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Monday, January 5th, 2009So Christmas was pretty good at our house. I got a sewing machine (I plan to take up quilting), Josh got a drill press and other Manly Items. We gave Gaby a new hidey hole (more on that later, it requires its own post), and Zoë got a new collar.
When we adopted Zoë, [...]
2008 in 38 questions
Monday, December 29th, 2008It’s that time of year again. I did this quiz thingy last year and the year before that. I got it from Sundry who got it from someone else who got it from someone else, etc.
Here goes…
1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
Bought a house! And adopted [...]
Bah, humbug (there, I said it)
Monday, December 22nd, 2008Behold! Sock #1 is complete!
Zoë would like you all to know that she helped. And by “helped” I mean “drooled on the sock at regular intervals.”
It’s kind of been a crap week around here. Our friend and realtor who helped us find our house passed away suddenly last week. My dad [...]
Christmas. And also a giant pile of yard waste.
Monday, December 15th, 2008So! Christmas is upon us. I am going to hop on the blogging bandwagon at Rayd and write about how the Christmas season is going for me lately. The series of Christmas-related events thus far:
Josh’s grandmother comes to visit, and one of the first things she says is “I hear your mom [...]
Ohai!
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008Oh, hi, remember me? I’ve sort of neglected to write lately, and I blame it on four things:
(1) I had the mother of all sinus infections, which is STILL clinging to me a little. I was too busy blowing my nose to open up my laptop.
(2) I got back into knitting:
(3) This always [...]
Providence Canyon State Park
Sunday, November 9th, 2008Josh, Zoë and I went camping this weekend with Robb and George - a father-son duo that Josh works with. They brought their dog Quizz, Zoë’s boyfriend. We went down to Providence Canyon in west Georgia. I’ve been wanting to check out this park for a long time, and it was definitely [...]
Halloween play-by-play
Friday, October 31st, 2008Greetings from Suburban Halloween Central!
We are currently surviving the onslaught of “Halloweeners” (as one of my coworkers was referring to them today) with beer and TV. We are watching “What Not To Wear” right now, and I gotta say it’s hitting WAY too close to home. The subject of this episode is a [...]
Adventures in geocaching
Friday, October 17th, 2008I swear, some days it’s like my coworkers go looking for my buttons, and then when they find them, they insist upon pushing them over and over and over. And then my day goes from being okay to an exercise in restraint. By the time I get home, I’m exhausted by the sheer [...]
There’s a sucker born every smidget
Sunday, October 12th, 2008I have a startling confession to make: I will be throwing a Tupperware party.
It doesn’t get more suburban than that, I’m afraid. It all started when Anita hosted a Tupperware party last week. Josh had forbidden me from buying anything, but I reeeeaaally wanted some Tupperware. The allure of the smooth plastic, [...]
Vacation Redux
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008I won’t bore you with the details of our recent vacation. Bullet points are quicker:
Weather in SC was chilly, overcast, and rainy. Not good beach weather.
There was one good beach day, and Josh ignored my suggestion to put on sunscreen. He spent the majority of the week looking like a lobster.
Charleston is [...]
Vacation? Yes, please!
Thursday, September 18th, 2008I have been drawing network diagrams all day, and my brain is pretty close to mush. Since I possess the unfortunate character flaw of “attention to detail,” I got drafted into drawing network diagrams of 5 of our datacenters’ internal networks. And then after I draw the diagrams, I have to write a [...]
The state of things
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008Yesterday was one of those days that was so bad and crappy and soul-crushing that I don’t even want to talk about it. I still have my job, which is good. I am still suspicious that should the company decide to lay anyone off, my boss will make me be the first to [...]
Occupation
Thursday, September 11th, 2008I’ve been trying to avoid writing much about work on this blog. It’s part of the reason I don’t write very frequently these days–work is too much on my mind, and since it’s easiest to write what’s on your mind, I just often avoid writing.
I’ve entered a winter of discontent at work, to sum [...]
Are those treats in your pocket?
Sunday, September 7th, 2008She’s not perverted, it’s just that Josh has a pocket full of treats.
Patience
Friday, August 29th, 2008Soon vengeance shall be yours.
An epic battle of wits
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before or not, but puppies are exasperating.
