My vending event was supposed to be held Saturday afternoon, but the organizers pushed it back to Sunday because it was supposed to rain... and then, the rain didn't even show up until Saturday night! And it was one massive thunderstorm, complete with marble-sized hail and a raging river over our front lawn. We still don't know if the landlord has ( Read more... )

I want to try to do better at updating this journal in December than I did in November. Now that the holiday season is upon us, I actually have a few things to blog about. The annual holiday parade was on Saturday, and I marched it in again this year with the animal shelter. The weather was so nice, but for some reason, the volunteer turnout was ( Read more... )

As soon as Memorial Day was over, I started looking forward to the 4th of July holiday. We didn't set off any fireworks, and it was too rainy to go to the waterpark, but we did have a good time anyway. On Thursday night (July 2), we went to dinner and to the movies to see Inside Out. It was very good, in the way that most Pixar movies are. We had a ( Read more... )

I apparently got a small raise (45 cents) on my last paycheck, which was a nice surprise. I'm pretty sure it's the first raise I've gotten since I was hired almost 18 months ago. I hate how whiny that sounds of me, since I can remember so well what a huge raise in pay it was for me from my old job. This is why they say money can't buy happiness. ( Read more... )

My first week back at work after the Thanksgiving holiday was kinda a "back-to-reality" one. Work itself wasn't bad, but the weather here was awful. We didn't see the sun once -- just washed-out gray clouds, rain, and cold! Ugh! Fortunately, things finally turned around today, and the sun came out just in time for the city Christmas parade! I ( Read more... )

Our clocks fell back an hour last weekend, which means that now, it's already starting to get dark when I get off work. And when I get off work late, which has been happening Too Often lately, it's already as dark as midnight. So. Depressing. I'm still loving the fall foliage (I had to make a delivery to one of our client's houses yesterday, who ( Read more... )

Although I hate the fact that winter is approaching, I still really love fall. I hate that the days are shorter and the mornings are chilly (because how hard is it to get out of bed on a cold morning?) but I love the cooler weather and the changing leaves. Biking to temple last Friday evening, I saw some really beautiful fall foliage. I wish I'd ( Read more... )

Well, my vacation is off to a great start! On Saturday, I hit the dog-park for the first time in way too long! (I couldn't go last weekend because Mom was in town.) I took two of the cutest little puppies, James and Al, to the park for the first time since they arrived at the shelter this summer! And by arrived, I mean that they and two other ( Read more... )

I complained in my last post about how stressful life had been lately. Little did I know how much more stressful this past week would be. On Monday, our apartment flash-flooded! We had water coming up out of the water in both bathrooms and the kitchen, spreading everywhere and soaking everything! We were literally bailing water up off the floor, ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in a while because life has been stressing me out lately. I know I shouldn't complain, because last month was the first year in waaaay too long that Back-to-School meant nothing to me (shehekianu!), but the tail end of August still had some ugh-worthy moments, including our hottest degrees of the entire summer (+100). But I was ( Read more... )