I work in a building that is broken up into a few large work areas (cubicles for our call center and finance folks, of which there are about 100 employees in each section), a manufacturing area, and then a few obscure hallways or office groupings.  I work on one of the small hallways that has 8 offices down the length of the hallway.  At the ( Read more... )

Tommy and I got a few pets to start of the new year! Oscar is a Fancy Guppy that won't be still for a good picture. And Meringue is a Mystery Snail. In the fishbowl to keep them both company is a freshwater Moneywort plant. I hope they like the new home that we have given them.


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I found it a little odd this morning while eating my breakfast that the low-flying plane that I thought I heard was making things rattle in our house. Just in case anyone is worried, Tommy and I survived.

1.  The beginning - I started running (consistently) in May of this year.  It began when I realized that I had some love handles that seemed to have appeared over night.  I knew that I needed to get rid of them, and I felt that I could benefit from some regular excersize (the only regular exercise that Tommy and I do are ultimate games every ( Read more... )

Tommy and I decided to stay at home and weather Hanna.  I am happy to report that our chimneys only had minimal leaking, there is NO debris in our yard, and my flowers did not get destroyed by wind and rain.  I think that we got more rain from Tropical Storm Fay (Fay was the one that went through Florida and on to the panhandle) than we did from ( Read more... )

My California List (this does not include the obvious stuff such as go to a wedding and see lots of people ( Read more... )

In preparing for my Seattle vacation, I have been talking about it a lot at work.  My coworker gave me a travel book on Seattle (him and his wife take frequent trips to Seattle  since her parents live there).  The first part of the book talks about Seattle and Seattleites:

Like the over-hyped rain that softens the edges of their city, Seattleites ( Read more... )

Spring is HERE!  This makes me very excited.  Other things that have or will make me very excited are as follows ( Read more... )

Today was a happy day for me.  The agenda went something like this:

9-12 am: lounge around house, wait for Fed-Ex to deliver 3 bottles of wine
12-2 pm: drive downtown and do the following: visit a plant store, walk to King St, order a lunch to go, take it to the park (Marion Square), eat outside, walk an unknown street back to car
2-3 pm: drive to ( Read more... )

I've been tired lately.  I wake up, go to work, come home, make dinner, eat dinner and chat with Tommy, sit down on the couch and fall asleep.  I feel like I get enough sleep at night.  Between 8 and 10 hours a night.  At work I'm not tired.  But by the time I get home at night, I'm exhausted.  Is this normal?  Tommy is able to stay up until the ( Read more... )