Have packed most of my bag for leaving from work tomorrow for Gothenburg, still waiting on a load in the dryer. Anders & I just made the unpleasant discovery after a look at the bank account that it’s tighten-the-belt-straps-no-fun-or-extras again this month. 🙁 sigh. Anders gets really upset when I tell anyone our money worries, but I have to talk about it, otherwise it eats me alive. Anyway, this means I can’t go to Arkivet in Gothenburg as I had hoped, but figure it’s my due punishment for all the lovely paper and stamps I purchased over the last month...

This was pretty damn funny. This was, too.

Just got handed a fun project to do at work, which makes 2 out of 4, substantially upping the fun quotient. You’ll probably think I’m nuts when I reveal that the fun project is a catalog for our customer’s baseband and radio technology products, LOL! But it’s layout work and not dicking around with a database or recreating web pages in a pain-in-the-ass intranet platform. I haven’t wanted to BE at work lately, much less do anything of worth to earn my salary while there. I want to be home working on my collage book or playing on the computer...

October is a prankster, a con man, a swindler and a liar. If October tells you your shoe’s untied, don’t look down. If October whispers the name of a certain stock, don’t buy it. If October shakes your hand, check your wallet. October wants you to believe that the sunny days of summer weren’t all that good, that August was too hot and it rained all of July. October wants you to appreciate the sparkling afternoons and the brisk mornings, the colors of the leaves and the taste of caramel apples. October wants to pull the wool over your eyes...

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AWC evening, and it ain’t over yet. Been calling people to find out if they’re renewing so that I can finish the directory. Finishing up the final touches on the website. Final changes on the presentation for tomorrow’s meeting and getting it loaded onto Anders’ laptop. Printed piles of papers today to take with me, including meeting programs, calendars, ballots, treasurer’s reports and newsletters. Still have to make sure I have everything in my “meeting bag.” We got Martin’s school pictures today and they came out GREAT! I’m very happy with them, just wish they’d include more of the bigger...

Brio has the absolutely coolest children’s playroom disguised as a museum that I’ve ever seen. It’s not very big, but it’s packed with neat things for kids and even as an adult, I found plenty to amuse myself with. The toy museum part is mostly Brio toys, no surprise, with the addition of several cabinets full of Barbies and Steiff animals. They had a REAL train, several cars long, full of games and toys and moving electric trains, and a giant dollhouse. They had a multi-storyed climbing playhouse. They had Brio train sets all over the place that the kids...

I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver I never really knew what I was going to be “when I grew up.” I still...

Woke up feeling sick to my stomach and shaky, so I stayed home from work. I’ve managed to accomplish rather a lot picking up the house and laundry-wise, plus some AWC computer work, after sleeping all morning, but still have a headache, and am definitely not 100%. Didn’t want to go to work anyway, as it’s been making me crazy for several weeks and I’m just not motivated. Just saw on CNN that Robert Palmer has died of a heart attack at the age of 54. It’s sunny today but looks awfully windy. I have to force myself to get...