One of my goals for this year is to get my credit completely straightened out. I've finally gotten it to the point where it's no longer cringe worthy, but I really want it to the pretty decent stage. Mostly, this involves getting all my outstanding credit onto one card so I don't have three payments to keep track of and quit getting nailed by the ( Read more... )

One of the specific reasons I wanted to move to Seattle in the first place was the lack of snow. I hate winter and have lived in nightmare wintery places my entire life (Spokane, Chicago, North Dakota, Ellensburg), and I wanted /out ( Read more... )

It's holiday season thus very quiet at work and I'm not up to being creative in my work finding endeavors thus post to LJ ( Read more... )

I ran across the airport this afternoon to the Museum of Flight to pick up part of my niece's Christmas present. As I'm coming out I notice a trio of women walking up the sidewalk from the parking lot. A vague sense of familiarity pokes me, then as I get closer I realize that yes, I do recognize them. It was a friend of mine from Spokane along with ( Read more... )

So, despite the fact that once again very nearly the entire western part of Washington is closed down, I got stuck going to work today. Although I did get to sleep in for about an hour since the airport was sans power for a bit this morning. Too bad it's pretty high on the list of places to get the power back on at, otherwise I would've gotten the ( Read more... )

I was listening to the Adam Carolla show this morning on the way to work and they were doing a bit on the worst covers they could come up with. A couple of them were just 'meh' yeah it sucks but it's not 'curl up in a ball and cry' bad. Then came this gem ( Read more... )

While I wasn't overly tempted by the idea of taking over the business when Spence and Marie retire, I had to put it in the 'to consider' mental file. But, it didn't take long for it to be shuffled over to the 'thanks, but no thanks' file ( Read more... )

I've been planning on leaving my current job in April or so of next year due to a multitude of factors including fairly low pay, lack of sick/vacation time and, most importantly, the fact that there's no room for advancement ( Read more... )

So, Carter Beauford, the drummer for Dave Matthews Band, has my business card ( Read more... )

My brother and his step-daughter were in town today and Brandy has never really been to Seattle (She came here on a band trip last year, but they didn't really get to do anything), so we went down to Pike Place Market where she had a heck of a time not freaking out over all the people (she was born and raised in a very, very small town and has ( Read more... )