Just A Normal Day In The Life Of Jen

Hi everyone!

Today was a good day. I absolutely was stunned when, at 5-ish this morning, the "frost call" telephone line established by my place of employment notified me that "weather and road conditions do not warrant site closure or delayed arrival." Fuck. So off I went into the NINE-DEGREE COLD weather. I actually got up and off much, much earlier than I generally do, and the reason for that was that I just had no idea how bad the roads would be. Why not get out early, get a jump on the morning commute, and hopefully make it alive and in one piece to the office sometime before 8:30 in the a.m.? To my absolute surprise, the streets (except for the ones in Gardner) were completely and totally clear. I still took it slowly, though (hey, an ounce of prevention...) Busy day at the office. Lots done and lots more to do. It keeps me gainfully employed, which is a good thing. And I love the people I work for. It's funny sometimes...the direction life takes you, I mean. I certainly never imagined myself working in Human Resources. I don't know what I thought I'd be doing professionally, but I just never envisioned HR as my career path of choice. But now that I'm here, it's hard to see myself ever doing anything else. Federal HR is just an exceptionally difficult field to master. I've been at it a while now (and am even, God help me, considered a "senior HR specialist") and I certainly don't have the grasp on the enormity of regulations and policies that control my profession. Anyway, it was a good day. Nothing of exceptional significance to call to your attention. The icestorm didn't kill me...hey, that's significant, right?

I just wanted to say an extra special "THANK YOU" to YarnTomato! I absolutely love her website, and she and I have been chatting about crochet and blogging. She's included me in her Crochet Blogs Webring, and I just signed up for her 63 Squares Crochet-Along. I can't get either of the buttons (for the Blogs or the Crochet-Along) to work on this stupid blog. She's trying to help me, which, God knows, I need! Thanks, YarnTomato! :)

I saw this news story at lunch today. I was just horrified. And stunned. How could this sort of thing happen? You mean to tell me that attorneys weren't smart enough to verify with NBC that this "supposed" episode of "Law And Order" actually aired? Christ, just look at the L&O website! Theres an EPISODE GUIDE there that you can check yourselves! Absolutely unreal. The justice system in our country is entirely out of whack. I've never seen anything like it. A system designed to protect the innocent and punish those that harm others is so concerned with, God forbid, violating the civil rights of the degenerate monsters who harm others that they put aside all intelligent and just action. It's just unreal to me. (And please, don't anyone EMAIL me any bullshit about how I'm being unjustifiably hard on that animal. I HAD post-partum depression. BAD post-partum depression. It was a horrible experience...one I'd not wish on anyone. But between all of the tears and bitchy snaps, I NEVER, not ONCE entertained any thoughts of harming my child or my husband or myself.) Anyway, sometimes the things that happen in this country just astound me. Here we are, the greatest country in the world, and take a look at what's happening to us. It's scary as hell. I'm so tempted to start on this whole religion-is-ruining-our-society mentality that seems to becoming more and more pervasive in our society, but I'll save that rant for another night. :)

(You know, I'm glad I checked out the L&O website. They have a tribute to Jerry Orbach, and a means by which fans can send condolence EMAILs to his family. Very, very classy.)

I'm looking forward to the weekend! My girls and I (that would be C, D(1), D(2), G, and P and I) will be having our first "Girls' Night Out" of the 2005 year after work tomorrow night! :) Those girls are something else. Hilarious and great and I just love being with them. This weekend, I imagine we'll finish taking down the Christmas decorations and restoring our home to its pristine (yeah right!) pre-Christmas state! And, oh yeah, I'm going shopping. :)

Off to give the little one a bath and snuggle with my family!