life & stuff

  • Trying to stay even

    Well, haven’t gotten the new design going yet. Yesterday the power cord on this old Powerbook stopped working, and after a mini-meltdown, I decided to just replace the damn thing. I plan to get a new computer soon, but I can’t do it just yet, and a new power cord for this old gal was…

  • Quickie

    Had a very nice xmas; hope everyone else did, too. Enjoyed my days off. I’ve relaxed, pixeled (made some New Years sigs, over to the right, and redesigned my QBee quilt), watched movies, read, puttered. Sadly I have to go to work tomorrow, but since it’ll only be me and one other gal in the…

  • Baby steps

    My new bedroom floor got grouted last night, a bit later than when we’d originally planned. Now it has to set for 48 hours, so late tomorrow night it will get sealed. This means I won’t be able to move my stuff back in until xmas eve…ah well. It is what it is. Hey, it’s…

  • Some good among the bad

    Isn’t it funny how you can think you’re handling stress, or that you’re not that upset, and then tiny things completely set you off, thereby proclaiming quite loudly that you’re not just stressed but COMPLETELY, FULLY, READY-TO-BLOW stressed? That happened to me last night; at least I realized where it was coming from. Also had…

  • Floor closer to being done

    Tonight roomie finished laying the main tiles for my room’s floor; Friday we cut tile to go along the edges, Saturday is grouting, Sunday is hopefully sealing. Monday I hope to move my stuff back in and be settled for xmas. Le sigh. All this is at least slightly taking my mind off the job…

  • Trying to stay positive

    …but it’s hard. I feel like my holidays are now ruined because I can’t think about anything but the fact that I’ll soon be out of a job. I am grateful that I have a few weeks’ notice (and therefore pay), but it doesn’t stop the bitterness and the anger. Right now we are all…

  • Fiddling

    I’m messing around with some new colors & elements to this Christmas layout. If anything breaks, bear with me; it’ll be fixed eventually. Well, I’m doing this in between working on the mold problems, lol. Fun, fun!

  • Well, crap. Mold.

    The room I live in in my roommate’s house has a concrete floor; she hadn’t tiled it yet when I moved in. Because at the time I had an older cat who sometimes missed his box, I decided to make cleanup easy by buying a piece of cheap vinyl to put down on top of…

  • Le sigh.

    New experience for me: Today I got into my car to go to work, and pushed in the clutch, went to put the car into reverse… …and it wouldn’t go. Now, sometimes my gears can be a bit ornery, so I tried again. Nope. I tried other gears. Nothing. It simply would not go into…