Nothing like being on hold to provide some good posting time. I have been on hold for almost a half an hour with my provider (which shall remain unnamed) about a dumb payment posting. For some strange reason, all the payments for my daughter’s phone always go through, but the ones for me are a problem, even though we always use the same payment information. What would be really cool is if there was a WordPress feature that would let me post from... Read more
Here is a link to the candle holder design I submitted to Glade for a contest. Go and check it out. You’ll have to wait up to 48 hours to see my actual design, but you can always look at the other ones. You can vote for mine, too, but they say it doesn’t affect the judging. If you can’t find my design by this link, you can look for it under “All Around Fresh” with my name as “Cynthia... Read more
So, I’m over here at Saint Mary’s. Again. Hanging out with Sophia. Again. Not that I mind, it’s fun to be with such nice girls and on such a beautiful campus. But I almost feel like the RA for this floor, I’ve been over here so much in the past three weeks. It’s just been one thing after another. Good things, mostly, but some are more challenging. Here’s a funny shot from when I helped her move into her dorm... Read more
Well, it doesn’t help that we don’t have the internet at home anymore, and the town library has relocated (during its renovation) to a place that’s not really within walking distance, and the car isn’t very reliable. But, hey, I’m making an effort, right. I’ve been looking at some new holy card pictures while I’m out on the web. I have almost 8,000 images of holy cards on my home computer. Some aren’t very good quality, but it’s interesting to... Read more
Image by eclecticlibrarian via Flickr The book situation in the apartment has finally reached critical mass. Roger and Sophia told me that I shouldn’t bring any more home, and so I’ve declared a moratorium on new book acquisition until the end of the year. Of course, it’s not a complete moratorium, because there’s been a couple that I’ve slipped in under the radar, or for Sophia or Roger themselves (surely that’s okay, right?). I haven’t seriously updated my LibraryThing account... Read more
What do Pedro Almodóvar films and I have in common? We’re both a little strange. The past couple of weeks have been really nerve-wracking and I’m beginning to feel that I’m on the verge of my own nervous breakdown. I’ve been having panic attacks with greater and greater frequency, which is highly unusual for me. I don’t really understand what causes them—well, I sort of do, but that doesn’t mean that I understand them. I’m the kind of person who... Read more
Well, my goodness . . . It’s been quite some time since I’ve written. We don’t have the internet at our home anymore and I haven’t gotten back into the swing of posting from the local library. So, more later, because I just logged on here at Roger’s, and we’re on our way out the door. Read more
And this is just one of them. It just seems sometimes like there are whole hours when I just get seemingly nothing accomplished. I’m reading, or knitting, or, too often, on the Internet, and I just don’t like the feeling of “un-accomplishment.” Read more
With books! Today from 11:30 this morning until about 3:30 this afternoon, I was at Paws and Claws. My Goodness, what an onslaught of donations! We can hardly keep up with them. Naturally, there’s a ton of Harlequin Romances, the bane of the store, in my not-very-humble opinion. And then, what to do with all the duplicates . . . We don’t want to throw them away, but we can hardly keep them. We don’t have the room. After I... Read more
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