This room went from being the ugliest in the house to the cutest but this picture helps explain why I am eager to move the girls into the big bedroom.

What is Doug like in bed? I know you want all the juicy details so, look away if you’re shy talking about things that happen in the bed. Still reading? Ok then, here goes. Doug sleeps like a rock. While I toss and turn for an hour or more searching for comfort, Doug is asleep […]

I used to put the DVD in the player, close the door, hear the motor hum for a second and then get a menu on the screen. Now I close the door, hear the motor hum for a second, pause of silence, then motor hum, then repeat until I turn off the DVD player. Soooo, […]

I am completely stir-crazy. I can’t afford to go anywhere or do anything (including waste the car’s gas) but I haven’t done anything for weeks. Doug is gone all the time now doing home repair work for friends (oh, the irony) and visiting recruiters to ask when he’ll have an interview somewhere. I want to […]

I wish that my teachers had taught Lord of the Rings instead of Canterbury Tales and similar sleep inducing literary classics.

It’s quiet out there today. The creepy kind of quiet that discomforts and unnerves those paranoid enough to anticipate the impending crisis.

As long as we have the predicted Internet shut-down today, I won’t get in trouble for posting this as my Half-naked Thursday picture.

Doug sold the kayak today. Thanks to the boxes of junk dumped at Goodwill and the bed and crate furniture we gave away, we have now gotten almost everything that was connected to his ex out of our lives. Now it’s time to get moving forward on the house renovations.

I didn’t spend enough time staring at the computer screen so I joined a freecycle yahoo group. Now I read the amazing e-mails people send out asking for or giving away things. Somebody wants a laptop computer. Gee, I’d like one too but I don’t think anyone is giving them away. Somebody else wants a […]