It has been forever.

made a miscalculation. I'll have to use about half of my bonus paying for the plane ticket for new york and the buy in to rovia.

Speaking of, if anybody goes travelling, please feel free to use my travel site. It should have the lowest prices you can find online. And the request a quote thing works really quite nicely. If you're interested in ( Read more... )

so, i'm visiting NYC in April for a friend's birthday. that should be terrifying and hopefully fun. :) Going to spend my taxes and my bonus on my car, which should pay off about 2/3 of the remaining balance. That'll be weird-- actually owning the car, I mean.

thanks for the mystery gift. :)

that said, i found out that i'm getting a fairly decent year end bonus from work, and a raise of 4%. with shift differential, that'll mean a difference of 62 cents per hour. whoa, big money. :)

plus, my supervisor still seems to like me, yay!

The ren faire thing is going to be a go again this summer. :) Trying to decide now if I will make a second costume (a lower class, more comfortable one), and exactly what alterations I want to make to the one I wore last year. For one, those sleeves have GOT to come off, and I think i want to change the trim on the bodice.

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Went to San Antonio to visit my dad. Did lots of stuff. Prettiest was probably the boat ride on the river-- they had the Christmas lights up. Back home now.

My brother and sister-in-law stayed for almost 11 hours yesterday. I think it's some kind of a record. We had a lot of fun, though my brother is a bad sportsman, as always, which caused a certain amount of tension during the playing of the 6 board games we (collecively) got for the holiday. We still had quite a bit of fun. :)

Merry Christmas, world.

Made many dozen cookies. Have now finished chocolate chip, no-bake coconut/oatmeal cookies, peanut blossoms, and frosted casbah cookies. think I want to do frosted chocolate oatmeal cookies next, probably on Thursday when I'm off ( Read more... )