This past weekend, my sisters and I took my Mom to Atlanta for her 70th birthday.  We surprised her with tickets to both the King Tut and the First Emperor Exhibits.  But the biggest surprise was arranging for her best friend, affectionately known as Aunt Dot, to meet us at the hotel.  Aunt Dot and Mom have known each other since third grade.  The ( Read more... )

Last night, I found myself soaking in the bath reading a new book.  The title is Java, Java, Java; Object-Oriented Programming. Today I successfully wrote my first Java program.

Does this  make me a Geek?

So this weekend almost saw the end to our living in the house of Mayhem.  It started with my wish list for Christmas and snow balled from there.  The dishwasher in the kitchen came with the condo and has spend the last six months giving up the ghost. I actually started to worry that we might be getting sick because the dishwasher wasn't cleaning as ( Read more... )

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Someone in our marketing department has a great sense of humor.

So yesterday and today are not going well.  Yesterday, I found out that I need two root canals done.  Since both teeth are located in the same area as my permanent nerve damage (caused by extracting a wisdom tooth), I am spectulating that is the cause of the necrotic nerves in those teeth.  WebMD confirms that trama to the face or teeth can lead to ( Read more... )

I was walking back from the copier/break room and overheard:

"That's right. Your husband is still married, isn't he?"

Talk about wanting to know the rest of the story.

I just wanted to say thank you to all of my friends who blog on a regular basis. It's been great keeping up with you and has helped reduce my whining about no longer having access to external IM programs during the day ( Read more... )

It has been a while since my last real post so this is will be a catch-up post. I will try to keep it shortish.

So I started back to school in September. Four classes, all online - what could be easier?  I don't know what I was really expecting but it was not what online college turned out to be. It was frigging hard!  Each class had a laundry ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday!  Eat Cake!

I hope it's special and wonderous!

Rats, I guess I have to pay extra for the Chippendale dancer emoteicon. 

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