I'm so excited ...


I know it's a little premature, but I'm so excited about Austin's Trail of Lights at Zilker park.
Mark your calendars... that is not a request...
December 13th!

Damage Control...











Back corner of my mom's house had a little tree-age in the laundry room and on the roof... MINOR damage, though, which we are incredibly thankful for. Tree landed on the power lines to the house as well, but I am happy to inform the blogosphere that she does have power today... downed lines and all.

Out of control


I'm running out of circulating passwords.
For years, I've used a genius set of words for email or bank passwords, but now that I have a work email pw, log-on pw, and omnicell pw, I'm finding that my job is stifling my brilliance in the "recycling," if you will, of my pws. I can't reuse the old ones... even from a few rounds before... Blast!
I have too many combinations to keep track of now.
It's not so easy to just "retire" the unusable ones. I have a pw graveyard swimming around in my brain...


my next option is to use sections of the longest word in the dictionary.
Is it still antidisestablishmentarianism?

Are you ready for this?

Check this out...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402483,00.html

so you think you can dance...

My brother sent me this footage early this morning.









What was he doing searching for me on YouTube?

quite the hallmark moment

Got a little visit from the hallmark ac co. fairy this morning for the 15 point inspection.
Translation: I've prepaid for some "expert" to come out and tell me something expensive is wrong with my ac unit.

Here's a bit of the sparkling conversation:
ac man: "do you normally keep it on 60 degrees?"
me: "what! no, is it on 60 degrees? "
ac man: "yeah, oh I must have bumped it to 60."
me (internally): do i look like i keep it on 60 degrees? do you see me bundled up in multiple blankets? yes, I keep it on 60 degrees and pay a ridiculous electric bill every month.

diagnosis time...
ac man: "so your evaporator coil has a leak it... it'll probably cost you around twenty-hundred something dollars"
me: "you mean two thousand dollars?"
me (internally): twenty-hundred? who says that.