Hot on the heels of my new and improved living room and my visit to Disney Quest comes an email from GK---she'll be down in a little under three weeks for a 5-day solo vacation ( Read more... )

Bzz's -- Get Up, Get Angry

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Ginger Rogers -- We're in the Money

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Discovered that the Salvation Army (Melbourne) is not open on Sunday, but Goodwill is. Didn't find anything exciting to wear---bunch of skinny little sundresses, phooey!---but I snagged a couple books, including "The Eyre Affair", which I've been meaning to read. Also found a really nice small carpetbag; it's tapestry with a pattern of old- ( Read more... )

Mb picked me up this morning, and we spent the day running around. First was lunch at Cracker Barrel---cider-braised pork roast, delish!---since niether of us had had breakfast. Of course, we spent a while afterward wandering through the gift shop. Mb, who knows me VERY well, got me an ornament---a mini diet Coke can (complete with fuzzy red ( Read more... )

This year...most of you have been around for it. I've been out of work the whole time. Kat passed away in February. S is a mess; prescription drug abuse isn't pretty. (However, I have been enticed into schnauzer-sitting for her when she and T go to their Key West time-share in a matter of weeks ( Read more... )

One of the beneficial side-effects of the call center job (aside from the upgrading of my wardrobe) was getting over my Fear. When I started, I got physically nauseous when I thought about the commute. I'd start getting queasy about noon when I had to go in, and I'd go out into the parking lot at 11:40 (after a quick use of the restroom) and ( Read more... )

I am usually a very mild-mannered person, but don't get in my face, because there's no guarantee I'll stay that way. Witness the LeSnobbi affair ( Read more... )

Meanwhile, back at the medical billing office, they'd taken me out of my happy little cubical and put me back on the phones. (Insert rant here.) I was stressed, but I was still writing. And I tried for every other job in the office that came up, and believe me, I was NOT pleased when I got passed over in favor of someone who'd barely been there six ( Read more... )

Still doing medical billing...working there had its moments. Every Friday morning, there was an office meeting. And if you came in for it, you could take an hour lunch instead of a half-hour, so I missed very few office meetings. It was especially nice on alternate Fridays---payday!---because we were a short drive from a WalMart, where I could do ( Read more... )

I got really ambitious in February: I'd started a fic in mid-January and began posting a chapter a day in February. It was 75% done when I began, and although I bogged down while writing a full-scale gunfight and wrote nothing for a whole week, I was far enough ahead by that point that I *still* got it done on schedule. That was "Clockwork Mexico ( Read more... )