Today, 3 days before Christmas, I went into my local Walmart at 2:00 in the afternoon to find it PACKED with last-minute shoppers. While in the peanut butter aisle, some bitter old hag who looked, as a biker friend used to say, "like she had been rode hard and put up wet" was speaking at the top of her voice, clearly searching for someone to listen ( Read more... )

Hello Friends!

Sorry I have been uncharacteristically absent from blogging in recent times. As you can imagine, the move to Austin and related events have been fairly all-consuming over the past two weeks. My thanks to those of you who've reached out to stay in touch with me, and for everyone's patience as I have been out of touch.

( Let me esplain... )

Perhaps the most shocking piece of news in this entire affair is that Ian actually updated his LiveJournal! Please do drop by and leave him a little note there!

Ian got the honor of letting the cat out of the bag that his contract position is indeed with BioWare, which is "pretty awesome." It is, of course, much better than merely "pretty awesome ( Read more... )

On my way home from work last night, I stopped at the campus to purchase a textbook. The sunset was incredible. I stopped to snap a picture of it just past the peak of its beauty, a view I want to share:


( Read more... )

At least one of you will pick up what I'm putting down in the subject line! I attempted to write, "What HAVE I been up to lately?" and I couldn't help but snicker at this odd minor old joke.

I got a lot accomplished this morning! Considering that I stayed up until the heretofore unknown time of 4:00 am and then woke around 9:30, this is pretty ( Read more... )

Ian's graduation day was like Christmas. I woke excited and ready to leap out of bed and get things started! We enjoyed a wonderful day with family. The ceremony we attended was just for the 30 graduates. Ken Levine from 2K Boston was the speaker, and gave the somewhat typical, "Don't do what everyone else has done, go out and innovate," speech. ( Read more... )

After getting out of work early yesterday (my company's holiday gift to us in lieu of expensive party), I dashed home to do some final domestic chores in preparation for family arriving. I did the worst things first: cleaned bathrooms, scrubbed toilets, cleaned off the kitchen countertop under my plants, washed pots & pans, the works. Just when I ( Read more... )

Grocery shopping day. This time three weeks of supplies for $100, including stocking up on Coke while it was on sale ($.40 for each 20-ounce bottle, $.25 a can -- it pays to use the stock from home and forgo machines and restaurant Cokes!). Now that I've been in this new routine of grocery shopping for about three months, I'm really impressed by ( Read more... )

Ian has just summed up my current state of being: I am done side questing, I am done with this level, and I'm ready to level up!

Speaking of him getting a job, us moving wherever we're gonna move, moving out of an apartment and into a house, getting married and having a baby, that is.

I'm blogging this!

Trace

Pete's Visit
peepslayer came in for the weekend. We made it a point to take photos throughout the weekend, and I'll post some eventually, but probably not this week. Busy, ya know ( Read more... )