Jennifer

This journal is hardly Friends Only (where all posts are restricted to people on my "Friends List"), but this is the official notice that most posts concerning my personal life will be restricted. You will, as the casual reader, be privy to most articles, quizzes, memes, random observations, etc. I have no particular standards, and will friend just about anyone (yes, that means you!). This is just my way of making a space where I can say things with more honesty. And for those people who don't have a Live Journal account, starting an account is easy, and you don't have to post or log in when you want to read something.

I love that they have made gummy vitamins for adults. They're so yummy!

My car is parked in the garage! With the garage door down! For the first time...

I've been feeling nostalgic tonight, so I thought I would post some thoughts from an old journal I kept while I was at Rose. This one is fit for the general public to see:

"He has this way of making quiet comments while others are talking. A commentator, not the type to get into the conversation, but to bring others into a separate one with him. I can totally see him in my mind right now, holding a cup of something, looking not directly at me, but his face slightly pointed in my direction, making a comment about whatever's going on. Does he like me?"

That was from when I had this giant crush on Tim...

I like brushing my dog's teeth. If only I could get my cats on board... could have saved some serious cash.

"Johnson and Johnson layoffs" was one of the Bing "hot" searches. :/

Back from China
Have a little jet lag
And the munchies
Going to go find food

PA has a lot of specialty license plates.

Like Barbarshoppers. And railfans.

Things learned from Costco: Amish use Huggies (?) and like York Peppermint patties.

In the past week a coworker and an ex-coworker has died. I think that's all I want to say in a public post.

I am so excited about this vacation!

I am going to go nuts on the cruise food!

And the Jimmy Johns tonight!

Happy Labor Day!

"Thoroughly humiliated, Nixon then went off to live in a state of utter disgrace¹.


¹New Jersey."

- Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

Read it. It's funny.

The cruise line called to offer an upgrade from an inside room to a balcony suite for an "incredible price." What do you think this incredible price would be? As a baseline, we paid something like $350+tax pp.

We're probably not going to go for it, but I'm wondering now... so I'll call her back tomorrow.

I made a purchase at Amazon.com yesterday.

the latest jars of clay cd
12 bags of ranch sunflower seeds
48 bags of corn nuts

I am so stoked for the corn nuts.

What would you consider "American food"? I'm thinking more than just hamburgers and hot dogs, but what common attributes or tastes (if any) describe American food? And would you consider Italian food ethnic? Tim and I had this conversation today, and I'm interested in other answers.

Long evening.

Came back from NJ and found puppy had another bowel distress incident in his crate. We got that all cleaned up and I worked on the taxes. And by the taxes I mean filing for extensions. Tried to pay PA online but that didn't work, so and fought our cheap printer. Finally done with that but the puppy is crying, and it doesn't sound like he'll stop anytime soon.

Anyone want a free puppy?

So I talked to my mom today, and she was telling us about one of dad's coworkers who married a French man, and had a baby recently, and how cute the baby was, how big his cheeks were, how he'd smile so much, yadda yadda.

So I sent her this link.

So I know I owe the second job post, but I wanted to instead tell everyone that we booked our next cruise! Over our birthday/anniversary/Labor Day weekend, we will be going cruising the high seas!

So we sold the house (money is in the bank and everything - what's left of it, at least) which has been a big relief. So, we're finally able to start doing that "planning" thing that we've held off on. (PS- I love budgeting. Love love love it)

Anyway, with the Global Recession, we've been trying to be somewhat conservative, at the same time spending freely because we want to use it before the government takes it. We spent about $100 last weekend buying our emergency food stash (Tim thinks it's for the Zombie Apocalypse, but I think it's more for the Global Economic Collapse hyperinflation. I'm not sure which I fear more.) We've got what I think would be about a month or two's worth of food in the basement, as long as you don't mind being a little hungry. Life does get more complicated if there is no electricity to cook with, in which case we have about a week's worth of food unless we can convert our fireplace into a stove.

In case you get any ideas about stealing our food stash, we also have a dog that does NOT cotton to strangers in his house.

We'll try and stimulate the economy by doing some improvements to the house, too. I've got grand plans to redo the kitchen this year. Grand plans, I tell you! I just need to find someone willing to do them for the money I'm willing to pay.

My amazing husband "fixed" the treadmill. He claims he didn't do anything that take the cover off. That may be true, but something started working that didn't work before.

Regardless, today we turned it on and put Pavlov on it. He went a good 2 minutes or so at first, and then we put him on again and he probably did 5 minutes.

At least someone is using it!