First, I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but some genius individual has decided to make a thing that single-handedly improves my life. You can now purchase, in the pickles/salad dressing portion of your local grocery, Balsamic Vinegar Reduction Glaze. Speaking as a lazy person, I want you to know that this is literally the best thing that ( Read more... )

I’m using ‘catch up’ in loose terms.

My contract review at work went really well and now I’m in the midst of reviewing all our policies and procedures in relation to all parts of the contract, in advance of the corporate auditor checking things out. I’m shooting to have my part done by the end of this month.

Let me say only two things about this:

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My staff wanted to take some time off around Christmas, so I worked and took a couple of days off around New Year’s. It meant I had almost a full week off - in a row! Spouse and I stayed mostly in the house (I stayed COMPLETELY in the house) and didn’t really interact with anyone else - very few phone calls. For me, it was PERFECT.

I think at one ( Read more... )

Walking your dog in -1° is about as fun as you’d think it is. On the other hand, it’s better than -2. Also, when I put these boots on my dog she forgets she has arthritic hips and wants to run and jump like a puppy. She also decided that me shoveling the walk was much like me vacuuming the house and that she should jump away and bark at the shovel.
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I was reading through my feedly and found a bunch of people doing 2014 retrospectives. All I could think was that 2014 was kind of a dick. Don’t get me wrong, there have been some really good points but from an overall ‘disappointed in society/politics/+people who still hate women/people of color/lgbtq’… kind of a dick.

So I’m going to talk about ( Read more... )

It was a pretty fantastic week for me at work, lots of good things which came down the pipe and my six-month anniversary.

I mentioned before that I’ve been work journaling and it continues to be really helpful. What I’ve found is that if I’m putting my work annoyance down, I’m less interested in talking about it. When I DO talk about it, it becomes ( Read more... )

Are the latest thing rocking my world. The recipe I used is here. I used that recipe because it didn’t require turning the goddamn pecans. Yes, I am that lazy. But they turned out fantastically and will now be my new favorite treat. Possibly I’ll make a batch with almonds.

I’ve read a bunch of books! When I was clicking around on Amazon, ( Read more... )

I’m attaching a gigantic Google-crafted panoramic photo from last week. The weather is still really lovely fall weather - getting a bit more gray and most of the leaves are on the ground, but the temperatures are consistently around 50 during the day.

I’m nearly done with week 3 of Zombies, Run! 5k. I’m still really enjoying the app, enough that I ( Read more... )

The weather has been the best possible version of fall weather this week. Given that’s right in my wheelhouse, I figured this would be a good time to get into a better workout routine. I found a pretty cool looking 5k app called Zombies, Run! which seems pretty entertaining, even if you don’t like zombies.

Then my boss came to town on Monday and ( Read more... )

While Montana doesn’t have the intense color of the midwest, it does have thoroughly lovely fall weather. I took that photo early yesterday morning after a work breakfast out of town.

I hadn’t realized how much I missed fall, but living in the mountains meant less ‘fall’ and more ‘two cool days before winter.’ This fall has been chock full of ( Read more... )