Author: leilani

I got up and logged in to work yesterday morning at my usual time. I was working maybe two minutes when our Internet crashed and burned. Based on the same error message we were getting a couple of weeks ago, I already knew it wasn’t coming back up without a cable repair person coming to…

My friend from work came through with the new sewing machine, and I’m ecstatic. I fixed a BBQ chicken lunch for all of us, and G gave her a couple of artisan cutting boards, but it wasn’t part of the deal. It’s Singer model 3337 as pictured at right. It even has an automatic needle-threading…

Saturday, the skies were gray and gloomy as heck. In other words, PERFECT photography weather. We maxed it out on Saturday, aches and pains be damned. Photos at the end. Most of Friday, I spent curled up on the sofa under a quilt, typing into the Internet, trying to decide if I wanted to invest…

G and I routinely forward crazy ads to each other, mostly from Facebook and other social media. The ad at the top of the page is an example. G sent it over to me a few days ago, snorting how crazy those people were to ask $1600 for a set of four Pyrex bowls. Except……

We didn’t send Christmas cards this year, not even to family. Heck, we didn’t do Christmas shopping this year. The slashed paycheck allows us to pay the bills, and almost nothing else. (The extras from my Christmas bonus at work went straight to bills.) Considering how rough a lot of families are having it right…