I worked, yes I did.
I walked out of the house to go to the pool to find my neighbor laying prone in his walk as his daughter traced him in chalk. He noted that they'd repointed some brickwork on my house and asked when I had that done. "Oh, the seller did that." "Huh. I never noticed before." "Well, it's not as if you have that perspective too often..." "Oh! True."
I dunno, we were laughing pretty hard by the end of the conversation. It's just funny to be talking to someone lying on the sidewalk, upside down.
I came home to hopscotch chalked on my front walk courtesy of the kidlet. Made me grin.
Go ita, with the working!
sara, that is an *awesome* dad. A chalk outline. Hee.
He's really cute with her. Totally a poster-parent. Came out one weekend morning and she's in a (quite clever) tutu twirling about, and he's all "I made a tutu! It was easier than I thought!" He seemed more proud of the tutu than, I dunno, when he showed me all the freaking renovations he's done himself?
Now I feel like I conjured up Lee Tergesen on House, by thinking so much about Beecher/Keller over the weekend! Good times. I should be packing, but meh. My work day was crappy, and tomorrow's starts at 7:30!
I celebrated my first Canadian Thanksgiving today! We have a Candadian flag on the wall. And California Zinfandel. (Does Canada make any wine?) Boyfriend roasted a turkey breast and sauteed morels (that he picked last spring) and made gravy. I roasted butternut squash, mashed taters w/ sage and goat cheese, and made apple crisp! YUM!! Canadian Thanksgiving RULES! Except I had to work today and have to work tomorrow. bah.
eta and now the resident Canadian is washing the dishes while I sit here and "look pretty." Canadians RULE!
Woohoo, ita!
I had a pretty good first day, but OMG I missed the internet. Things will be better after I get to move into my permanent office in a couple of weeks, but I will still miss the internet.
Congrats on first day of new jobs Dana & ita!!!
ChicagoBob is also CanadianChicagoBob?!?!
Things will be better after I get to move into my permanent office in a couple of weeks
Why do I never get an office? I do have a nice large cubicle with a window, but I always seem to work for places that dole out offices more rarely than diamonds. And I don't get diamonds either.
I checked the intranet for the office dress policy, and it says there isn't one and to ask my manager. And then I get introduced to another one of his reports and she's wearing a kinda torn denim jacket and jeans. I don't think I'd ever feel that comfortable as a contractor. Probably not denim jacket comfortable as an employee. But I think it does mean hose isn't mandatory, so that's good.
