1-Her costume totally isn't done--there's a mask (made from paper, taped to her glasses. I'm not trying to be 'fuckeffort' but, really, she's 3 and she won't wear a 'normal' mask w/ her glasses, so this is a happy medium)--mostly it needs an eared headband which I'm planning on hot-gluing together tonight.
But Hello Kitty loves her bat wings.
*POOF*
(I have other weekend pics [pumpkin patch, corn maze] that need to go on FB
Buffy says next year, when she's all grown up, she gets to drive the tractor that hauls us to the pumpkin patch
2-New hire hasn't run screaming yet. One of our microbiologists had to meet w/ him to get expectations up to snuff and I threatened Dr.L w/serious bodily harm if he scares the new hire away. He was on his own yesterday and, while it didn't go perfectly, he's handling the learning curve OK.
3-We're shopping for a new kitchen. We're not very far in the process yet, but this is exciting. Of course, we got an estimate at Menards and started w/ high end--we'll decide what to cut out--nearly choked on my tongue that it's $10k for JUST cabinets for our teeny tiny kitchen (good think we'll do the DIY thing or it'd be killer (because we're going to be redoing some stuff--closing off a doorway, possibly cutting a 'pass through' into the living room, redoing some flooring, etc). That made the $2k from Ikea's website look a lot lot LOT more reasonable.
We'll see.
4-I was all migraine-y because I was in stress-flux (I get stress migraines, but I also 'weekender' headaches--going from a high stress situation [work] to a low stress environment [new hire showing up] = new migraine), but I took yeterday and spent a lot of it sleeping and I seem better now. huzzah!)
5-One of our instructors is trying to carpetbomb my major outreach projects. I'm not sure why (and I doubt he'll be successful) but I actually *think* part of it was because he liked me doing the other-job and wants to force me into that role more. I'm kinda stabby about that.