We conquered the whining problem after a few days of having Zoë. What we did not expect (ok, what I did not expect) was the run-around-like-a-maniac-biting-everything problem. I know puppies have energy and all, but really. I could really [...]
Envy
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Envy: It has fur and sits in a window.
Post-weekend mish-mash
Monday, August 18th, 2008[Edit: If you clicked on my site earlier, you may have been greeted by one of those "Hey, we saved this domain for gnomograms.com!" pages. Um, yeah...that was me breaking my site. Not only did my Wordpress upgrade go awry, but I also transferred my DNS records to GoDaddy.com. For the record, [...]
At least she hasn’t EATEN poop. Yet.
Monday, August 11th, 2008So I’ve had an unusually large amount of free time at working, so I have time to post at work. The problem with this is all of my cute puppy photos are on my camera at home. But here’s a pic from my phone from last week, on the way home from Athens:
A [...]
Breathing into a paper bag
Monday, August 4th, 2008You may have read on Josh’s blog that we picked up our new puppy Zoë on Saturday. I am pleased to report that she’s a healthy, goofy, butterball of a dog.
Zoë is 9 weeks old yesterday, and she’s already about 15 pounds. Her fur feels like cotton candy (but definitely doesn’t smell like [...]
Fighting the Angries
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008I would like to begin this post by professing my undying love and devotion to Cesar Millan. Check out how he got to the States (click the link). Pretty crazy. Also recently added to my list of Subjects of Undying Love and Devotion: Gary Oldman. I saw The Dark Knight this [...]
Would kill for a cupcake.
Monday, July 21st, 2008Some thoughts:
The AJC posted this article today. I’m inclined to shake my fist with the other angry biologists in the article. Is it really a good idea to put giant aquatic creatures in a tank when we know so little about their behavior/biology/physiology? My other beef with the GA Aquarium is that [...]
Joy to the world
Friday, July 18th, 2008Josh found this picture somewhere out on the internet, and it makes me so stupidly happy for some reason. I have to share it. This is the very definition of joy–forgive my anthropomorphism, but this is definitely a gleeful turtle.
This picture now graces my desktop, simply because it makes me smile.
Coping mechanism
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008Hoo boy, work has been ridiculous lately. Too much work and not enough of us to do it. Now that my group is down to two people, I’m getting really annoyed at being on call every other week. On average I get called once a day, but last time there was one [...]
Red and cute and AWESOME
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008Two things we did this past weekend:
Painted our dining room.
I’ve been wanting to paint our dining room RED! for awhile. Not just a little red, but RED!. So we scrounged up some free time this weekend, bought the paint, and started painted. I wish I had a before picture, but I forgot [...]
Post-California recap
Sunday, July 6th, 2008It’s kind of been an eventful week since I last wrote. Where to start?
I spent most of last Friday in San Francisco–my last full day of my trip. We got out of class at noon, so I headed up to San Fran to check it out. I went first to Fisherman’s Wharf, [...]
Smoke and spices
Thursday, June 26th, 2008So it’s gotten pretty smoky here in San Jose from the wildfires up north. According to the FAA, this is causing delays of 1.5 hours at the San Jose airport. So keep your fingers crossed that everything clears up by Saturday at noon, because otherwise I’m going to have a really sucky day [...]
West coast pontifications
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008Before I left Atlanta, I made several goals for this trip:
Learn stuff.
Eat Vietnamese food.
Visit our Santa Clara datacenter (turns out this won’t happen because our Santa Clara datacenter flooded on Monday).
Eat good sushi.
Stick my toes in the Pacific Ocean.
Go to a coffee shop in San Francisco.
Drive on the Pacific Coast highway.
Relax and not think about [...]
Tales from Silicon Valley
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008Greetings from the nerdiest city in the US!
Ok, so I haven’t been everywhere so I guess I can’t really claim that San Jose is the nerdiest city. However, the fact that there are posters of network devices in the San Jose airport leads me to believe that San Jose’s inhabitants are on the whole [...]
California Love
Saturday, June 21st, 2008Had planned to review the two movies I’ve seen in the past week (The Happening and Get Smart), but Josh and I got back from Six Flags a little while ago and I’m pooped. The Internet paid for everyone to go–they even paid for parking and food. I’ve decided this is pretty much [...]
