I got a new job.

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Mom: Wow, you got it bad with this one ( Read more... )

I was at a Christmas party with some family friends last night. I met a couple of elderly gentlemen, and for awhile I sat quietly (which, by the way, happens rarely, if ever) listening to them talk. The conversation drifted in an out of the present, and it struck me, hard, just how much these people know. Not because they have gone to school and ( Read more... )

Oh my.

It's always where you weren't looking. I am quite literally sitting a few steps before the word go, but forgot about this feeling. The butterflies, they're back.

And my thoughts and prayers hover somewhere between, "thank you thank you thank you", and "please dear God do not let me screw this up"!

There, now I've probably jinxed it.

Decided, for those of you willing, it would be easier to just post the link to other blog here. Then you can just click and I don't have to repost my photos.

No, not the show. Never actually watched that ( Read more... )

Oh look, only 3 weeks! Here's the link to the other blog, for any blanks that need filling in ( Read more... )

I must emphasize that I am liking being single. Especially after some good friends and I decided that SINGLE and ALONE are not, in fact, synonymous. However, lonely is possible. And, when you're single, so are unexpected yet satisfying drunken encounters with the guy you long ago gave up on as anything other than a booty call ( Read more... )

Five days of my week-long blog lull can be attributed to my trip to Albuquerque, NM, for the 2009 Hot Air Balloon Fiesta, which coincided nicely with my mom's big bad 50th Birthday! Picture post from that event to come. However, before my departure, I was somewhat unceremoniously "let go" from my part-time (morning) job ( Read more... )

Oh Heeeeey ( Read more... )