Waiting for Santa

No, not a permanent move. Yet. But I will be out there for a week in August. I purchased the tickets for the Professor and myself Sunday night, and made arrangements for the rental car yesterday evening. This is all stuff that my husband used to do, and I can feel myself shedding insecurities as…

There’s a relatively new diarist afoot, and one who has captured my interest. Check out Derna’s Fund Raising Diary Her plans have trapped my attention, my admiration and my jealousy. I’m going to try and do a little fundraising at work for her. Lord knows, the Girl Scout Cookie Mothers, and the Daffodils for Cancer…

OK, first off I need to vent about Word 2007. Why in the world did Microsoft feel the need to reinvent the wheel? And if the wheel really did need reinventing, why, oh why did they decide to make it trapezoidal? My PC crashed a very final, fatal crash about six weeks ago. While I…

Thanks to Fury for tipping me off to both of these. Nothing like a couple of mindless quizzes to lighten the load. First, I’ve been intruduced to NatureBug’s Diary, which contains the test What Looney Toon Are You? I scored a 33 – two more points and I could have been Pepe le Pew! (27-34…

I think what makes us [cat people] feel superior is not that we have a cat in our homes, but that a cat has found us acceptable to live with. There’s a thrill in that that a dog owner will never know. -Haskel Frankel, Foreword to Dr. L. J. Camuti’s book “All My Patients Are…

The surgeon decided he needed more tests run before he’d operate. While I appreciate that he wants to make this surgery as risk-free as possible, the list of tests was far more than anything we could reasonably afford. After The Prof negotiated with the vet clinic, we managed to get the list reduced to only…