Old nonsense, far away nonsense, and workplace nonsense
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008So I managed to import all of my old blog entries from my Blogspot blog. I’m in the process of recategorizing all of them so that you could click and essentially read through my old blog (not that anyone has that much free time or hates themselves enough to read through all that drivel). [...]
File under “Thoughts, disjointed”
Sunday, June 15th, 2008People who say “vee-hickle” really bother me.
Going to California alone will be very boring, now that my boss has quit.
The MIA song “Paper Planes” makes me sad for some reason.
I’m not sure what I expected about being grown up, but so far this is not it.
150cc on the new Mariokart is hard. And playing [...]
Some of us take coffee very seriously
Thursday, June 12th, 2008Thanks to Tracey for pointing me here. I hung this up in our breakroom yesterday:
So far it’s not working very well. I’m still finding empty coffee pots that people are not refilling. Motherflippin’ TIGERS, people. FEAR THEM.
The age of Aquarius
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008I use the personalized Google page as my browser homepage. One of my widgets is a National Geographic picture of the day. One day last week, I opened Firefox to see this (click to enlarge):
My picture of the day was of the legs of Aquarius, where I did a lot of diving back [...]
My addiction and kimchi by the bulk
Sunday, June 8th, 2008So you may have noticed that I’ve really broken my streak in the past week. There is one simple reason for it. It’s called Mariokart for the Nintendo Wii. Josh picked it up for me last week, and I’ve been glued to it since. Here’s a rundown on what I haven’t [...]
It’s not you, it’s me. And your Nutter Butters.
Monday, June 2nd, 2008So I’m a big fan of blood donation. I try to donate whenever I can, but thanks to the occasional bad iron count it doesn’t always end up being that frequent. So tonight when I got to the gym today and saw the blood drive bus out front, I was excited.
Now, I have [...]
I’m a bad plant mom sometimes
Sunday, June 1st, 2008I came in to work on Friday morning, and my poor little desk plant looked like someone had bounced a basketball off it. I’d never seen it wilt so bad. So I gave it some water, and took the following pictures over the next hour:
(Taken at 8:07am.)
(Taken at 8:31am.)
(Taken at 8:52am.)
(Taken at 11:16am [...]
Ugh. Do not want.
Friday, May 30th, 2008So it looks like I may be back in job-hunting mode soon. My entire group is on the verge of imploding, and frankly, I don’t know if I want to be the last one standing when the dust clears. I dunno, man. I was just starting to think I actually liked my [...]
Aggravations, brief
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Wearing a skirt to work only to have it turn unseasonably cold outside.
Spending all day doing work for one customer.
Gaining ~7lbs despite a three-times-a-week workout (and without eating more).
Checkpoint firewalls.
Forgetting to pay your car tag registration.
Having your boss volunteer you to make other people do their jobs.
Coming home to find a giant pile of cat [...]
Stats, cookie cake, and the return of the prodigal cat
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008Today is my 27th birthday. Supposedly that makes it my “golden” birthday because I’m 27 on the 27th. Wikipedia says it, so it must be true, right? According to Wikipedia, I should be drinking champagne tonight, too. Instead I ate a gigantor slice of cookie cake. And then had a [...]
Gaby, where are you?
Sunday, May 25th, 2008My little Gaby cat ran away. Josh let her out last night, and she hasn’t come back yet. She’s not used to going out, and she has a tendency to get herself stuck places when she gets scared. I am worried because she hasn’t had her yearly shots yet, plus she’s not [...]
Tchotchke zoo
Friday, May 23rd, 2008So I have a thing for animal-shaped tchotchkes. I have a variety around the house but not enough to be overwhelming. In our living room I’ve got ducks, elephants, fish, a baby turtle, a puffin, and corals (because they are animals, too, you know). I’m always looking for more. Josh doesn’t [...]
Jesus Camp
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008So Tuesday night I was channel surfing, and I came across this documentary. It was just rolling the opening credits as I surfed to it, so I figured I’d watch it. I’d read about it on cnn.com when it came out, and I was interested in seeing it because I was raised sort [...]
