With this brand new house we have, I’ve suddenly discovered house pride, and I’m just not willing to let it sink into the sort of disreputable shape that every rental I’ve ever lived in has eventually reached. So this house gets cleaned a lot more often than any other place I’ve lived in, simply because [...]
I am slowly starting to get used to seeing them, although there are still moments when they startle me – the shade brought out against a cat’s fur, or a flash of color as my hands twist underneath the faucet while I wash them.
It was a spur of the moment thing. I was rummaging [...]
Because I know you’re all dying to get the answer to this question, yes, I did finally paint my toenails too. However, instead of neon lime green, they are grape bubblegum purple.
I think I like the purple a lot better. I’m thinking that maybe the fingers need to be purple too. The lime green [...]
I turned in all my things today.
I drove down to corporate and handed over the computer and the phone and the American Express corporate card, and I signed a paper saying I was not knowingly leaving the company with any proprietary materials. I paused only briefly before signing, as I never did get around to [...]
I’ve been toying with the idea of upgrading my computer for a while. Um. Well. Alright, it’s been mostly since I got Richard *his* computer, because since then I’ve been having ‘fancier toy’ envy, but really, it had crossed my mind at least a few times prior to the wedding that maybe it was time [...]
It is an extraordinarily lovely day today. The sun is shining and there is just enough of a breeze to stir the tops of the two young trees in our front yard. We woke slowly this morning to warm purring cats and the promise of loveliness peeking around the corners of the curtains in the [...]
Picture, if you will, a dining room, sans table (it’s a new house – we’re still working on that furniture thing), with wood-laminate floors. In the middle of this room sits a medium-sized cardboard box, full of shredded newspaper that was once around a wedding present. This box, sitting there for weeks, has mostly been [...]
I made a resolution at the beginning of this year to lose weight. I’ll admit it’s something I’ve done every year for a fairly long time now – this promise to myself to lose weight – but this year I figured for sure I’d do it because of the wedding. After all, having a [...]
We sort of assumed that the first time was a fluke, because one doesn’t expect to find dead frogs in one’s garage every day, after all. There is the little matter of the continually growing number of cricket corpses that keep showing up in there, true, but there had been, so far, only one frog. [...]
Today marks the official last day of my employment with the Big Fish. Considering that Richard and I already went out and had our celebratory dinner the night I was released from my last project, and that I’ve already turned in all my stuff, today seems a bit anticlimactic. There’s a part of me that [...]
