Several things have cheesed me off recently: 1) This weather sucks. I know, it is probably exactly like this every single October, so why do I always complain?

I think that I mentioned previously about really wanting a pair of knee-high brown boots, like all the cool girls in my elementary school wore. My friend Tawny had a pair; she’s the one on the far left on the…

We just returned from a weekend trip to Wichita, Kansas. Now, laugh if you will, but Kansas is a really pretty place. It may be flat, but it has these tall forms of vegetation that the locals call “trees,” and…

Mom’s friend Linda Eshbaugh died last week. Mom drove up on Tuesday for the funeral. Linda had MS, and I don’t think that she was particularly aware of her surroundings towards the end. I didn’t realize that Joel and Mike…

Well well well… it seems that things are looking up on the job front. If I don’t get the designer job in M&D (which I really really am hoping that I get!!), at least I have a little consolation in…

Last night’s party: I accidentally burned the tofu into cute little triangular shaped teriyaki charcoal briquettes. All the other food turned out very successfully. There was way too much of it, as usual. We all made a good dent in…

Man, am I tired. This week has been truly nonstop. A short recap: Monday and Wednesday we had Flash class after work, from 6 pm – 10 pm. Tuesday we raced from work to the grocery store, shopped for stuff…

We have had no phone service and thus no DSL since last Thursday. The phone company apparently cut our line when they dug through our yard to replace our neighbor’s line. It’s unbelievably difficult to talk to a human being…

Our tree is gone. 🙁 The courtyard looks so empty without him. A lovely 30-foot tall Chinese Elm, he served us well in the two short years that we lived under his graceful branches. Sadly, he was ill towards the…

Went to the second session of Flash I tonight, and the instructor once again failed to show up for class. Somebody who works there came and talked to us all for a while about rescheduling everything. The instructor’s ride apparently…