I have today off! Of course, I have to work late on Wednesday and work this Sunday but I have 7 whole hours without the girls! How delicious! The first thing I am trying to do is catch up on correspondence and lj... then I'm going to sew and watch last night's episode of 24.


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I overslept yesterday and the day was rushed because of that. Then three of my co-workers called in sick and I had to pick Liz up from work at 9:30 so I didn't get home until 10pm. Arrgh ( Read more... )

Well, I don't know anything more about Dad than I did this morning ( Read more... )

Emily and I had a great time... we plan to do that again soon!

I spent a good portion of yesterday making beef stock. Not only does it take forever but the hardest thing for me is to not stir something at a lazy boil on the stove! Today I'll be trying the marchand de vin sauce and a london broil. If it works out, I'll post the recipe. Although I ( Read more... )

I found the perfect book charm for my bracelet! It's a locket that has a place for 4 pictures (hildebrants shrunk very small, I forsee) and two pages that could be engraved in the center. I had them engrave the cover with "The Hobbit" and "JRR Tolkien". Perfect ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas everyone ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a complete bust ( Read more... )

I was looking in the wrong place.

Tonight, I found quite a few of the charms that went missing... Including the two that were bought for me before I was born (turns out that they're catholic St Therese medals which means they're quite common). And the ship that Anne got me... and my L'arc de Triomphe (or however you spell it). I think I even found ( Read more... )

I wasted an unusual amount of time last night surfing around on ebay looking for silver charms. Many years ago, I had a silver charm bracelet... in fact, I'd had it all my life. In college, someone broke into my apartment and stole it and a few other things as well and, while I was furious, there wasn't much to be done about replacing it ( Read more... )