Laurie :)

but here it goes...brace yourselves... I just started that new job a little over a month ago (month and a half, I think) and I really feel like I have just screwed up time after time. A lot of people really think I am doing well, which really shocks me cause if this is doing well, wtf is messing up? I made the same mistake not once but twice! I can't believe it, I am such an anal retentive person, it blows my mind to think I didn't learn it enough the first time. I mean, both...

Most the afternoon was spent outside in my back yard with my kids playing in both our sprinkler and pool. It was gorgeous outside, nice and hot, perfect poolside weather. We all are quite tanned now, and once I brought the kids in they spent a little while without their swimsuits, or any cloths for that matter. They were comparing their "tatoos" as they called thier tan lines. My daughter noted that my son's bottom was rather white, and inquired what color hers was. She...

An email I received awhile back: "Update on Joe Arpaio - TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY: Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona ) who created the "tent city jail": He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them. He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights. Cut off all but "G"...

Listen to Music Free, but Pay to Carry By ETHAN SMITH The music industry is so desperate for new ways to make money that a Silicon Valley start-up is trying a counterintuitive approach: giving the music away as a way to jump-start sales. Starting today, visitors to Palo Alto-based Lala Media Inc.'s Lala.com Web site will be able to listen for free on their computers to the digital catalog of Warner Music Group Corp. and hundreds of smaller independent music companies. Lala executives...

OK, I can't talk about this at work, or to anyone affiliated with work, and my family and friends are stil at work, so that leaves online to shout this out. I finally got the promotion I have been waiting for! I am so happy I could just scream, in a good way. The even better part is I actually get a month training before I start, so I can do the "smooth transition" (hand gesture that doesn't so much work online). I had to tell somebody, but shhhh don't tell anyone...