Author: jesser

When I go to the library, I turn into a four-year-old again. It's amazing what walking into that building does to me. Libraries are so full of potential and knowledge and possibilities and fun and I'm instantly returned to my youth. My mom would take my sister and I to the library on a regular basis. We'd pick all the books we could carry and bring them home and have bedtime stories with both our parents every night (or what seemed like every night). So many of those books are still with me … their stories, lessons and characters … and so is my love of reading and learning.

Before I moved away, I had no idea how amazing our libraries are… not just my county, but Denver public libraries are very very highly ranked and with good reason. As I'm getting back into the groove of using the library, I'm constantly amazed at what is available: practically anything I want to read or watch or listen to is available through the public library. Continue reading “Library Magic”

Just as I was about to head out to lunch, these beauties showed up. I don't know how many of them there are. I'd guess at least 100. They smell so nice, not sweet, but fresh … mmmm.

I was so surprised!! This is the first time Matt's sent me flowers. Not that he's not thoughtful and spontaneous and romantic … he is. It just usually comes in the form of a video card or something like that.

I'm insanely happy though. Daisies are one of my favorite flowers. I wore them in my hair when we got married and they were on our wedding cake. *sigh*

Three years ago today, Matt and I were married. It was one of the happiest days of my life and the past three years have been amazing. I love being with him … just something as simple as cleaning the house or cooking or something grand like traveling. It's such a happy life that we share.

For our anniversary, today all we will do is talk on the phone. Sadly, Matt had to be away for business this week. But he'll be back on Friday and we'll spend it doing something we rarely get to do anymore: spending an evening at home, playing video games, watching DVDs, reading … whatever we like. I'm looking forward to it. Continue reading “Three Years!”

I had the grandmother of all headaches last night. It started around 3 PM. I still don't know what caused it. It was probably my body rebelling against a combonation of lack of water (I usually drink 8 glasses/day, but I had had hardly a single glass) and a lack of sinus-clearing shower that morning. It escalated all day until it was throbbing in my right temple as we were coming home from a party. I hit the shower and advil (again) and went straight to bed… at 8:00.

Lo and behold this morning, it's still here. Not big. Not bad. Just in the corner of my head. It took a lot for me to come to work this morning. Especially since it's absolutely gorgeous outside. Staying at home and playing with Loki seemed like a very good idea. *sigh*

I do so dearly hope I'm not developing migraines.

Keeping life organized is a challenge for me. I've tried lots of systems over the years. I thought I'd met my perfect match in PDAs, but the teeny screens, cumbersome software and data entry and battery life left me longing for paper. So while I keep my organization neat on my computers (office and home), paper is my traveling companion. I maintain calendars and contacts in Thunderbird (at home) and Outlook (at the office) but maintain them manually based on the calendar I print once weekly and add appointments to by hand. My to-do list is a word document with special sections for Target and grocery store shopping lists. Reminders are a shared task between my phone and computers and most updating is done manually. Since I have a relatively small amount of data, it works well for me. But of course, I'm always open to change.

How do you organize? Continue reading “Organization”

This blog turns two years old today. Hard to believe it's been two whole years. Weird. Take the Way-Back-Machine and check out some of my first entries.

To celebrate this blog's 2nd bday (and I keep saying blog instead of Jesser.org since Jesser.org existed long before the blog), I'm going to be doing some (hopefully) major updates. I want to add a bunch of pictures that I've taken since the first of the year and some media I've been loving but haven't added… and maybe just maybe some crafts and links and … possibly a new section. But I've got to think that one out a bit. Cuz it kinda overlaps some stuff and I dunno about it just yet.

My B'day was very nice. I went out to lunch at TukTuk's with my mom and sister. They gave me two video games, the ones shown above. I put wrap-ups of both in the media section. That evening, Matt made me dinner, the lovely streudel below and then we just spent time hanging out which was a nice change, because we'd had a very busy week last week. He had already gotten me a present … my new video card (that makes Sims 2 fly, by the way) and we played my new video games. It's not over yet though. We do spread-out birthdays in my family. We're going to go to dinner later this month to celebrate both my dad's birthday and mine and some friends who were out-of-town will celebrate with me sometime this week (hopefully).

Thanks for all of the birthday wishes.