And the grand total we spent on family for Christmas was……. drum roll please….. $1,832.50. Just disgusting, isn’t it?? That doesn’t even include my friends and coworkers, who I pay for myself, or Bill’s friends and coworkers. That’s family only. We should have just bought goats for African families or something. Next year we are going to have the " ( Read more... )

Well, I probably won’t update again before Christmas, so Happy Sparkle Season to all four (five?) of you who read this. The Sparkle Season is a joke. The school district actually got a letter from the ACLU or some such agency saying that wishing someone a “Merry Christmas” wasn’t politically correct and that “Happy Holidays” or “Happy Sparkle ( Read more... )

So, here’s my life the past week or so ( Read more... )

I had a couple of minutes today while the office was quiet at lunch, and I looked on line for causes of hair loss (today being an exceptionally “sheddy” day already!). One of the causes can be a change in birth control pills. Hmmmmm. I changed in July after my surgery. I changed back to the one I’d been on for 17+ years because the other one gave ( Read more... )

I really hated my job yesterday and the day before. Today was OK. I got to actually do some PR stuff (gasp). Oh yeah, but I also had to do a bunch of Sexual Harassment/Nondescrimination training stuff (a job that got dumped on me two years ago when someone retired ( Read more... )

So, Bill has been gone since last Friday, he’ll be home this Friday evening. It’s the annual lobster diving trip that is sacrosanct in October. Nothing short of a death in the family would keep him from it ( Read more... )

We went to see Green Day in San Francisco on Sat. It was great. We were way late, though, which I hate. Totally missed Jimmy Eat World. There was a gnarly accident which stuck us in traffic for about 45 minutes, and then we stopped to eat, which we shouldn’t have. (But the Chevy’s fajitas were so good! I could just eat the tortillas and be happy). ( Read more... )

I had a dream last night that I was having a horrible period and bleeding everywhere. Weird dream. It’s still amazing to me that I don’t have to check my underwear every time I go pee just to make sure. (I know, TMI, especially for the one male who I think checks this occasionally.) But if you’re a woman, you know exactly what I’m talking about. ( Read more... )

I can't even describe my afternoon at work. It was just AAAARRRRRGGGG!! I spent 5 hours trying to clean up someone else's mess. But hey, if any of you watch Univision Spanish language television (in case you're bilingual and I didn't know it), watch the news tonight. You'll see me trying to explain why one of our schools told a child he couldn't ( Read more... )

Here's the second email Ash sent me last night ( Read more... )