Ah, bliss…

A quick survey question – how many boyfriends out there would, when on their vacation, get up at six in the morning and make their girlfriends breakfast before they go to work? Certainly not many that I've seen, myself.
As a corollary, it's much easier to get out of bed when you're coming into a [...]

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It's been almost exactly a week since I dropped Brian off at the airport – and ironically enough, it looks like he'll be coming back in a day or two. Apparently the combination of travel-stress and best friend-stress and sprained back-stress is proving too much for him, and that along with the fact that [...]

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One…is theeee loooneliest nuuumber

Thanks to Adam for help with the title, since I wouldn't actually know which vowels to stretch, never having heard that particular song. =)
Yeah, things have been pretty lonely around here lately. Mr. Jerry Brown doesn't quite seem to know what to do with himself without his Daddy-Cat to snuggle him, and has [...]

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Travel and babies, mostly…

I dropped Brian off at the airport this morning for his month-long Grand Tour of Europe. I know he'll have a fine time and it's a great opportunity and all that, but I'm going to miss the boy like crazy. At the moment, though, it doesn't feel particularly real (which may have something [...]

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Ha!

After a solid week of running around in very small circles with the tech support people for our new billing system, I have finally…
…wait for it…
…produced a paper invoice with actual charges for one of our customers!
*cue lights, confetti, noisemakers, etc.*
This shouldn't feel anything like the accomplishment that it does…

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Health update, both physical and mental…

I finally hauled my arse back out to the rock gym last night to do some climbing (thanks mostly to Brian and Monica threatening to forcibly drag me if I didn't cooperate). I haven't gone in a good couple months, and boy does it show – I only managed to climb a couple of [...]

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In which Rose's writing style takes a swing towards Narrative…

Waking up this morning, it was hard not to groan in anticipation – the rain was coming down pretty steadily. And not the pleasant, ignorable misty-type rain, but the thick, driving kind that has a special talent of soaking through sweaters and hair with all the enthusiasm of a shower head set to “lukewarm”. [...]

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Grrar…

And the SkiFree Yeti icon shows up for the first time in months, thanks to LJ's increasing the free account icon limit from three to six. I suppose I could've shelled out the $5 for a paid account at some point in the interim, but it didn't really seem worth it, since the only [...]

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A $2.13 million comma

I ganked this particular link from Neil Gaiman's blog, so some of you have probably already read it, but it's worth reposting so people will understand why grammar nazis and contract attorneys are necessary (though annoying and expensive, respectively). Also, I find it doubly amusing because I grew up with a contract attorney for [...]

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Things we need for the house

Trash can with lid that fits
Floor Lamp for living room
Hobart mixer
Good knives/knifeblock
TV stand
Cat sill/tree
Shoe rack for entryway (?)
End table for living room, preferably with matching coffee table
Green Gooshy Couch!
Desk and chair

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