Author: leilani

I’m taking a long weekend this coming week, then taking off Christmas Day. Which feels extremely weird. I’ve worked holidays more years than I can remember. Except when I worked in radio, it was automatic overtime. We have no kids at home, and G isn’t the big-on-holidays type. Neither am I. However, I keep forgetting…

Business Last night was our company Christmas party. As usual, I was given a respectable gift card, along with a Christmas card saying what I’d be receiving as a Christmas bonus. I’ll take it, gladly. I’m getting sort of a raise come January. I say “sort of” because my take-home will increase. It’s increasing because…

My birthday was last week. I’ve been officially old for a while, so the only reason a birthday is relevant to me these days is counting down the months til I can apply for Social Security. I could apply now, but holding out ’til late spring will get me full benefits. I still plan to…

I love orange sherbet. Dangerously so. As it happens, I’m allergic to oranges. My mouth and everything in my digestive tract breaks out after eating anything that contains orange juice. (Pineapple is worse.) It can get bad. So I was talking to G tonight and debating if I could use orange Kool Aid to make…

It rained this weekend; a nice surprise any time of year, particularly so in late autumn. Rain nixed yard sales, which were at a low ebb already thanks to the holiday timeframe. So we hit the road with cameras in hand. Unfortunately, I committed a cardinal photography sin on Saturday. I didn’t check my camera…