October 9th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Photos
I can’t remember the last time I left work on time since I started. It’s most certainly not a complaint, because if I really wanted to leave, I would. After almost six months, this was one of the first times I remembered to bring my camera to take a picture of something I see pretty much every night and always think to myself how awesome it looks:
I think WordPress automatically smashes the proportions of this picture, so here’s the real version. Not much editing at all out of the camera.
Every year I think about and heavily consider participating in NaNoWrimo, but then I realize the only thing I could write that many words about would be myself. Or my dog. Or more recently, my job, because, holy crap, do I have some terrific job stories that I always want to write all about. Then I realize I love my job and sharing those stories online doesn’t ever seem like a risk I want to take.
This 50,000 words in a month translates into a lot of typing – typing which takes up the time I like spending laying on the couching watching CSI: Miami reruns every night of the week. As much as I love my PC, I don’t really love it enough to ignore The General, the two dogs and the occasional 11 year old boy that tend to roam around this apartment from time to time.
And if that percentage is accurate, I’d totally entertain the thought of using Dragon NaturallySpeaking for NaNoWrimo. I just wonder how many times the word “um” or “like” would show up. Reading through the different Dragon Reviews makes it sound like a pretty reasonable solution should I hit my head and decide to participate in the month long, page-filling writing fest.
Ben and Jerry’s ice cream should possibly be outlawed. Just because our favorite grocery store had it on sale doesn’t mean we should have spent more money on ice cream than we did on fixin’s for chicken tacos.
Chicken tacos are a delicious idea, but when you put the chicken breasts in the food processor, it gets kind of scary. Almost like chicken paste, which is about as appetizing as it sounds. But, you know, the pint of ice cream seemed to make me forget about it.
When did Old Navy start really sucking? We tried to find The Boy a cute little handsome outfit to wear to his school’s trip to the orchestra tomorrow and Old Navy seemed like a logical place to start. Except the only thing they had in the way of handsome clothes was some type of black and gray herringbone print sweater that costs $24 or something ridiculous you don’t want to spend on a sweater for an 11 year old that really just wants to wear t-shirts all the time.
When did Old Navy start really, really sucking? Like, I used to be able to pull off some nice sweaters from the men’s department (since they stopped carrying the Tubby Lady department in the stores), but now they’ve all morphed into horizontally striped hoodies, which wasn’t so conducive to the business casual look.
We found a handsome boy outfit at Target, complete with khaki pants, a button up shirt, and a blue sweater vest for under $30. The Boy will quite possibly be the most handsomest boy in all the orchestra tomorrow, even if he does want to slick his hair off to the sides like Howdy Doody.
