In a couple of hours, I'm going to hop in my car and drive to Dallas, where I'll be staying for the next couple of weeks while we're in trial over a contract dispute. I'm not 100% sure of my schedule, but I should have at least some evenings free, I think (since I am not trial counsel, but the corporate representative). I'm staying downtown at the ( Read more... )

In addition to today's other significance, it's a day of great importance to the well-dressed Southern woman: today's the day you can start wearing white shoes. Yeah, I know, up north it's Memorial Day, but down here it's been in the eighties for three months by then, so Easter is the starting line, pretty much throughout the southern US ( Read more... )

One of the aspects of being a mom is that various junk belonging to my children winds up in my purse, and periodically I clean it out and redistribute and/or toss the stuff. Today's find, however, was definitely one of the odder ones: a plastic tomato slice. I've never even *seen* this item before, and have no clue at all how it got into my purse ( Read more... )

Minor crisis this morning -- I came into work, and my computer, which was being cranky yesterday afternoon, had apparently worked itself into a seriously pissy mood overnight, because it promptly crashed and took all the Outlook-synced data from my handheld, which was connected at the time, with it ( Read more... )

The inventor of Hershey's Cherry Cordial Creme kisses is an Evil Genius. I mean, these things are like chocolate-cherry crack. I've eaten so many that I'm honestly at the point where one more would probably make me throw up, and yet it's taking a major effort of will to keep from going and getting another. Avoiding the chocolate is probably all ( Read more... )

I was just looking at the forecast, and to my dismay, discovered that tomorrow's high -- the HIGH -- is supposed to be 42. It's supposed to be in the twenties tomorrow night! Yes, I know, I'm a big sissy for whining about this, but there's a *reason* I live in south Texas, dammit! And acclimation makes a huge difference, too; I'd have been happy ( Read more... )

Unpleasant discovery #2: the cute little teapot that goes with the cracked teacup has a serious flaw. It dribbles down the side of the spout. This was not previously apparent, because the cracked teacup is very wide indeed, and so the dribbles simply dribbled into the cup also, and all was well. Not so, when using the teapot with a more ordinary ( Read more... )

Oh, maaaaaaaaaaaan. I just discovered that sometime over the non-tea-drinking summer, my favorite teacup, which has a matching little bitty teapot, has developed a nasty crack. It goes all the way through, too, and I can see the moisture leaching into the porcelain behind the glaze, so I'm thinking it's not salvageable, or at least not safe to ( Read more... )

As a great lover of mystery books, and especially older series that are only partially in print, I am loving this.

So, I'm leaving tomorrow for a 5-day business trip to NY/NJ. I'll be tied up with work stuff *most* of it, but I have pretty much all of Sunday wide open. If any of you would like to rescue me from the wilds of East Brunswick, NJ, I'd be delighted. I won't have a car, but it's pretty easy for me to get to a train and thus into NYC or whatever, ( Read more... )