Happy Friday, which is also National Homemade Bread Day and, fittingly, National Butter Day. I wonder if they planned that. We are a multi-butter household. WM prefers Country Crock spread, and I prefer Kerrygold in a butter bell on the…
Friday 5: Just Wing It
Happy Sunday! To wind up “Operation Use a Bunch of my PTO this Summer” I don’t go back until work until Thursday. I actually went OUT Friday night. Out. Past 11. I went to Atlantic City with Mom and my…
Vegas gambling roundup
While I sort through which pics I want to post…here is a roundup of how we “did” at the casinos. PS: Thankfully, nothing was stolen from our house. Much thanks to the housesitter for her sharp eye! 🙂
After-school special
On any trip to an Atlantic City casino, you gain increased exposure to what I insensitively call the “wheelchair and oxygen” crowd. The senior citizens. The oldsters. Spending the money that’s deducted from my paycheck each week. They are slow….
Hard eight
As per Mom’s wishes, this afternoon was spent at the Borgata. Again. (The gambling gene runs straight up my Mom’s branch of the family tree…we are unrepentant.) I had a twenty dollar bill to play with. I was going to…
Go Daddy-o!
Blogging live from AC via the celly. BBVD were fantastic. I’ve now confirmed that I have a suit/tie fetish. (hat optional). The auditorium wasn’t set up for dancing, so unfortunately Thor and I couldn’t show off our swing dance ‘skills.’…
Peggy Sue goes to Atlantic City
“Let’s go to New York for the weekend,” Thor said to me this morning as I tried to fight the idea of morning. Remember, he was chipper from just coming home from work. “Mmm…” I replied. “It’s supposed to be…
No freebies left behind
No freebies left behind Highlight of the NJEA convention: At the registration area, two teachers reach into the a bin and emerge with fistfulls of plastic name tag covers. NJEA Employee: Ma’am? Do you really need all of those?Teacher 1:…
tummy full, nice evening
Mmmmmmmm…tummy full, nice evening, surfing the web from bed. Life is good! (by the way, if you want to track the evolution of my future “movable type” based blog, you can at /blog/index.html I have much to learn, but I’m…
Bedtime blog
This, baby, is why I got a laptop. Snug betwixt my sheets, I can surf and read until my eyes droop. And tap out my great American novel. Dunno what it’s about yet, though. Saturday, which ended 40 minutes ago,…
