As I mentioned awhile ago, the trip from Cheesecake City to Berlin had two layovers: Thirty-three minutes in Ohio and an hour in Paris. A rep from Delta told me “No stopping, no shopping” for the Ohio layover. The flight to Ohio actually got there a little early -YAY!- although I did not stop or…
Category: Really Deep Thoughts
European Tour: the pre-aftermath
So anyway. Our trip to Germany. We were invited to visit all the way back at Christmas 2009, and we’d planned to go over the summer, but as I remarked, it is fraking expensive to go in the summer. Plus, I had the old job bankruptcy problem and then the new job and blah blah…
Vacation: Briefly, w/ bullet points
Walked in the door about an hour ago. Been awake mostly since midnight Cheesecake City time. Hella tired. Got frisked in by airport security/TSA in Cheesecake City Airport n’ Bait Shop, and airports in Cincinnati and Berlin. Honestly, I may have been frisked in Paris as well but it was around 6 AM Paris time,…
European Tour ’10
On the way home from our trip to Germany. Had a great time, will write more later.
Pretty please?
Can we just stop using the word “lurve” and the acronym “KWIM”? And the phrase “method to my (your/their/our) madness”? When I’m the queen of everything, those words and phrases are gone. Also, teenagers will be taught the proper use of the word “proverbial”* and if they can’t get it right by the time they…
First, we take Cincinnati…
then we take Berlin! (OK, actually, first we take Cincinnati, then we take Paris, THEN we take Berlin). Am I the only one who thinks it is hilarious that there’s a flight from Cincinnati to PARIS? Every time I think of it I imagine the scene in The Wizard of Oz where Dorothy walks out…
Happy National Payroll Week!
(or, as they now call it at my former employer “National Hug a Donkey Week”) (D, are you laughing???) So, it’s National Payroll Week and my new employer takes it seriously. (This is the craziest company…everyone works until at least 6 every night, a full lunch hour is rarely enjoyed, and they often play just…
Here’s what’s new w/ me…
1) Going to Germany in a few weeks. Boss Man took a week to approve my vacation so by the time I could book our tickets the cheapest flights have us with a 12 hour layover in Amsterdam. 2) Work is fine. One of my coworkers is less than thrilled that I’m going out of…
Here’s an important life lesson…
So, I made mashed potatoes last night to go with dinner… (YES, I made dinner…and potatoes!! on a weeknight!) and learned a very important life lesson (the kind that everyone but me knows already): Always, alllllwayyyyys remember to lock the bowl into the stand mixer. If you don’t, you end up trying to shut the…
It’s just my job…
I still love my job. The work is more difficult than what I’m used to (I keep wanting to say, “But of course the client has their vision insurance as a post-tax deduction!”, but I’m reminded that there a million ways to run payroll and I’ve only ever seen one of them) but the people…