Am abandoning the wilds of small town Tennessee next week! My boss is sending me to a data mining conference in Boston. I'm a prospect researcher for the development department of a small, liberal arts university. Pretty sexy, huh? Yeah. You know it ( Read more... )

Today, I received an offer on our house, which has been for sale for a few months. I just signed away one brick ranch, all my appliances, 9 sets of glorious custom window treatments and a piece of my ACTUAL SOUL.

I made a tidy profit, but STILL. This calls for wine...

Am dominated by new job and small dog. Do they make Depends for small dogs? Really, I think I've found a market that is totally underserved. New job is great. It's part-time...I research potential donors for a small, southern university. And I still work at the old retail job a couple of Sundays a month, mostly to keep my discount ( Read more... )

For a person who's posting status hovers around Almost Never, with occasional forays into Oh, She's Still Alive?, I was not happy to be without LiveJournal access, even for a relatively small time. I was almost, almost motivated to do some actual housework. But the urge passed, because I am spending much time at dog-training websites learning about ( Read more... )

The husband is watching the presidential debates, and I'm trying not to cringe. I want GWB to be an articulate speaker. I want him to be a president I can support ( Read more... )

I managed to get through most of the Emmys last night, because of course the Best Actor award is at the end and even though Alan Rickman (my pretend husband) did not win, he did look very nice in his tux. I really did enjoy "Something the Lord Made," and thought it deserved better than it got, but this was Tony Kushner's night. Still, Pachino? Over ( Read more... )

I exercised. Which I have not done more than twice since I started working full-time. In December ( Read more... )

I have to go back to work today. Not only that, I'm working the closing shift, which is the more responsibility-laden and labor-intensive shift. I was hoping to ease back in with a morning shift, but the boss tends to screw the person most recently on vacation, on account of that person just had a lovely vacation and everyone else had to work all ( Read more... )

When it's my day off, that is. I'm about to watch my new "The Lion in Winter" DVD--am huge Glenn Close fan. I'm gearing up for a quick trip to Florida next week...we're flying out to take the Dude to Disney, with my in-laws. I'm hoping to get to spend a bit more time in Epcot Center, this round ( Read more... )

But you would think I was, if you went by the number of LJ posts I've made lately. I was in Phoenix for a week, having some minor surgery and hanging out at my mom's house. I'm back now, only in a small amount of pain and spending most of my time going to work. But! I did catch up on much cable TV at my moms (no, we don't have cable, and yes, it is ( Read more... )