I did very little work today. I spent part of the day looking through the alumni advisory network. Has anyone used this before? I haven't done much networking, but I think I'm going to need to for my next job.

So there was some story last week that salary.com had calculated what the annual wages for stay at home (SAH) moms would be if they were paid for the work they did. I realize this story was meant to say, "Gee SAH moms are so underappreciated for all the work they do," but what it really made me think was, "Damn, working moms work AND do what SAH ( Read more... )

We went up to visit Mr. Vhale's mom on Friday and stay over so I could go out to yard sales with Mr. Vhale's mom on Saturday morning. I was a mom on a mission: some books the boopy could eat, a highchair, and possibly some more pajama-like things since I'm not girly enough to dress my daughter in cute coordinated outfits ( Read more... )

What a different day today is. The Boopy slept through the night last night. I slept from 9:30 until 5:15, the best night's sleep I've gotten in many months. It feels great! I put on my lucky necklace today (haven't worn in perhaps years ( Read more... )

I'm often amazed at how many people notice and react to my Texas Aggies sweatshirt. Oh the networking potential were it actually more than just a well worn sweatshirt. See my folks picked up a whole stack of school-related sweatshirts and tshirts when I was about 15. They were being dumped from inventory for about $2/each. I just still happen to ( Read more... )

Bluegrass music makes me think of lemonade, pleasantly hot, humid days, and mountain streams.

Yay for sirius and the bluegrass channel!

I figured on Friday that I would win any award for having the most unusual thing on my car in March. We finally loaded up our Christmas tree, and I hauled it into work for a friend to burn. It actually still had needles on it, and it still smelled so nice! My tree did get some looks, but just as I was enjoying weirding people out, someone drove by ( Read more... )

Dell has proven that third time is the charm. After one month of painful conversations with Dell's script reading tech support and three trips (by my computer) to Dell's repair center, my laptop has finally been fixed. It is so wonderful to have it back and be online from the comfort of my own home!!

I've been meaning to update for awhile. Then again, I've been sick three times in 5 weeks, my laptop died 2 weeks ago, my company didn't get approval, and I was going to Michigan, not going to Michigan, going to Michigan, and then not going to Michigan again ( Read more... )

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