… and Audrey asked me to post again fast… here we have it: I have a job. I LOVE my job. This is a GREAT day for me: Me, my laptop playing Christmas carols, and the endless binders I sift through doing research. SWEET! But even better… see that cup? The ampersand means love. Love, …
Category Archives: Loving this
Gifts and memories
Truth: I *love* to give gifts… but only the RIGHT gifts. Christmas and birthdays stress me out because I don’t *want* to just give for the sake of giving, I want it to be something that SCREAMS someone’s name, not something that they say “thanks!” to, and then forget about for a couple of months. …
Sadness to Goodness
Today is a sad day for Canadians. The Leader of the Opposition, Jack Layton, has died. It was Cancer, and even though he stepped down from the leadership on 25 July to focus on recovery… this still came as a shock, for me, anyway. We are lesser for his passing. Proof—his last words, in a …
Travel Insight into Shopping
Do you see this door? A porta permanence fechada. THIS DOOR STAYS CLOSED. Remember the skittering bug I mentioned last week? We got to know each other cara a cara last week. Face-to-face. I had gotten into the habit of turning on the light and fan before going into the loo as a warning… well, …
More Travel Insight
Thursday was a religious holiday in SP—Corpus Christi, in this case. That likely means something to the mostly-Catholic people of SP, but for we secular kids it meant that Wednesday night we watched foo-chee-bow (er, “football”) on TV and drank wine, slept in on Thursday (OK, I do *every* day—plus naps), and spent the rest …
A Better Idea
My parfait of the other day? Well, with the leftover brownies (didn’t mention that I *also* made brownies for work yesterday—it was a good day *and* a busy day!) I decided to make a “happy Friday the 13th” parfait: On the bottom layer today, fogging up the glass, is a toasted brownie. 🙂 I wanted …
Next stop
Oh, this week… Let me just say this—I had my interview. I had prepped and worried and did all I could, and then: not good. They asked me a big broad question, and I said “well, that’s really two questions—shall I do one at a time?” They said “no, do both, as a two-parter”. OK. …
A Great Day
Fact: I am 70 years, to the day, younger than Katharine Hepburn. (source) Even if she was “box office poison” for a time, I’ve always thought she was pretty cool—classic, classY, and she wore trousers before it was common. I dig me a little non-conformism. To celebrate us, yesterday began with a parfait, proceeded with …
A Coffee Question
When I asked what you could live without yesterday, it forced me to rethink this whole “now I feel like I’m about to move” thing. In all honesty, when my delightful roommate, lived with me a year and a half ago, she had said at one point about my “vintage” cutting boards, “well, you could …
Mixing the Good with the Bad
I had drinks at my house with a colleague I hadn’t spoken to in yonks. We had work stuff to do, but also wanted to be informal. I served guac, she brought tortillas, there was some tequila. As it turned out, she’d been up all night the night before with a sick kid… and thought …