Off to Malawi!

Leaving in less than an hour.  Everything is packed, Tootsie Rolls et al.  So happy!  So excited!  So nervous!  And my bag weighs 41 pounds.  Whoa.
See y’all when I get back…somewhere around the 15h-16th.  Take care until then.

#461

Give me options, not complaints.

#460

It is easy to be brave at a distance.

#459

Fishnet stockings are not daytime wear, nor suitable to receive 500 pound pallets in.

#458

It is hard to be sympathic when you suspect the story is only a half-truth.

Jean Rhys

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Vampire Metrics Otherwise Known as Vampiretics

I’ve never seen the daylight…that is to say, I’ve always worked nights, and if not nights then shiftwork. 
This working-during-the-sunny-hours thing is a real wrench to the system.  Not to say that I don’t like it.  In fact, I feel almost a part of the human race, or at least part of the race of parents.  [...]

Henry Ford

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Things I Didn’t Get to Do Today

I’m a list-maker, but usually only in my head.  The grocery list is mainly for show just so people who visit think that I actually feed my children something besides Wendy’s and Pizza Hut.
Days off are far too unproductive for me, who has only recently discovered this 12-18 hour stretch of perfectly wonderful time to [...]

Mini-Crisis Averted

Two wee crisis came up over the Malawi trip this weekend and now, by Monday afternoon, both has been cleared. 
1. Hubster’s plane ticket from Calgary to London was cancelled.  It was by the travel agent, but they was some allusion to software not being compatible to Air Canada, yada, yada, yada.  So, we both laid [...]