So, restaurant week is over halfway finished and I must say, I think Gene may very well end up the big winner (for reasons other than being married to me). Monday, dinner was at a local restaurant that we have visited before. Gene had the prime rib and I had a terrifyingly large portion of…
Cheesecake City Restaurant Week
Before I even start this post, I’m going to make an aside: This is my first weekend since Thanksgiving that I haven’t had to work. YAY! Yesterday was magic, better than Christmas even, and today is shaping up to be good, too. So anyway, Cheesecake City Restaurant Week started Friday and runs through a week…
Sorry about that…
So, I was talking to my mother recently. She gently reminded me that I was incorrect in my Year in Review post for 2010. The question about “Did anyone close to (me) die in 2010?”, I’d answered no and unfortunately I was wrong. The younger of my mother’s two older brothers passed away right before…
Saving the house from disaster…
So, Sunday I was sitting in my chair at home, White Dog in my lap and one of the dogs next to me. I notice that the battery power on the laptop is at 97% so I unplug the cord and plug it back in. (Ideally, the cord has a little light that glows tan…
Big Payroll
Something I told The Almighty D (which reminds me…) the other day while we were IMing: Me: How’s your day going? D: Same stuff, different day Me: At New Company, the version of that is, “New stuff, every day, where’s the alcohol?” Seriously. It is cuh-ray-zee there, every day. I left yesterday at 7:20, narrowly…
Year in Review
1. What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before? Visited Germany, interviewed for a job that I was later offered! And accepted! And then, improbably, promoted from! 2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? My 2010 resolutions were: finish the novel, get a…
May your days be merry and bright…
and may all your Boxing Days be whiiiiiite… So we have snow on the ground here in Cheesecake City. (Supposedly we had a white Christmas too, but it started after the sun went down so I couldn’t tell, as I did not leave the house all day). I remember the days when snow = two…
95
So, when I was a little girl (I would refer to myself as Lil Elaine, but the word “Lil” makes me want to puke), I had a Grandma. Well, of course I had two Grandmas, both of whom were splendid in their own (and very, very, verrrrry different) ways. I have only the best memories…
Merry Christmas Dylan
So, Dylan is the name of the child we “adopted” for Christmas this year. He is 10 years old and asked for games, books and electronics as well as clothes (which broke Gene’s heart, that a child would list socks on his Christmas list). I shopped for him from Target (clothes, a book, some games,…
February please
No more words…took at least 40 calls today…year end is unique, to say the least, in Big Payroll. Phone…is…trying…to…kill…me. (BTW, 40 calls sounds like a lot, because it is…but it’s an average of one call every 12 minutes, which would be great if it worked out that way!) Had dinner with The Almighty D (which,…