in lieu of a real post this afternoon, this is all i have time for, as i must shower and dress and go pick-up my little, we're gonna grab food and make dinner here while playing wii and with the puppies ( Read more... )

my laptop is being retarded, again! i don't know what the problem is, but this is the second time i have to replace the cord. i'm really careful with it, but after a few months, the cord stops working and i have to put the laptop on my head and circle three times and not breathe for it to stay plugged in. in other news my replacement cell phone is ( Read more... )

This month is just flying by, and yet I feel like I've been back to work for a month. We have a bunch of things coming up in the next couple weeks. We are being treated to a birthday dinner from my friend and old supervisor Barbara, girl's boss is having a pearl party where you get to pick an oyster and pick a setting to put the pearl in. I'm takin ( Read more... )

Along with my renewed need to be in contact with all friends old and new, I've got this intense drive to create, in every shape and form. This journal has been an outlet to my nerdy desires to express myself. I've been drawing up a storm, both in pencil, and on my computer and I've been quite impressed with the results, especially since I'm just ( Read more... )

Only a short post tonight. All yesterday I couldn't get online because some oaf ate up all of our bandwidth, more about him another time. Tonight it's thunder and lightning so I'll keep it brief ( Read more... )

My little and I hung out and finished the stuffed animals we've worked on a few times since this winter and then decorated the onesies with puffy paint and she had a really good time doing it. I will interject here that 12 year olds do not understand the essence of the word moderation. When we started, I mentioned that it wouldn't take very much ( Read more... )

I have a hot new laptop to go with my hot little phone. Now I can actually e-mail people back and talk with them online, since I won't be stuck in the most uncomfortable computer chair ever ( Read more... )

Yet again it's been forever since I've really done an update, because of course my post about my hot new phone doesn't count. Oh the plethora of excitement in my life these days.
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So, tomorrow is the day that I meet my "little sister" for Big Brothers Big Sisters, after two months of waiting, orientations, interviews, and background checks. Her name is Carly and she's 11 years old. It's funny how nervous I am about meeting her. I'm mostly weirded out because our "match manager," another staff person, her mother, and family ( Read more... )