It has been a surprisingly nice week. Yes, there have been a few days of rather heavy rain, but even that hasn�t managed to change the fact that it’s been a nice week.
Considering we’ve got the cantata coming up and the director is usually pretty stressed by now, and especially considering that the cantata [...]
After the rain we had this week (rain for which the local news kept interrupting Lost on Wednesday night to foam at the mouth about how we are having a Winter Storm – um, not), I checked the forecast for the weekend and decided that since it was to be sunny and nice this weekend, [...]
Normally, I can tune out the people in the office next door. Normally, upon hearing the laughing and the rearranging of heavy equipment (something they seem to do rather frequently), and especially upon hearing the thundering of tiny feet that heralds a visit from their children, who seem to delight in running up and down [...]
Today at work I got an email from my boss asking for help getting a report finalized. Since I had most of the pieces available to me, I started putting them all together, and while trying to insert chunks of previously formatted Excel into a Wor document would make even the calmest person swear like [...]
This year for our office holiday gathering we went to The Melting Pot, which is a fondue restaurant. Richard and I have been there a few times before, and my boss and his wife have done fondue a number of times with their family, and I think maybe one other person there had had fondue [...]
I woke up this morning to the distinct realization that there was a Crisis going on. This was because both Sebastian and Rosemary were busily pacing back and forth across our pillows, purring as loudly as they could and sometimes yelling. I was more than a little annoyed because at the time it was barely [...]
At church every year we do a food fight, which is where the congregation is divided into two teams who ‘compete’ to see who can bring in the most food for the local food bank. This year they asked my knitting mom and me if we’d be the team leaders, and do it as a [...]
“Is it time to go home yet?”
“No. It’s not even 10 am. Unfortunately.”
“Can’t we call it a snow day?”
“Well. It’s not exactly snowing. This being Sacramento and all.”
“True. But somewhere in this country there is snow, right this very moment.”
“So we should have a snow day to show our support?”
“Exactly!”
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“Um. Are you okay?”
“Yes. Why?”
“Well. Your [...]
At the local drug store, in order to pick up your prescriptions, sometimes you have to wait in line. They have cleverly marked the place where the line is supposed to start, and is often the case, the line then forms up the aisle closest to that mark.
That aisle happens to be the one [...]
Dear Internet,
2005 is almost over, so I guess this means it’s that time again. Yep, time for the annual holiday letter, now with all the snark that the printed version does not contain.
First the very best news. Unlike in previous years, I do not have any job hopping to report. Richard and I are both [...]
