Saturday night was the winery formerly known as Four Vines debut as Cypher winery. The party was free to wine club members and promised to be a fantastic time. Paso Robes winery parties are generally pretty epic and as Four Vines this winery was one of a handful with a reputation among the epic party hosts and hostesses for throwing ragers. We are ( Read more... )

• The American public’s anger at the banks certainly hasn’t decreased any in the last two years, but neither has their knowledge of what actually happened increased. And the journalists aren’t doing anything to correct this, quite the contrary…and it will never cease to amaze me how the myth that the bulk of the foreclosure “victims” are borderline ( Read more... )

Mortgaged and I attended a fun late Halloween party on Friday - many thanks to our generous hosts. I got to wear my thrown together $5.00 Merlotte’s waitress costume a second time, which was fun. Granted, this was a lot less original idea at this party than it was among my coworkers, so we were sort of the borg Merlotte’s waitresses assimilating ( Read more... )

I am so not 21 anymore...or 26 for that matter. I can still stay up reading until 2 in the morning but oh how it hurts the next day. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was completely worth it though.

This is an excellent book, a mystery that actually kept me guessing in a few places. And without bragging, this is no mean feat. I read so much that I ( Read more... )

Happily, New Year's Eve did not live down to How I Met Your Mother's underwhelming description of it.  I think trying to keep everything low key helped a bit in this regard.  So, Mortgaged and I had a weekend of quiet togetherness interspersed with visits from friends, tasty meals, staying up way too late in the name of fun, and slothfully ( Read more... )

Friday night was wonderful.  My office had their annual end of summer bash at the end of the day so, after socializing with coworkers I got to leave early...and head straight for the Yard House to meet
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Monday morning: the ultimate drawback to a fantastic weekend.

So, I stayed up entirely too late with friends and drank entirely too much Friday night and all day Saturday and just had way too much fun in general all weekend long.  Too much fun?  You say.  Is it possible there is such a thing?!?  Well, most days of the week I would disagree with you ( Read more... )

I am feeling a lot better but am still far from well, which peeves me greatly as the weekend approaches.  I had plans!  Wonderful plans with wonderful friends!  *kicks flu*  And, were I my slightly younger self, I would probably be keeping those plans and returning to work on Monday in roughly the same sorry state of health I find myself in today.  ( Read more... )

My good friend H, whom some of you may remember as my friend in the Air Force, e-mailed me this last night.  I read it to Mortgaged and soon we were both laughing out loud.  So, in honor of those of us who are turning 30 this year and those of you who already have, I thought that I would share this with all of you.

( If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!  If you are not 30 or older, get a friend to explain it to you. )