Hooray for vacation! So why am I awake at 6:30 in the morning? Oh, that's right. Because apparently the cats will turn into gremlins if they don't get canned food before sunrise.

Yes, thank you Sam, why should I waste my vacation with sleep.

it isn't very long!

Happy Birthday ashkta

I can make it, I can make it I keep telling myself. Even though the truly ucky duty of the day hasn't happened yet, the rest of the day hasn't been as bad so far as I feared it would be. Just need to survive the next half and then it's vacation. Hooray for vacation! Even if it is only two or three days, at this point I'll take what I can get ( Read more... )

Despite the extreme drought plaguing us at the moment, I still invested a tiny bit of money into some winter flowers for my front patio this afternoon. Joe made the comment that the front area was looking a bit "unkept" (I know he meant "trashy") and I'm afraid that he was right. Plus I needed to get the area spruced up for the company on ( Read more... )

Actually, I wish for bland right about now. And since I'm despairingly overwhelmed with work at the moment: here's a quiz.

You Are Mashed Potatoes
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For those of you who know Joe at all, know that it has been his dream to become a professor at a university... specifically teaching lighting design for live theatre productions ( Read more... )

Despite the best efforts of these past two weeks, I am alive and am now attempting to update for the first time in four months. How do I know it's been nearly four months? Because that's how long Joe and I have been married :) We are still enough of newlyweds that we count. Plus people ask us a lot: "So, how long have you two been married ( Read more... )

I'm getting married today!!!!

Joe and I got our marriage license today. It's starting to seem real now.

I have everything ready for making my Thai beef noodle salad, except:

There's a bug in my kitchen!!!

Joe doesn't get home this evening until after 6 and I can't go in there until after the bug issue is taken care of. By someone other than me.

Anyone want to come over and smoosh a bug?