Just when I thought my job situation couldn't get any worse, it did. I resigned myself to getting crap pay for a job I used to be paid well for. I'm just biding my time until another job comes along, but it's a slow and frustrating process. Before the contract changed over there were four of us contractors working in the library, and one ( Read more... )

Ok, not really. I just wanted to join the club and complain about how horrible my game is after a tournament :) I went to my first Scrabble tournament today. It was the Canajoharie Cup--a five game one day tournament between the Albany club and the Mohawk Valley club. I lost all five of my games :-( I was going to get all bummed about it, but ( Read more... )

I had a fun three day weekend. Yesterday I had Chris, Dave, and Katie over to play board games. It's so nice to have friends who like to play! Tonight I went to Scrabble club for the first time. That was fun, too :) I won the first game and lost the other two. The first player was a newbie so I did ok against her. Then I played a higher ( Read more... )

That's a lot of snow outside! I actually got the day off from work because they closed it for non-essential personnel. Makes me glad I'm non-essential for once :) I heard that they declared a state of emergency for our county today. I've already had my driveway plowed once, and I'm sure it will be plowed a second time before the day is done. I ( Read more... )

I think I should rename this to "Journal of a Thousand Complaints". I should be done in less than a month ( Read more... )

I didn't go to work today because I couldn't get out of my driveway. It snowed a lot here yesterday, and with the snow plows going by I ended up with about two feet of snow at the end of my driveway. Since my yard is lower than the road I end up going up a mini hill to get on the road. There was just no way I was going to get my car through that ( Read more... )

The wind chill is somewhere around minus 20, and it's blowing the snow around so much that visibility is very poor. It's been snowing since this morning. The conditions were so not nice that they let us leave work 2 hours early. Bonus! :) What do you think the chances of me getting out of my driveway are tomorrow morning?

I find that I'm really not looking forward to going to work. I'm bored with my job, but I can't quit it because I don't have another job to go to. It's not like I'm not looking. There just isn't anything open for me right now. Even when I'm busy at work I'm still bored. I've been doing this job for almost 14 years now, and there's just nothing ( Read more... )

I wish QVC would stop harassing me about gift ideas for Valentine's Day. For the past three days they've had reminders about V-Day gifts, including sending me an email about an upcoming jewelry show with V-Day ideas. I see V-Day candy in the grocery store. The resturant Chris and I went to lunch at last week had V-Day hearts on the table. ( Read more... )

Chris stopped by my office this afternoon to give me my first flash card. It's like he thinks I'm actually going to memorize words. Isn't that cute? :) Of course he's already planned my first tournament. I haven't even gone to club yet or finished memorizing the two's (I have a strong resistance to rote memorization). I am looking forward to ( Read more... )