Ok - I've chosen a new blog place - now I need a blog name. Any suggestions? Not MB, because I eventually want to publish substance and be professional (I'll have  private posts, too though).

What is a name? Any suggestions?

Where do ya'll blog besides here? I've been thinking of moving from here anyway, so I'd like to know where most of you are so that I can find some of you again. I hate the fact that SA is gearing this site (with more than one redesign) towards generating profits (and think that we don't notice), and especially hate the fact that they will not release a API for Vox aso that developers can code a posting client for Vox (see "Generating Profit" - if ppl post from clients, less revenue will be had by SA, so I don't think that they will ever have an API for developers).

Let me know where else you all post? LJ isn't an option for me - been there and do not like the ppl.

Hey 'hood………

Voice your disdain at the new Vox design here……….the more we bitch the more will get done. Or I just may be outta here.

moar funny pictures

 Yeah, I know. Been AWOL

We've moved and all I have up is the laptop right now. As shush now says, moves are an utter fiasco. I just found my pants yesterday and have to hunt down my alarm clock so I can return to work tomorrow. We had this week off to get settled: I have the kitchen up, the front room and dining room. Office isn't (desks have to be disassembled to make it through the turns to the office), the bathroom is usable but not finished, and the basement is trashed. Need to get a 220 line installed for the dryer...........got all my new appliances installed and working. Basement is a MESS.

Pics will come soon.Oye, the trials and tribulations of moving..........can't even possible think of getting caught up on the neighborhood..........

Ya'll may think that I'm quite the whiner........"Damn, that girl is getting a new house and has all that shit goin on.......what the hell does she have to complain about?"!

Well. let me fill ya in.

Our family is very close - there were many a Xmas that I didn't spend with my parents because they were in the neighboring state visiting their relatives and I had to work, so I couldn't go.  We had developed a new Xmas tradition since all my grandparents passed: Mom and Dad would come stay the night Xmas Eve, and we'd spend all Xmas day together. With our heritage, Xmas eve is almost as important as Xmas day: I'm Polish. Xmas Eve is the celebration of a very large dinner, vegetarian style. Last year, I must have known something was going to happen, because Mom and I made peiroges together: this was a long loved tradition that she and her mother used to do. I took the place of Namee (this is what I called my Mom's mom) and mixed and rolled dough. Mom took her usual place of filling and sealing.This was the first and only time we have made them together. I wanted a piece of that childs' Xmas feeling in the house.

Old traditions have gave way to new ones, and this year those traditions won't be.

And the new house thingy...........when R gets a new project to do, she won't stop until it's done. This means that she will be driving me into the ground with the renovations that we have to do, and they are fairly large. We have to completely revamp the kitchen and bathroom. So not only am I exhausted from looking for a house and going to the rehab center every other day, I will now being doing home remodeling in my spare (!) time. I am not looking forward to be rushed to do these renovations ASAP - and this is what it will be like. When R gets a new project in her head, she is as hard to rein in as a wild mustang: her head spins outta control and she goes off in a million directions. That the ADHD that she has, as well as other things mixed in.

So what I'm looking at is no rest for at least a year (we have to install a fence in spring, too), visiting rehab every other day, and setting up a new house (unpacking, etc). How is anyone supposed to look forward to that when they are dead tired already? We both have this coming week off, but what will we be doing? Packing a POD with all out belongings.

No rest for the wicked - but DAMN! I ain't been THAT wicked!

I am resentful.

R is at work, celebrating Xmas with her co-workers and getting gifts, etc. And I am miserable.

We will have no Christmas - just a dinner requested by my Mom and going to the rehab center. No gifts, no joy, no happiness. I am exhausted. Purely exhausted.

We will be packing and loading the POD all next week - it arrives tomorrow. I don't know that I will last the week - I have zero energy.

Some days I wish I wasn't here.