Today at work, I was informed that I have the EXCITING OPPORTUNITY to do the job above mine, unofficially, until October. Then, after employee reviews, if it's been determined that I'm ALREADY sufficiently performing the duties of that position, I will receive it! And start getting paid for it! Did you get that? I have an OPPORTUNITY to take on ( Read more... )

Over it. I'm. Over. Everything. And kind of hating life lately. Which is not really typical for me. Too much booze, too much work, too little money, too little meaning ( Read more... )

I'm starting a club. It's penance for having been the president of SADD in high school. SADD, as you may know, stands for Students Against Destructive Decisions. (Formerly Students Against Drunk Driving; the organization expanded its focus in 1999 to enable its members the freedom to be preachy and self-righteous about other fun stuff like sex and ( Read more... )

So apparently my friend Jesse had a baby (his wife did, rather), which I just learned from his Facebook profile. That is wonderful. If Jesse were a girl, he'd be my parents' perfect daughter. He's married to a doctor, and now he has a baby ( Read more... )

Dear Dermatologists ( Read more... )

The smell in the kitchen? NOT from the sink. It was caused, actually, by a rotten bag of potatoes (mine) in the cupboard above the sink. Which we did not discover until Saturday, which was two weeks after we first noticed the smell. Umm. Oopsy. I feel very environmentally guilty for all the chemicals I put down the sink trying to get rid of the ( Read more... )

Reliable sources inform me that boxed wine is no longer trashy. (The right boxed wine, that is; Franzia, unfortunadamente, is still out.) I plan to investigate tonight with the Black Box Shiraz I received as a birthday gift. Other birthday gifts I received: wine in bottles, tequila, mescal, beer, and a lovely bud vase in robin’s egg blue ( Read more... )

So tomorrow I'm turning 25, and I'm feeling a bit ambivalent about it. (Ambivalent is my favorite word lately, by the way.) I made an ill-advised trip to the Mall of America last night and ended up purchasing a dress from Forever 21. Where I most definitely should not be shopping. Also, a push-up bra. I thought I was above that. I'm disappointed in ( Read more... )

( I guess, upon review, it was an obnoxiously good year. )

I just GEEKED OUT over a memo on how my company is finally going to start matching 401(k) contributions. Sometimes I wonder exactly when it was that I started being a grownup.