My LJ expired. I'm having difficulty placing it as a priority to renew it because I don't post in it all that much. But since I'm not a paid account, I can't post by email anymore, so I'll post even less, probably ( Read more... )

Finally got an update about the upcoming travel I'm supposed to do for work. They still want to do it the week of Nov 30, but it will be in Shepherdstown WV instead of in DC. It has been many years since I've been in WV, and even then I mostly drove through it instead of stopping and enjoying it. I don't even know if Shepherdstown is in in a ( Read more... )

On track with NaNo for now. My goal this year is to really focus on keeping up with the required word goal each day so then I won't have to kill a whole Saturday with writing 10,000 words like I have in the past. I did slip behind yesterday but caught up today, so as long as I can keep within a day or two of the word goal, I think I'll be all ( Read more... )

Yesterday I made a list of all of the things I want to get done--basically, all of my irons in the fire, things like my book that I'm sending out to publishers, the career ladder change I'm working on at work, all of the house repairs I want done, the beer brewing hobby I want to start, plus more. There were like 13 things, and honestly those ( Read more... )

Gotten hooked on Mad Men lately, which I didn't expect. I reluctantly read a couple reviews on Salon.com, and really ended up liking the complexity of the plot and characterization. It doesn't have the irony or intensity of Dexter, but the drama of how the characters enfold is really quite enchanting. It's not like I'm completely in love with ( Read more... )

Got the form on my raise today from my step increase that took effect last Sunday. It won't be a ton of additional money, but it helps and it's nice to have. I won't have the last of my credit cards paid off until spring, but I'm thinking about starting up a Roth IRA now. My half of the mortgage plus property taxes is about $175 less than what I ( Read more... )

Things are finally seeming to get back to normal around here, so yesterday I wrote some poetry postcards. I knew I was behind on writing them, but those only brought me up to 22, and since next week will be week 40, I see I am seriously behind. Work is more relaxed now that we have reached the end of the fiscal year, though, so I have a little ( Read more... )

Feeling great this morning, maybe just on account of the house finally feeling like it's closer to being in order. We spent a lot of money this weekend--bought 6 place-settings of dishes (though $100 of that was a gift from David's mom) and and some shelves. The dishes are a dark blue with stylized pink flowers, made in Japan but we got them at ( Read more... )

Haven't had a great last few days. David has been off camping, and there are too many problems around the house for me to take care of alone--those stupid plastic tiles falling off in the kitchen, the utility sink overflowing from the washer. Maybe this is an issue of me not growing up in the Chicago area where this is a common practice, but I DO ( Read more... )

This has been a tough week, not so much on account of being back at work but just the chaos my house is in, along with earlier in the week every possible thing going wrong that could. Things are slightly better this morning as a result of setting my alarm clock 15 minutes earlier. I hate giving up those precious minutes of sleep, but I'm learning ( Read more... )