Glass

Hi!

So with the holidays approaching, I'm sure you're all wondering what to get for your loved ones. I have a solution! Bob is having a sale on his glass with items from 50-75% off.

Check it out here.

Pretty stuff. And he does commissions as well in case you'd like your favorite pet captured in glass or want something like the Last Supper with Apes (seriously. It was a question from a customer).

And if you live in Chicago you can probably get free delivery of the piece! ooo! Bonus!

Laid Off

So they're closing my company's offices next year, which means that I'll be out of a job in February.

Anyone need an experienced editorial manager? :)

12 of 12: November 2008

It's 12 of 12 time again, Chad's brainchild. It's a workday so nothing TOO exciting. Enjoy!

6:41am, Bathroom: Getting read for work
7:12am, Bedroom: Dressed and ready to go. And...wow. Our bedroom looks like it's a mess: dog beds and lamp cords and hoodies laying about. maybe I won't take pictures in here any more...
7:23am, Family Room: Jinx is guarding my purse, waiting for it to move so he can flop back down on the desk. I also put a post-it on my purse reminding me to bring my baby shower gift to work for a co-worker. Even putting it right BY my purse doesn't mean I'll actually remember to grab it.
7:35am, Division St: Walking to the el. It's another gloomy, gray day.
8:16am, My Desk: I stopped off for a couple things on the way in: a baby shower card, breakfast, pretzels, and a diet coke. The necessities.
10:22am, My Desk: Quick stop by facebook to post the hamster video. The song has been stuck in my head for a couple days now.
12:02pm, My Desk: Origami calendar time! Today was an angelfish.
3:39pm, Conference Room at Work: We had a baby "sprinkle" for a co-worker (a sprinkle is a smaller shower that's just for necessities like baby wipes, diapers, and things like that. It's usually for those that are having second (or third, or fourth) babies)
6:25pm, Bedroom: Laundry day. Oof. It's been WAY too long since I did the wash.
7:00pm, Kitchen: Dinner time! As things are chugging away in the laundry room, I got started on dinner. I attempted to make risotto for the first time and ended up cooking the onions and garlic a little too much, but as I added the chicken stock it was getting a little better.
7:27pm, Kitchen: Dinner time! Breaded chicken with leaks and risotto. It all turned out pretty well, considering the potential risotto failure from about 30 minutes ago.
8:42pm, Bedroom: As I was folding load 3 of 4 of the laundry, Sadie jumped onto the bed to lay next to Jinx who was sacked out on my robe. Since Jinx is not too fond of Sadie, I was surprised that he didn't run off when she got up on the bed with him. Luckily the camera was close so I could capture this rare moment of peace between the two...although you can see that Jinx is keeping his eye on the dog, just in case.
And that's it! No Marbles pictures today, unfortunately. Most likely she'll show up in next month's group of pics!

Video

Beautifully said.

Change Has Come to America

Watch the speech (if you haven't already) and feel the hope and the joy and the power of this man.

It's an exciting time and I'm looking forward to it.

Election Day

I voted today. First time ever.
Have you voted yet? Please do. PLEASE. It's terribly important.

Weekend, October 31-November 2

First off, the time change is totally messing me up. I got up at 7am on Sunday, watched a movie, and the it was 10am. And it felt like 3pm or something. And then at 8pm I wanted to go to bed. I know that the time change is only and hour but for some reason my body read it as, like, 4 hours. And leaving work tonight in the (almost) dark is going to suck.

Anyway, my weekend.

Friday was halloween so Bob and I went to our neighbor's halloween party upstairs. (so convenient!) We didn't know anyone, really, but had a good time. Everyone was dressed up which is always fun. Bob taped a bunch of pictures of Robert on himself and went as...Mucho Deniro (hee) and I was a biker. Yes, I have a couple of pictures. No, I'm not posting them. Sorry!

Saturday Liz and I did errands--target, Dominicks, etc.--and I bought my first Christmas present! Woo! I feel so accomplished getting stuff somewhat early! I'll probably still be scrambling until Christmas though...

Later that night Chris and Liz came over and we played Guitar Hero World Tour with all four of us, rotating who did what. I also made Corn and Kielbasa Chowder...yum...that's a good one. And EASY!Sunday (after my movie), Bob and I went out to the Aurora outlet malls for a bit and then pretty much crashed. Somewhat lazy day. Oh! I DID make some baja fish tacos that made my apartment smell like fish all night (Sorry, no pics. We were starving). They were ok. Kind of boring, really. It COULD be that I really like regular tacos so I felt that these were missing something. If I liked fish more, I'd tweak the recipe to make it more interesting, but...eh. It's just not worth it to me.

The highlight of my weekend might have been the gas we got for $2.55. $25 to fill the car? AWESOME. I think that last comment makes me an official adult. I'm way too excited about gas being less than $3.

:)