Ah, the wonderful world of garden centers. On Tuesday, the driver of a mulch truck got the thing stuck in our pile of mulch. Really, really stuck. They were there at least six hours, probably longer, trying to get it out. This is why you shouldn't let unqualified people handle equipment just because they're cheap.

Conversation between my father and me:

Me: "Oh, pause the video, I have to go peel out my contacts."
Da: "What? you have to pee out your contacts?"
Me: "Yeah, Da. I swallowed them earlier. Thought I could use them as a diaphragm."
*Cue hysterical laughter from my mom, mixed with spluttering from my dad.*
Me: "Hey, give me a break. It's been a long time ( Read more... )

I think I hate the army. Not the soldiers--I don't always agree with what they're doing, and I certainly don't understand risking your life for someone else, but I can respect their choices. The ones in charge, though...my uncle reached his twenty years of service in February. He was supposed to retire in July or August, but his CO talked him into ( Read more... )

It's occurred to me that it's very difficult to be open-minded. It's one thing to, say, accept actions or words that have the ability to affect you, personally. I, for instance, happen to believe that consenting adults can have whatever type of relationship that they want, regardless of gender, kinks, or number of people in the relationship. I try ( Read more... )

You know it's a good day when you can sit in your pajamas and feed peanuts to the squirrel.

I feel sick. I was holding my cat tonight, the one who's had surgery for mammary tumors twice. There's a spot on her neck where the vet had to shave a bit of fur; it hasn't grown back yet, and I was rubbing it, when I felt something weird, under her skin. It feels like the tumors she had on her belly. The thing is, I think I can feel a matching one ( Read more... )

Huh. New layout for the posting page.

I am thisclose to being done with holiday shopping. Not the wrapping and the decorating, just the shopping. I should be cleaning my room now, in fact, so I can put up my tree. Of course, I'm actually sitting at the computer looking for fic updates and eating chocolate-macadamia popcorn. Oh well.

I taped A&E's ( Read more... )

I feel disgusting. I just ate half a bag of salt&vinegar chips by myself. So much for losing weight.

We're going to see Happy Feet tonight. A friend of a friend said that it was adorable, so I have high hopes (though I'm not fond of Elijah Wood).

At my work we have two bull skulls, complete with horns. They've been hanging on the walls for years, just gathering dust and spider webs. Boss-lady decorated a Southwest tree this year at our "overflow" ( Read more... )

Bleah. Gave myself a stress headache at work yesterday. My boss was out decorating somebody's tree, the only competent worker besides myself was at our other store, and I was stuck in charge. Didn't take a lunch break, just inhaled a sandwich while running around getting things for people because Linda's hands were sticky with sap. What, you couldn ( Read more... )