Celebrated 8 years of marriage and 13 years of togetherness with trowa_barton
Celebrated 4 years of cmdr_xanderCelebrated 95 years of my Grandma J ( Read more... )

I just want to take a moment to publicly appreciate the fact that I am a member of a union (UNITE HERE). It's totes unfashionable right now to say anything good about unions and their members, but I credit the fact of my continued employment despite tough economic times to the existence of our local. We did our damnedest to work with management to ( Read more... )

Parked somewhere outside our office there is a car with an alarm that has been going off all morning. I think a posse of my coworkers and I are just about ready to head downstairs with a bunch of heavy, blunt implements to bludgeon that frakking thing into silence and then jump around on the slag heap in victory ( Read more... )

I just offered to buy one of my coworkers a cup of coffee if she ends her portion of our next departmental check-in with, "I'm on a horse."

Recent successfully positive moments:

• The Contour got vandalized sometime last week, which I found out on Saturday when a Somerville cop came to our door to pass along a message from the Medford PD. Someone smashed in the driver's side window and rifled through the glove box and center console. Fortunately, there was absolutely nothing of value. ( Read more... )

Last week I started thinking about how my life might change for the better if I looked for ways to translate negative thoughts into positive thoughts and/or actions. As a way to motivate myself, as well as to counteract my occasional bitching, I've decided to post my successes here periodically. If this idea appeals to you, feel free to play along ( Read more... )

I arrived at work this morning to find that mine have apparently gone walkabout. I wasn't wearing them when I left the office on Friday evening. They weren't in their case, nor lying on my desk somewhere, nor hiding in the kitchen or the women's loo. No one at work has seen them, either, though several bespectacled coworkers are very sympathetic ( Read more... )

Believe it or not, there were some. Some of them even happened to me personally. Some, perhaps, are stretching the definition of "rocked" and might better be categorized as "failed to completely suck," but...you know what? I'll take those, too. So, a list, in no particular order, some of which may or may not have happened to me or to people I know ( Read more... )

I was talking with a coworker yesterday about her holiday plans next week. She told me that she and a friend are going to stay at her home, away from family, and celebrate "Cranksgiving" instead of Thanksgiving. I said that at this morning's staff meeting we should all share something that is currently making us cranky. I was kidding, but she ran ( Read more... )