They were talking about this chorus on NPR today. When asked what their favorite gripe was the group of 100 with an almost majority said it was cell phones. What fun to be a group that sings about cranky stuff.

I thought this was going to be about your "day off" from work being all about gardening work! That's my situation, since I work 40 - 50 hrs / week + 1hr commute away. But I love it! Weeding, digging, planting all day Sat and Sun is fun! I'm also just like 3dogsmom. Every day the first thing I do when I get home from the office (that doesn't even have a window, ugh nyc) the 1st thing I do is let my dog out and have a walk around the garden to see how all my babies are growing. Talk about unwinding and relaxing. :-) My husband and I also eat dinner out there on nice weekdays, and brunch/dinner on the weekend. Just this past weekend I had less (other)work to do than usual, so in-between digging a new calendula bed and laying out the soaker hose, I spent around 2 -3 hours just sitting there watching the plants grow, listening to the birds chirp and windchimes chime. It was awesome!!

Can't remember ever NOT having pork & sauer kraut, with some kinda potatoes, on New Years Day. Sister has long been transplanted from the SE PA area to the DC area, so she also has black-eyed peas. Ive never had them... no particular reason, just haven't. Decided to cook/eat my way outta 2013 and into 2014. Thought I had a decent sized hunka pork in freezer, but NO? Did find a half rack of baby backs... cooked them yesterday and have been picking at them since last night. Since hunka pork I had was small (about half of a single pork tenderloin) went out this morning for something more substantial... left-overs only seem to get better IMO... lunch for tomorrow when back to school after a LONG break. Have some frozen periogies getting ready to be boiled up and added to porl/kraut. I like to cook pork a LONG time... till falling apart.

Lovemymimi, I am a pit boss at a casino near ASU. I work swing shift, and last night was just crazy! We expect it on the weekend nights, but Sundays are usually quiet and calm. I had a pit of blackjack, Pai Gow Poker, Three Card Poker and World Poker Tour (a Hold 'Em type game). I love the poker games and am good at catching mistakes the dealers may make, but topping that with drunks who don't know what they are doing anymore and the young 21 year olds who are just now able to be in a casino and think it is a bar-type environment and yelling and cursing and being obnoxious is acceptable (we don't allow cursing, you get one warning on the F-bomb then you are booted from the casino - believe it or not, we run a clean business!) was just over the top last night. I love my job, besides the paperwork and manager business I tell people that I give money away for a living and get to buy people drinks and laugh and joke with people, but some nights are just crazier than others. It is the best job, I love it, I am good at it, and have met some amazing people over the years.