It has been a long week at the culmination of a long month. I've worked my butt off, and seen some real progress start to happen at work. It's so much less stressful being the person who is in charge, even when it looked as if we were going to come in under budget this month. This past week our team has pulled itself together and brought in some ( Read more... )

Today I got promoted to be in charge of a site that makes nearly $600K a year in revenue. I also was a victim of grand larceny.

...used to be my thing. I kinda wish they still were.

I'm awfully sluggish this morning, but a few miles of wandering ought to remedy that.

In the spirit of springtime fun, I have ( Read more... )

Anyone up for canoing? It's another truly lovely day here and I want to go play outside ( Read more... )

I miss living in a house. The sun is shining this morning, it's warm out, the birds are singing and there's an apple tree that has covered the grass and sidewalk with pale pink petals. I have a cup of coffee (Nina-strength, of course). Now, if I were still living in Ithaca, I would simply step out onto the deck and simmer in the sunshine for ( Read more... )

Jim is frequently sad that he doesn't get to make biscuits. This week we've been working on remedying that. The past two days we've had lovely sundried tomato biscuits with breakfast (parmesan included only on day 1 -- we ran out). Biscuits are very easy to make, and I love 'em, love 'em, love 'em. I got me the best husband in the whole world :

I'm gonna go take a practice GRE today. Ideally, I will do mind-blowingly well on this practice, spurring me to take the actual exam immediately and race to complete my grad school applications so that I may begin studies in August. In actuality, I still need to get references and write essays, so I will probably not take the real deal for a few ( Read more... )

I have a beer. I'm making soup. It would be black bean soup except that half of the beans I added are red kidney beans. I am at a point in my life where it seems perfectly normal to get home from work and begin cooking dinner at 10 PM.