I'm finding that doing things I have to do while unemployed is very, very difficult to do.

Case in point: thank-you notes. So far today I've loaded and unloaded the dishwasher twice, folded laundry, made meatballs, and watched six or seven episodes of Doctor Who from about three different New-Doctor seasons. I've only written about ten thank-you ( Read more... )

The honeymoon was strangely fantastic. Normally if I go on vacation there are things I want to do, places I want to see, stuff like that; instead, Ike and I averaged 16 hours of sleep for five days and I gained probably ten pounds from all the food. We left the boat once, to spend about 4 hours on the beach at Half-Moon Cay. And in those 4 hours, ( Read more... )

I quit LB yesterday ( Read more... )

Come home from Springwars--an exceptional and surprising event, by every account--to find out that my store is still on the DM's shit list for our credit performance. I got to sit on a conference call this morning while she yelled at every one of us personally, telling us we're responsible for our district's failures. OK, I can understand that; I ( Read more... )

I think our personal trainers are a little weirded out by Ike and I.

We started two Thursdays ago, going for an hour apiece on Tuesdays and Thursdays. With the contract we signed, that gives us each five weeks, twice a week, of individual and personal instruction by qualified level I trainers at the gym.

Basically, we're each paying a skinny girl to ( Read more... )

 82 days till the wedding...

Why can't I stop thinking about doing a solo at Tribal Rev?

Why am I even considering this when I've performed exactly twice in my life and this third time, there might be up to four huge sources of personal inspiration watching me? I mean, why do I pick the night where Rachel shacking Brice goo could be watching?

I need ( Read more... )

 PTO at work is awarded yearly, I think; well, I haven't seen evidence to the otherwise, so I'm going to assume that it's a yearly thing ( Read more... )

I did nothing today.

That's not true. I got three loads of laundry sorted and put away, made breakfast and dinner, and ran a huge load of dishes through the washer. I finally had an excuse to break out my new serger (hey, Springwar garb!) and did so, spending an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out why the lowerlooper thread keeps breaking ( Read more... )

Last night's dinner was hobo-packet chicken with red peppers, sea salt, olive oil, and lemon; stewed beans (of course) and steamed veggies--and then two glasses of red wine, which followed my celebrating-my-day-off sippings of Baileys, and then Jameson and diet Dr Pepper. Yes, Tobin was a little bit tipsy last night, but it got some laughs. You ( Read more... )

Well, Beef & Beans survived the first weekend, although I needed to have cereal this morning because we're out of juice and I was low at breakfast. I'll stop at the grocery store on my way back from the gym; I also need eggs and more beans. Based on last week, a 1-lb bag of beans lasts me about a week, with two servings of beans per day. And yes, ( Read more... )