It's a beautiful brisk shortest day of the year. I awoke before the sun and hauled my quailing family out of bed. Sylvia was not enthused and had a full scale meltdown. So it also being National Haiku day I wrote poetry to honor the occasion ( Read more... )

So in the spirit of not being consistent or knowing what the fuck I am doing, ever, I have reapplied at Epic Systems. I have an old Rocky acquaintance who works for the department I would like to work for and she is recommending me. She is also tweaking (read rewriting) my resume for me and I have serious lack of resume skillz even with a template ( Read more... )

I could go on and on about how jazzed up I am about the election season, but as I believe that most of friends list are already supporting to Obama I won't preach to the choir. Except to say wow what a time to be alive ( Read more... )

My glasses just broke in half. It will be a week until my new glasses are done. I am going to have a week of not being able to see well with headaches to boot. Shit.

I got my meds and things are so much better. Between that and getting Morgan on the boob this week I am feeling much improved. Now if we can just get the car fixed so that we can trade it in and stick to the insanely stringent budget we have set up to make that possible we will be doing pretty well. Of course how often do things go as planned?

I have been bitten by the much famed "mommy jinx". Morgan started consistently sleeping through the night with a 7 o'clock bedtime and I was overjoyed I began to tell everyone how I had won the "baby sleep lottery". This is what I get for my hubris, a whimpering little boy in his crib at quarter to ten at night, a surly husband who now doubts my ( Read more... )

I got a hit off Monster on my resume today and I will likely soon be interviewing for a "real job". It would be in life insurance. Now I don't know any of the details, pay, benefits, job duties. But, if I were offered this job and I took it, it would mean leaving Madison. This corporation has offices in Chicago, New York, New Jersey and Florida. ( Read more... )

Okay I am a whiner. I admit it. However, things kinda suck right now and I should acknowledge that. We are broke. Broke, broke, broke. This is what happens when you decide to take an extra two weeks at home with your infant son, it bites you in the butt. I had gotten so used to actually not being in the poorhouse that even though this isn't ( Read more... )

I am back at work. I don't want to be, but here I am. Every day that I leave, my infant son gets this wounded, betrayed look on his face. "You're leaving Mama," it says. "You're not supposed to go." And I wish I could stay, I do. Unfortunately that just isn't a possibility right now and explaining foreclosure and reposession to a 12 week old is ( Read more... )

is a wonderful thing in many ways. But finding mold/mildew in your bedroom closet and clothing isn't one of them. I have had to dumpster a whole lot of things and expect to toss even more. On one hand we needed to get rid of some of our clutter, on the other hand GAH MOLD! Anyone know how to get rid of it short of ripping out the bedroom carpet ( Read more... )