My tropical sunroom
Monday, May 19th, 2008As promised, before and after pictures of our sunroom. We used some of our economic stimulus check to buy some furniture from Target. I love our sunroom, so I’m excited that we can actually hang out in it now.
Before:
It was pretty bare out there. We had the one incident of leakage from [...]
Pumping up
Saturday, May 17th, 2008[Dangit, already broke my streak. But in my defense, I did start this entry yesterday. I just fell asleep before I finished it.]
I forgot to include a bullet point on my catch up entry a few posts back: Josh and I joined a gym. That’s right, a gym. As in a [...]
No poetry in this entry. Sorry.
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008In an effort to jumpstart my desire to write here, I vow to write something everyday for as long as I can. Hopefully it’ll last more than a day. I can’t promise to always be witty and thought-provoking, but since my daily readership has dwindled to an average of 5 people [...]
How about more poetry? OK!
Thursday, April 24th, 2008First, check out our very splendiferous azalea. This picture doesn’t do the colors justice:
If flowers are all about plant sex, then this is the most promiscuous plant in the yard.
Hi. What have you been up to lately? I have been doing the following: (1) working, (2) raking the 6 inch deep layer [...]
The well has run dry
Thursday, April 17th, 2008So I mentioned a couple of posts back that I’ve got a major case of blogger’s block. I feel uninspired to write, and when I do post on here it feels mostly like an obligation. That’s a bad sign. I want to want to write instead of it feeling like a chore. [...]
I have stooped to this
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008So I’ve been having a major case of blogger’s block lately. Can’t find much to write about. Josh has covered the whole house stuff pretty well, and other than that there’s not much going on. So today: limericks. I asked Josh for the first topic he could think of (not knowing [...]
Two conversations
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008A conversation overheard yesterday at The Internet regarding “push presents:”
Sales Rep #1: My wife’s friend got one of those “push presents” when she had a baby.
Sales Rep #2: Yeah, my wife wanted one of those when we had our kid. Getting to have my baby should be gift enough.
A conversation between Josh and myself [...]
Escape the funk
Friday, March 28th, 2008Taking a moment to write to escape work.
We have this one customer who wanted this really crazy VPN set up on his managed firewall about a month ago. But then after I started working on the ticket, he decided he didn’t want us to managed his firewall anymore. He took over the managing, [...]
Gaby’s Easter “soot”
Monday, March 24th, 2008So the move to the new house has thrown our cat Gaby for a loop. She freaked out on Friday when I first brought her to the house (lots of yowling and gnashing of teeth). She’s gradually mellowed out and is almost completely acclimated. She is enjoying exploring the new place. [...]
The One House
Friday, March 14th, 2008I am using the new Blackberry that work gave me for a quick news flash: Josh and I are now homeowners!
That is all. For now.
Bullets, boxes, and bees
Monday, March 10th, 2008So how about the lack of posting lately on this here blog? Sorry. I used to do all my blogging at work, but since I moved into my new position, I am terrified of getting in trouble/breaking something/getting someone on my back. So no more blogging at work until I am certain [...]
Happy Leap Day
Friday, February 29th, 2008Happy Leap Day! I am trying to get Josh to buy me this as a Leap Day present.
He’s not going for it, though. But I am determined to wear him down. Oh yes, I will get my emu baby IF IT’S THE LAST THING I DO.
Name that Betta
Sunday, February 24th, 2008Introducing…my latest betta fish!
He’s prettier in person. Gaby has been trying to eat him all afternoon. I set him down on our coffee table and went off to the bedroom to sort laundry. When I came back, the fish was in his cup…on the floor. Gaby had somehow knocked him off, [...]
New house soon, hopefully
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Gonna beat Josh to the punch on this one: we found a new The One House, My preciousssss. And we put an offer on it.
And after some haggling, the offer has been accepted!
So we are one step closer to owning our own house. It has its own website, but I don’t want to [...]
Not a crazy fangirl, I promise
Monday, February 11th, 2008You may not know this about me, but The Highlander is my favorite pub on earth. It’s delightfully dark and biker-esque, with the best cheesy tots in town. My friend Tracey and I visited the place on Friday (as we often do, guess that makes us regulars). When we showed up, they [...]
