So I had a whirl-wind of a week last week. Starting on Sunday when I had a going away party with the company I have been going to teach at during lunch twice a week for about 3 years. A lot of the guys are from Shizuoka, where I lived in Japan for 3 years, and so we formed a rather tight bond. I even taught two of their wives as well as helped ( Read more... )

I just saw a very funny/disturbing poster on the net and it made me remember a conversation with my mom this past weekend ( Read more... )

As of this Friday I have told my current employers that I am leaving in 3 weeks. They took it surprisingly well. In my head I had them going into shock and basically being very mean about the whole thing, but I was quite pleasantly surprised by their reaction. They even went as far to say that they thought I had been extremely professional in ( Read more... )

This weekend is the big garage sale. It will suck me dry energy wise I am sure. I have a feeling I will be up all night with my mom organizing in the garage. We have so much stuff it is unreal. I know our house is big but I really did not realize that we had this much stuff ( Read more... )

When I should have been doing other things I instead have been reading past entries of mine on LJ and realized that it's fascinating to read them. Then I realize that lately - actually since coming back from Japan - I hardly write anything here anymore. I have a feeling it has something to do with the fact that I feel my life is not at all ( Read more... )

01) List 10 celebrities you would have sex with without even asking questions ( Read more... )

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I suppose I will start with today's Diane Rheme Show on NPR. Now I am not one of those die hard NPR fans. In fact during the heavy coverage of the democratic primaries I was disgusted by how like Entertainment Tonight even NPR sounded (What do you think it meant when Hilary wore a shirt that showed her cleavage? - ugh gag me!). However, I do ( Read more... )

I've been wasting my time watching too much of the TLC channel and as a result I have a sick obsession with the show "John and Kate plus 8 ( Read more... )