I essentially have three families. Because my parents divorced when I was very young, they make up two complete (and distinct) Christmases. And, now, I also have Michael’s family to see every year. We’re still having Christmas, in fact! Last weekend, we saw Michael’s family. This week, we saw my mother’s side. And, this weekend [...]
There are just some days when the big, blank white “Create Posting” screen of my blog seems to just stare back at me. These are the days when there are lots of “challenges”, when I tend to feel more discouraged than enthusiastic, when it’s most important that I force myself to write anyway because I [...]
Ok, I’m officially having a hissy fit (on the inside) about our House 8 predicament. It’s not the insurance company’s fault that nothing has been done…. It all boils down to Contractor 1’s delays. We STILL have no estimate of materials used from the work he did to House 8 before the fire. I’ve asked [...]
With the biggest holiday of the year landing tomorrow, I’m about to take a wild turn towards the domestic. I’ve got a house to clean, cookies to bake, and a dog to dress up like Santa. LOL! My relatives are going to be on my doorstep in a matter of just a [...]
I have a million and one items floating around in my mental “to do” list. But, my hiatus made it so that I’m not used to the working regimen I had only just over a month ago. I’ve got to get back on track. The last three weeks in a row, I’ve been late in [...]
Well, after the anonymous trolls invaded Sitting Pretty, I decided to disable anonymous commenting on my own blog. I’m just trying to take preventative measures. I apologize in advance to any friendly commenters out there who like to comment anonymously.
I forgot to tell you! Contractor 2’s helper stayed at House 7 one night, since he [...]
Well, I dug out our list of goals for 2005. Sometime around June or July, the list was buried under a pile of important-but-not-very papers in my home office. I remember being stressed out around that time about Contractor 1 taking blooming forever to get our houses done. Because of his delays, we got off [...]
Just kidding with that title. I’ve spent some time in the most recent weeks–when not on vacation, that is–attending to personal debt and gathering materials for tax time. Sorry I’ve been gone so long!
Right now, I’m a bit foggy-brained, since Michael figured he’d get rid of his cold by giving it [...]
Since much of the responsibility for our success now sits on Michael’s shoulders, I’ve been able to rest my mind a little as of late. I do, however, fill a coordinator-type role in our partnership, though. It’s my job to steer this ship to port. I still diligently compose a list of weekly goals for [...]
Monday afternoon, a 24-inch water main burst just outside our building. We were forced to evacuate and go home for the day! Water flooded our data center, which took out all the servers in the company. Thank God I didn’t take any of those jobs when some of them came available recently! (I’m looking forward [...]
