Category: Really Deep Thoughts

A few weeks ago, I watched (or at least finished watching) two movies from the PVR. I don’t know if I’ve talked about them yet. They were The House of Mirth and Laurel Canyon. I’m concerned about being backwards because one of them was critically acclaimed and one was disliked by the critics. And my…

awww… The Puppy Bowl is on Animal Planet. It’s definitely the weirdest counterprogramming to the (real) Super Bowl. I theorize that it started out as Animal Planet planning to have dogs play football, but when they realized the puppies were…well, puppies…they went with the second approach, which is basically 3 hours of puppies playing, drinking…

(yeah, yeah, yeah…) Just got back from a fabulous weekend in Gene’s home town. Everytime I get back from a visit I think “Millions of people vacation HERE?” So anyway, I got home from work Friday at the usual time to find Gene on a conference call, half packed and not ready to leave. We…

My boss’s boss (the controller for those in the know) told my boss (payroll supervisor) that I’m doing a good job in payroll and “I don’t let the stressful parts bog me down”. I guess talking to him privately to apologize for my comment that the IT manager’s wife, son and dog are smarter than…

Let’s make a fun list of great things about the Internet… 1) As previously noted, I met my husband on the Internet (if we’re counting AOL). 2) Found my belovedest beagles on the Internet (www.petfinder.com) 3) Was able to print out declaration sheet for auto insurance (www.progressive.com) and statement for 401k (retire.hartfordlife.com) instead of going…

Nah, I haven’t turned over a new leaf. Still cursing like a truck driver normally, just not now. It’s snowing — or it was snowing. There’s maybe a rockin’ inch on the ground, just enough to get us to the grocery store for the first time in awhile. Yes, we bought bread, eggs and milk….

AOL has informed me that they are no longer going to offer Usenet Newsgroups as of “early in 2005” — apparently that’s going to be in February. Since Usenet is one of 3 things I do on AOL anymore (the others are IM one of my blog readers and read The Knot), I think it’s…

Blog readers, can you tell that I love Fridays? So, since I last posted: Wednesday night I updated my IPod, adding a bunch of music and getting rid of some as well. Right now my IPod is half full with over 500 songs on it, including the entire Fleetwood Mac and Steely Dan boxsets. Take…

Work wasn’t bad today — after work, I got the car washed (one of those drive through placces — there was a line, so I parked in line and read my book — mm, reading!), went to Old Navy and picked up fried chicken for dinner. I even called my mother in law from the…

Great weekend — Sunday we mostly just bummed around the house. Got laundry done, finished watching the Inauguration (Shh, don’t tell my mom) and a few random things from the PVR. Today at work was …. fun. (No, not really). Old boss spammed the hell out of me with questions about the insurance bills. Most…