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Random thoughts
Apr. 25th, 2008 04:11 pmLots of them, most of which I will probably forget before writing them down..
Seeing lots of "Hampton Dellinger for Lt. Governor" signs when we were in NC, and thinking that name looked awfully familiar. It turns out that yes indeed, this is someone who I went to elementary school with.
The new head of our division at work (ie my boss's boss) sent out email thanking us for doing some emergency stuff, saying he would "institutionalize processes" to try to avoid this in the future. Now business-speak--especially WRONG business-speak--just makes me shudder, so I commented on this to some of my coworkers.
Coworker #1: (completely oblivious) "Oh, it's great that he's going to do that.."
Coworker #2: "Yeah, there is the state mental hospital in Fergus Falls and we're all halfway there by now.."
Somewhere after age 5, people acquire an inability to live with their parents (Amethyst says she'll never want to leave Mama, but I am sure she'll change her mind later!). Just saying, as a comment on the NC visit. Not that it was bad, just a bit tense in spots.
A thrift store has opened where the drugstore used to be in the strip mall where daycare is. They had a box of music books--I started looking through it and realized that almost all of it was for either flute or French horn. With great self-restraint, I only bought about half the box.
Eleanor is starting to put words together now. The thing she says most is "Open it!". I think the longest sentence so far has been "I want a cookie".
I wish I could just send my parents a plumber, but they seem determined to NOT fix the problems their house is developing. Since they are going to be selling the house at some point, this makes no sense to me--surely it would make more sense to get the unusably leaky shower and the non-functional faucet fixed than to refinish the floor, which it sounds like they are going to do.
Seeing lots of "Hampton Dellinger for Lt. Governor" signs when we were in NC, and thinking that name looked awfully familiar. It turns out that yes indeed, this is someone who I went to elementary school with.
The new head of our division at work (ie my boss's boss) sent out email thanking us for doing some emergency stuff, saying he would "institutionalize processes" to try to avoid this in the future. Now business-speak--especially WRONG business-speak--just makes me shudder, so I commented on this to some of my coworkers.
Coworker #1: (completely oblivious) "Oh, it's great that he's going to do that.."
Coworker #2: "Yeah, there is the state mental hospital in Fergus Falls and we're all halfway there by now.."
Somewhere after age 5, people acquire an inability to live with their parents (Amethyst says she'll never want to leave Mama, but I am sure she'll change her mind later!). Just saying, as a comment on the NC visit. Not that it was bad, just a bit tense in spots.
A thrift store has opened where the drugstore used to be in the strip mall where daycare is. They had a box of music books--I started looking through it and realized that almost all of it was for either flute or French horn. With great self-restraint, I only bought about half the box.
Eleanor is starting to put words together now. The thing she says most is "Open it!". I think the longest sentence so far has been "I want a cookie".
I wish I could just send my parents a plumber, but they seem determined to NOT fix the problems their house is developing. Since they are going to be selling the house at some point, this makes no sense to me--surely it would make more sense to get the unusably leaky shower and the non-functional faucet fixed than to refinish the floor, which it sounds like they are going to do.
