A Barrel of Nelsons

With some January updates thrown in for spice! (And because I didn’t think of updating then.)
My aunt, uncle and cousins are back from the Ukraine. They had a whirlwind around their finalization and passport stuff. But they’re home! Roman is fitting in well, and everyone is working towards making him comfortable and helping him [...]

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Pardon the throbbing vein that is probably standing out in the middle of my forehead. I just had a very unsuccessful fight with the computer lab’s printer. I can report that it is still not working. And that’s only one of it’s many issues…
But really this post is about other technical difficulties.
You remember a while [...]

I’m about to take one of the biggest steps I’ve taken in a looooong time (well in at least a year).
I’m quitting my job at Purdue. And I don’t actually have something new lined up. I have some possiblities but nothing solid.
I feel like I’m jumping off a cliff with a mystery backpack. Is there [...]

In case you were wondering, I did get dance shoes. And oh… putting them on felt so good. Really, I barely remembered how good dance shoes feel. I got a leotard off the clearance rack too.
In other news, I’m totally silly and accidentally wore one of my pairs of Chuck Taylor Converse sneakers to work. I’d [...]

A new year… and the world didn’t blow up at midnight…
So this is the time of year when people make decisions to change themselves, to “better” themselves, to put on a different mask, to refurbish the wallpaper and furniture in the living rooms of their souls…
I have mixed feelings about this. I am quite sure [...]

So I was routinely CC’ing something to a coworker, when I got an auto-response back saying she’d be out of the office from last Monday to today. That got me thinking…
I’ve been told a couple of times that checking my work email at home is somewhat of a no-no. This baffles me. Because I work at a [...]