( News, hamham pics, and drink recipes under the cut )

Ay carumba.. What a last week. I peaked pulling a 15-hour workday on Wednesday - like I wasn't already reeling from the time change on Sunday. But I got my big program to work and demonstrated it to a few key peeps on Thursday afternoon, receiving one key adjective: "excellent". I really hope a promotion might be in my future - otherwise it's been ( Read more... )

Ah, life...

I am dead dead deady McDead dead. (and I tried writing this last night but no go)

This had to be the week I decided to finish a project for work during my free time at home after work. Not to mention work this week has been what I like to call "my bosses paying for 8 hours of actual work a day for once" (they call it "being swamped," but ( Read more... )

GODDAMMIT! I had a huge 5-paragrapher going, accidentally hit a wrong button and autosaver didn't work - it saved a blank one!

Phooey. I spent almost an hour on that one. In lieu, have a bulleted outline with the important bits since I went dead to LJ post-Rogues Revenge:

• Work
• Work
• Work
• Work!
• Dated a guy for less than a week - a month later I dump him ( Read more... )

Does the slightest bit of cold weather make anyone else go bi-polar? I go from the summertime blahs without the ability to hold a thought in my head to fall/winter-ish head screams (although I admit the coffee and alcohol don't help - but oh the cocktail recipes I've found recently!). I need to work on getting my daydreaming ability back, that ( Read more... )

ADDED AFTER THE FACT: I want to make love to LiveJournal. I thought I had broken one of the cardinal rules of blogging: don't write your post in the post box itself, write it in a word processor in case IE gets wonky. Lo and behold, after staying up til past 1am with comp issues on my laptop at home, here I am at work, intending to post a temp blog ( Read more... )

Just a quick update to show off some furniture that I got last weekend (feels so good not to have to sit on the floor after a year of doing so).


And I kid you not, that's the name of the color as it was on the sales tag.

It's getting to be that I'm never not busy, especially with my list of things continually growing. I dislike that because it makes me less communicative: I generally like to take a good amount of time to put down measured thoughts in order to check a habit of overwriting and babbling, and an environment like LJ especially encourages the self- ( Read more... )

Whee! I spent the entire weekend reading!  (I've got to get myself a couch though..)

I finally finished Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard. Seriously heady stuff, that, and dense. It took me nearly a year to get through it, and that's partially so because when I tried reading three or more chapters in a week, it gave me such vivid dreams that ( Read more... )

Ok, for my own sanity, I'd better make my weekend to-do list starting today (and if nothing else, if I'm quiet over the next few days, this is why):

Wednesday: stay late at work so I can get a few summer hours on Friday, go to Staples, get back home (car's in the shop for at least another day), run bedsheets through laundry, make a proper bed for ( Read more... )