Author: leilani

Yep, we were kicked out of work this morning.  Just my team, because basically, we’re the “senior” team (seniority in terms of how long the average member has been with the company) and because of the timing of our shift.   We were sitting 20 minutes between incoming calls, and that’s BEFORE the next five teams…

I posted a comment over at Poolie’s place that had me thinking back to when we moved to Arizona from the midwest.  Poolie and I actually share origins, as I lived in northeastern Iowa until I was 14, whereupon we sold our humongous Cape Cod style home and drove, all five of us, cross-country in…

It’s always something… …even when it’s not. I was pulling out of the driveway this afternoon, on my way to the chiropractor, when I heard an all-too-familiar Thwump Thwump of my rear tire and a definite uneven gait as I rolled along.  I groaned and pulled over, expecting to see a flat or near-flat tire….

We got the actual word today that our application was accepted for the new place.  Not a big surprise there, other than the fact that it took so long to get it through.  So looks like we’ll do the rental thing for another year after all.  By this time next year, by hook or by…

Hallelujah for weekends.  I was so exhausted when I got home from work this afternoon that I came home, curled up to watch TV, and promptly fell sound asleep, slept for some three hours and will definitely be going back to bed again shortly.  The heat is killing me.  We hit I think 113ºF today,…