Every month, we get a call from the Amvets lady. She is looking for donations to support, as she says, our American veterans. Mom once donated to them years ago and has been on the list, and we know if a call comes in at a particular point in the evening, it's probably her ( Read more... )

I had Friday off, which was wonderful, and we ended up running errands as a family ( Read more... )

So. I have stinky clothes ( Read more... )

I got surprised with a four-day weekend for this holiday. The nature of the business I work for is that normally we should have been open yesterday. However, my boss' family has a cabin in Michigan and out-of-town relatives wanted to spend a long weekend with the people employed at my business--currently three family members and Puffy, who at this ( Read more... )

Today, I wore brown shoes with an otherwise black outfit ( Read more... )

I have six pairs of work pants. I washed them last weekend, and I worked my regular five workdays last week, so that I had one pair of pants left to wear before I went through them again. (I wear them about three times before washing them again.) That last pair of pants was my gray pair, and what goes good with gray? Pink. Time to wear my ( Read more... )

We got a call from the Amvets lady recently, and last week mom called her back to say, sure, we can make a donation this month. Mom could probably make a donation every month, but that requires her to cull her belongings. I'll take what I can get ( Read more... )

When I came home from work last week, probably Tuesday or so, I went upstairs to get changed as usual. What was weird was finding a pile of underwear in the hallway. Uh, mom? Care to explain? She had gone shopping and bought herself probably several packages of underwear, but she didn't like all of them. (I don't blame her. Seriously, ( Read more... )

Today was my late day, so I spent a good part of my morning in my room reading the paper. At one point I heard the garage door open and figured dad was doing something, but didn't think anymore of it ( Read more... )

My boss has decided to institute a dress code. This hasn't really been a problem in the past, but he really dislikes what YC wears on a typical day. Now, granted, this has been going on for over three years, so why it's taken so long for him to do something, I don't know. However, he sent her an email about it on Saturday, saying that on Monday ( Read more... )