Adventures in Househunting, unabridged
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008I know what you’re thinking right now: “Hey! Melissa upgraded to a new version of Wordpress!” No? Well, I did. I can’t really tell anything is different except now I have the option of putting tags on entries. I have no idea how this is different from the “categories” thing, [...]
Possible new house off the port bow
Monday, February 4th, 2008Josh tells me I am the only one on rayd.org who hasn’t posted today. So in an effort to fit in, here’s a quick post while I have 45 minutes left in the day.
No news on the househunting front. Still waiting to hear if our offer on The One House (as I have [...]
Hello, my name is “Obsessed”
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008So my beekeeping class is on Saturday. And in the week or so since I booked it, I have officially crossed into the realm of total blinding obsession.
My obsession, chronicled:
I bought a book on Saturday. Not only is it readable, but they put some fantastic pictures in there. I’ve had my nosed [...]
The soul for getting down? I’ve got it.
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Scene: Our datacenter floor, about 5:30pm today.
I am walking past a customer’s cage. The customers are there messing around with their equipment, and they have music playing. The song? “Thriller.” At this moment, I experience a huge pang of regret for never following through on my plans to learn the entire [...]
Bees’ knees!
Monday, January 7th, 2008So I think I’ve mentioned here before that I am really interested in beekeeping. I don’t know what got me started on it, but I would really love to try it. That is, if Colony Collapse Disorder doesn’t kill all the bees in the world before I get a chance to become a [...]
Nostalgia 101
Friday, January 4th, 2008Did you ever have one of those dreams that was so life-like, so vivid, that you woke up all emotional and had to remind yourself you were just dreaming? You wake up feeling like you were just there. I had one of those dreams night before last, and it really threw me off.
In [...]
Last post of 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007New Year’s Eve and I’m at work wondering why the heck I didn’t ask for tonight off. Stupid. Since no one else in the entire freaking world is at work right now, it’s quiet. Leaves me time to post pointless junk on this here blog. The wonderful thing about blogging is [...]
2007 in 39 questions
Saturday, December 29th, 2007So I did one of these questionnaires last year, but I don’t think I originally posted it here. But I dug it out of the depths of my computer and reposted it. Before I post this year’s version, some things I would like to point out about last year’s version:
Question #6: Got the [...]
Merry Christmas, from [The Internet]
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007Merry Christmas! I’m spending my Christmas afternoon/evening here at [The Internet]. The actual internet itself gave us a great Christmas present: a virus that has wreaked havoc on our network. My workstation is completely hosed, along with several others. I’m currently having to borrow a coworker’s workstation, and it’s driving me [...]
You have to read the whole thing to get to the part with HEDGEHOGS
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007So….I’ve avoided mentioning something on here because I didn’t want to jinx anything. I suppose the cat’s out of the bag and–NO I’M NOT PREGNANT, geez, I can already tell your minds were going there. Stop it. Anyway, instead of a new baby (I know you’re still thinking it, aren’t you), I [...]
Tooth and consequences
Sunday, December 9th, 2007(Ha, sorry about the punny title, but I couldn’t resist.)
We seem to have averted the Ich crisis for now. After the funky blue tank treatment, the surviving members of the tank seem happy and healthy. Also–sorry it took me awhile to approve your comment, Megan. I suck at checking my moderation queue.
Hey, [...]
Post-Thanksgiving ruminations
Monday, November 26th, 2007A late happy Thanksgiving to you all. My Thanksgiving consisted of a whirlwind tour of middle Tennessee and North Augusta. Highlights from the trip include:
Roasting marshmallows at the Christmas tree farm in South Carolina. Josh has already been kind enough to broadcast my love for roasted marshmallows. Thanks, dear, for posting [...]
God’s greatest gift to mankind: CAKE.
Friday, November 16th, 2007We had our quell-the-uprising meeting today at work. I have to say I was disappointed at the level of drama (too low, in my opinion. I wanted fireworks!). I was also disappointed at the lack of free food (we at least had bagels the last time we had a meeting). During [...]
