Apparently I haven't updated with anything of substance in over a month.

First off, thanks to mutinous, dine, bertee, shinyslasher and teapostal for the holiday cards and/or postcards you sent me! Am I forgetting someone ( Read more... )

I decided to take today off because my computer at work has been broken since Tuesday night, meaning that I have nothing to do all day. Two days of that was torture, but a third day? No thanks. Apparently they fixed it finally about an hour ago, but I don't care. I am at home, basking in the sun coming through my floor to ceiling windows and ( Read more... )

Notes to Self:

• Just because you have enough clothing and underwear to go without doing laundry for 3 months doesn't mean you SHOULD go without doing laundry for 3 months.
  
• A bigger sink does NOT mean more room to pile up dishes and not wash them.
  
• No matter how much you wish it did, that Scrubbing Bubbles automatic shower cleaner is NOT going to ( Read more... )

I signed up for eharmony for gays. That's not what it's called and it's not run by christians, but it's one of those sites that matches you on personality and all of that. Considering that I haven't dated anyone in, like, five years, I figured it was time to try again. Maybe? The thought of dating anyone (male or female) kind of makes me want to ( Read more... )

The snow is really kind of beautiful from 7th floor view of Lake Michigan and the city. On the ground, not so much, as I learned on my trek 4 blocks south to the grocery store (and then 4 blocks back north, of course). The dogs were super-excited about it though; they ran around like crazy things outside. Now they're curled up together in their bed ( Read more... )

So. I have always wanted to be a pastry chef. But my parents insisted I go to college and get a bachelor's degree in... something. And I did (applied sociology) but then I panicked because what the fuck do you do with a degree in that?! Plus, I was super-young when I graduated (20 years old!). So I took a diversionary detour to graduate school in ( Read more... )

Sometimes I get this irrational fear of my computer. No, really. The problem is I feel anxiety sometimes about answering comments/emails/etc. so I let them pile up. But then I feel guilty that I haven't answered them so I don't log on to avoid that feeling. Then it starts gnawing at me until I feel like I'm going to burst. So I log on but I feel ( Read more... )

i hate winter. if winter was a person, i would beat the bastard down ( Read more... )

omg black friday shopping=death ( Read more... )

so i had a minor breakdown in front of my boss on friday. basically, i have been working 18-20 hour days trying to cram in my current work, the stuff from my old job because there's no one left to do it right now, and training my new employees, which is the equivalent of 3 full-time jobs. i'm also so tired of people who have no sense of priority at ( Read more... )