Congratulations, flea! That house looks absolutely gorgeous.
You have a solarium! SO FREAKING COOL.
It looks a lot like my brother's bungalow in Portland, OR (including the dining room wallpaper, which I helped him strip down to the surprisingly lovely cream plaster walls on a visit up there long ago). He did a ton of the repair and restoration work himself and still has lots of bungalow-DIY-repair-tutorial websites bookmarked (learned how to disassemble, restring, and reassemble the window frames with the rope pulleys hidden inside, and they still work perfectly more than a decade after repair), so if you'd like any links he'd be happy to pass them along.
Flea, what a great house!
I had a manager who, I'm pretty sure, set me up to fail a lot. She did this to a number of people (I think she wanted to be seen as "saving" the department by rescuing it from our "mistakes")
I didn't know you worked for my last boss! Or else people like that are legion in management positions, and we should perhaps create poppets of them to stab with pins.
According to my BigBoss, everyone I met at the Copenhagen office thinks I'm awesome and great at my job. Also, they really want me to move there.
How lovely, flea! I especially like that front porch.
Flea, that house is gorgeous!!! Congratulations!!
ION, I went to the podiatrist today and he thinks that with new orthotics I won't need to wear a brace!
Also - I should never be barefoot.. ., i.e., wear clogs indoors.
But no brace!!!
everyone I met at the Copenhagen office thinks I'm awesome and great at my job. Also, they really want me to move there.
This is not at all surprising.
It's a nice idea to idly contemplate. But there's the reality of our life in Seattle: Dad is here, a bunch of our close friends, my goddaughters. Plus the idea of packing up ALL OF OUR STUFF and doing a cross-continental move is terrifying to think of.
But still, Copenhagen was pretty nice. It looks like I'll be headed back there in June.
Braceless sumi is excellent news! Many congrats!
Management-by-sabotage, and its subset New-management-establishing-itself-by-shitting-all-over-everyone-who's-already-there, is grimly familiar to way too many of us. Enough so that I personally can't even construct a response, just nod and shudder and rock back and forth. But, holy crap, am I delighted that Jilli is loved and appreciated now! So long overdue, so incredibly well deserved!
Lovely house, flea! May you have many happy years living five minutes from Teppy.
I am always boggled by people who get their jollies from having endeavors they're involved with struggle and fail.
I wasn't sure if you meant cruddy work managers who set people up to fail or the ghost/sasquatch hunters...
