I am still wrestling with my student worker dilemma.

I spoke with the one girl's supervisor, and the weird thing (about leaving, and then emailing that she was staying) turned out to be a mix-up.

So -- I still like the other girl better, but she is a second semester senior, and I will need to hire again in May and I HATE doing this. But she can work more than 10 hours a week if I need her to.

Yeah, that's what I figure in the end. I am the one who started doing Flylady; I don't need to drag him into it unwillingly. But he has both expressed appreciation and made his own contributions without prompting, so I figure it's a win all round.

I've had a hard time getting back into Flylady since I got home from break. It breaks down every day at about this point, so I think I just need to rejigger my morning routine. I get to this point where I've done everything but the room rescue and any workout-type stuff. The thing right before those is going around and opening up the shades. Which I love doing. And by this time, I have my coffee in hand, so I walk around opening things up, and then I end up in the office last, whereupon I see my computer and sit down with my coffee and then it's an hour later and I'm either embroiled in the internet or have well launched into work with out realizing there were things I still meant to do before I started.

Fujifilm has never done me wrong.

This is true.

Work cancelled for the second day in a row = a breakfast of poached eggs, smoked salmon, and homemade hollandaise sauce (which didn't turn out perfectly but was still tasty).

Dana, work was not canceled for me (yay working from home??) but it's definitely icy here and I have no intention of going outside anytime soon! So I had two crumpets, one with jam and one with a poached egg, and some chocolate tea.

A goodly storm came through Utah last night and I didn't even have frost on my windshield this morning, just some drying water drops. Yeah, this is not a typical January in Utah.

Ugh, my coffee is giving me heartburn. I am going to be DISTRAUGHT if this becomes a regular occurrence.

Dana and meara, stay warm and safe.

Our office coffeemaker is out of commission (actually, it's the socket it plugs into, but the end result is no coffee). Our big boss is a kind and generous lady - she got two big box things of coffee from Starbucks and half and half.

Oh, bless her soul, Todd.

I gave up my mini-Keurig for the greater good of the office. Otherwise there'd be no coffe. According to my boss, everyone just gets their own before coming in in the morning. Uh, no. Not if I don't want to go broke.

whereupon I see my computer and sit down with my coffee and then it's an hour later and I'm either embroiled in the internet or have well launched into work with out realizing there were things I still meant to do before I started.

This is why I think I need some magical computer program that will remind me every day to do things like 15-minute cleaning blocks, drinking water and giving the dog his pills. It should have alarms and possibly nagging and should also track my consistency.

I miss using my SLR. I can't afford to process film and I can't afford a digital SLR. I have a decent digital point-and-shoot that has some manual settings, but it's not the same.