No, not my age (ha!) but the temperature today. Today was the first day of 2009 above freezing. The warmest it has been since sometime last November (I think while I was in Italy.)
It was the kind of day we need around here to keep from becoming homicidal, or suicidal from gritting our teeth and [...]
This Friday Five from RevGalBlogPals is perfect for me these days.
1) If you could, what room in the place you are currently living would you redo first?
For serious remodeling I think the first thing on the list would be the upstairs bathroom. I actually have started looking at design stuff for it, even though I [...]
I know I try to keep positive lately because it’s so easy to just complain about all the crap that comes past my face. And generally, my life is Very.Good.
Tonight though, and this whole week really, I am feeling trapped in a double-bind. I’m just feeling lonely and wishing that there was somone in my [...]
It’s a good thing I stalk my children via their Facebook and MySpace pages. It is sometimes the only way I know things.
Last week I learned that DS1 is planning a road-trip during spring break to see the Hold Steady in Iowa City.
Tonight, I learned that he and the GF have broken up.
Being the good, [...]
I’m jumping in feet first with this idea from Peter Walsh (h/t Colleen The Communicatrix) about articulating what you WANT your life to be like before you tackle getting your home to embody that. This little series will be a description of what I want for a particular room accompanied by the before pictures. Later, [...]
I don’t know exactly why this has been banging on the front door of my memory bank lately. I haven’t had cable for years, and I stopped watching MTV (or VH1) long before I quit paying for TV. I remember a bunch of us crowding in to a student apartment at college to watch the [...]
It’s been quite a week at Chez Journey. Even though it has been quite stressful and filled to the brim with work stuff there has been quite a lot that has made me happy this week and for which I am very grateful. Here’s a partial list:
30 or so friends that came over to celebrate [...]
The water-heater guy just left. This time he installed a new brassier drain faucet for the tank and a whole new thermostat. His parting shot was that if the pilot light keeps going out it means the tank is leaking and putting out the pilot light and it would be time for a new water-heater. [...]
It is my brother’s birthday today. I have not called him and now it is way too late at night.
I have worked 62 hours so far this week between the two jobs. I have 4 to go tomorrow evening.
We’ve had no hot water at Chez Journey since Tuesday morning. when the ServicePlus guy came Tuesday [...]
I’m jumping in feet first with this idea from Peter Walsh (h/t Colleen The Communicatrix) about articulating what you WANT your life to be like before you tackle getting your home to embody that. This little series will be a description of what I want for a particular room accompanied by the before pictures. Later, [...]
