Wait, what’s the date?

That’s right, today is the first day of my sixth year of employment at the state. In other words, I’ve been here 5 years! I now earn more vacation time, which is exciting. Lots of changes potentially coming up in the next year, namely that will be retiring (date still TBD).

In …keep reading

Unconscious Mutterings

  1. Inaugural :: Speech
  2. Pledge :: of Allegiance
  3. String :: Theory
  4. Trot :: Walk
  5. Fitness :: Center
  6. Cinder :: Block
  7. Edge :: of Sanity
  8. 31 :: Days
  9. Blue :: Skies
  10. Leather :: Chaps

Movie Meme

Like the earlier book list, bolded are the ones I’ve seen…. (From AFI’s top 100 movies). I’m eliminating the 3 the original poster added as well as the idea to add 3 of my own to the end. I also italicized the ones I intend on never watching, just to emphasize that I …keep reading

A Bookish Meme

“Here (in the extended entry) is a little summer reading list. Bold what you’ve read, italicize those you’ve started and not finished, add three of your own to the end, and post.”

, you might like this, since you were talking about reading some more classic books… perhaps a place to start?

  1. The Lord of the Rings, …keep reading

TGIF – Blessings

  1. What’s special in your life right now?  I’m getting a lot of blog love this week, and that’s pretty special to me.  Dorky perhaps, but there ya have it.
  2. What’s your best experience in school? This semester, it was when my Econ professor asked me during a break if he could hand out my paper to …keep reading

Followship Award*

I need to clean up some bookmarks I have scattered about Firefox, and figured that I could follow ’s example and just post a bunch of them at a time.

  • Seven Financial To-Dos for New Couples – from Motley Fool, a pretty good article. and I have done good on this list except …keep reading

Friday Fill-In

  1. The last good thing that came in the mail was for me, a reimbursement check from my flex spending account; for , my Victoria’s Secret catalog.
  2. This week I’m grateful for the weather, which was significantly better than the previous weeks.
  3. Chocolate (duh) is the most delicious thing ever.
  4. Sunny fall days inspire me.
  5. I’m most happy …keep reading

It’s kind of like a scavenger hunt, only not

Home sweet home… it's amazing how inspiring a sunny day in the middle of fall can be!

Obligatory Starbucks run. But this almost never happens – Starbucks in the cup holder in my car!

That's because I went to Starbucks in Eagan (at the Transit Center, which I didn't fully …keep reading

Busy

Well, I was hoping to get a very clever post up today (or at least a pretty post) with pictures I took yesterday. But, alas, I just finished editing them and I have to leave work now or I don’t get dinner. So, I’ll leave you with these instead:

and I made shish-kabobs …keep reading

Unconscious Mutterings

  1. Las Vegas :: Nevada
  2. Linus :: Larraby
  3. Struck :: Hard
  4. Movie :: of the Week
  5. Anxious :: Feeling
  6. Bandit :: the dog
  7. Picks :: This Week’s
  8. Lasso :: Cowboy
  9. Dinner :: Tonight
  10. Bargain :: Bin

Sigh

I am sadly addicted to these.  I realize that this is quite possibly the lowest quality ever.  I don’t care.  They’re yummy.

Well that certainly puts a cramp in things

KathyHowe wrote this beautiful piece of prose today:

I talked to my dad today. He’s wondering when I plan to get married again. Once again I am reminded I need to speak slowly to the elderly. I reminded him that it was my cervix that was removed. Not my brain.

I thought that …keep reading

Unconscious Mutterings

  1. Illicit :: Affair
  2. Go :: Daddy
  3. Jacket :: Denim
  4. Blow :: Harpoon
  5. Coach :: Team
  6. Effort :: -less
  7. Leadership :: Beacon
  8. Snore :: Snooze
  9. Fearless :: Cat
  10. Network :: Administrator

Two Shirts

that made me laugh today…

For the guys

For the neurotic pet owner

What was that song again?

One of the most interesting wedding gifts we got was “the ugly lovebirds.”  There was a whole poem and everything, but the gist of it was, “here’s some ceramic birds you have to put on display in your house for a year.  or else.”  They were anonymously given to us.  They’re not actually all that …keep reading