I start full-time at the new place on September 15th - wish me luck! Camden starts kindergarten on Tuesday, in two days. Lots of changes this fall....

Well, looks like it is going to take a little longer until I have everything sorted out job-wise ( Read more... )

Well, I got a formal job offer today and I have another interview tomorrow so by the end of this week, I should know what I'm doing from 8-5 every weekday starting on September 15th. Now I'm just working on on finalizing everything for Camden and Dekker...bittersweet ( Read more... )

A traveling salesman knocks on the door of a farmhouse, and much to his surprise, Barack Obama answers the door. The salesman says, ‘I was expecting the farmer’s daughter.’ Barack Obama replies, ‘She’s not here. The farm was foreclosed on because of subprime loans that are making a mockery of the American dream.’

I don't know which is more depressing, this or this.

Sadly, it looks like the turmoil in the financial markets is not over yet. You might have seen it in the news - my company shut down all lending operations effective immediately and laid off half the staff (yours truly included) effective over the next 30-60 days. Though the company has treated everyone as fairly as possible, given the ( Read more... )

Beach was lovely - coming home and back to the daily grind is rough! I am going to miss my 9 hours of sleep each night plus an afternoon nap each day. :( At least I got through my 3-month backlog of magazines!

....until we are done with work, out of the house, and at the beach. Hopefully we can all survive until then since in that period Ian must make a trip to a conference in PA, laundry must be done, all our junk must be packed up, and a birthday party attended. I'm just going to keep focused on the prize: beach!!!!! (With required beach reading, ( Read more... )

Just finished reading Mr. Popper's Penguins with Camden over the past several nights before bed. It was okay, but very VERY dated. I certainly wouldn't read it with anyone over age 5. So, we were at the library today and I was looking for a new, better before-bedtime book. We ended up with The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two ( Read more... )

...was the following quote:

Mixing politics and religion is like mixing manure and ice cream. It doesn't affect the manure much, but it sure does mess up the ice cream.