Mush for brains
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Sorry, can’t talk now. Brain is completely fried, thanks to the launch of new software and the firing of a coworker that has left us horribly, horribly understaffed. I have a mission for you: post a link to something that will make me laugh. PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF MUFFINS, MAKE ME LAUGH. Categories of [...]
Mmm…barium
Thursday, November 1st, 2007Do you know what I just ate for dinner? A Lean Cuisine frozen dinner. Would you like to know why this is remarkable? It’s the first solid food I’ve had since Monday morning.
I got sick on Monday morning on our way home from Birmingham. We’re talking sharp pain in my stomach [...]
A shiksa dances the Horah
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007This past weekend, my good friend/former roommate S got married. So we headed out to Birmingham to check out the nuptials–which, by the way, were Jewish (and Birmingham, by the way, is a surprisingly large and pretty city). I got to cross off “Attend Jewish wedding” from my List of Things to Do [...]
This and that
Friday, October 26th, 2007Meh, don’t feel like continuing the Saba stories at the moment, so we interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for some random thoughts.
This week at work was annoyingly stressful. I am quickly learning that the corporate world is different than the academic, scientific research world. I can’t really explain it very well. It’s [...]
Cheese
Sunday, October 14th, 2007One year ago today, we got married.
Here’s to many more years of looking like total dorks in every single photo of us. Happy anniversary, honey.
Viva vacation
Friday, October 5th, 2007Guess where we’re going tomorrow? Saba, baby! First vacation either one of us have had in a whole YEAR. We haven’t been out of Atlanta except to go to Augusta in an ENTIRE YEAR, people. So I’m getting more excited by the minute. Have I finished all of my presentation [...]
Science? What’s that?
Saturday, September 29th, 2007So Josh and I leave for Saba next Saturday (or “Caturday,” as we call it at our house. We’re weird like that). I gotta say, I’m trying really hard not to freak the heck right on out. I haven’t written any sort of presentation in two years. I’ve hardly even thought [...]
Black Wednesday
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Monday I wrote this lengthy post describing how we’re going back to Saba and I have to get a new passport and I nearly sent us to the poor house last week. But it was long and really boring, so I scrapped it in favor for something a little less well-constructed and eloquent. [...]
LaBORING Day Weekend
Monday, September 3rd, 2007Labor Day weekend started with this:
In case you couldn’t tell, that would be my hard drive sitting on top–yes, on top–of my disassembled laptop. This was about an hour or so after I tried turning it on and was greeted by a loud clicking, grinding sound. Anyone who’s ever owned a computer knows [...]
Bread-baking: all the cool kids are doing it
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Current project-of-the-moment: Amish friendship bread.
It is in the oven as we speak. Or write. While I write and you read. Whatever. For the uninitiated, friendship bread involves giving a Ziploc bag of bread dough to your friends. Then they bake the bread and pass on some dough (the “starter”) to [...]
When servers attack
Monday, August 13th, 2007Thank you for all of your enlightening comments on that last entry. I will now start counting the hairs I lose (300 seems like a valid number–thanks, Mychal), and I will also start saying, “It’s hot as ovaries out here.” However, according to my little desktop weather alert thing, it is not, in [...]
Left to my own mental devices
Thursday, August 9th, 2007The sentence that entered my head as soon as I walked out of work today was: “It’s hot as balls out here.” I totally blame Josh, by the way, for edging my mind into the gutter. Anyway, I got to thinking about that phrase, and it’s completely false. Seriously. “Balls,” or [...]
Home alone
Monday, July 23rd, 2007So Josh is out of town for the week. As corny as it sounds, tonight is the first night we’ve not spent together since we got married. As elated as I am to have the house to myself, I had moment of “Knock, knock, who’s there, CRAZY” when I got home from work.
Really, [...]
Scraping the dregs of the brain barrel
Thursday, July 19th, 2007Today on I-85 a tractor trailer full of laundry detergent overturned. Lucky for me, it was on the opposite side of the interstate from me. I was really hoping that it would smell all springtime fresh when I drove by, but alas. It did not.
Hey I got a new phone! Fresh [...]
There goes the new furniture I wanted
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007I had thought about venting some of my recent frustrations about working at [The Internet]. Thought I could indicate how annoyed I was that I got in trouble with my boss AND my boss’ boss for a small detail. And how the resulting slap-on-the-wrist by my boss’ boss was broadcast over speakerphone by [...]
