Spike ,'Never Leave Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
All of the East Coast offices are officially closed today, which means that all of the work coming in from attorneys working at home is going to come to the California librarians.
There are fewer librarians in all of California than there are in any one of the three major East Coast libraries.
It's going to be a FUN day.
Oy.
It's going to be a FUN day.
You might drop hints that you'll entertain bribes.
I want Hil's breakfast!
We've got a lot of snow here, and more coming down. Daycare and work were unexpectedly open, but since it's supposed to be blizzarding in a couple of hours I'm staying home anyway and dyeing my hair.
What kills me is that each one has prefaced the thought that maybe they shouldn't have to pay her with the assertion that their nanny is fabulous and that they'd hate to do anything ruin the relationship.
Ugh, we get that on the local parenting listserv's too. Fortunately there are always at least a few people willing to jump in and remind these people that the "relationship" they are so eager to preserve is a business relationship dependent on an exchange of money for services. However much she adores your kids, the nanny is not showing up every day out of the goodness of her heart!
Pay up, stingy parent-bastards...if she's that great, she'll find someone who will. my neighbors are all insane. ok, there's one who isn't...she's very nice. Mostly, though the less we know the better I feel.
My county in MD has suspended plowing operations because it is too dangerous out on the roads.
Stay safe and warm wishes for the snow bound.
Pay up, stingy parent-bastards
Seriously! I was rolling my eyes at DH because he has taken to tipping more than usual. When I questioned his generosity he explained that we were eating out less often as is everyone else and the staff could use the extra to make up for the empty tables. This would be one of the reasons I've been married to him for 20 years.
It's another reason I wish I was married to him for 20 years!
MM! Your wife is flirting with my DH again!
Next month is our official 20 year married anniversary. I really need to make a plan. He says it is contract renegotiation time.
The last batch of pancakes got kind of burned. Boo. (The spices are also a little wrong, because I realized after I started making them that I didn't have any ginger, so I just put in some extra cinnamon. But still. Pumpkin pancakes!)