It’s the weekend, finally! This was one of the longest weeks I can remember. I don’t usually talk about work here, because when you work for a large company like I do, they tend to frown on that sort of thing. But this week we had some layoffs. One of the people laid off was the guy I work with, so it shook our group up quite a bit. That threw the rest of the week off for us, and let’s just say that I am really, really glad I get two days off. Also, Mister has been really sick this week but seems to feel better when I’m home, so being home all weekend should help him feel a lot better.
Since Mister has been sick, we don’t have any plans for this weekend (other than the usual chores), so I am going to try and do a bit of blogroll housecleaning. I looked at my blogroll and wow, there’s a lot on there that I haven’t read in a long, long time. I wonder if there’s a way to combine the Blogrolling service with a feed reader like Google Reader. That would make it so much easier to do the maintenance, since I visit my reader multiple times per day but hardly ever visit Blogrolling.
Speaking of the Blogroll, I added two more today. Anglofille is an American girl living in one of my favorite cities in the world – London! She’s studying for her PhD and making me really want to go to London again as she writes about her life there. Rio Gringa is an American who lives in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. She is also an excellent writer and has a lot of resources for learning about Brazil and Brazilian culture. Both gals have great blogs and contribute towards satisfying the wanderlust and thirst for other cultures that I have (either that or making it worse, who knows, but go visit them). If you’re not on my blogroll but you are a regular reader, let me know and I’ll check your blog out.
I might venture out this weekend to go to the office supply store. It seems that I need a new wrist rest for my keyboard. I have one of those “gel” ones with a fabric covering, and due to my tendency to rest my chin in my hand while my elbow is on the wrist rest, the seam seems to have burst, and the sticky, snot like gel is oozing out when I put too much pressure on it. Maybe I can lure Mister to Fry’s Electronics! Oh, and happy things: I got a postcard from Uncle N Period today. He just got back from a trip to Egypt for culture and Eritrea to ride the trains. I like getting postcards from far-off lands, and nearly all the postcards I have from those places are from Uncle N Period and Aunt Bird. Smiles in the mail! And no, Uncle N Period, you can’t have the stamp. It’s too pretty so I’m keeping it. I hope you got some for yourself while you were there!
Back to the topics of Mister and office, we have a Sirius satellite radio in our home office. Mister usually likes his 80s music, but I’m more of an acoustic person, so lately Mister has been changing the station to CoffeeHouse 30 for me. He’s so incredibly sweet, because in general he hates that kind of music, and wants to react to it like John Belushi’s character in Animal House does. But he knows I like it and it relaxes me, so he puts it on in the evenings for me. I really love that man!
So that’s it for Friday – bad week, it’s the weekend now, blogroll housekeeping, smiles by mail, and music I like with the man I love. Here’s to the weekend!
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