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Looking Back, Redux
I ran this back in 2009, and it bobbed up to the forefront of my consciousness again today. Shall we play again? You can make your contribution in the comments, or on your own LJ (in which case, please tag me so I can read it).
1 year ago: I was still unpacking boxes our new house. We (well, Jeff) bought a home just across the Severn from ( Read more... ) -
No good deed...
Hypothetical for the hivemind:
You go to someone (we'll call her "Tillie") and ask to interrupt her for a moment because there's something you can't figure out but you think perhaps she can. Tillie agrees to help, and pauses in her task to assist you with yours. You explain, "I can't find [item] on [electronic device]. It's gone missing. I've looked ( Read more... ) -
Yeah, Monday...
...and I haven't yet unpacked my suitcase from the weekend spend in Cleveland at a wedding. I suspect I will find my motivation in a crumpled wad stuffed into the very bottom, and badly in need of laundering. -
Facebook Has Pissed Me Off
And mind you, I can't exactly walk away from it, because unfortunately it's how I remain connected to a rather large number of people AND organizations that are important to me. But I'm going to scale back my activity over there for right now and maybe hang out over here for a bit. -
Na... um... NO
It's November again, the month when half my social circle decide they're going to write novels, whether or not they're normally given to auctorial pursuits.
You see, November is National Novel-Writing Month, affectionately (and sometimes less so) referred to as NaNoWriMo or simply NaNo for short. The idea is to write an entire novel in a month, from ( Read more... ) -
The stupid, it burns
*bangs head on desk*
So... the water to my house got shut off this morning, on what may well turn out to be one of the hottest days of the year. Have I mentioned the landlord is an idiot?
I share a two-bedroom apartment with my ex-husband on the first floor of a duplex in an inner-ring Cleveland suburb. (Gotta love that economic "recovery".) The rent ( Read more... ) -
Adventures of the Terminally Uncoordinated, Part N in a series
Well, that was an adventure I could've done without. Ate a handful of trail mix late this afternoon; bit down on a peanut and sheared off part of a molar. It didn't hurt, but it made the most alarming "crunch". Went immediately to the dentist, and was told the nerve is exposed but apparently dead, and that I will need a root canal, post, and crown ( Read more... ) -
Sixteen Days Of Rain...
As I write this, we are having yet another thunderstorm in Cleveland. It has rained every day for the past 16 days, something that hasn't happened since 1900. Rivers and creeks are flooding their banks, and we now have -- oh joy -- tornado warnings across the northern strip of Ohio along the Lake Erie coast ( Read more... ) -
Sending Up A Flare...
Okay, I'm going to bring this to the LJ hive-mind, because I can't think where else to bring it. I don't know if anyone here will have any ideas for me, or anything else for that matter, but I need to tell my story on the off-chance someone does.
For those who don't know, my marriage ended in the spring of 2011, not long after my father entered a ( Read more... ) -
This is ridiculous
I recently watched a story on my local newscast addressing the dangers of trampolines. That’s right - trampolines, long the joy of children everywhere, are now considered too dangerous to be used by today’s youth. In fact, the American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that kids and teens should never use trampolines at home or even in ( Read more... )