I've been both dreading and eager to create this post, documenting our "oh the joys of home ownership" weekend.  Note that this is in regards to LAST weekend, not this past weekend.  Which is why I have enough perspective on it to write it out like this instead of just banging my head on the keyboard.

Thursday was my birthday.  That evening, I ( Read more... )

Two nights ago, I dreamt that Brandy (currently in Germany in real life) was actually in a house diagonal to ours. So I went over and met up with her so I could see the pictures she'd been taking. I knew that there was going to be a time difference, but it was okay because it was 4 AM for me but 10 AM for her. Discovering Germany in the house ( Read more... )

Trying out a new service which purports to do everything for you via IM. I have it coordinating Google Calendar, Remember the Milk, and Livejournal. The service is called IMified and can be found but there's very little instruction on how to use it, so it's a bit learn as you go! Here goes ( Read more... )

So, it's official.  I'm a regular.  Or, at least semi-regular.  Or, at least, at the nearest Starbucks enough so that at least one of the baristas (Dave) knows my name.  And he's stopped saying, "Jen, right?" and started just writing it on the cup.  This, after an absence of more than a week while I was in Philly.  Next up, he'll be greeting me in ( Read more... )

Forgot one of the best parts of yesterday! (Told you I was spacey.)

When I got home last night, Glen made dinner while I optimized the speakers in the living room for surround sound. We've had enough speakers for surround sound for a few months, but never got around to actually optimizing them. This is a ridiculously simple process that ( Read more... )

Glen and I both had to work on Monday.  I had to argue for my right to work on Monday (a holiday), but the sheer number of intern candidates who wanted to interview on that day won out.  (That, and I'd been out the entire week before.)  My interviews went pretty smoothly, and with no one else around, I got a ton accomplished.  Then, finally, I got ( Read more... )

Glen reminded me that I left out a funny part about my teaching the 5 year olds on Saturday.  After we'd done one set of jumping jacks, I got them to do more by having them do "backwards jumping jacks", which start with your hands above your head and your legs spread...  They loved them, and asked to do multiple sets.  I tried the same trick with ( Read more... )

Had a great weekend.  The number one thing that made it great was that we were actually HERE and home for it, not jetting off somewhere, as I have for the past three weekends in a row ( Read more... )

4:18 PM.
So I wouldn’t have to throw it out, I drink my 20 oz Vitamin Water in the cab on the way to the airport.  I have already shoved the other bottle of it into the bag I’m going to check.  I have to check it since I have other contraband liquids in greater than 3 oz quantities - a bottle of Listerine, contact lens solution, moisturizer, etc.
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...by the quantity of snot that can come out of my nose. Where is it all STORED ( Read more... )