I buy and give a lot of Christmas gifts each year. The more I spend on each gift, the more thought and planning that go into gift selection. Most gifts I buy will cost $75 or less ( Read more... )

I heard a Christmas carol on the radio today.

18th of November. Thanksgiving, then Christmas. Yup ... time marches on. Yeeks.

We decided not to go to the Blues Fest today ...we are lazy.

The Space Shuttle is set to launch tomorrow evening. This will be one of the very last night launches ... and if the weather holds, Endeavour will light up the sky tomorrow night. Always an awesome sight to see, for sure ( Read more... )

Good news: My daughter thinks she may be pregnant.

Bad news: My husband thinks his job may be ending. He is working from home for the next few days while his company sorts out some financial issues. *gulp*

So ... for months I have thought my MP3 player was on the fritz ... only to find out that the problem is ... well, operator error. Dang it ... I listended to the crying babies on two flights for NO reason.

Cause ya'll know .. flights in and out of Orlando have LOTS of kids ... and one or two of em are bound to have a meltdown. *sighs*

The Castle Personality Test


( Read more... )

Our bar bill (wine, beer, booze, sodas) for the week was ALMOST as much as the entire cruise.

Well, yet another ONE more thing, so I guess this is two more things...

We now know the difference between at $10,000 cruise and a $2,000 cruise - and I DON'T mean $8,000!

So. Work is swamped. I can't even come up for air. New directive dropped while I was out, so now I gotta have some contract language ready by noon tomorrow ..then I have to conduct a compliance assessment and get that report up to you know where by the 12th ( Read more... )

The next time you hear a politician use theword 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending ( Read more... )