1. Taping something important they need to see to the garage door.
2. Leaving an Evite that was sent to you open on the home computer in hopes that your spouse will, one, see it, and, two, actually read it.
3. Make sighing noises whenever your spouse is around in hopes that they will read your mind and know what you want them to do.
4. Nag.
What have I left off?
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Sunday, July 13, 2008
The kiss or the handshake?
As you may or may not remember, my husband MBM works with people from all over the world. Mexico, Argentina, Columbia, Switzerland, France, Germany, South Africa, etc.
Today, we had about 15 of his co-workers over. Several Americans (though not all from Kentucky) and several from Switzerland and France.
Here's the question: do you shake hands or do the cheek-to-cheek kiss? I didn't do so well this time. But I think I'm going to need to know this for future work-related events.
If I have NEVER met the person before, what do I do? At the beginning? And then at the end?
Today, we had about 15 of his co-workers over. Several Americans (though not all from Kentucky) and several from Switzerland and France.
Here's the question: do you shake hands or do the cheek-to-cheek kiss? I didn't do so well this time. But I think I'm going to need to know this for future work-related events.
If I have NEVER met the person before, what do I do? At the beginning? And then at the end?
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Eeeek!
MBM is finally home from all his travels. He really went all over this time -- Portugal (I actually asked the question, "What do they speak in Portugal?" Not my smartest moment ever), Spain, England, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and I think there's another country that I'm leaving out.
Of course, while he's gone, I have no choice but to adapt to "single" life or go crazy. So much thanks go to HG, KA, DK, MB, MS and a few others who didn't let me just sit at home in front of the TV and pack on another extra 20 pounds that I don't need.
The problem with that, though, is you get use to being "single". Bed all to yourself, no one using up all the hot water before your shower, and you actually get to control the remote control. I know. Crazy.
But now, two months later, you have to get use to be married again. It's kinda weird at first, to be honest. Stretching out in bed at night, when you hit somebody beside you in the head (who, luckily, is a very sound sleeper and won't even get their butt to the basement when there is a tornado!), scream "Eeeek!" you remember that your husband is actually home.
Of course, while he's gone, I have no choice but to adapt to "single" life or go crazy. So much thanks go to HG, KA, DK, MB, MS and a few others who didn't let me just sit at home in front of the TV and pack on another extra 20 pounds that I don't need.
The problem with that, though, is you get use to being "single". Bed all to yourself, no one using up all the hot water before your shower, and you actually get to control the remote control. I know. Crazy.
But now, two months later, you have to get use to be married again. It's kinda weird at first, to be honest. Stretching out in bed at night, when you hit somebody beside you in the head (who, luckily, is a very sound sleeper and won't even get their butt to the basement when there is a tornado!), scream "Eeeek!" you remember that your husband is actually home.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Girls Do the Stupidest Things for Beauty
Confession: I get my eyebrows waxed. Have been regularly for about a year now. With my Dad's Russian genetics, I gotta.
When I went on Saturday to get my hair trimmed and my eyebrows waxed it definitely felt different. It hurt more then it usually does and continued to hurt.
When I got home, I freaked. I totally had two burns. I think the wax was either a little too hot or got a little too close to my eyelid skin.
Today I have a scab -- yes, really -- above each eye and below my eyebrow. I almost wore my glasses to distract but then I just looked like a girl with glasses and two scabs above each eye.
And to add injury to insult, I am attending and presenting at a regional conference this Thursday. LOL.
What a dork!
Okay ladies -- and gentlemen -- what stupid things have you done because of vanity?
When I went on Saturday to get my hair trimmed and my eyebrows waxed it definitely felt different. It hurt more then it usually does and continued to hurt.
When I got home, I freaked. I totally had two burns. I think the wax was either a little too hot or got a little too close to my eyelid skin.
Today I have a scab -- yes, really -- above each eye and below my eyebrow. I almost wore my glasses to distract but then I just looked like a girl with glasses and two scabs above each eye.
And to add injury to insult, I am attending and presenting at a regional conference this Thursday. LOL.
What a dork!
Okay ladies -- and gentlemen -- what stupid things have you done because of vanity?
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
373 E-Mails!
In an effort to maintain my sanity, I have a separate e-mail address I use to subscribe to professional listservs, sign-up for professional stuff, etc. You get the idea. It's different from my personal e-mail but still keeps that kind of stuff out of my work e-mail box.
It's a Gmail account, so one nice thing is that it will group "discussions" together, making related e-mails easy to read.
Only, it has 373 UNREAD e-mails. So, all of these are from professional listservs, mostly from just one listserv.
I think I might have to wave the white flag and just mark all as read and delete them. I don't know what else to do. I'm pretty good about catching the job postings and deleting those quickly. But I have this bad habit of saving the other topical e-mails, telling myself that's useful information and I'll read it later. Only later is here and I now have 373 that I haven't read.
Yikes.
It's a Gmail account, so one nice thing is that it will group "discussions" together, making related e-mails easy to read.
Only, it has 373 UNREAD e-mails. So, all of these are from professional listservs, mostly from just one listserv.
I think I might have to wave the white flag and just mark all as read and delete them. I don't know what else to do. I'm pretty good about catching the job postings and deleting those quickly. But I have this bad habit of saving the other topical e-mails, telling myself that's useful information and I'll read it later. Only later is here and I now have 373 that I haven't read.
Yikes.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Update
Apparently the leak is "non-hazardous" but the company should be coming out to fix in a couple of weeks.
Gas Leak?!
My neighbors just let me know that they're smelling gas coming out of our gas curb box by the street. Sigh. I can't believe this stuff always happens when Matt is gone. I called and reported it. Stay tuned....
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