I cleared a great mass of papers out today. Okay, there weren’t really that many of them, but they were spread out and menacing. I didn’t just stuff them away, either—I actually *dealt* with them. I also updated our insurance…
Blame MrPsyklops!
Growl
I was awakened this morning by a collections call—from a company that I paid on time! Their system is screwed up, as they admitted to me when I called them yesterday—but they STILL sent it to a damned collections agency…
Okay
Dinner tonight should be interesting. curiousmay9‘s latest farmer’s market buys are on the counter: a bunch of turbanas (short, fat bananas that she claims are better than standard bananas) an eggplant a spaghetti squash an avocado a pear
Giggles
Linguists boycott Kansas hearings on intelligent design of English The state board of education in Kansas plans to hold hearings in May on the “intelligent design” theory of the origin of English, which claims that the language was constructed in…
Yay!
I woke up on my own today—FEELING RESTED! I cannot remember the last time that happened. Just feeling rested is something of a miracle. Okay, I did wake after 11 am, and that does follow two nights and most of…
Poetry: The sun has burst in the sky
The sun has burst in the sky by Jenny Joseph From Selected Poems The sun has burst in the sky Because I love you And the river its banks. The sea laps the great rocks Because I love you And…
Database Update
I’ve got 255 charts/magazines/leaflets in the Organized Expressions Needlework database now. I was entering a record for each chart in each magazine or book, but that grew old very quickly and I stopped after about 3 books. This process isn’t…
Interesting Choice of Goddesses
Better Now
Not all better, but much better than I felt before, thanks to sambear. I had my own un-missable appointment this afternoon. It required going to a government office that I’d rather have avoided, but hey, we all have our bureaucracies…