February 6, 2005 | Woohoo!

If there was a great big cosmic menu from which one could order up the appropriate experience(s) at any given time, the weekend before returning to full-time employment would be a no-brainer.

There should be food. Lots of food. Good food. Preferably, there should be both wine glasses and chocolate involved.

And good company with which to share it all. Laughter is imperative. Breathlessness is icing.

Sight-seeing is optional but recommended. The accidental scenic route is just more time to spend together in the sunshine, singing along with the CD player.

Yeah. That’s about how it should be. Thank you.

January 25, 2005 | Job? Huh?, Woohoo!

Two and a half hours.

Three meetings.

One hypothetical marketing strategy involving a voice-recognition alarm clock for quadriplegics (yes, really… I couldn’t have made that up if I tried).

“Well, I think that’s about it. The good news is that my expectations for today were well met and I’m very pleased.”

“Oh. Um, great! What’s the bad news?”

“Bad news?”

“You said that’s the good news. What’s the bad news?”
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January 16, 2005 | Woohoo!

The latest in a series of positive omens: I finally found my missing deodorant. The skin-conditioning deodorant… on a day when I’d shaved.

It’s like the heavens are smiling directly at me, I tell you.

December 23, 2004 | Woohoo!

So you know how earlier, I confessed to my previous baby-eating penchant, tying it all together (poorly) with the tale of the flower delivery that was not, in fact, for me?

I feel the need to come completely clean with all of you, since my prior admission was so liberating. Puppies make delightful between-meal snacks. With ketchup. If you pinch their necks just so, they hardly ever even get away.

Phew! I feel better, with that off my chest.

Also, the darndest thing happened today. A guy came to the door with a suitcase of money in one hand, and a gorgeous hunk in the other. But it turned out that his delivery was for someone else, at a different house. Oh well.
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December 3, 2004 | Woohoo!

Gimme a stick of that gum, wouldja? Thanks. I am totally skipping this class, it is SO. BORING. Want me to braid your hair? I can. Meet me behind the gym. You can look at my trig notes while we do it, or we could just talk about boys instead.

Boys. *sigh* Like, oh my god. You will never believe it.

So, um, he called. The guy? Who asked for my number? Actually called. We talked. For a long time. I still like him. I like him even more. He seems to still like me. I feel about thirteen. I mean, HELLO, I am an old lady with children who spent almost her entire adult life married, I have NO IDEA how one goes about dating. Except that, apparently it goes like this, sort of. And it feels… not bad. Maybe better than that. Egads.

I like it.

November 16, 2004 | Woohoo!

Y’all, Jay is too modest to say anything self-promoting in his recent post. But lucky for all of us, I am not nearly so demure.

My life is not so very grand right now, in many ways. I mean, yes, I have my health, my kids, wonderful friends. But so much of my day-to-day feels like treading water, often. I used to live a life of accomplishments. Now? A life of waiting.

BUT!
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