It was really hard to come back to work this morning. At least it is another short week. I’m thinking about taking Friday off to make another long weekend. More on that in a second. My parents flew to London on Saturday. They were originally going to go to New York City for the weekend, but th...

I went for a haircut this morning. The plan was a mere trim - I have a slightly longer than chin length bob. What I walked out with is a chin length bob with the back stacked a bit so that it’s nice and short on the neck. Me likey. And what was really nice is that my hairdresser complimented m...

This week seems to kick Christmas into High Gear. Today: I need to finish prepping the food for the Christmas lunch at my office tomorrow. Since I’m the lead planner, this means that I did all of the shopping and most of the cooking. I’m totally OK with that and I’m happy that I ca...

1. I have my next prenatal appointment around lunchtime. I’ll post to TG later with the report. No ultrasound today - just the normal check up that includes listening to the heartbeat, which is pretty cool. 2. The weekend was generally good and busy. At this moment I cannot remember what we di...

... And Jesse decided it was time to par-tay. We had a good day yesterday. Nice and relaxing. Got a nap in the afternoon. We attended a birthday party for a family friend in the late afternoon. I took Roasted Orzo and Shrimp, which was super easy to make and delicious. We bought home about 1/3 of it...

The Pork Cook-Off: Mom bagged all of the tenderloins with marinade yesterday. She got 3 tenderloins into each gallon bag with 1 cup of marinade. With 8 bags to go she ran out of marinade. That’s 2 gallons of marinade. So I made a new batch of marinade for the rest of the meat and realized that...

Final thoughts from the Disney trip: 1. It is amazing how many people, mostly men, will pick their noses in public. I don’t mean a mere scratch, but an actual digit-up-the-nostril pick. The best (worst?) example was the Dad who was seated at a nearby table at the character breakfast in Cindere...

We’re so close to vacation time. I really cannot wait. It’s very exciting. I’m already in great shape work-wise. I do need to take my laptop with me to do the monthly close out tasks, but I can get them done in the evening easily. In fact, I’m so caught up on work that I thin...

Woke up at 4:30am as usual and went into the bathroom to take care of business and to brush my teeth. Lifted the toilet cover to find that the seat was wet. I felt the toilet cover on the cover and it was soaked on the part that wraps around the bottom of the lid. So I put the lid down and felt the ...

Our air conditioning crapped out yesterday. The thing is we noticed a problem with the fan during the winter - it would cycle on and regardless what the thermostat was set to it would continue blowing. So Beau banged on something in the basement and the fan stopped. And then we had no problems. Unti...