Peanut M&Ms

Hmmmm... I really do love peanut M&Ms. Sam and I got some chocolate the other night, like the fancy Swiss stuff, but I just really didn't enjoy it. Then on Sunday Kalyna brought me peanut M&Ms for watching her kids... and I realized: that's all I need. Good old peanut M&Ms. Nothing fancy, nothing foreign or expensive, just the right size with the right amount of peanut/chocolate/candy coating ratio. Oh, they make me happy.

The Freakiness of my Body Pillow

So I've been having some weird dreams lately... and last night (or I guess it was this morning) I woke up totally thinking there was someone in my bed... but then it was just my body pillow. Rightly named, huh? It was weird. But uninteresting, so why am I mentioning it? :P

Today was... pretty good! When I got to work this morning Tyler told me to look at the note he'd written for me in the photo lab, and I was instantly wary, because usually notes start out "sorry to leave you in such a bind... etc, etc..." But as soon as I looked at the note my day got 100% better, because he had gotten the barcode scanner to work. That was officially the last thing that needed fixing, so our photo lab is at 100% operation again! It hasn't been that way since like October.

Also, this was one of those great days where it was pretty slow, but the day went by super fast. Very nice.

And then when I got home there was my Fiction Family CD and Vinyl Record LP waiting for me. FINALLY. I paid so much on shipping, you think they could have got it here faster. Ah well. It was worth the wait. For sure. Fiction Family can be found at: fictionfamily.com

Grar. Grrr. Grari.

So... it was nice to go to work with no impending problems. As far as I could tell, it was going to be a smooth day. Which... surprise! it was! Unfortunately a smooth day also meant kind of a boring day in this case. Hohum. I guess we don't all have exciting jobs, but I rather like mine, and at least it pays the bills.

I've taken to bringing in poetry to work so if there's a major down time I can work on memorizing some. As much as I'd love to bring a book and read, that's a little more obvious than a poem scribbled on a scrap of paper. So far I've managed to commit Shakespeare's 116th sonnet to memory.... and that's the only one I've done ;) But hey, it's a great sonnet. And I even sat down and figured out what the parts meant that I didn't initially understand. So it's all good.

Wow, today was extremely cold compared to yesterday. Yesterday was so nice and warm (comparatively) and sunny... I was actually able to go out and go for a walk up to Caribou. Glad I did, too, cuz today it was bitterly cold. And the wind didn't help matters at all. I guess it's just Old Man Winter's way of reminding us that yes, this IS Minnesota, and yes, it IS still January. Ah well. I don't mind too much, although I can't say as much for my poor little car. He did NOT want to start up when I got off work today. He's gotten way too spoiled living in the garage this winter :)