Author Bride's Koneko is doing short fiction to prompts to promote donations to the ASPCA, with the theme of "companion animals." Check it out!

http://brides-koneko.dreamwidth.org/13823.html

One of my Internet friends, alicetheowl needs to move out of her apartment pronto, and for reasons discussed on her post http://alicetheowl.livejournal.com/747051.html#comments needs some cash to help with that ( Read more... )

Family celebration was on Sunday. Got a Lunds gift card, which I used today to purchase a fancy cake for work ( Read more... )

Random bits ( Read more... )

Have sent out quite a few of the surprises for the folks on
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So, today, we wrapped up the United Way basket for this week's raffle. It's really impressive, especially with the giant spider one of my co-workers crafted to put on the top. (Another department's worker complained that we have too many creative people to compete against ( Read more... )

I will be late to MAS tomorrow, though I hope not too late. (Daughter of Twenty Faces looks like my sort of thing.) I will be doing the shopping for my department's United Way basket after work.

Work has as usual been hectic, especially with the recent changes to the credit card laws. Suddenly a lot of stuff that was handled electronically has to be hand-checked ( Read more... )

Okay, it looks like we've got everything for the "Winter Reading" basket for the United Way raffle, so our department can turn it in tomorrow.

And the probably final inventory is...( Surprisingly, not the most impressive basket this year. )

When I first came down to the Twin Cities yea these many years ago, one of my first jobs was as an attendant at a full-service Shell gas station on Hennepin Avenue. I landed the job through family connections--the manager went to the same church as my aunt. Unfortunately, gas station attendant wasn't one of my aptitude areas, so I was soon laid ( Read more... )