Simon and I are peacefully spooned and sleeping in. (He is the cuddliest of the cats. Felix never really got the hang of sitting on people in a relaxed and painless way, and Angus is still too full of the energy of youth to chill out properly ( Read more... )

Hey, dumbass. Before you try to use my debit card number to buy a large item from a company I've never heard of, how about making sure there's enough money in my account to cover it? And the international purchase fee and the overdraft fee and the account fee? If you hadn't overdrawn me, this might have gone unnoticed for DAYS. But I see red ( Read more... )

There's only one line into the office of the California Secretary of State? REALLY?

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Traditional hand-crafting is dying out in England, and there doesn't seem to be any sort of system in place to preserve it ( Read more... )

It's very windy here. Stupid power flickers, all I want to do is see pictures of Emily's children. Can you allow that please?

Should have brought some kind of low-tech entertainment. Book, jacks, needlepoint.

It's the first, again, and fortunately none of the tenants have tried to play a "I decided not to pay rent this month APRIL FOOLS!" joke on me. Because it makes me ragey just to have to sit here and deal with them without the humor, thanks. That is nothing new. But what IS new is, today I gave Bossman a departure date. May 14 ( Read more... )

I subscribe to the newsletter of an online wine dealer because we got all excited about wine while in Australia last year. The usual pompous "full-bodied with a cherry finish and hints of walnut and rose" sort of description was a little far-fetched, perhaps, but I could wrap my mind around it. Sure. Hints of walnut, I get that. Maybe. (swirl, ( Read more... )

Paddle to the Sea was one of my favorite stories as a child. It also taught me how to tell the Great Lakes apart. (Note to self: must find copy so as to inflict story on Noodle.) It is probably also a source of my intense dismay at the thought of things that are small and lost, because Paddle went through some pretty rough stuff in there, but that' ( Read more... )

I think I'm in love.

Like spiders, Republicans, and patchouli incense, contemporary design is something that is simply not allowed in my home. Except in this deliciously cutting manner.

The Deutsch and I decided that the remodeled bathroom would be white. White to show off the lovely colors in the slate shower and the ash vanity and contrast with the dark gray grout between the Arctic White hex tiles on the floor. I knew there was a bewildering blizzard of "white" paints out there, so I planned to neatly sidestep the question by ( Read more... )