores, pawn and gambling stores and ethnic restaurants. If you've ever seen the show "Cops" when it's filmed in Portland this is the neighborhood you're most likely to see. The locals fondly call it ( Read more... )

I live in Portland,OR, now. I like to ride bikes. and hike. and camp. mostly I am nice. sometimes I am mean. but only because of assholery. the end.

The drywall is up! Now I get to tape and mud! wheee! Also? We patch tested two kinds of floor stripper and declared Kleen Strip adhesive remover triumphant. The good news? It works in one application AND! the pattern left on the concrete from the old linoleum looks so cool, we won't even have to bother staining ( Read more... )