There was sun today giving off real honest to god sunshine. Enough sunshine to melt the giant killer icicles off my eaves in the back. Unfortunately, the sun doesn't really hit the front of my house, and I can't get out the door because of the giant killer ice balls hanging off the yew bush, dragging the branches down, and blocking the door, so I'm ( Read more... )

My mini-vacay is over, and I am returned to work ( Read more... )

Please to be dying in a fire now. I'm sick of snow. And I don't want to take precious goofing off time from my vacation to go out and shovel walks and clean snow off my car again. I don't like the idea that my big brother has to travel the highways and byways and back roads of the Northern Panhandle tending to his tax customers with many feet of ( Read more... )

It's 21oF (-6C). And that's just in my office. Okay, that's the outside temp, but it feels that cold in my office. I'm sitting here in a sweater and with my coat draped over my shoulders and I'm still cold. Man, I'd love to be wrapped in a thick, warm blanket with an electric heater at my feet. And maybe a cat or two on my lap ( Read more... )

Scrolling through friendsfriends, I saw someone's excited post about getting a message that their SGA DVDs have been shipped. And I suppose I should feel bad about this, but I have no desire to order the fifth season DVDs for Stargate Atlantis. I have all the episodes downloaded, and I realize there are probably some nice extras and such, but I ( Read more... )

I know I've posted this before, but it bears repeating:

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When I got up this morning and walked around the end of the bed to get to the bedroom door (stumbling and eyes half closed), I stepped on something soft and kind of crunchy. I looked down and there on the floor was Nikki's old, mangy, fuzzy rat that was one of his favorite toys when he was young. It had disappeared a while back, and I'd ( Read more... )

Ugh, my boss just e-mailed me information regarding a financial seminar to be held in Pittsburgh July 28-29 and wanted to know if I was interested in attending. In a word? No. I hate attending seminars. I have yet to attend a seminar that really gave me a lot of useful information ( Read more... )

I hate my job. And I hate being back at work. And I hate having to sit around and wait for other people to pull their heads out of their asses and get me information THAT I NEED TO DO MY FUCKING JOB!

Can I please hit the lottery now? It doesn't even have to be a really big lottery. Just enough to give me an income so I can quit this fucking job.

So, today is the first day of my mini-vacation, and I almost got here without work totally fucking it over. Part of my job involves HUD grants for first time homebuyers, and when I signed up for these two days a couple months ago, I informed our agents that I would be off, and when I would need documentation in by in order to process the loan and ( Read more... )