Today was one of the most productive Bacon Wrapped Turkey Festival Days ever. Slept in (getting sleep is productive) and then woke up. Made coffee and got started on three outdoor projects. Trimmed back some plants that needed to be put to bed for the spring. Fixed our pond's filter and pump (vanderbolt did most of that) and cleaned out the gutters and ( Read more... )

Tried to get out of work a bit early on Friday. Didn't really succeed. We celebrated Vanderbolt's actual birthday by eating Indian Food take out and birthday cake...and we watched some DVD's that he got ( Read more... )

-went to Chuck-e-Cheese where Jfrog works and bummed pizza and prizes. It was fun and a hoot to see him on a fairly busy Friday night. Picked up passes that his store is donating to the SYGW auction (coming up Sept. 30th!!! -- tickets on sale via the website sygw.org ( Read more... )

moving at warp speed.
This week is busy and it's only going to get more insane.

I have much to do, but I wanted to post a few ideas I've been kicking around.

( Cut for unpolished ramble )

Super Personal: conflict with my husband is actually great. I hate the conflict part, but I love the way he's so rational that we *have* to talk about everything. One of the best parts of resoving conflicts that we have is gaining insight into the way my husband thinks. I'm frequently amazed and how sophisticated and then at time how utterly ( Read more... )

July 4th 2006
Morning - woke up, showered, headed into work for strategic planning session with department co-worker.

9 to 11:30ish - strategic planning session.

( my day got much better! Here's proof! )

A very interesting thing happened today on mysticalforest's blog ( Read more... )