So the good news is that now that we’re both employed, the getting-the-server-at-big-number-of-miles thing is back on. However, we’ve upped the ante, so to speak, and now we have to do 1500 miles by the end of the year so the server will be kind of a ‘woohoo, we did it!’/joint Christmas present for ourselves. […]
Yesterday night, after the game was over and people were packing up to leave, I roped all the guys into helping Richard move the china cabinet away from the wall in the dining room, because it is very large and tall and heavy and I wasn’t sure he and I could manage it by ourselves. […]
My hands feel bruised from pressing so hard on the roller. My knees ache from kneeling, crouching, and the constant bending up and down. There is a streak of dark blue paint on my left leg, a dab of the medium blue on my right arm, and the light blue lining my fingernails refuses to […]
There are rules about going shopping. Never go to a grocery store when you’re hungry, for example, is an excellent rule to follow. The other, far more important, rule is this: never go to a Kmart/Target/Wal-Mart when you are not on a very strict time schedule that requires you to run in, grab *only* what […]
Last year I sat on the couch and stared at the TV in disbelief. Last year I refreshed the CNN screen obsessively all day to find out any additional information. Last year I watched the donation totals for the Red Cross site skyrocket. Last year I listened and read and watched and tried to understand. […]
There is something a bit weird about working from home. For one thing, the days all start to jumble together, until I am never quite sure what day of the week it is, or whether it is a weekday or a weekend.
When you work from home you can sleep in as late as you want […]
The newest season of the Davis Musical Theater Company started with The Secret Garden, so last night we showed up to take our usual seats, looking forward to a new year of entertaining fun.
I am very familiar with the story on which this play is based - about a little girl whose parents die […]
Years ago, when my older sister and her husband had only been married a year, she made the mistake of mentioning to my mom that her in-laws gave them an anniversary present. There are differing versions of exactly how the information about the anniversary gift was conveyed (depending on if you ask my mom […]
As we all settled ourselves around the table in the tiny little conference room, one of the participants in this meeting suggested that we go around the room and introduce ourselves. Richard and I were at the tail end of the circle and as we each introduced ourselves a few of the others shot interested […]
Since Friday was an at-home day, we could pretty much set our own schedule. At one point I snuck downstairs, where Richard was “reading” (or in other words, asleep on the sofa), and sprinkled him with little pieces of paper on which I’d written “sushi” on each side. When he woke up, wondering what the […]
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