Things to Get Excited About

There has been a lot going on lately, between work stuff and a less-fun-than-average budget situation and the rest of life.  It’s easy to get caught up in everything that’s going on and feel overwhelmed. So today is about letting go of that stuff.  I mean, I’m still at work, figuring out databases.  Despite that,…

Doctors and French Fries

I like to think I’m more rational than not.  There are, however, some notable exceptions to that rationality.  Today’s applicable exception has to do with visiting doctors.  I know that there are lots of great doctors out there, and I’m not really afraid of going to the doctor.  Not for normal reasons anyway. My fear…

Inventions for Procrastinators

As I was driving to work this morning, I was thinking about traffic light patterns.  Specifically, I was wishing that they were more like lines at the airport (crazy, right?!). This is why.  In lines at the airport, things are somewhat controlled by people.  That can be helpful or not.  If you’re running really late…

Apologize: express remorse, regret*

Sorry.  It’s Monday, and I have nothing to offer you. (Did you know that I apologize for everything?  You’re now officially a part of my life, because I’ve apologized to you for something ridiculous.  One of my friends in high school tried to get me to stop that habit by giving me consequences every time…

Not Quite as Promised

Okay, that title is just because I promised pictures of the sky from this past weekend.  Scott took some awesome photos of that, which I transferred to my computer.  Everything was fine and dandy until my computer ate those pictures sometime between that moment and this one.  This is the only picture that survived (I…

Chuck Norris Facts

I was thinking today, as I did artsy stuff and hung out in my girly little house. I was thinking, “I miss Chuck Norris jokes.”  So I did something about that and looked them up.  Here are a few of my favorites: Chuck Norris watches 60 Minutes in half an hour. Chuck Norris is always…

Highlight Reel

There were way too many fun things about the past week to record them all.  Hopefully the same was true about your Christmas.  There were, however, a few highlights.  Enjoy. On the drive from Norfolk to Blacksburg, houses along the road obligingly turned out an impressive number of Christmas lights.  It made driving in the…