a variety of detaily things

Since we paid off the Jeep, Ted called up our insurance company and took the Acts Of God coverage off it, which will save us approximately a jillion dollars a year. Which is quite a lot! Yay! There are exciting goings-on at my work. Our parent company merged with another company a couple months ago. People have been laid off. Evidently they’re doing one on one meetings next week (while I’m there), and everybody in the office is *incredibly* nervous about it. I got my batteries for my computer. I…

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a glance of water

Didn’t get up very early this morning, but got up early enough to put Silkie’s edits into the US ms, and the first 5 chapters of Sarah’s edits. V. good. Mom says she’s got her edits done and I’m going over tonight to steal the manuscript whether Dad likes it or not, because the fewer copies of the bloody ms that I have to bring with me to SF, the better. I would .so. .very. .much. like to get this thing into the mail Saturday night or Sunday morning before…

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*laugh*

Email from Mom: So I went to Natural Pantry a bit ago to buy some organically-grown produce. A kid of about 19 was the checker. He entered one code from the fruit and the register rejected it. So he said, “What kind of apple is this?” I said, “That kind of apple is called a tomato.” :)

For pity’s sake.

I do wish people would implement the appropriate, non-hacky HTML fix I give them instead of instigating a hack of their own. Stupid orcs.

updatey!

I think I’m starting to get over this cold. I’m starting to be able to smell things again, and my cereal had flavor this morning. And I was actively hungry, which I haven’t been, although that went away after about five bites of cereal, so go fig. Ted and I had a very nice evening last night. :) We went out to dinner at Sorrento’s, which is a too-expensive Italian place, and then had dessert at Hot Licks, where I ordered a sundae that was MUCH too large. I persevered,…

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