Archive for December, 2006

books to the ceiling

I forgot to put this on the books post!   It’s perfect:
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.
  - Arnold Lobel

Posted by Marie on December 29th, 2006 under books | Comment now »

why I am buying a car

I was trying the no-car life, but alas it was not meant to be.   At least until February, when our company will be moving offices.
The company I work for recently purchased one of our competitors, whose headquarters are in Chicago (where I live).   The Chicago office of our company is relatively small, so we’ll all […]

Posted by Marie on December 27th, 2006 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

it’s going to be a good year. I can feel it.

I think 2007 is going to be a very good year.   I’ll be ringing it in this weekend (starting tomorrow) in Syracuse NY with my friend Julia and her friends.    And as for the rest of the year, I think it will turn out well.
So. Here are my New Year’s resolutions for 2007. 
1. Finish reading […]

Posted by Marie on December 27th, 2006 under Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

the recurring new year’s resolution

Every year I include the same New Year’s resolution on my list, which is to not buy any more books until I have finished all of the books on my not-read-yet shelf (above).  I have been doing this every year for about six years, and I can usually make it til about June when there are […]

Posted by Marie on December 27th, 2006 under books | Comment now »

tech support

My brother Brian is pretty handy with a computer, and I guess I am too, but where my forte is large scale systems and a programming team, his is the PC.  He loves to tinker with his computers, and every so often he’ll tell me he’s improved his home LAN or replaced some hard drive […]

Posted by Marie on December 26th, 2006 under Family | Comment now »

demon light

There is this game that we play in my family called Demon.  I have never actually seen rules for it, but I have heard of other families who play some version of it, with a different name.  It’s a little like multiple-handed solitare but more … cutthroat.   Every person has their own deck of cards, […]

Posted by Marie on December 26th, 2006 under Family | Comment now »

up north for christmas

I’m going up north for Christmas. I’m from up north. When my friend Julia came to visit Wisconsin, I planned to take her up north - and told her so when she arrived. She (not being from round these parts) said “Where’s up north? Why don’t you just say where we are […]

Posted by Marie on December 22nd, 2006 under Family | 1 Comment »

witness to one’s life

Sappy post alert.
The other night, I was hanging out with my good friend Kara, like usual, eating, drinking, and chatting after her son was sleeping. During the evening we were reminded that it was just about a year ago when she visited me in El Salvador. Sometimes I think El Salvador never really […]

Posted by Marie on December 20th, 2006 under friends | Comment now »

not good enough

So, I’m reading a book on Lincoln. I don’t really know when I started to become fascinated with Lincoln, it was probably about 10 years ago when I was living in southern Wisconsin, shortly after I visited the Lincoln historical sites. Since then I’ve read a number of books about him, and became personally offended […]

Posted by Marie on December 19th, 2006 under books | Comment now »

that one guy

Every once in a while, I think about that one guy from the IT department at the university where I used to work, about 8 years ago.  He was young, but a pretty good programmer - I tend to get along well with people who know a lot about computers.  He didn’t do much else than […]

Posted by Marie on December 18th, 2006 under Changes | Comment now »

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