Author: leilani

I’ve gone on kind of a spending spree lately. Tried not to go too crazy, but I did spend some $$. A few things were necessities; some were investments. Others were just because. I finally broke down and got a real gold chain for my birthstone pendant. It’s about the width of a human hair,…

I ran across one of my old diary entries on Diaryland, back when dealing with one of mankind’s finest examples of liar and bastard. I called him “12” back then. He didn’t live much longer, as it turns out. He wasn’t a young man nor one who made the best choices in his life. He…

I did a cooking marathon this weekend – if you count mixes and premade pie crusts and all the other cooking shortcuts I took. I DO know how to make pie crusts from scratch, but since it’s painful for me to roll them out any more, I usually just buy Marie Callender’s’ frozen, preferably deep…

Three days into training on new job. Commute’s a bitch (55 miles one-way) but worth every bit of it, particularly since it’s only a couple of weeks. Working with people I actually liked and respected from the old job, we’re having a blast, and the new systems blow the old out of the water. Simple,…

In some respects, I like working weekends. Overall they tend to be dead on the phones, so I frankly putter around online, or read a book, or whatever. But since we’re hemorrhaging personnel lately, it’s a wee bit different. There were in theory three of us there and a couple of people working from home…