Author Archives: A Dreamer

Lord, grant me strength or patience or something.

I’m supposed to go on PTO this afternoon for a week, but Sunday & Monday are already pretty much out the window. I’ve been getting dragged into so much client stuff it’s not even funny. Multiple items sent over that … Continue reading

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Goooooood Morning!

And Happy Mother’s Day – if you have little ones, I hope they did not trash the kitchen trying to make breakfast for you. It’s a lovely sunny day today and I have to work again, waaaaaaaahhhhhhh. 😭 But I … Continue reading

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Forget the worm

The early bird gets the potato-cheese strudel at the farmer’s market before they sell out! I am fully back on my farmers market bullshit and I am so happy about it. 🥰🥰🥰 I am showing more restraint than I did … Continue reading

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You made it to Friday!

The week is almost done, yay! I’m realizing I’m gonna have to work this weekend, boooooo. I have a terrible feeling the client I wrote the tutorial for is going to want a meeting and training session once they see … Continue reading

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How many days until my PTO?

I still very much like my job and the work I do and the folks I work with, but hooooboy, we are definitely to the point where it’s time for a bit of a break. With this next release coming … Continue reading

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Related to my earlier post

And on the heels of everything this week, then hearing about another mass killing in Brownsville, it’s been a day where I have been pretty damn deep in my feels. The past couple days has been A LOT.  And going … Continue reading

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I am at a loss

This country is so fundamentally broken, and I don’t know how – or even if – we can turn it around. I’m not saying we shouldn’t try, it just feels really fucking bleak right now. In the aftermath of the … Continue reading

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Woohoo, Saturday!

By 10:30 I’d made the coffee run, hit up the farmers market, got myself a lovely ginger lemonade, and watched the post-coronation coverage. And as much as I love some sparkly pageantry, they both just looked rather ridiculous. He struck … Continue reading

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Woohoo, it’s Friday!!

And I kinda sorta have today off! Need to log on for about an hour or two and wrap one thing up and then it’s the weekend! I’m keeping the out of office autoresponder on, and I did sleep in … Continue reading

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How annoying

Apparently part of getting older is your body just going, “Oh, no, you can’t eat that anymore.” And that message manifesting itself at 4AM when you wake up feeling like you’re being poked in the abdomen with very sharp sticks. … Continue reading

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