I stopped at the garden center this morning and came home with two new family members today!

I picked up a baby Philodendron Brazil for work. Philodendrons are a no-no for home because they're poisonous to my fur kids.

It's a newer type of Philopdendron and unique. I likey.

The other plant is a Maranta Leuconeura and is absolutely GORGEOUS!

My husband said he's afraid of it 'cause it's kinda weird. ...

My mother-in-law passed away about a month ago resulting in the usual wake which resulted in the unusual in my house. One of my husband's co-workers, rather than send flowers to the wake, sent a plant arrangement consisting of four plants: Kalanchoe, Dumbcane, Croton, & Maidenhair Fern.



Two of the plants, the Kalanchoe and the Dumbcane need...

So the wife started a Facebook page a couple months back. Within freaking hours, people from her past, and some from our shared past, came out of the woodwork. Even my 70-plus-year-old kung fu teacher has a friggin' Facebook page.

It's a wonderful way to reconnect with old friends and acquaintances from your past. People thought to be long gone and forgotten can suddenly become part of your present.

Which is why I will never, NEVER start a Facebook page.

So I had less than no fucking idea what I was talking about in my first entry. I blame lack of sleep.

For some reason I thought the upgrade had rebooted the whole blog feature. Never mind that I'd actually READ a lot of the blog entries and it should've occurred to me to wonder what happened to them. Furthermore, the stupid "recent entries" screen has a link that clearly states "Total Blogs - 30."

I'm not on drugs, honest.

Got some...

Not before I've had a chance to blog about it, goddammit!

I've thought about going back to blogging, although I don't care much for livejournal, the last place I used to blog with any regularity. And by "regularity" I mean a few entries a month, followed by lulls of a year or more. I mostly used LJ to keep track of a couple online friends who refuse to bow to the awesomeness that is .

So maybe I'll poke this ...