Good thing I pre-schedule some of those Book Review & Wordless Wednesday posts, right? Last week what I thought was a common cold evolved into my new normal of sickness, which features a wheezy cough. I was out of work…
Archives for 2015
Wordless Wednesday: Whiteboard fun
Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace review
Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace by Anne Lamott My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m becoming an Anne Lamott fangirl. She’s one of the authors I feel is writing directly to me. I think she’s the SARK of…
Wordless Wednesday: I hate winter
This is Where I Leave You review
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper My rating: 2 of 5 stars The premise of “This is Where I Leave You” is fantastic: four adult siblings who really only have their parents in common are summoned to…
My beach corner
Here in the Northeast in the deadness of January, desperate times call for desperate measures. To combat the malaise, I created a beach corner in the bottom of my cubicle. The palm tree magnet came from Old Navy years ago….
Wordless Wednesday: The Thinker
The Rosie Project review
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is minorly spoilery, but I’m not going to mark it as such. You can look at the cover and summary of this book, and realize for yourself…
Friday 5: Home is where the Hearth is
I limped through another 5-day workweek, although I worked from home on Monday so I guess it didn’t really count. I figure I’ll get the hang of the five-day workweeks by the time President’s Day rolls around. For now, though,…
Facebook's thought process
I love Facebook. I do I do I do. Now that I’ve blocked All political “news” sites (I’m never going to take a story from “I Love the Left!” or “RightNewsRightNow” seriously and neither should you) All of the natural/homeopathic…
Kitchen Confidential review
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain My rating: 3 of 5 stars I have absolutely no interest in the culinary world and I am not a foodie. I’m slightly more adventurous than average when it comes…
The joy of personalized notepads
Happy Monday! I’m working from home today, something I’m still trying to get used to having to the luxury of doing. It seems lovely on the surface, but what happens is instead of taking a 10 minute break to refill…