The day after my seemingly promising interview, I got a generic "thanks but no thanks" email from the company. Devasted, I emailed the manager, who is an acquaintance, and asked "does this mean I was eliminated?" He said no, they hadn't made any decisions yet, and I almost immediately got an ema… Read full post »

Not in depression or self-pity, necessarily, although those are certainly mixed in at least a little. More like, I don't know what to do with all this time on my hands, or more accurately, all this time DH and I "think" should be on my hands. But when you're sole entertainment… Read full post »

Last Tuesday, I was hard at work on a project, which I was actually enjoying, when it occurred to me that the only possible reason that all the big bosses were eager for me to finish was ... that they were going to can me ...

Instead of doing the smart… Read full post »

Yesterday, I overheard a cute little girl (J) complaining to another cute little girl (S), "you're prettier than I am," about to cry. These are both cute little girls, dressed super-cute but appropriate for school. Personally, I think S is a little cuter, but mostly because she's about the nices… Read full post »

We got the test results today. I didn't think I cared so much about whether my son would get accepted, although I mostly assumed that he would. Or that if he didn't, it would be that there wasn't enough room in the class, he'd get an advanced learning plan for next year,… Read full post »

Several years ago, I watched Defending Your Life. I thought it was a good movie, liked the premise. I do recommend it.

Two things stand out. (If you haven't seen the movie, Spoiler Alert, although it's several years old.)

1. In Judgement City, you face a trial based on your… Read full post »

Today, a guy who I have a harmless crush on saw me walking to the vending machine. (He's not my type, I think I would start to hate him if we were dating instead of just occasional chatters, we're both married, and I absolutely cannot picture any alternate universe where either of… Read full post »

Today my son had a bad asthma attack. The school nurse calls me occasionally to say she's giving him the inhaler, and it always clears up immediately. Same as at home. We're talking maybe twice a week year-round, or daily during spring pollen season. He's getting allergy shots, on… Read full post »

So after weeks of obsessing about the damned postcard for the Gifted program testing ... I screwed up and missed the test!!! How could this happen? I'm pretty organized, have everything on my calendar which I check twice a day, and as I already said, I've obsessed about it, so it's… Read full post »

I have some of the same problems with the accuracy that Verbal mentioned. This girl has no hips. I do. But if I add pounds or hit the "+" sign for body, it makes the whole body chunkier, not just adding some junk to the trunk. And this girl looks… Read full post »

So my previous realization was that I was being snobby and bragging about my child's reading ability. I have made a better effort to be low-key about it.

http://www.open.salon.com/blog/dogmom/2009/02/17/omg_im_one_of_those_parents

But now ... I'm afraid I'm pushing my son to be friends with the futu… Read full post »

I am stuck as a number-cruncher by accident. Everyone knows I don't belong here, and supposedly wants me to get back into the world of writing, where I belong, but they're too complacent and/or cheap to hire the numbers person.

It's okay, for the most part. I'm grateful to have a… Read full post »

It's not that I hate waiting. I'm not the most patient person, but I can certainly bide my time, if I know the important details. Especially when and what. If I know basically what is going to happen and when, I'm fine.

For example, once I decided to start my… Read full post »

I admit it: I thought it was stupid when my church youth group stopped participating in the 30 Hour Famine (http://www.30hourfamine.org/). I don't know enough about this activity to either endorse or renounce it, but our youth group used to raise money for hunger awareness by fasting for 30 hour… Read full post »

Not IRL. That's definitely not a problem. But in OS, I tend to add people as friends after reading a few posts that just awe me with their humor, their writing and storytelling abilities, or just that it feels we have a lot in common. Writers who I want to make… Read full post »

Recently, my company decided to stop providing Kleenex to employees. I'd never given it much thought before, although in hindsight, none of my previous companies had provided each employee with a never-ending supply of desk-top box of Kleenexes ... even the companies with cheap soda machines, ge… Read full post »

For some reason, I started writing while drinking. Although it didn't start out that way, it turned into an ugly drunken rant. Want to ride along? Then follow me ... Here are the notes I kept last week, which will be burned after transcribing. As far as I can read my… Read full post »

At 16, I saw an ad to enter the Miss T.E.E.N. pageant. (Note, this is not to be confused with the more popular Miss Teen pageant. This stood for Teens Exhibiting Excellence Nationally.) Big-city girls had to enter and win a local competion before moving on to State. Small-town girls… Read full post »

I recently re-read the saying that the person you are in 1st grade is the person you'll become. While I take that with a very liberal grain of salt, I saw enough wisdom in it to share it lightly with my kindergartner. If you're a bully in 1st grade, the patterns… Read full post »

(And wounds all heels.) Well, I’m wounded, but I’m not healing. A few years ago, we had a terrible year. We knew it was coming, since neither of us had lost a close family member in more than 20 years. We just didn’t know how hard it was going… Read full post »

I can't believe it. I'm those one of those parents. Snotty, pretentious, bragging about my kid like it's my accomplishment, instead of genetics. Hell, I didn't even teach him to read; it was all HIM!!

Tonight I introduced my 5-year-old to two women, new to my Board meetings. I don't remember… Read full post »

  

Cocaine was always my drug of choice. It never became a problem, because once I stopped waitressing, it was never that available. I worked at a conservative company, was poor, didn’t travel in the circles anymore.

Then my boyfriend “just for fun… Read full post »

Or at least we did at breakfast this morning. Just keep your fingers crossed that we still have one tonight.

My son eats breakfast at the breakfast bar next to his fish tank. Sometimes he watches them closely, but more often, he doesn't pay much attention to them. The novelty's pretty… Read full post »

I have two cats, both female. The shorthair is independent during the day, doesn't want much attention after the initial evening greeting, but she snuggles with me all night.  She's genuinely happy to see me, affectionate, but then wants to do her own thing. Sweet kitty. We get al… Read full post »

Another random flashback this morning, one I thankfully haven't thought of in several years. One that I've been told was my fault by the few guys I trusted enough to tell.

In college, I was friends with a group of guys in the dorm that was attached to my dorm.… Read full post »