Little Miss Loquita

Atlantic City

Tanja — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 06:53:00 -0700

Recently I went on a road trip to Atlantic City. This included a day trip into Cape May (the oldest ...

Maltese

Tanja — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:14:00 -0800

So I'm considering getting a dog and was wondering if anyone had a Maltese.

I live in a small place ...

S'Mores

Tanja — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 09:00:00 -0700

This weekend I was up at a friend's trailer and in the evening we decided we wanted to make S'mores. ...

Test

Tanja — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:38:00 -0700

testing testing and testing..

Home Owner

Tanja — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:32:00 -0800

Today I became a home owner!

And I must admit it is a very satisfying feeling.

Colds Suck

Tanja — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:28:00 -0800

Ok, I am getting a little frustrated with my immune system. I need to build it up and am not sure where to begin. You may have guessed that I have a cold... yet again.

Ugh.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Home Shopping

Tanja — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:12:00 -0800

The time has finally come for me to buy a place. I am looking to buy a condo and I must admit that this has been quite a learning experience so far.

Banks can be pretty tough.

And this city very expensive.

Also searching online can be a bit crazy.

I haven't yet gone to look at any existing condos (people who are selling) - nothing has caught my eye yet, but I have gone to a couple of ones that are being built (and have to go see a few more). I do have an agent though who is looking.

But the whole process can really make your head spin.

And for those of you who want to one day buy a home - save, save, save. That is the best advice I can give so far! (Or buy with someone else, who hopeful has saved something!)

Mr Men and Little Miss

Tanja — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:35:00 -0800

As a child I used to love reading the Mr Men and Little Miss books! For some reason I thought of this today and decided to see if the books still existed.

I found a WHOLE site dedicated to them! The only book I owned with them in it was Little Miss Tiny.

New Words for 2005 Work-place Vocabulary

Tanja — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:43:00 -0800

Again, something emailed to me:

TESTICULATING. Waving your arms around and talking Bollocks.

BLAMESTORMING. Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

SEAGULL MANAGER. A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

ASSMOSIS. The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.

SALMON DAY. The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.

PRAIRIE DOGGING. When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see that's going on. (This also applies to applause from a promotion because there may be cake.)

MOUSE POTATO. The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

SITCOMs. Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids or start a "home business".

STRESS PUPPY. A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE. The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

ADMINISPHERE. The rarefied organisational layers beginning just >above >the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" - needless paperwork and processes.

404. Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.

OHNOSECOND That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all')

Naked Belly

Tanja — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:43:00 -0800

I am sad to say that after having a belly ring for more than 10 years (why do I feel that dates me somehow?) that this past weekend I removed it. My belly is naked.

Quite some time ago my belly began to reject the ring and then stopped and that is where it hung on, barely.

Greg and I looked at it and figured it was only time that the ring would get caught on something and get torn out and I'd scream in pain, lose the ring and no doubt have to get my torn belly stitched up. So to spare myself this mess, the ring was removed.

It is very weird having a naked belly again. It looks very odd to me. So plain now. A lil bit sad.