Been busy and feeling anti-social, so I apologize for the lack of updates and the lack of comments on friends' journals ( Read more... )

Happy birthday,
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I was really looking forward to aquamoms last night and frustrated that the rain and ugly traffic meant I was only 10 minutes early and didn't get to spoil myself with extra pool time beforehand. Our instructor's been late before, but last night she didn't show up. We started without her, remembering the stretching/warm-up exercises, and when we ( Read more... )

Egads.  The ticker to D-Day (April 13th) now only says 38 days.  Yikes.

Baby shower pics, including cute niecelet shots.  In the corner of the "baby games" pic, you can see one of the little plastic babies that were frozen in the ice cubes for the "Birth the Baby" game.  That one was the niecelet's, who spent the entire word scramble dancing her ( Read more... )

We officially had the DSL working Tuesday afternoon, but had to wait on our computer tech company to come by to reprogram the firewall and convince it the new modem wasn't an intruder.  Boss was about ready to chuck the firewall, but I talked her down because it is important to have.

I've got to call around and find office planners for the office ( Read more... )

Still no internet at work. Makes scheduling lunch meetings of 20 or so people joyful fun, I tell you, when you can't use email.  My favorite quote from an idiot service rep?  "EVERYONE has a dialup backup these days."  Yeah, moron, how many offices even HAVE dialup modems in their PCs anymore?  We'll see how things go when I start the rounds of ( Read more... )

The holidays went well.  We ended up staying extra time at my sister's in Louisiana, even making a trip to Shreveport one day.  The relatives were nuts, as usual, but everyone was reasonably well behaved.  I only had to have one head-to-head with my uncle about the N word around my boys, and while he argued, he did quit using it every other ( Read more... )

When my sister was at the house on Sunday, she dropped off an early Xmas present for the boys and *insisted* they open it right now (she's such a big kid when she gets excited about stuff).  She found some little text messenging gadgets and thought they'd be perfect for the boys.  They got batteries in them yesterday, so last night we kept hearing ( Read more... )

Gah.  I hate the new posting interface.  I want my userpics back at the bottom where they belong, and WHY does the cursor automatically have to be in the main box instead of the subject line?  But enough whining...it's here to stay, so I'll have to suck it up and get used to it when I'm not at home.

I talked to Gigi last night to confirm we'd be at ( Read more... )

I really wanted a longer weekend but I just keep reminding myself that it's only two more weeks and then I get an entire week plus New Year's off. For all my grumps and grumbles, the good does outweigh the bad around here (and not just an extended Xmas break). In this day and age, I try to just be grateful for having a job where I'm not likely to ( Read more... )