Archive for November, 2008

Dynamite

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

So I’m totally loving telecommuting. The week of migraines I would normally have ended up being only one tiny one that threatened and I squashed with my imitrex before it got full grown. Also, my fatigue seems to be gone for now too. No more wanting to nap at lunch time, and falling asleep 5 minutes before my alarm goes off that it’s time to leave. Plus I’m always on time now instead of anywhere from 0 to 20 minutes late. If I’m running late I can just brush my teeth while I check my email. Khalua seems super happy too, she’s spent most mornings on my lap or next to me, and she never used to be much of a lap kitty before unless you had food she wanted.

We watched part of Napoleon Dynamite with a friend last night, there were a couple amusing parts, but for the most part it was pretty boring. Supposedly the best part is the end, but it didn’t seem worth going through the whole thing to get there. That reminds me that I borrowed Juno from SP, I need to watch that and return it – and then borrow their staple gun to upgrade the kitties’ food platform with a cover so it’s easier to clean and the bowls don’t slide as much.

On the wedding front, I think we’ve picked our location finally. We’re just waiting on a couple more answers to questions. I need to get all the addresses together and start working on the save the dates now that I have the materials I need and we have a place. Plus, as of tomorrow we only have one year left!

Jumping on the RSS Bandwagon

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

So a long while back I tried out Google Reader but I didn’t like it at all because it didn’t include the images or the full text of the posts. I mainly read headlines and scan images, but I hate having to click in order to skim the text if the headline was interesting, and I couldn’t see the images at all. So I’ve been opening my 20+ daily blogs & 10+ friend blogs in tabs every day to see if there are new posts.

I read something on lifehacker mentioning having the full post in Google Reader a day or two ago so I decided to revisit it finally. Some feeds still don’t include photos (a problem on the feed end?) but most do, and I’m sure I don’t have to explain the benefits of only being showed unread posts, sorting by tags, etc. And if I do, feel free to ask and I’ll elaborate.

Anyway, definitely a bonus for my time and productivity which makes me happy! Yay!

Telecommuting

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

So after 6 years of effort… this week begins my first full week of partial telecommuting. :D YAY!

Wednesday we had dinner with J&BW and a couple of their friends. The first time we’ve hung out since their wedding.

Thursday we went to the book launch at the Melting Pot in Rocklin to celebrate our anniversary early and get a copy of the book free with dinner. Yummy, but a bit too much food. I even liked the cheese fondue we got. Especially with the celery strangely enough.

Saturday we got our hair cut and my pirate got his highlighted with blue. It looks really good. Then we went and had lunch at Coco’s since I love their chicken tortilla soup. We picked up JW & PH and headed out to Fairfield to check out the Fairfield Community Center. It was nice but pending getting a contract we’re happy with, I think we’re going to go with the Oakmont Golf Club. After that we headed over to J&SP’s place for a Halloween party. Yummy food as always, good conversation and we played some zombie flux and uno, followed by some Wii Cranium.

Today is our one year first engagement anniversary (tomorrow being the second and our 2 year anniversary). :D