Donations for Pakistan earthquake relief are lagging. I’m as much to blame as anyone; as of this writing I’ve given nothing, not even much more than a passing glance to the relief effort. How hypocritical of me, after all the talk of irresponsible regionalism I sputtered after Katrina. As soon as my check clears the bank, I’m going to see what I can do to remedy that. It won’t be much, but it will be…
I’m waiting for just the right moment to leave out to meet my mom in Whiteville to make the nephew exchange. It’s either I dicker with the computer or I fall asleep. Read this. It’s kind of a big ‘duh,’ but I found it amusing since last night I was reduced to buying a $2 turkey-and-cheese Lunchables from the machine. The whole time I assembled my tiny cracker sandwiches, I felt like a second-class second-grader.…
Wedding photos are in the Flickr album. Click the picture to get there. There are a few of my night out with the nephews, too. I’ll update the photoblog later and put some proper captions on the pics.
Tamara Jo, hope you’re having a swell birthday. [][][] I put in my holiday requests today. Basically, we’re asked to rank which holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, News Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day) we’d prefer to have off on a scale of one to five. We’re not guaranteed anything, especially not our normal off days if they fall on a holiday (Christmas is on a Sunday, which I would normally have off). I…
The wedding went off without a hitch, except for the part where some of the more rude parties on the groom’s side of the family hit my sister up for money to help pay for the decorations. Three times. I know times in Savannah aren’t really that rosy financially for anyone … ever … but would it have killed them to at least wait until tomorrow to ask the bride to pony up for the…
We got a bit of bad news today when Phil took Gonzo to his clinic for a check-up. He’s been shedding quite a bit, which happens periodically, so we’re never sure if it’s a seasonal thing or the first indications of adrenal gland disease. We had a scare almost a year ago, and it turned out that Gonzo had a fatty acid deficiency that was making him lose his fur. So we were prescribed smelly…
So while viewing The New Republic tonight it hit me that I should totally rip off their color scheme for my redesign. And I know I groveled at the feet of you six to help me pick a new color scheme, but we didn’t exactly come away with a clear winner, so I decided to just run with the inspiration and see where it took me. And do you know where it took me? Straight…
It’s so weird (and by weird I mean totally common in almost everyone I know) how once October hits, I can’t stop thinking about cold weather and Christmas. Despite how I’ve actually spent my holidays the past several years (last year was practically a Dillard’s doozy), my Christmas fantasies (yes, I have them, and no, they’re not sexy) always go like this: Christmas fantasy No. 1: It is actually Thanksgiving Day, but my mom and…
I haven’t much had the desire (or time) to blog since coming back from Nashville. I was away from the computer all weekend and in contact with many of the people with whom I use this blog to communicate, so I didn’t really have any reason or means to write. And now that I’m back here, it’s clear that my visit just renewed my homesickness and that my previous post rings a little hollow: The…
Just this quickly, and then to bed. Not last night, but the night before, I got off work at 8:30 and when I came home — I don’t know if it was the chilly, real autumn weather or the way the apartment was lit when I walked in, or the public access radio playing in the living room, or the smell of food cooking, or what exactly — I felt like I was actually coming…
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