Response to Mr. TexanElf
I’m not ready for any retirement that requires I stay home all day because I can’t drive.
I’m not ready for any retirement that requires I stay home all day because I can’t drive.
Working hard. Hardly working. I’m not entirely sure how both can be simultaneously true, but then I love a good oxymoron. Today is a jumbo shrimp kind of day. Yesterday’s seminars went well. Free breakfast was a bust, and the boxed lunches they provided failed to excite as well. Still, what did I expect for…
I got a wonderful CD a few weeks ago with old TV themes on it. I’ve been putting it to a somewhat evil use, but I can’t help myself. I’ve been leaving some of the songs on coworkers’ voice mail before I leave at the end of the day. The songs are chosen to represent…
This weekend marks 15 years since my liver and the rest of my body shook hands and decided to give it a go together. There’s been a few rocky patches, but they continue to mostly play nice with each other. It’s rather like getting a cat and keeping it in a room filled with lots…
I’m going through the whole “what the hell am I keeping a diary for” phase again. This question has come up to plague me yearly since I started keeping this thing on line. I’ve come up with good reasons in the past. I’m just not sure they were valid reasons. Good and valid aren’t necessarily…
My company has a one-page newsletter that comes out weekly. It specializes in announcements of company sponsored events, factoid filler, and reminders of company policy. It also features an employee each week, giving a picture and short bio of the person. The employees featured are a good cross section of the company, which has always…
These days I find myself noticing the textures of things that I touch. The velvet of that duster-length jacket at Coldwater Creek that I wanted for my own. The smooth hard cool of my computer desk. The slight grittiness of my car that needs washing so badly. The acidy crackle of the catsâ coats in…
So you’re saying you’re not ready for retirement? 😀
The above helpful comment created by my lovely husband. :p
Giggling at you with two pairs of glasses on, and a rotten foot, and the shits sitting around 😛
Good work on the projects!!!
You wearing two pairs of glasses to do needlework is very similar to me having to use a 5x magnifying mirror while wearing my 4x magnifying glasses half way down my nose to– get this– tweeze my eyebrows! I have to do the same to drain the occasional pimple, too.