Entries from October 2006

October 27, 2006

Neglect

I’ve been neglecting this young, budding blog lately, but not without good reason. I’m a busy girl, you know!
Last Friday I drove to New Jersey – a truly whirlwind trip. The Monday before that I had my car in the shop and was told that it would take $820 of my hard earned money to [...]

October 17, 2006

Attention Owners of Monster Trucks

Please come run over my car. It is sitting in the parking lot at work. When I leave here I will simply pretend that I don’t know what happened. We will never speak of this deed to my insurance company. I will have a shiny new car and you will have some monster truck fun [...]

October 12, 2006

A squirrel’s revenge

Sometimes, I don’t have much to write about. Today is one of those days, so I am pulling one from the archives. Here’s a funny story:
Once upon a time, when Matt and I lived in our last apartment, we both arrived home within a few minutes of each other. We stood in the living room [...]

October 11, 2006

Trick or Treat

I looove Halloween. This is not surprising as I love most holidays, but Halloween is definitely up there on the list. I’m not embarrassed to say that I go all out and plan costumes months in advance, or that I’ve actually gone to costume shops and rented professional costumes before.
Last year was the first year [...]

October 10, 2006

A day off? Love that Christopher Columbus!

Ok, so technically my company didn’t just give me a day off. But Matt’s gave him one and so I used one of those vacation days that was just burning a hole in my pocket and we had ourselves a lovely 3 day weekend.
The weekend started on Friday night when I went out for drinks with [...]