Posted in Drrr on April 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I have now officially been at work for 24 hours straight (with only a 20-minute lunch to take care of some personal stuff yesterday), getting ready to launch the project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half. I’m not proud, but I am a bit surprised that the girl who usually falls [...]
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Posted in Drrr on February 29, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Oh, this is too good. The other day, Staci posted her celebrity look-alikes, and I encouraged her readers to do the same. For YEARS now I’ve gotten tons of random comments from total strangers telling me that I look like their sister’s friend, or their cousin’s wife, or people will constantly act like they’ve met [...]
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Posted in Drrr on September 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Posted in Conversations, Drrr on July 11, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A conversation with a coworker earlier today:
Coworker: ..Well, at least Boeing’s doing well. Maybe all the Microsofties can go work there.
Me: Boeing’s doing well? When did that happen?
CW: You didn’t hear? Don’t you watch the news?
Me: No.
CW: Oh. Well, they are. They’re gonna kick Airbus’s ass!
Me: God. What kind of a name is Airbus? Who [...]
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Posted in Drrr, Knitting, WIPs on June 23, 2007 | No Comments »
This is how my yesterday went…… But first I have to back up to the day before. On Thursday I was on the phone with my travel agency trying to book an earlier flight home for Friday and they then told me I was actually supposed to leave that night, on Thursday. Whoops. Turns out I [...]
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Posted in Daily, Drrr, Stories on May 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I scheduled a meeting to discuss metrics for an upcoming project. I then found this Dilbert cartoon and sent it out to 2 friends who I’d invited to the meeting.
Actually, the one guy’s calendar showed that he would be out of the office, so I didn’t actually invite him to the meeting, but I [...]
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Posted in Drrr on May 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This drawing was in the most recent issue of Real Simple. I about died when I saw it.
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Posted in Drrr, Stories on May 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
All week I’d been feeling like going on a “date,” so I planned a simple dinner & a movie for last night. We were going to have dinner at this little supperclub T had been wanting to try and then see Pan’s Labyrinth at our favorite little theatre downtown (it has swank, retro furnishings and [...]
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Posted in Conversations, Drrr on March 29, 2007 | No Comments »
“Do you ever lay there with your eyes open while you’re trying to go to sleep?”
“Uhhh, sometimes. Why?”
“Well don’t you think maybe you’d go to sleep faster if you had your eyes shut?”
(pause)
“Are you laying there with your eyes open now?”
“YAH.”
“Why?”
“Well you can’t see my eyes rolling back in my head with my eyes shut.”
” [...]
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Posted in Conversations, Drrr on March 20, 2007 | No Comments »
Me: Mmmmmm. These are good cookies. Do you like these cookies?
T: They are suitable for forward processing.
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