Thanks for Thanksgiving
My DH is coming into the city tonight. If he's not exhausted when he gets here, we're going to work on the menu for Thanksgiving. We'll have the family here for the week, so there's lots of cleaning and organizing to do in preparation. Luckily, I have tomorrow to do that while he's at Santa class at Nordstrom! Yes, my DH is a Nordstrom Santa. He is so wonderful that Santa is the perfect persona for him.Meanwhile, I'm trying to get all the homework done I can for school, and doing little things to make the cleaning/organizing easier to do tomorrow. Sunday, we head back to the eastside to go to "Meet the Biscotti's" at Lincoln Square. Should be fun -- an interactive "mafia"

Coding in a cloud
So, a friend at work (my pt job writing - no word on a solid full-time coding gig, yet) told me about a seminar at Google in Fremont. They're going to be talking about their applications. Since Google is one of the big names in cloud computing, I am expecting to find out more about a dev's life in the cloud, but we'll see. Right now, I'm just expecting information on technologies I love. It's hard being exiled to MS-only environments. If it weren't for school, where I'm working on PHP and home, where I work in Eclipse/Java, I'd be stuck in the MS-worldview. That would be just too, too sad.But it's a happy day. I moved from waitlist to definite seat at the semi

Halloween approaches
Finally sent out an invite for a halloween party. Since my DH will be working as the zombie host for a haunted house, leaving Halloween night at 9pm, it'll be nice to have company - assuming anyone comes!My cousin is in town, and I'm hoping that she and her husband can make it to the party, but I'm not sure. I don't have her email address at work, so I will send her the invite when I get home tonight. Right now, the menu for the event looks like I'll have one non-vegetarian stew (probably a beef stew) and an Indian vegetable stew. I'll make brown and white rice, and my DH's favorite bread. For dessert, I found a chai-spiced mango bread pudding that looks worth a

Mad Hatter Day
Next year, if all goes well, I want to have a Mad Hatter Day party. Mad Hatter Day was actually yesterday. See http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ari/madHatter.html for a wonderful description of this holiday.Looks like a Halloween Party is going to happen after all. I was worried that I'd be too busy with work and school to help my DH out, and he has so much on his plate already with prepping for Santa photos and prospective jobs, and working as a zombie host at a haunted house. However, he said he'd still like to go through with it since he has to leave on Halloween night to head to the haunted house at 9pm for their last night o

work and school
It is so hard getting used to being back in school after just a few weeks off. I have a ton of homework and regular work and am even attempting to work on an independent project with a friend. All this is getting to me, and making me a bit cranky. It doesn't help that I'm stress eating, and need to cut that out immediately! I have to go home for Thanksgiving, and I don't want to roll down to LA, so I'd better get it together fast!My hubby is working as a zombie host for a haunted house, so our schedule together is pretty difficult, too. He's coming into the city tonight, and I'll get to see him for a couple of days, and then he's off Thurs->Saturday working his magic for th