Mother Nature’s April Fool’s Joke
Here is our backyard on Thursday. Here is our backyard on Friday.It is spring!
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It’s on like Donkey Kong
Well, it’s official. We are planning to thru hike the AT this summer. J handed in his resignation letter yesterday. Today he told his rec committee. Tomorrow he tells the seniors. His last day is May 13. We will start hiking June 6. It’s both sad, because J loves his job and the town he…
DetailsWeek 42 of Unemployment
Busy week again, which included J getting a root canal and an interview on Monday for me. This was for a contract writing project that would start immediately and last about a month. Perfect! The subject matter is Medicare. Did I just make you vomit in your mouth? Sorry! But I love writing about health…
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Happy First Day of Spring??
In true New England fashion, most of our snow melted last week and this weekend, and then we get a late-spring snowstorm today. I think it will only amount to a few inches and the hope is that warmish temps return and melt it down. P. to the S.Town meeting was only 5 hours long…
DetailsWeek 41 of Unemployment
Awhile back, probably somewhere around week 26 of unemployment, I resigned to the fact that my roses were just not blooming. Not literal roses, silly, but the seeds I planted in my job hunting. I wasn’t even getting rejection letters. I was just not hearing back at all. In the words of Stephanie Tanner, “how…
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Could the Mister give us the plague?
There’s a new study out from the CDC that says there’s a risk of transmission of some life-threatening diseases when your pets share your bed. You know, diseases like the plague, Chagas disease and rabies. Things that make you go Hmmm. Mr. McKinley tends to sleep in between J and I, head on pillow, under…
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A Mini Tour of the Upper Valley
You wouldn’t know the first day of spring is in less than 10 days here. Sure, there are patches of grass in some places and we reverted to daylight savings time starting today to give us more hours of sunlight, but we still have a crapload of snow on the ground. On Saturday, J &…
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Week 40 of Unemployment
First things first, my second interview went great. It’s hard to tell where they are in the hiring process. I was interviewing with 3 people who I would potentially work with, but they are not making the final decision. And when I asked questions about the status, they had no idea. The one guy did…
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Learning to Cook Gourmet Meals
This weekend was pretty boring. Aside from J’s concerts (BTW, he got to Boston with no problems tonight!), we didn’t have much going on. We just did some errands and more AT planning. But, a few weeks ago, we did something really fun and I forgot to mention it. We took a couples cooking class!!!This…
DetailsWeek 39 of Unemployment
Not a bad week work-wise for me again. I like the new project I’m working on and if all goes well, I’ll have it completed by next week. And good news for the nation. The unemployment rate dropped to 8.9%, the lowest in nearly 2 years. Not sure what that means since everyone I know…
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From 27 inches to 13 inches to 32 inches
I know I already said our 27-inch flat-screen TV kicked the bucket, but J wanted to give it one more try. My husband is quite handy, but his resume stops when it comes to electronics.Now it’s safe to say the TV is 100% a goner. But, we lucked out. We visited J’s dad this weekend…
DetailsWeek 38 of Unemployment
I’m happy to report another busy week between our houseguest, the magazine and my old company. Next week I’m hoping to start on my new project, so it’s looking like it will be fulfilling too. Woo hoo!
Our little ski resort
Today is our first day without a houseguest since Feb. 11. Don’t get me wrong, we love guests, but it’s always nice to have the house back to ourselves. Our latest houseguest was a friend of J’s from the Prep, Chris Farley. He works in a school system and was on break, so came up…
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I’m retiring my skort
I tried to start a trend this indoor soccer season: wearing a skort to play. But I cannot take the ridicule anymore, so I am officially retiring it. It didn’t bother me when J made fun; he always makes fun of me anyways. He would ask, “Are we playing tennis?” and I would ignore. But…
DetailsWeek 37 of Unemployment
My dear readers, this week was a good week in terms of my self-employment endeavors. Can you believe I’m saying that? It was, in fact, a busy week! I invoiced 8 hours for my old company, scored another assignment from the magazine AND—yes there’s an and—signed a new contract for a project with an old…
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Business Combined with Pleasure
We have wrapped up a wonderful visit with Mama Fashion. She was with us from Friday until her work meeting Wednesday morning in Boston. So let’s review what we did. MamaF gave knitting lessons to her grandkitty. We played two games of Scrabble and J won both times. I still don’t understand how the worst…
DetailsWeek 36 of Unemployment
Of course I have no job update for you. Looked for work, not much out there, sent my resume to places where I won’t hear anything back, blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, yadda. I am so sick of selling myself! But, such is life. This week, we had a friend get into heaps of trouble…
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Superbowl Sunday!
Happy Superbowl! We’re just sitting here watching the game and commercials (disappointing so far, no?) as well as the Black Eyed Peas’ half-time show (Yippeeeee!) on our sweet 13-inch TV. Our 27-incher (which we understand isn’t even that big) finally kicked the bucket for good and we are not in a position to be buying…
DetailsWeek 35 of Unemployment
I have nothing good to say about my pitiful job search this week, though I did invoice 8 hours of work. Woo hoo. Instead, I will just tell you about the fun stuff that’s going on here! We finished up January, and it turned out to be the 4th snowiest January in Concord since 1870…
DetailsWeek 34 of Unemployment
Week 34 was really depressing and another roller coaster, but, by now, I’ve had such a fun weekend full of ballroom dancing, swimming and dinner with friends (followed by live pond hockey and a spaghetti benefit dinner for a friend today) that I have pretty much forgotten about it. Still, I owe my readers my…
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