Jingling and Hacking up Loogies I’ve been suffering from a new kind of ill. A cold so vile, I spent 5 days in bed. 5 days of coughing, sneezing, wheezing, expectorating, sweating, and shivering. It all started on Christmas Eve. All cookies were baked, packaged and mailed. All presents were wrapped. All I needed was a nice winter’s nap but alas it was Christmas and the Christmas tour bus was waiting. First stop, our cousins. I’m not sure if it was the jovial times or the liquor but all seeme...

Ok, so I've been swamped at work and haven't been able to write for a while but I thought I'd pop in and share a funny site. Apparently, a bunch of students at a local high school were a bit peeved by the rhetoric they heard day to day from vegetarians and decided to create their own club: MEAT - Mammals Eating Animals Today Honestly, I'd support them. They are selling t-shirts as a fund raising drive for Heifer International, which provides farm animals to third-world communities. ...

So I was told I am scheduled to go to Boston for a conference. The conference I wanted to go to in Chicago is being attended by my boss. It's not that I don't like Boston. It's that my new baby second cousin was just born and I was hoping to visit. [Yes, a tad selfish, I know.] Hopefully, I can visit my good friend and her daughter (my first foray into being a lamaze coach, thank you very much. [::Citygirl pats self on back::]). Well, I don't mind the conferences. I learn a few thi...

I went to work early so I can leave early. Good grief people, there are too many of you out there at 7am. I saw more cars on my block, more people on the streets and I couldn't get my morning cup of Joe because the lines at the three coffee shops were out the door! [No wonder Starbucks opens catacorner to each other.] It's no wonder everyone is grumpy in the morning. I could only imagine how the trains were. There is something to be said for working later hours. I miss this morni...

Since I had to leave the house in a unconventional hour for me (7:30am), I changed hurriedly and without much natural sunlight. (Hubby was asleep and I didn't want to open the blinds and wake him.) Unfortunately, as I was changing out of my work clothes I just noticed (and it's 10pm, currently) that I had a nasty stain on the front of my skirt that was whitish in color that some with dirty minds would assume to be of a biological nature. And less noticeable for most is the fact that I ...

To the lady who spoke at the building renovation initative meeting: If you don't know how to use a mic, then get off the stage. A mic is not meant to be placed next to your papers. Nor is the mic head supposed to be facing your shoes. Perhaps you have never been on stage. Perhaps this is your first public speaking forum. These are not excuses. Unless you’ve spent most of your life in a cave, you have seen a microphone in action. Thank you. I feel much better.

I've been asked to recap my harrowing tale of a pigeon in my bedroom. I thought I'd share it with you. This happened this past winter in my old apartment. Enjoy! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here is a pic of the damn bird that took over my bed! [Sorry. I can't get the bloody image to load properly. Trust me. It was a big bird.] I didn't get to tell you the details. So I got home last night frozen stiff from the wind. I went about my business: feeding the dogs, checking...

Today is a bit hectic. My colleague called in sick. And since my other colleague quit a two weeks ago and another is out on vaca, I'm the only person in my division right now. It's the end of the month and everyone is going nuts entering data in before tomorrow's close. Our night processes halted and no one was paged. And a department decides to send over 6 data files for processing before month end. But I'm calm. I'm in control. Then I'm asked to order lunch. Do I have a st...

Today I came across a man selling his ex-wife's wedding gown. Ebay Ex-wife's Gown I nearly spit up my tuna salad reading his description and comments. Then it made me think of my wedding gown. I love my wedding gown. I mean I absolutely love my gown. If I was told to choose five things to take with me if my house was on fire, I'd take my hard drive, insurance/identity documents, lotion, car keys and my gown. [My obsession with lotion is so bad, I have a bottle of lotion in every ro...