Today, I was very lucky and got to play and bathe puppies ( Read more... )

One day at the office, one of my co-workers sent me this link, and it suddenly everyone spent a great deal of the day finding out who we were ( Read more... )

I know it's still January, and technically spring is a far way off, but Trader Joe's has their spring cut flowers for sale! I love buying cut flowers, and try to brighten at least one room in the house with them -- usually either the living room or my office ( Read more... )

Wow. I don't think I've check my journal in a few weeks now. My excuse is that I'm still one of the very few people on the planet on dial-up, and I only had so much desire in waiting. I've gotten pretty good in patience. I usually click on a page or link then play a thousand games of Vegas-style solitaire until the page shows up. I swear, if it ( Read more... )

This is almost like the nightmare of arriving to class naked and having to write a final exam which you know nothing about. Today is the Christmas luncheon at my work. In my experience, work Christmas luncheons are typically a low-key casual affair, which usually last about an hour or so. No big deal ( Read more... )

I lost my Beta fish, Gamma, tonight. He was not feeling so good for a while now and in the last couple of days, he was not eating at all and sitting at the bottom of the tank in odd positions. Never a good sign.

Anyway, I checked on him an hour ago and knew he was gone. He's now buried in my flower pot with the rose bush. I'm a little sad.

Your Hidden Talent


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It's that time of year again, isn't it ( Read more... )

I always loved my mother's potato salad. Growing up, her potato salad was the measuring stick I used to judge all other potato salads, and alas! They all came up short. Fortunately for me, when I moved out and really began to cook on my own, my mother sent me a list of my favorite receipes, her potato salad being one of them ( Read more... )

Every year, I get send one of my friends a custom-made salt scrub (sometimes I get her a sugar scrub) from Sam Soap ( Read more... )