Booking Through Thursday 12-20: Best of 2007

Booking Through Thursday 12-20: Best of 2007

What fiction book (or books) would you nominate to be the best new book published in 2007?(Older books that you read for the first time in 2007 don’t count.) What non-fiction book (or books) would you nominate to be the best new book published in 2007?(Older books that you read for the first time in 2007 don’t count.) And, do “best of” lists influence your reading? Don’t forget to leave a link to your actual […]

The office gift exchange

Christmas is just days away, Hanukkah is over…we’re smack-dab in the midst of “the holidays” pretty much everywhere, including at work. Office holiday parties are sometimes more of a source of anxiety than a cause for celebration – and in my experience, so does their less-discussed relative, the office gift exchange. Unless you call a staff meeting to outline gift-giving ground rules – which rarely happens, in my experience – or your office has a […]

Well, you COULD read this…

…if the page actually existed. Karen finds the best links. File not found! If you’ve read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, come back and tell me if this makes you think of what would happen if Marvin the Paranoid Android became a web server. Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address Subscribe Join 2,318 other subscribers

A few thoughts from the mother of the boyfriend

An actual exchange of text messages with my son over Thanksgiving weekend: Dad wants to know if I’m engaged.You’re surprised? (Rejected response: Well, ARE you?) No. But I thought you’d find it amusing. Still shaking my head. An online chat session with my son’s aunt (his dad’s sister) a few days later: (He and his girlfriend) were at her parents’ for Thanksgiving – as far as I know things are going OK with them. They’ll […]

Wiki Wednesday 12-19-07

Time to learn something! 1. Go to Wikipedia.2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.3. Post it! Today we’re going fishing: The slender codling or slender cod, Halargyreus johnsonii, is a morid cod, the only species in the genus Halargyreus. It is found in all oceans, at depths of between 450 and 3,000 m, and grows to between 15 and 55 cm. The slender codling is a small slender deepwater species with twin […]

Ten on Tuesday 12-18: New Year’s Resolutions

I’ve never really been one to make New Year’s resolutions. I don’t think there’s anything magical about January 1. If you want to change something in your life, you can do it any time you decide to – the beginning of next month, the first day of summer, next Monday, tomorrow, five minutes from now! New Year’s Day is an artificial milestone. For example, if you decide you’re going to start a healthy new habit […]

All I DON’T want for Christmas is a cold

I’m glad that I try to work ahead and have posts done in advance of when I want to have them up on the blog – a habit I picked up during NaBloPoMo, and it’s worth keeping – because inspiration and inclination for writing are a bit hard to come by right now. My husband started having cold symptoms late last week, and by Saturday I was catching up with him. We both started out […]

Keeping – not reading – the books; notes on finding an accountant

I haven’t written too many articles for Work It, Mom that have been directly related to my actual work, other than maybe this one about some of the perks of not being an entrepreneur. A lot of the members of the WIM community do have their own businesses, though – or want to – and some of their recent discussions about dealing with their financial matters prompted me to think I might have some useful […]

For what it’s worth…

For what it’s worth…

Via the Evil HR Lady: My blog is worth $16,371.66.How much is your blog worth? Good thing I’m not trying to make a living at this… Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address Subscribe Join 2,318 other subscribers

A(n updated 12/17) statistic you might not really want to know…

…unless you’re ever in a situation where your youngster’s kindergarten class is about to turn into an ugly mob: 9I’m not proud of it, really… I suspect that the fact I’m not much taller than they are might be an advantage, though. Thanks to Karen for finding this one, and to both her and MaryP for letting me know to correct the coding under the badge so that it doesn’t link to a dating site […]

“Five (more) Things” – a guest post by my husband

“Five (more) Things” – a guest post by my husband

During a slow morning, Tall Paul was inspired by Thursday’s “Five Things” post to do the meme himself. He e-mailed it to me, and has kindly allowed me to post it – his first blog post! (I’ve tried to get him to write guest posts for me a few times, but so far he hasn’t gone for it.) I’d like to introduce you to my husband. 5 Things I was doing 10 years ago:1. Buying […]

iPod Random Ten 12-14-07

“I Believe She’s Lying,” Rhett Miller, The Believer Rhett’s band, the Old 97s, have been on the alt-country music scene for years, but he works out his more pop-oriented side on his solo albums. I like the rhymes and wordplay in this track. “Mony Mony,” Billy Idol, Greatest Hits One of the great party classics for amateur partiers like me. “I’m No Angel,” Gregg Allman, I’m No Angel I’ve always liked this song – for […]