Author: leilani

We didn’t send Christmas cards this year, not even to family. Heck, we didn’t do Christmas shopping this year. The slashed paycheck allows us to pay the bills, and almost nothing else. (The extras from my Christmas bonus at work went straight to bills.) Considering how rough a lot of families are having it right…

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…