Yesterday was a very rough day. I can’t get into it all right now, to respect the privacy of a few people I care about. There’s a serious illness among my family members, Alladin got very motion sick yesterday on the road and pooped all over the bedroom (eww!), and our hosts’ dog died yesterday […]
Birthday Wind-Up
[Note: ecto3 is too buggy to use, so I’ve tried to write this post about 4 times over the course of the past 24 hours. Am now posting it using ecto2.] Birthday party was much fun. Sad thing: my bike got dropped upside down when one of the guests leaned into it and knocked it […]
You Say It’s Your Birthday…. Well, It’s My Birthday Too, Yeah!
I’ve been awake for 18 90 minutes and have already had a bunch of wonderful birthday surprises: MORE HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMAILS THAN SPAM! This was probably the best birthday present a girl online could get today! I had more comments (in LiveJournal) wishing me Happy Birthday than I had spam comments, and more direct emails […]
Crafty Swap Site
So, I recently joined Swap-Bot, which is an online gift-swap site, like for exchanging craft items, or letters, post cards, etc. (My Ravelry invite hasn’t arrived yet, so I needed something to do in the meantime!) Anyway, I started a couple of swaps that I thought the site needed. For one of them, sign ups […]
Trailer Trash.
John and I are practicing our “trailer trash talk.” He emailed Wells Fargo to ask them a question, and they replied (by email) telling him to call them (we don’t have reliable cell coverage out here). This led to silliness as we envision the email exchange trying to tell WF that we can email, but […]