Unemployment. Job hunting. Taxes. Bills. These are things that you expect to bring on the stress. But sometimes it’s the little things that just make you want to run screaming into the night ( Read more... )

I have been kidnapped and taken out to a long lunch at Ye Old Upper-End Seafood Place by my boss and four coworkers. Blackened tuna and pecan pie. It was lovely.

And because none of us are driving anywhere for the next handful of hours, Boss also said, "Screw it, we're having cocktails."

I should add, this place serves fairly large cocktails. ( Read more... )

There really is nothing like having part of your life thrown into a tail-spin to make you feel like your personal space-time continuum has sprung a leak. I simultaneously feel as if I got word of my layoff yesterday, and like I’ve been dealing with the job loss/job hunting thing for the last six months ( Read more... )

I’m back in the office today. I’m welcome here through the 31st, and I’m taking advantage of it. For one thing, it’ll be easier to launch a “Hire Me” campaign from here. For another, keeping my routine for as long as I can will help me avoid the sucking black hole of depression. For another, I need to close up shop, clean out my desk, cull good ( Read more... )

After five months of doing the workplace equivalent of watching an unsteady acrobat teetering on a tightrope, I was officially informed this morning that my job is gone as of the end of the month ( Read more... )

The canine population at my parents’ house currently stands at four: Dixie the beagle, Pepper the schnauzer, Jada the shar pei/Rottweiler mix, and the latest addition, Beau the six-month-old boxer ( Read more... )

Between Christmas money and a fortuitous sale at Target, I have added to my ever-growing collection of True Blood DVDs this month. It still blows my mind that the actor who plays Jason Stackhouse is an Australian. He sounds just like every good ol' Southern boy I've ever known. (He's the one in the yellow t-shirt.)

Compare to his real accent.He ( Read more... )

On Sunday, I filled my purse with tissues and took myself to see War Horse. A movie that did a great job of showing that horse people are horse people pretty much anywhere you find them ( Read more... )

I was really feeling in the spirit last evening, so I came home, popped Love Actually into the DVD player, and got my holiday candy-making on. I wanted to try out a couple of recipes, and my coworkers, ever so reluctantly, offered themselves up as quality control test subjects. (I had to twist their arms SO HARD. Really.) So, I came to work ( Read more... )

*My birdfeeder has died at the hands of over-zealous (and entirely too well-fed) squirrels. The fluffy-tailed little buggers now just sit on the balcony railing and stare at the empty space where it hung and look confused. Well, that’s what you get, children. I don’t have time to replace it until this weekend ( Read more... )