Sid's Closet

Living once again in the house I grew up in, I occasionally get mail in Dad's name. He passed away in 2010. I've even gotten mail in Mom's name a few times, and she passed away in 1989! One day I think I got mail for both of them, lol. And my brother's name sneaks into the mix since we co-own the house, but he hasn't lived here since, um, 1971?

But today takes the cake. This piece of mail was trying to sell romantic jewelry.

(My Name and birthstone) + (Dad's Name and birthstone) = Together Forever

No.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Watch this video and pause it at 1:31, and you will see me!



I'm somewhere up above the U...

:-D

You didn't even know I was gone, did you? *g*

I drove down to Chicago yesterday afternoon to spend the evening with Beth (aka lolmac) and her charming wife. We had a great time geeking out over Treks and Wars and Gates and the Marvel 'verse, talking about our fannish histories, Mary Sues, the fandoms we write in, Mr. Anderson, and whatever else popped up over a pitcher of margaritas. :-D

We breakfasted this morning, then I headed back home. Saturday traffic through Chicago is So Much Better than Friday traffic.

Now I need a nap. I have a birthday bash to go to in less than 5 hours!

OMG, sneezing 15* times in a row is Not Good!!! *weeps for ripped apart throat*

*I might be exaggerating. Could only be 13 or 14. It's hard to keep count when you're DYING.

(Yes, I should dust mop more often.)

Clearly soup should be soothing, but the sneezing attack interrupted my reading! *shakes fist*

Well, could there have been a worse day to have my home network go down?

I'm at the library right now.  Who knows when I'll be able to get my story finished and posted now.  Grrrr.

(I can't even print off the notes from my betas, 'cuz I don't think the library staff needs to see all that stuff about doms and subs, LOL)

My plan for the day was to get up at a reasonable hour, and start writing Part Four of my How It All Began series. So I went to bed at the extremely reasonable hour of 11 pm last night.

But, unfortunately, I woke up with tummy problems around 2 am. So, I stayed up, drinking Diet 7-Up, and doing TMI-type things. I collapsed back into bed at 8 am.

Around 10 am I started drifting foggily out of blessed slumber, due to the loud voices I could hear outside the house. And thunking noises. I tried to tell myself that it was at one of the neighbor's houses, but I slowly woke up just enough to decide that I really should check to see if somebody was breaking in, etc.

I looked out of the window, and saw a utility company truck, and 3 guys digging alongside the house. So I threw on some clothes and went down to find out what was going on. Turns out somebody had reported that we had some exposed wires due to a conduit pipe that had come loose, or something. And they were fixing that.

Probably my brother knew all about this, but the word never trickled down to me. ANYWAY, I was so dazed and confused from lack of sleep that I decided to open an LJ account.

Just wanted to clear that up. :-)

(guess I can start writing now, as originally planned)

ETA: Yep, nobody told me about the maintenance, because nobody thought they would get to it this quickly, LOL!
And I'm writing, I'm writing. Sheesh!