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This week has been full of stress and insomnia because a few major things are going on at work. The most stress is from the fact that I have two weeks left to spend my software budget from the Board of Ed. There is an online catalog that the items are to be […]

After keeping warm inside with a book, I decided to step out for a bit. As I was walking I saw what looked like two hearts in the snow:

I figured D must have made them when he had gone out earlier. (He would deny it, but he does have a small romantic bone […]

We’ve been having a really fun and easy-going vacation.  When we’re not snowboarding, reading by the fire, and eating tons of junk food, we’re usually goofing around outside.  When we got here, there was about two or three inches of snow on the ground so we wrestled a bit (which consisted of me trying to […]

I started this blog exactly one year ago today with this brilliant piece of literary wit.  I’m not apologizing; gotta start somewhere.  That day last year also happened to be President’s Day which for most people really is just an excuse to have a day off from work.  But apparently there are some folks who […]

I know you’ve all been waiting with bated breath for the hypnotist story so I’ve decided to stop being lazy and finally write it all, before the little details get too blurry. It might be my longest post yet so I thank you in advance for reading it. I hope you’ll be entertained.
This past Friday […]

Between going to work for a half-day, failing to be hypnotized by an actual hypnotist (more on that another time), running around doing last-minute errands, and packing for our snowboard vacation that we are leaving for in (hopefully) about an hour, it almost slipped my mind that it’s been 11 years since this fateful night.
We […]

So what was I doing at work today you ask? No, I didn’t order any new books or catalog anything or whatever else librarians do. Instead I got the cleaning bug and went into the dreaded storage room. Have you ever seen those shows where a person has been hoarding stuff - […]

I’m nearing the end of weeding the non-fiction books and have actually gotten rid of a lot, especially since much of the collection has things in duplicate and triplicate. (Apparently money was no object back in the day.) I was in the collected biographies and saw three dusty copies of a very old […]

Every morning and every evening I look out into the backyard because chances are that something will be there that shouldn’t be. Usually it’s an article of clothing accidentally dropped by the neighbors as they were hanging out their laundry. I love starting off my day by picking up a wet thong from […]