Four-eyes
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007You requested it, so here you go: the new glasses. Courtesy of my phone’s camera.
(I got them in black, too. Because they were on sale, and I’m a girl. Duh, your glasses have to match your outfit.)
Here’s an update. Now I’m going home.
Monday, July 9th, 2007Ok, you know what invention was a good idea in theory but not in practice? Those little 100 calorie cookie packs. I bought a box of them for work thinking, “Oh hey, this will keep me from over-munching while I sit at my desk. I’ll just eat one little pack at a [...]
Confessions of a former teenage nerd
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007I will start with a side note: I suck at checking my comment moderation queue. So if you ever leave a comment and it doesn’t appear instantly, don’t take it personally. I’ll find it eventually. And once your comment gets moderated, it shouldn’t fall in the queue again. I think.
I have [...]
Monday lessons
Monday, June 25th, 2007Am short on time because work was long and I don’t want bedtime to be short. Every time I sit down to write something lately, I get distracted and end up writing half an entry and abandoning it in the “Your Drafts” pile. So high five for brevity today.
Things I have learned today:
(1) [...]
And now I dazzle you with cuteness
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007Haven’t had much time to write lately, so here are some pictures to keep you amused:
She may look sleepy and pacified, but you didn’t see the 2 minutes leading up to this photo. Let’s just say Gaby really, really, really hates Josh.
We got some nephew time last weekend. Josh is feeding an actual, [...]
Sweeter than your mom
Saturday, June 9th, 2007I have a new vice. Gimmeh!
You know, I used to think, What’s the point of a vanilla-flavored Frosty? Everyone knows Frosties are supposed to be chocolate. But then this came along. With a million grams of sugar in it, it’s so wrong, but it tastes so right. I ate one [...]
Wasting time
Thursday, June 7th, 2007You know, I keep meaning to update this thing everyday. Does that happen? Well, you know…Um…hey, look over there! Something shiny!
Ahem.
Anyway. What’s new? A whole lotta nothing. After a ranted and raved about what a sweet, loving, devoted, timid cat Gaby is, she did something unspeakable the other day. [...]
Bathing the Cat: A Photojournal
Monday, June 4th, 2007So on Saturday nights, most normal people go out and do something fun and/or exciting. Me and Josh? Well, here’s our Saturday night.
If you didn’t know already, I have a cat (and if you really didn’t know that, you haven’t been paying attention). Her name is Gaby, and she is the most [...]
The Big 2-6: Pictures
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007This goes with the previous post: birthday pictures are here.
The Big 2-6
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007I don’t know about you, but I had a lovely weekend. Friday night, Josh did a very good of job assembling my friends at a Thai restaurant without my knowledge. I didn’t know anything was up–even when we headed outside the Perimeter for dinner (duh, everyone knows all the really authentic Thai places [...]
If life is like a box of chocolates, then I have got a lot of work to do
Friday, May 25th, 2007Since my birthday is on Sunday, my loving husband sent me flowers at work on Wednesday:
[Can you believe this picture was taken by my phone? Thing has a decent camera on it. AND I just discovered that I can email pictures from my phone. Go technology.]
These flowers also came with a small [...]
Geese in diapers and other mundane tales
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007You know, I always sit down here intending to write some deep, thought-provoking entry. But then that deep, thought-provoking entry turns out to be a listing of the non-events that make up my life. Oh well, profundity is overrated anyway.
I volunteered to fix a customer’s website yesterday, thinking it would be an easy [...]
Thoughts about nothing
Monday, May 14th, 2007I had a whole bunch of serious things I intended to write about today, but it’s Monday and I don’t quite have the energy for it. So here are some random thoughts instead:
I have lost 3 more pounds. Go me! I have never been so proud of myself in my whole life.
I [...]
People are nice at The Internet
Friday, May 11th, 2007Sorry for the lack of substantial entries in the past two weeks. This has been my schedule recently: wake up, go to work, come home, turn into a brain-numbed sleep zombie. I just made up that term–”sleep zombie.” It is someone who wanders around in a drowsy daze saying, “Sleeeeeeep…” (I [...]
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