The family is at church and Scott is now working weekends, so it's just Hektor and me and he's napping. It's been a while since I was alone for any length of time and it has been lovely. I watched Nigella and Giata (is that how you spell her name?) on Food Network while Hektor kept my lap warm. I did the dishes and made the bed (thus disturbing ( Read more... )

I decided to reread one of my current favorite series (the Meredith Gentry novels by Laurell K. Hamilton). Book six is still in hardcover, so I had to take it out of the library. It is the best book yet. Not every author can make six more wonderful than book one. Orson Scott Card, for example, is an amazing writer but his series always start to ( Read more... )

One of the strange things about posting to livejournal is that I am looking at my picture the whole time. The picture that I use of me is actually a piece of a larger picture. In the picture I'm standing with Alice in the San Fransisco courthouse. It is a beautiful courthouse--almost cathedral like. The light was so amazing that day. The ( Read more... )

I just had some chocolate covered cookies with "drinking chocolate" (milk mixed with shaved chocolate instead of cocoa) and suddenly I feel sort of weird. I really haven't had chocolate in a while and this was pretty good chocolate, so maybe that's why it seems to be having a drug like affect. Seriously, my brain feels a little funny. Usually I ( Read more... )

Sorry Katie Baker, but that's just the way I feel. This is supposed to be my week alone with Scott because the rest of the family is on vacation during the school break. So, of course, this week I worked an average of two hours a day longer than usual because my boss is going on vacation and has had to show me a bunch of new stuff to do while she ( Read more... )

I finally, finally, finally got my baby (i.e. laptop, not to be confused with my other baby, Hektor) fixed. I'm so happy I could do a little dance. I'm going through it, making sure they didn't mess up my settings too badly. I am so anally particular about how my computer is set up. And it is driving me crazy how windows is taking away more and ( Read more... )

....but I'm not. Bad Jes, bad! One of the problems of living with one's parents is the lack of space. For example, we don't have a closet. There is a closet in this room, but it is still filled with my mom's stuff. I probably should remind her about that, actually. Anyway, post Christmas we've acquired a few new items that will be very useful ( Read more... )

It is rare that I go into the city and don't spend at least an hour wondering where exactly I am and why there is nothing interesting within sight. Not so this weekend, where despite a late start, we managed to get everything done we wanted to. Plus there was delicious Chinese food which included a some turnip cake (not sweet) which was ( Read more... )

I have sent out about half of my Christmas cards. This is because my computer is broken (though my mom is offering to get it fixed as my Christmas present--yay!!!) and almost all my addresses are in it. Blah. I actually went through my address book and realized that I have all my friend's parent's addresses, but that's pretty much it. So if you ( Read more... )

I got the job at the bank (the second time) and quit the job at the bank around the beginning of December. Now I'm working again. I'm assisting the bookeeper at Inlet Seafood--the dock and restaurant (of wedding fame) that is partially owned by my father. As many of you know, Daniel has been working at the restaurant for a while now and is ( Read more... )