Oh sara, you are having a week from hell. I wish I could fix that for you.

holy crap, sara! got to love a shopvac, though!

I've been avoiding leaving work because I do not want to go out in this mess. But there will be venison stew and biscuits (and Bob!) at home. I will have to brave it!

Actually, I don't find the water that upsetting. When we get rains like this, it happens, so I was expecting it. It's nice to be able to clean it up rather than let it evaporate and remember where the puddles are. When it isn't rising through the foundation floor in the low spots (that usually happens after prolonged rains, not like this,) it comes in a couple places in the wall/floor seam in the porch basement room and winds its way into the main area.

One of these days, I'll turn my front yard into a giant french drain, which should take care of that issue.

Huh. We had possible rain in the forecast, and I forgot my umbrella and it still didn't rain! Good one, weather!

My car repair litany: lube & filter, replace clutch cable, power steering and brake fluid flush, replace right and left front axle shaft, right lower control arm assembly, replace rear brake soes, cylinders and rotate drums, replace front tires,alignment. WHEW.

And, uh, it drives so much more easily now. Which is kinda scary.

Um, yeah, that sounds like kind of a lot of things, Sara!

Also, did we know it's the anniversary of the premiere of Buffy? I learned that on Facebook trivia.

Timelies all!

Came home to find cat barf in the hallway upstairs. Bleah.

Gotta love reinforcing gender norms. My sister tipped me off to the rising trend of manicured male eyebrows in Jamaica, and it made me stare like a rookie. For a culture that's reputed to be so homophobic (it is better/worse/different than you've heard), it's damned metrosexual.

I don't think *anyone* should spend too much time on their appearance, but, seriously? All the "you can't have better shaped brows than me!" comments are buying into the Platonic ideal of eyebrows and then denying it to men. So not fair. So, if it's not ruining the rest of your life, groom as you wish. And leave me to not groom as I wish.

Except I really need to cut my hair. It looks like shit.

Shit, shit, shit. I have to write a bio of myself, for work. Third person, right?

sara, in regard to your shopvac box getting wet, once at a "community shred" (they bring in a dozen industrial shredders and let people bring in bags and boxes of paper to shred) I saw someone had packed their papers to be shredded in the box their home shredder came in.

and Sheryl, sorry about the mess. You really shouldn't have to face that kind of thing before you've fortified yourself.