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 Today was my 2 year mark at my job.  My coworkers all decorated my desk with crepe paper, balloons, and Almond Joys (one of my favorite candy bars), and they all brought treats too!  I had jokingly said yesterday that I expected a party, but I didn't really expect one, so it was a very fun surprise.  And it stayed relatively quiet today as well, ( Read more... )

 My pumpkins from Halloween (the ones I didn't carve and have been meaning to bake up into something yummy) are officially dead.  *sigh* I even found some good recipes last November for pumpkin puree, too... oh well.  There's always next year, right?  And now I can finally have that corner of my kitchen table back.  Once I disinfect it.  I haven't ( Read more... )

So.  Rome.  It was pretty cool.

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 rhb went away last weekend for 4 and a half (ish) days, scoring free books and meeting authors, agents, and editors and World Fantasy.  He had quite a good time and, as previously mentioned, scored lots of free books.  By lots I mean like 20.  I am well stocked for reading material, even if it is all authors I haven't heard of!  All the better to ( Read more... )

We went to DI on Wednesday night and bought an exercise bike.  Except the display didn't work when we tried it, so first we put it on hold, ran across the street to a convenience store, bought a 9 volt battery, went back to DI, hunted down someone with a screwdriver, replaced the battery, and tested it again.  It worked.  So we bought it.  Except ( Read more... )

Yesterday at work I had a record-breaking day.  I believe my old record for calls received in one day is 63.  Yesterday I got.... SEVENTY THREE.  Yes, I beat it by 10.  I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

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Also, it snowed on Monday.  Double blech.  It is, after all, the end of May, as everyone else on FB already pointed out to the ( Read more... )

I had the urge to bake today, so I made bread (of course, because we were out) and lemon bars.  My picture of the lemon bars didn't turn out so well, but they more than make up for it in taste - I've already eaten 3 even after exercising self-restraint, and rhb has declared them to be "really good".  So tasty, with just the right amount of tartness ( Read more... )

First things first, the A key on my laptop is being fritzy as of late, so I apologize for any missing a's in this post.  It's really annoying.  I think there may be a crumb or something underneath it interfering with its proper function, but alas, I have no compressed air and I'm kind of afraid to pop it off just in case I can't get it back on ( Read more... )

1. Slept in til 10:45.
2. Cut my finger on the bread knife.  In a most inconvenient spot, I might add.  Then again, anywhere on your finger is inconvenient to cut.
3. Went with rhb to Walmart to get the oil changed in the car and buy coolant to refill the coolant thingy - before it was low for long enough to cause several hundred dollars worth of ( Read more... )