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I like to write about life when you have a job, some kids, a fixer upper and a fatal disease.

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  • Re-Love My V-Dub

    I've been itching for a new car. Which is crazy, I can't afford a new car! And besides, the Jetta has only 73k miles on it! Itch Itch Itch anyway. Longer, warmer days bring a desire for new leather, speedier speed, open sunroofs, etc…I feel like this every year.  I know exactly the car I…

  • Grrrrrr…it’s a good thing I’m not on anti-psychotics.

    You can't do my refill until tomorrow? Because of some "30 in 24 days" insurance rule? No exceptions, even if I'm traveling the entire next week, including the day I will run out of medication that very clearly states on the actual bottle not to miss a day?  Ok, fine, I'll just pay for it…

  • Crockpot Chronicles

    I DO need one of those locking-lid, traveling crock pots! Behold, the Turkey Rice and Cranberry soup prepared for a harrowing journey in the back seat to work. 

  • The Gross Out Award

    I sell used furniture. There's no getting around that. I was on site today for my first sizable installation of workstations–there to go over the design plan with the installers, watch the offload process, learn and …clean. By the time they get to the next customer, workstation components will have bumps and bruises and be…

  • Storm Warning

    Even if the bedroom window had not been open, the thunderstorm earlier this week would have woken me. It was a huge, booming monster of a storm–at one point, the thunder following the lightning by only one second–it was right above the house. I was dreaming when it began, and as the windows rattled from…

  • What Have I Done?

    Some days, there's just no escaping the feeling that I've made a huge mistake.

  • X-hell

    I took an all-day Excel class today, and loved it. Not that I love Excel–that stuff was written by the devil–but I loved learning to understand it. We work with a beast of a spreadsheet at work for quoting (hundreds of parts, hundreds of parts, hundreds of parts, hundreds of parts, hundreds of parts) and…

  • Worse Than Greek

    I figured out, at last, what's been frustrating me at work about the flow, communication, data, information retrieval, order entry, etc…it's a PC world, and I'm a MAC! Excel. Ugh. Windows. Double Ugh. Blackberry. Ugh Ugh Ugh. Devices don't speak to each other, everything needs another ap that then needs a new ap to run…and…

  • Do You Have To Go?

  • The First of What Will Most Likely Be Many Humiliations

    I'm the winner of this week's email contact contest, "Uncle/Boss" Tom gives me my reward. God help me, the man is cheesy.