Thanks to VaderofBorg for this one. (I’ve been meaning to ask about that name, by the way.)
Best choice:
So which letter of the alphabet matches YOUR personality, huh?
Second-best choice:
So which letter of the alphabet matches YOUR personality, huh?
The least likely choice (#26 on the list):
So which letter of the alphabet matches YOUR personality, huh?
Hmmm, doesn’t quite have the same ring to it. Fifty-nine degrees, and raining heavily out, with thunderstorms predicted for this afternoon yet. It isn’t exactly Christmas weather here. Good thing I come pre-shrunk. The Socialist is off to the West Coast with the Matrix’s hatch full of wrapped gifts and the front seat full of…
I’m getting some perspective again. Yesterday I had a Pulmonary Function Test (PFT), a bone marrow biopsy, and a dexascan to check for osteoporosis (evidently a common side effect of liver failure). The PFT was done in the cardio unit of the hospital. There were people there doing cardio-rehab while I waited. Old men with…
Memorial Day weekend ended mostly unremarkable. Indeed, things in general are far less remarkable than they were last year this time. Perhaps the most remarkable thing that happened was that the Younger Sister called to give me her regards on the anniversary of the transplant (as measured by the day-before-Memorial-Day as opposed as measuring from…
I got a killer headache around 9:00 last night, so I gave up, took the single Tylenol I’m permitted a day, and crawled into bed early. I woke at midnight with the headache mostly gone and feeling guilty. I had promised The Socialist that I’d watch some of the Babylons with him when he got…
… the more will come back to you. – Brian Tracey I can only hope that Brian Tracey knows of which he speaks, because I’ve apparently given away more credit than I intended to. A second charge was made on my now closed AmEx the same day as the charge I mentioned in my last…
Yes people, it’s started. My insufferable Minion has yet again tuned into the 24/7 Christmas carol station, starting today. I will not be responsible for the outcome. It is on his head if I crack from one too many renditions of “Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer” or “The First Noel”. Especially because he is likely to…
Try talking down the price on the table you want. They may want to move it as much as you want to get it.
Unless it’s really too big.
New furniture! How exciting!
Hope you feel better soon. 🙂
*hands you a bowl of cyber chicken soup*
I’m suddenly feeling an enormous burden on my shoulders to write something profound.
AAACCKKK!!!
I read that too in the forums and thought, "Holy crap!" Just seems bizarre to me to think of people 50 years from now reading my entries!! LOL
~jen
Hi Salamander
I reaaaally liked the comment you left in Slippermans entry about ‘thoughts’…..
very well put!
Hope your feeling better soon!
; )
I think that not writing too much about what irritates one and writing enough about what makes one happy is important to give readers a balanced view. Unfortunately, the squeaky psychic wheel gets the grease.
Dear Salamander,
i really like to read your diary, to know what you think or what ACfH has done each day. as a foreigner, i’d like to know how people live in different way. well, i like those quizzes also. *smile* i think you are one of the best journalist in DD.
/Lumin/
Love the Dear Diary Credo you’ve set up! Can I borrow it? 😀
There’s a lot to think about there. I hadn’t really thought too much about the long-term aspect of the online diary. Guess it’s because it’s just floating around out there, not in a concrete tangible form like a printed book, and because I once had a journal on Open Diary and it was deleted because I got involved with other things and left it behind for a month or so (similar to what happened with my DD last month). I had somewhere around 30 entries there that I was pretty proud of, entries I didn’t have the foresight to save onto a diskette for myself. It’s amazing that we as Writers (I like how you capitalized that word) can record our lives for the sake of posterity.
Amazing.
Cheers, Charlie
C|:-=
Thank you Salamander for such a thought provoking entry. I really enjoy your diary. It’s one of the few that I try to visit everyday – even when I don’t have time to update my own diary.
I believe your entries and your writing style will stand the test of time. I do not think of you as whiney at all. Quite the opposite actually. I think you tell it like it is – and sometimes that means talking about cleaning up cat vomit. You combine wit and humor and make the most normal, mundane things come to life.
And your comments???….
You are the supreme commentator. Even when you disagree or share another viewpoint – it is done with class and knowledge..
Ok, I’ve gushed enough.
Keep writing!!
~QE
I have to admire the intention of DD. While we can marvel at the achievements of significant historical figures, it would be refreshing to know that Marie Curie was driven nuts by her hubby leaving his socks on the floor, or Paul Revere’s wife had problems getting him to take the garbage out.
Then again, maybe I just have a twisted imagination and sense of humor.
Alli
What if people 1000 years after us read our diaries, giggling at our stupidity and at how old-fashioned we all are (were). Outrageous!