Since you asked …

Last year, when The Sisters planted my garden for me while I was recuperating, they planted three plants that never bloomed. My younger sister couldn’t remember what these plants were, but I was told to leave them be, and that they’d bloom the second year. Well, all three plants are back, and two of them…

Yesterday was my ten year anniversary at Dear Diary. I only remembered this morning, although I put a reminder in my Microsoft Works Calendar. Too much on my mind this week, I guess. I went back and read a few of the earliest entries. I’m not the person I was then. I wonder when that…

Waiter, there’s a condom in my soup January 15, 2004 Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/14/1073877897143.html Upmarket US restaurant chain McCormick & Schmick’s has, according to this story, settled a lawsuit by a woman who claimed she suffered severe physical and emotional distress when she found a rolled-up condom in her soup, on the day the trial…

That’s what I’ve been getting when I’ve tried to access DD for the last two days. Exasperating, to say the least. Consider this the least said. The original title of this was to have been: Don’t Get a Flu Shot But two days worth of cool-down time has softened my rant a bit. I’ll still…

This day is not starting well. Four o’clock in the morning, I was awakened by a persistent scratching at the bedroom door. I rolled over and ignored it, but it wouldn’t go away. Just to make life more miserable, my kidneys decided to wake up at about the same time as the door-scratching started. Between…

The check-up at Big City Hosptial wasn’t nearly as comprehensive as last year’s, thought there’s a few things they want me to follow up with on my own. They want a more recent MRI on my liver than last summer’s, and I’m supposed to round up a nutritionist for myself to talk to. There was…