Inspiration

I need a little inspiration in, well, all aspects of my life I suppose. Today seems like a pretty good day for that to happen.

I'm doomed

Thank goodness it is not the 1930s. That is all I have to say!

33 As a 1930s wife, I am Poor Take the test!

A good reason

In case you need a reason to visit your closest Ben & Jerry's, here you go.

I'm such a dork

I just got really excited.

I am trying to polish up my talk for this conference I am attending. I have the new office 2007 and do not know all the ins and outs yet. So I grouped some stuff together in my powerpoint presentation, then added some animation, but then I want to add text to what was already there.

In the old version, you would add the text and it would go off the edge of the slide. You would have to ungroup the stuff, shift all the text back onto the slide, regroup, and usually reanimate.

In the new version, you can move stuff around within the group without ungrouping it?!?! Amazing.

K. Gotta go practice giving my talk...to my cat....

A reflection of sorts

While I should be putting the finishing touches on and practicing for a talk at a conference next week, I am visiting blogs. While I could be looking people up who will be at the conference (which starts tomorrow) and preparing for meeting someone who will likely be there with whom I would LOVE to get a job, I am going to do this meme that I found at Ern's. It is easy and requires no thinking, but a little leg-work. Go back through your archive and post the first sentence from the first post of every month. I did about 7 months of posting every day, so this could be interesting!

January: I am not sure why I signed myself up for this, but why not?

February: In addition to all the talk about how the two Superbowl teams match up, there's also some fun stuff out there.

March: I saw this over at Ern's.
[As an aside, apparently I get a lot of memes from Ern. I guess if she can post and get a PhD, I can too!]

April: Sadly, my internet at home is funky.

May: Apparently May really is the National Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month, so maybe I will post about that another time.

June: I love my peanut butter chunky.

July: I have been told that I come across as a confident person.

August: Well, I do not leave town until tomorrow, but was foiled in posting yesterday as our internet is out again.

September: And as unpacked as I can be without buying more furniture!

October: My heat came on for the first time this morning.

November: I should have posted earlier today so all you absentee voters had time to overnight post your votes, but alas.

December: I have many things to be thankful for, but I will start with a few reminders to be thankful from the past few days.

Yummy and Yummier

I spent New Year's Eve at a friend's party. She had mentioned me bringing a dessert, as she claimed I know how to bake. I took my job seriously and found two new recipes. Why I did not just make other desserts I know and like, I do not know. Here you have them though.

My friend loves pumpkin things, so I made this pumpkin gooey butter cake. There were two sticks of butter in it. It is the most cheese-cakey thing I have made, only the topping really is gooey. It was totally cooked, but REALLY soft when we cut into it later. Notice my thumb print in the top corner from when I was taking it out of the oven?
These hazelnut chocolate chip cookies were good too.
Time to finish taking down my tree and packing Christmas up.

Happy New Year!