The situation with the eBay auction I got screwed over on is resolved. Not to my satisfaction, however. After going back and forth in emails with the seller, she agreed to take back only the items not sized as she claimed they were in the auction listing. At my expense I boxed up and shipped [...]

I wanted to mention my good friend, Wyldlock (not his real name) aka: Renaissance Geek. I met “wyldlock” um, 14? years ago…something like that.. it was a long time ago on a local online BBS (remember those??). He was a geeky punk teenager who liked to kill people in the little text-based games we played [...]

Today has been a weird day. A day where I feel like we’re just getting screwed over everywhere we turn.
Dentist - My oldest has had braces on for the past 3 years. In fact, this August is his 3 year exactly of having braces. Two months ago we were told the end was in sight [...]

The title of my blog indicates this thing is supposed to be about living with Diabetes. As you may have noticed, there hasn’t been much about diabetes at all lately. Why is that?
I’m ashamed. Yes, ashamed! I’ve not been managing it well. My BG levels are ok, I think… but my test strips expired and [...]

Ever since the earthquake in San Francisco / Oakland that caused the collapse of the Interstate 880 double-decker section, I’ve had a minor phobia of bridges, especially double-decker bridges/highways.
Tuesday when I was bringing the kids home from the zoo, I got caught in rush hour traffic. The way home involves taking the Fremont Bridge across [...]

I had an incredibly busy weekend. I babysat my sister’s kids from Friday until Monday, so that meant I had eight kids in my house for three days. It didn’t go 100% smoothly but it wasn’t all horrible either. There was one major issue that kept me awake at night that involved my teenage niece [...]