The Story of What's on My Desk ~ Undomestic Chica

The Story of What's on My Desk ~ Undomestic Chica

Hey! I'm Lindsay over at Undomestic Chica. I decide to participate in Bloggerstock this month but little did I know how embarrassed I would be by the posting topic. See, Bloggerstock chose "The Story of What's on Your Desk" and my desk is a mess! I work in the Promotion Department of a radio station so things are constantly coming onto and off of my desk. Currently, I have about a million pens, one camera, a stack of event sheets that tell my employees the detiails of the events they're...

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6 Down, 6 (7...8...9) to Go

6 Down, 6 (7...8...9) to Go

I can hardly believe the year is half over.  I can hardly believe I've been saying "We're moving to Vienna!" for 6 months now!  I can hardly believe we'll actually be there in 6 months. Well, that last statement may not actually be true.  It may be, but then again, it may not.  Huh? I am a goal gal.  My husband needs deadlines.  And, so, when we began this venture, we set ourselves a goal, "to be in Vienna" with a deadline, "in December 2010."  About a week...

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Go Figure

Go Figure

I may not be a sports fan, but I am big on health and fitness.  And while I never attend football or baseball (or soccer) games for fun, I did recently find myself at another kind of fitness event I had never imaged ~ a bodybuilding show. I was there for my husband.  No, not because he was on stage, oiled up and flexing his muscles, but because he had coached someone to compete in one of the women's categories.  Did you know there were different categories at bodybuilding shows?...

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On books and reading

On books and reading

I've been reading lately.  A lot.  I'm lucky.  I am a librarian and I work every day in a building devoted to collecting the printed word.  One can't assume, though, that proximity and availability necessarily provides any more time in which to get lost in a good book.  Contrary to a strangely common notion, my job does not give me any more time in which to read than the average person who works full-time and has other stuff going on in life.   What my job does give...

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Stash it under the mattress

Stash it under the mattress

What are your tricks for saving money? I am, admittedly and unfortunately, not a natural born saver.  I never have been good at paying myself first, building that nest egg, or setting aside for a rainy day. I'd have to say that I fall somewhere in the middle of the broad spectrum between spendthrift and miser - I don't spend foolishly or wastefully (anymore), nor do I stash away cash and watch bank balances go up and up and up with anything resembling rapidity. Moving to Vienna obviously...

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To Do's

To Do's

I've been talking a lot lately about a To Do list.  The fact that I need one, that I've thought about one, and, finally, that I started one.  It's no joke, not something I made up to make myself look good.  I did actually start one. And here it is.... Doesn't look so bad, does it.  Just a matter of six Things To Do to get us to Vienna. 1) Move to a smaller apartment while still here 2) Save $, $ issues 3) Jobs, Jobs, Jobs 4) Paperwork, Visas, etc.  What's needed? How? 5)...

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I miss German

I miss German

I must admit that I haven't done a Rosetta Stone lesson or looked at any German since well before our trip to Vienna.  UNTIL TODAY!  Phew.  I've been putting it off and the longer I do so, the harder it is to start again.  What's the German word for procrastinate? Zogern (it is actually supposed to be an o with an umlaut, but I don't have a German keyboard, so I can't type it correctly, which totally bums me out).  But today I jumped back in.  Didn't do too badly, either....

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Hot with cold

Hot with cold

A sore throat.  Again!?!?  Yuck.  Didn't I just have this cold a few weeks ago? It hit my husband this past week.  I was sick not too long after our trip and I must have passed it on and gotten him ill.  I was feeling bad for him but also a little cocky ~ well, at least I've already had it, I don't have to worry.  I can go to work, workout, follow my diet, feel healthy, get things done.  I'm being knocked down a notch now, it seems.  It hit me yesterday, just...

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Wake up and smell the coffee

Wake up and smell the coffee

When I first woke up this morning, lying in bed before the alarm sounded, I could swear I smelled coffee.  A wonderfully inviting and motivating smell.   Thing is, though, I knew it was impossible.  A figment of my imagination.  An olfactory hallucination.  Unless the cats had learned to scoop coffee grounds and boil hot water, it was pure fancy.  But wouldn't that be a cute children's story - kitties wanting to help out, doing things around the house when everyone...

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Almost ready To Do

Almost ready To Do

Slept in a little bit this morning (for me).  I faced no alarm clock, no nagging internal voice; I woke up naturally, at just the right time.  I am now rejuvenated and it is a gorgeous morning, literally and figuratively. This is a bit of a work weekend.  My library has its annual reading festival this weekend.  Yesterday, the libraries (there are 25 of them) had all kinds of events and as one the three organizers of the Big Event, I drove around with my two colleagues to enjoy...

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Who me...trouble?

Who me...trouble?

This is Little Sister.  Sister is one of our two cats and she's been a bit of a troublemaker lately.  Beginning a couple weeks before our trip to Europe, she started peeing outside her litter box.  On the couch.  On our bed.  In the plant.  It happened just a few times, it wasn't a regular thing.  It didn't seem like she couldn't help herself, like there was a physical reason she was doing this, so we figured she was trying to tell us something, but we couldn't...

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Am I my stuff?

Am I my stuff?

Minor freak out yesterday morning.  I'm all dressed for work and looking for my brown purse.  I can't find it.  It's the only brown purse I own and my outfit definitely called for it.  I don't use the purse often, since I don't wear earth tones very often, but since it does happen occasionally, I own one fabulous slouchy, brown leather purse.  Or, at least, I thought I did. As I was rummaging through my bedroom closet, the coat closet, the back office closet and time...

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