Today was the first Fall-ish day we've had.  It was sunny, but in that wonderfully chilly, back-to-school, sweatshirt and shorts kind of way.  I love back-to-school time - in fact, I think I write something about it every year.  The joy of school supplies.  Picking out that all-important first day of school outfit.  Getting your schedule and ( Read more... )

Ever have one of those moments when you run into an old boyfriend/hookup/flame/whatever and you try to hide?  And then you feel miserable when he sees you because you're not looking all that good (and you know it), but he looks better than ever (and he knows it ( Read more... )

This weekend brought with it news of not one, but two deaths of elderly relatives.  Neither a surprise....both sad (one much moreso than the other, if I'm being completely candid).  And, in both cases, death brought an end to pain and suffering.  So, one might say it was a blessing.  "He's gone to a better place" at least one well-meaning person ( Read more... )

I really don't have anything exciting to say, but I feel guilty about starting back up and then not writing for over a week.  I'm an LJ tease, I guess.

OK.  It's been a while....a long while, I'll grant you that.

In a nutshell:

• Old place, new job (back at Acme, Inc. but doing something semi-new)
• The newly-renewed passport got some Eastern European stamps
• I went Mac
• The househunt has begun anew, amidst the greatest mortgage crisis in recent US history.  If history repeats itself, something life- ( Read more... )

I said I wouldn't let work consume me ( Read more... )

Over Christmas, I casually complained to my mother that I hadn't had much time to go shopping during the holidays. I'd ordered some things online, and I'd zipped in and out of a couple of stores to grab one specific thing; but I hadn't SHOPPED. And while this may sound insane to some of you, I actually missed walking through the stores at ( Read more... )

Well, here we are....2006. Can you believe it ( Read more... )

Working at home on - guess what - a PowerPoint deck. Am tired and want to sleep...blah. Even bigger blah to the fact that I have an 8am meeting tomorrow, and the roads are going to be all icy and gross. Like a good little manager, I told my new employee to feel free to work from home or come in late if he needed to. What did crazybosslady say ( Read more... )

I think by now most of you have heard about the insane conversation I had with my boss last week. The one that left me crazy for several days thereafter. The one that still bothers me. Backhanded compliment extraordinaire. Evidently I have "a whole lot of talent....maybe the most on the team," but the person who is closest to me in the "power ( Read more... )