I’ve been at this job over a year and have made many a trip here and there, mostly to the other offices, for work-related reasons. But none of those trips has been more than a day – down in the morning, back home late at night and back to office and normal life the morning [...]
To be childfree by choice is to feel with utmost certainty that you never wish to be a parent, biological or otherwise, to any human being. To be childfree by choice is to know this with every fiber of your being, in times when you are safe and healthy and whole even more than in [...]
I realized that it is now way past spring and I never did a pictorial update on our backyard. While some of the flowers have come and gone and some of the plants have exploded in size while others look as if they might need replacing (or at least some strong encouragement), overall the backyard [...]
I am still madly knitting on a regular basis, just in case you all were wondering. But I decided that my obsession had reached the point where I was probably boring anyone but fellow knitters, so I moved all my babble about needles and yarns and what-not over to a new spot. So if you’re [...]
Richard has been running an ongoing Dungeons and Dragons game now for nearly two years, with the same group of players. It’s always lots of fun, but it’s been hard sometimes getting the group together and sometimes there have been weeks or months that go by before we can continue. So for some reason he [...]
Friday night we were supposed to go see Chronicles of Riddick with a friend. But schedules and busy lives being what they normally are, it was postponed until this afternoon. So instead we went to see the latest Harry Potter film.
We went to the latest showing on Friday night, which was chosen despite the [...]
Yesterday afternoon we went to see a movie with friends. As we drove around the movie theater parking lot, we first spotted a group of women climbing into a car, and then immediately spotted an open spot directly across from them. Naturally, the open spot won, so Richard started to pull in, only to realize [...]
I may have mentioned at some point last year (although I am not going to bother looking up any relevant entry links) that one of the reasons why I like my current job is because of the birds. Oh, there are certainly downsides to where we are located – most notably the noise problem due [...]
Since we live on the very edge of a town that is surrounded on all sides by large amounts of rural farm area, it is not uncommon to be driving along the back roads to work and be suddenly confronted with some manner of livestock. Usually it is chickens, which, while they may not be [...]
I don’t know when I first heard about Habitat for Humanity. All I know is that it has been years since I first saw those words and found out what it was all about. It’s an organization dedicated to providing affordable housing for people who couldn’t otherwise afford a place of their own. This isn’t [...]
