This town is absolutely crazy about Relay for Life. We routinely raise more money than cities more than three times our size. Here at my work, they hold fund-raisers for the relay all year long, one of which is going on right now. For a few weeks, employees were called upon to donate things to the silent auction (homemade items or purchased, doesn’ ( Read more... )

there are three emails in my inbox marked "women in business" one has a smily in the subject line. two do not. i have not been brave enough to open them yet. even though its over, its not really over until i find out what i screwed up. monday morning quarterbacking and all. (wednesday in this case) yesterday, one of the writers said he got a call ( Read more... )

OMG WOMEN IN BUSINESS IS FINALLY DONE! I wrote three stories today and nearly died. I've been in since noon (with a hour and a half break for dinner) and I'm JUST NOW printing. If there are angry phone calls on my voice mail after its printed I'm going to just curl up under my desk and die. Seriously folks, this is the biggest project I've ever ( Read more... )

Feel free to make fun of me if you like, but Stephen and Ben went to Olympia today to have lunch with his mom. They stopped by my work at about 9:45 a.m. so they could pick up the car. Ben nursed and we all sat and talked for awhile. It worked out for me anyway, since I have so much work to do (thankfully, the Women in Business final deadline was ( Read more... )

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Ben can count to 12. And his potty-training is sticking for the most part, except that sometimes he doesn't make it in time with poo. Most of the time he stays dry while we're out, but not always. Depends on how long we've been gone. His pullups have little blue carrots on the crotch that dissapper if he wets. So he takes pride in checking for them ( Read more... )

My hatred for writing is pretty ironic, considering that I’m OK at it. But I have a hard time coming up with ideas, and an even harder time organizing all my thoughts and figuring out where to start. So when my friend Brad called me up a few weeks ago for help writing a story, I kind of laughed. But it turns out that he had this awesome idea to ( Read more... )

I JUST GOT A RAISE ABOUT 30 SECONDS AGO!!!!!!!and I'll be damned if i can figure out how much of a percent increase it is. seriously folks, i've been out of college for less than five years and already my math skills are kaput. do you take the smaller number and divide it by the larger number? that can't be right ... its like 0.96989966555. that's ( Read more... )

Things have been absolutely crazy around my house for the last couple days. Between our new time-out rules with Benjamin, and me doing a ton of extra work for this Women in Business section we’re doing, I have barely had time to write in these last couple days. The time that I have spent online has been pretty productive though, as I’ve made a new ( Read more... )

When I saw this story on the wire this morning for the parenting special section digest that AP was moving, my stomach did a flip-flop. I was gleeful for many reasons, one of which was that I know Rebecca Boone and had no idea that she had a baby! I was also thrilled to see a story about something that isn't so mainstream yet. Many people just say ( Read more... )