3 hours to go - leave work early, being happy you have enough time to take a shower, do nails, and paint toe nails, etc.
2 hours 45minutes to go - come home, extremely hungry (because didn’t eat much for lunch - you don’t want to have a real lunch when you have a real dinner ahead), turn TV on, grab some food from the fridge, watch a comedy TV show ( Read more... )

I’m still pretty shocked with my new computer system, but slowly getting accustomed to not being able to change my screen saver. I mean, it’s so natural - you want your computer to look a certain way, you arrange and decorate your desk in a certain way, when you work with a hammer, you want a hammer with a handle that’s convenient for your hand and ( Read more... )

Goodbye, my dear old work computer, now I'll be getting a tricky little GID system... The name reminds me of GI-Joe, and makes it sound military. And they are now sending me these automated email messages - steps you need to take when you are getting migrated, your smart card is ready, you will get a visit from out migration engineer at 17:00 ( Read more... )

My purse exploded this morning. No, not literally exploded. It's very small and I put so much stuff into it, and it still fits everything. Well, this morning I was trying to put some more in there (another lip gloss and new hand lotion), and it ripped. In TWO places! Now I really need a new purse. A bigger one definitely ( Read more... )

I'm nervous. I got the tickets ( Read more... )

You know those weekends that, when you think about them, seem to be a week long? I had a pretty productive one. I did one good thing, and one bad thing, and one stupid thing, and one smart thing - the whole set. Plus some other things ( Read more... )

Well, a ticket to Moscow is about $300. One way. That is $600 to go there and back. I guess I'll have to borrow... Return tickets are available on December 29th and January 4th. The first date is too early ($600 just to go there and right back?!) and the other is too late... The good news is that I have a free place to stay - my mom's college ( Read more... )

There's that military training thing across the street from my office. A big nice old building and a training area, all surrounded by a thick tall fence. Somewhere in that area, there live a pack of homeless dogs. There are a lot of homeless dogs in this town, they live in packs and usually dwell where somebody feeds them. They are not domestic, ( Read more... )

Our little doggie needs to wear that big cardboard collar on her neck. I don't know for how long, but I imagine it will an extremely uncomfortable experience. Plus she has to go on a diet and can only eat buttermilk and drink plain water. Poor thing. I feel embarrassed now eating in her presence because she keeps staring at my food ( Read more... )

I met a lovely old lady in a shoe repair shop. I had to get new soles for my brand new kick-ass winter boots because they have these shiny smooth soles - which means that when it gets slippery in winter I'll be inventing a new form of skating in them. It costs about $5 to get nice winter soles. Here it's a common practice, because many shoes are ( Read more... )