Woke this morning about 2:30; after tossing a bit figured I might as well get up. Had a couple of come-to-Jesus meetings with family members this week, though not the typical combative version thereof. Just spelled out in simple terms that this isn’t going to work and that changes are no longer negotiable. I didn’t…
Author: leilani
I Should Be Dreaming
It’s past midnight and I’ve got to get up for work in another three hours. So why am I on the computer? Raging insomnia-Я-us, it seems. I took a couple of Tylenol PM last night around 6pm and it kept me groggy for a very typical 24 hours, following which I’m just awake enough to…
Just Another Drop in the Bucket
Apparently Lance Armstrong is being sued by the US Post Office for about $100 million. Why, you ask? Because the cash-strapped Postal Services managed to scrape together $40 MILLION dollars to sponsor Armstrong for bicycling around the world. In a world where kids barely out of adolescence are bombing us, we’re engaged in one war…
Fly Away Home
The babies have flown the nest. Well no, not the daughter (yet), but baby birds. A wee little nest was built under the eaves of our back porch and mama and papa bird have been raising their little ones there for the past few weeks. The nest is getting mighty crowded with five rapidly-growing baby…
Eye-Aye-Yi
It’s a ridiculous time in the middle of the night and I’m still awake. Tired, but awake. Daughter unit finally got on the spousal unit’s last nerve this week when she announced that she wasn’t going to be cooking any time in the foreseeable future, thank you very much. She claims she’s got finals (a…