I know someone who can really use them right now. A woman I used to work with at my old job is going through something no parent should ever have to. Her 9 year old son went swimming in a public pool on Saturday and was found floating unconcious. He was revived but right now they don't know the extent of the brain damage that may have been done. ( Read more... )

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I promised a couple of you I'd give updates on this, so here 'tis:

Two weeks in, I'm still using it faithfully, which is good. I can definitely see that it will get less "fun" down the road as I get more used to it, but I've never considered working out fun, just something I needed to do, so that's not necessarily a bad sign. When I'm really trying ( Read more... )

Yeah, remember when going out on a date with a hot guy or girl and getting trashed was cool? Well, now that I'm all grown up and stuff,  the NEW cool is Friday night, drinking an iced coffee and getting ready to plunge into all these great fics that have been posted. Time to put a dent in my fictigue ™ (look, Allie! I did the ™ sign!), which is ( Read more... )

Soooooooo many awesome looking fics posted these last two days. My goal is to get to them all. Unfortunately for me, I don't have a few days free to just sit here reading them straight  through - wish I did! So it's going to take me a little while to get to everyone's... just wanted to let y'all know if you don't see a comment from me right away. I ( Read more... )

Yay! :D

Sending a shout out to the author - you rock. Thanks!!! :D

I downloaded a free trial of Snag It so I could try my hand at icon making.  So far it's just giving me a headache, lol. Question for you icon making pros... I'm not sure how to ask this so it makes sense, but.... I'm trying to make an icon out of the picture I used for this entry *points*. See how it's kinda rectangular, and doesn't fill the whole ( Read more... )

I was reading this article today about a survey of American's favorite books. They polled different demographic groups and the Bible actually came in number one across all groups. Second place was "Gone With The Wind", third were the Tolkien books and fourth were the Harry Potters.

Hmm... what does it say about me that my current favorite book (it ( Read more... )

Well, I survived ;) But dang! I really am not usually a wuss when it comes to weather. I'm not joking when I say I've never seen anything like that wind last night. It did settle down and it was pretty windy for the rest of the night, but nothing like the two half hour or so bursts of what had to be hurricane force winds. The tree by my parking ( Read more... )

I was sitting here at my desk and all of a sudden I heard a ROAR from outside and the windows started rattling. I looked out and saw that the wind was blowing so hard that the trees were actually bending over nearly double. Ho...ly... SHIT. I have NEVER seen wind this strong. As I was looking out the window the power went off and came back on again ( Read more... )