I sent a note to one of the big wigs in a different department expressing interest in shifting to that group and asking for information. I got a prompt e-mail back asking about setting up a time to talk next week.

Yay, Suz! I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

Ok, well, I guess I've complained about work too much for a mini-squee to mean anything.

I just got online! I swear! Wishing you travel ~ma for a safe trip there and back. And definitely pack some fernet.

Every kind of ~ma I can think of for Sean and S. {{{{Sean}}}}

eta: Happy Birthday, Beth!!!

I have a friend who is collecting Le Crueset in many different colors. It's like a sickness. (There's a Le Crueset store at the local outlet mall.)

I have the Le Crueset soup pot, and it's the best thing ever. I also have a Le Crueset stonware casserole dish that's shaped like a heart. Every time I use it (which isn't often enough), it makes me happy.

We have stopped adding to our Le Creuset collection which makes me sort of sad... but there's a lot of other stuff I want to spend money on for pots! Up next: a nice sturdy oven safe nonstick skillet. Then I think we are maybe OK for a while between the Le Creuset, the regular cast-iron, and the couple pieces of clad cookware and a couple cheap ass non sticks from Target for like $6 that we knock around like our bitches.

Will probably need to replace our saucepans, we're working on some seriously old ones right now, but were the first "nice" pots I ever bought new. But of course they are cheap but quite useable and I can't bear to throw away perfectly good pots, however ugly and cheap looking.

Man, I'm tired and babbling about cookware. My brain... is not all here.

~ma to Suzi getting into a new dept- that is super cool that you got such a quick response. ~ma ~ma ~ma ~ma.

Suzi, tons of job~ma to you! I thought I had commented earlier, but I guess it was only in my head.

~~~~~~ma ma ma ~~~~~~ for Suzi getting into a new department.

I am tired, like woah. Met a friend and her daughter at Ben & Jerry's for Free Cone Day. The dippers were the young, hot, fresh out of the academy firefighters.

I went back for seconds.

After that, we went to the LA Zoo and walked and ran like maniacs. Finally got home and I am just wiped. out.

But it was a Good Day.

Nora, you still around? Could you jump on gmail?

That sounds like a nice kind of wiped out, Aimee.

Much ma for Sean and S

I really wish I could learn some coping skills for dealing with stress, especially when I'm hormonal. I keep finding myself being a total bitca to TCG tonight, and I truly don't mean to be. I hate myself when I'm like this.

Joe keeps telling me to go to sleep if I want to.

I keep reminding him, "IT'S CRAB NIGHT!"

I am obsessed with "Deadliest Catch".