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T-Minus 4
Gary’s Dream Sometimes on the weekend I’ll wake Gary up and he’ll say “Lemme alone. I wanna finish my dream.” Then he emerges from the bedroom three hours later and gives me wild details of the dream he just finished. Pirates and action-adventures, usually. I’ve always been suspicious of this. I say things like, “Those…
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T-Minus 5
Reasons I Don’t Twitter As I understand it, twitter is essentially texting, which is essentially Instant Messaging. Please review an example of an IM when we worked at Elliott: Marcia: Hey, I have a questionMe: What Marcia: Can you come over?Me: busyMarcia: We were thinking of getting Chinese, do you want some?Me: fried riceMarcia: Do…
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T-Minus 6
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T-Minus 7
This morning, TeddyJ treated me to: DonutsBagelsMinimization of my entire personality to a labelFree coffee Yes, TeddyJ says I’m a Perfectionist, based on my answers to the DISC Assessment. (If you are familiar with Meyers-Briggs (INTPs rule!), it’s like that, only less complex.) I’m a Perfectionist because I gave myself low scores in Dominance and…
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T-Minus 8
Since the sale at the pricey West County store, artwork has overwhelmed my house, I have all that artwork, plus the “artwork” I unearthed at Moms, including this primitive: With all this redecorating Gary has decided he wants to participate. He is going to take the dog’s kibble (the kibble he sprinkles on top of…
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T-Minus 9
More grimness! What is with me? So, it’s true what they say, the holiday season is rough if you’ve lost a loved one. I wasn’t expecting it to be rough on Thanksgiving, because Thanksgiving was never really a Mom holiday, given the heavy turkey and Mom’s 5-pound weight limit. Still, we’d always go visit Mom…
Putting the TMI in absentminded