So Sunday, we met for a family discussion about the family cabin in Yosemite. Thursday before last, my folks headed up for the wawona property owners association meeting. To discover that in one of the ice storms, a tree had fallen in the back yard fallen across the cabin it is only by luck that it didn't crush the cabin completely. The tree was ( Read more... )

So Saturday started out with Pilates, then K and I came home to watch the Angels Game. It was a nice win after the last few games. As K said, They're in last in the AL West but are only 3.5 games out of first place ( Read more... )

Jumble of thoughts the last few days. Everything from the news on Wall Street that compamies with large number of retirees writing down profits due the the tax bill they face under obamacare. Yeah let's talk about penalizing companies for taking care of their former employees. Instead the prescription drug benefits may be cancelled putting those ( Read more... )

After a long and difficult day, K and I came home to have dinner and relax. we were going to have a bruschetta made with pearl tomatoes and stravecchio cheese, except the tomatoes turned out not to be ripe. Plan B, let's order Pizza, it sounded good, the plan was to have a bottle of wine with dinner so no hot wings, the garlic parmesan wings ( Read more... )

K turned in her walking papers at work today. On to better things with a new job. This should greatly decrease the stress in our house both from having one of us not dependent on the mortgage industry and from K no longer working with Tuesday her coworker.

I am so beyond not wanting to be at work today.

Here's to getting odd looks for buying flowers at Bristol Farms yesterday with K standing right next to me.
K's comment "Yeah they're for my other wife."

Ipod genius function how does it get Don't take the girl(Tim McGraw) , 8th of November(big and Rich), and Just might (sugarland ( Read more... )

So one of my coworkers down here in irvine grew up in Azusa. So she talked me into picking up la tolteca's carnitas. So with 12 people we spent 5 a person and had so much food.
on this lovely day the phones are dead.

So the second week of the new year I am sick. Sore throat stuffy head ick. Last weekend was a lot of fun even if the most concise comment I can relay about _3 cups of tea_ is "critics agree three cups of tea should be read more for its inspirational value than its literary merit." On the other hand I am devouring the popcorn that is S M Stirling's ( Read more... )