May 2007

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All good things must come to an end

May 30, 2007 in Lassa by Lassa | 3 comments

This year we got a new Governor and a new boss in my office. Yesterday a re-organization plan was announced and it did not include my position.

Packing up six years worth of time in my office was incredibly difficult (holy crap, I had A LOT of lipgloss in my bottom desk drawer!) but even more difficult was after I had backed up my car to the loading dock and stuffed boxes containing pieces of my life and the conference that I cared so much about into every available space, finally allowing the tears to sting my eyes as I drove away — I wasn’t paying attention and drove right off the ramp.

I landed my van in a position that only a tow truck could get me out of, forcing me to hang around the building for another two hours. Talk about adding insult to injury.

But today is a new day.

And I’m sort of excited about the fun and exciting things in store for me:

The never-ending pile of clean laundry will now get folded. Yay!

I’ll be able to get to all those tasks and projects that I’ve been meaning to do but haven’t had the time — like putting away this Christmas tree from, like, five months ago.

And then my husband wants to put me to work and organize all this paperwork for the restaurant. I’m still on the fence about this one because I don’t like it when he’s the boss. I’m supposed to be the bossy one in the family.

Maybe I’ll just write about makeup.

Pals

May 24, 2007 in Uncategorized by Lassa | No comments

Pals, originally uploaded by Lassa.

In Salt Lake City with Melissa…

Joe Mango’s

May 20, 2007 in Jody by Lassa | 4 comments

I can’t remember if I told you about our little coffee shop- but it’s called Joe Mango’s and is right across the street from the building where I work.

Last night we had a grand opening celebration in the street with live music, food and drinks. Well over a thousand people (Jody thinks almost 3,000) showed up.

*click any of the photos above to see the entire photo set in Flickr.

Catching up

May 10, 2007 in Janey by Lassa | No comments

I’ve been slacking again. (Surprised, are you?)

The baby is now five. Someone along the way told her that she’d begin losing her teeth at five, so she’s been obsessively checking for wiggly ones since April 26th.

"Mom- my tooth is wiggly. Feel it."

"Hmmmmm [checking tooth]. Nope. Not wiggly."

"Actually I meant this one. Feel this one. I think it’s wiggly."

[Checking again] "Sorry honey. This one doesn’t feel wiggly, either."

"How about this one?"

This goes on and on, day in and day out.

Aaaargh.

Gah!

But she is cute, no?

We also had a visit from my mom and sister to celebrate Janey’s 5th birthday and watch Bree & Bailey play in the Far Western Volleyball tournament here in Reno.

Ha! They totally thought they’d enjoy watching a game or two of girl’s volleyball. They had NO idea they’d spend their entire vacation in a gym with 10,000 volleyball players and their very loud parents. (Oh wait. That was me doing all that yelling.) We literally left the house at 6:30 am to watch Bailey play in the AM Wave and stayed until 10:30 pm to watch Bree play in the PM Wave. For three days straight.

I’m sure they both needed a vacation after that vacation.

It actually kind of sucks to have my family in my home experiencing my inadequacies first hand. I pretend not to notice when my mother and sister watch in horror, jaws gaping, as we throw dirty laundry into the washing machine. All of it at once. Darks, whites, towels, bras- if it’s dirty, it goes in. Because that’s how we roll.

(Aside from my work clothes. Nobody is allowed to ruin my work clothes but me.)

Or when Janey throws the biggest badass tantrum, bigger than any of her siblings even thought of throwing, big enough to make the neighbors wonder if they didn’t change the battery on their fire alarms, forcing me to give in to her demands and prove to my mother that she was right all along. My adolescence is coming back to haunt me, just as she said it would. In the worst way.

Whatever. I can’t be perfect.

Hey- is your tooth wiggly?

Planning for the future

May 9, 2007 in Janey by Lassa | 1 comment

"When I have my Super Sweet Sixteen birthday, I’m going to have a limo and a dance floor and a bowling place, you know, where you bowl, and all my friends are going to be there. It’s going to be so so so so so so SO SO SOOOOOOO! fun."

"Dude. You are five."

"I know that. [thinking] How many sleeps until I’m sixteen?"