Author: leilani

Gotta love the USA, where coming to work sick is ostensibly discouraged, but if you stay home you get fired.  Not sure which of my colleagues shared – there were plenty to choose from – but someone passed on their flu/cold bug.  Urg. I did get a flu shot last week, and while I obviously…

Just FYI: when you get spray cologne at Bath & Body Works and it’s a tad too bitter for you (Citrus, heavy on the lemon and grapefruit) you may be able to achieve magic by adding a single floral note, specifically lily of the valley.  I have found my new favorite perfume and it’s a…

I have been dreading for entirely too long the process of working over my back taxes.  I sent in the paperwork a few weeks back and after everything was said and done, got a notice saying that it was taking them longer than planned to figure out what I owed.  Ergo I was chewing my…

We hit one of our favorite weekend haunts today – Half Price Books.  They have an online store but in reality the deals are where you can walk in, grab the goodies and walk out sans shipping costs.  Every now and then you make a spectacular find and today was my Golden Egg. You might…

I called in dead to work yesterday, and the way I felt when I woke yesterday I think dead was my preferred mode.  Anything was preferable to what I felt like when I woke.  There was no part of my body that didn’t hurt, but the knee was throbbing like a bitch.  I will be…