I’m not sure anyone really knows how old Marley is. My brother can pull a year out of the air, but he never seems quite sure he knows the right year. The vet has an estimate based on her mouth, but she emphasized that it’s only an estimate. I only know when she came to […]
I consider myself to be a pretty organized person. I have a great mind for what needs to be done and when, and I also am pretty good at remembering where I put things (glasses are the exception). Much of this organization, mostly on the deadline side, I can attribute to my time as a […]
Growing up, my parents had us clean every Sunday. My brother, sister and I would rotate what we cleaned. One week I’d vacuum, the next I’d clean the kitchen and the next I’d clean the bathroom. It was a good system that kept the house in good order. However, the habit never really seemed to […]
I’m not stranger to being fed up with a job and in the process of looking for a new one. I’ve been in that place a few times now. I’ve even been in that place with my current job, though I talked myself out of being fed up and realized it was a lack of […]
I made my first dovetail joint over the weekend and I’m insanely proud of it. It’s ugly and barely fits together correctly, but I got it to work and that’s a big step. My measurements were sloppy, and my cuts were off and my wood wasn’t square, but despite all that I got it together […]
I am a bike rider, and I always have been. All through primary school, until I got a car, I rode my bike to and from school everyday. Even in rain and snow and freezing temperatures. In college I rode it a ton too, one winter commuting five miles each way to work, five days […]
Every day, I wake up and go for a walk, shower, and then get ready for work. I make a sandwich for lunch, oat bread with three slices of turkey, three slices of Wauwewaga sharp cheddar cheese, and a spread of Mayo on one slice. I wrap that up and put it in my lunch […]
I’ve been so frustrated lately with everything. I don’t like it. The worst part is, I can’t really pinpoint what is making me frustrated. And that just makes me more frustrated. I’m usually pretty good at knowing what’s going on in my head. I can explain my actions easily. But this business of not knowing […]
It got cold overnight recently. We woke up on Sunday to find the city covered in a few inches of snow. But it was warm and the snow was slushy and I expected it to be gone in a day. We hadn’t had any solid freezes yet this year so the ground wasn’t frozen. I guess […]
My titles are varied and in completely different spheres. One is content manager and one is systems admin. Neither of them really represent what I do all day. I was hired as an editor but quickly expanded to content manager only to turn around and stick my hands into database work. That led to developer […]