Christmas Present

Christmas present this year from my mom:

a reminder that I am becoming a spinster.

The caption in the bottom left corner says "Save yourself the time and trouble - grow this "potential Prince Charming." Give him a kiss, drop him in water, wait 72 hours & see what happens....It just might be a fairy tale come true (or maybe you'll just kiss a really cute frog).

Cute picture

This was just too cute to pass by... from Soldier of Africa's blog, the picture was taken at an AMIS base in Darfur.

I am an aid dork

Yesterday I responded to a house fire with Red Cross, who I volunteer with. The call was very typical: single mom and her kids living with the grandmother, all of them surviving off of social security and other government benefits.

The leader on our response team works for the IMF, so we were joking in the car on the ride over about how NGOs (who I work for) are very anti-IMF. Today when one of the Red Cross staff found out that team leader works for the IMF, he asked: "Did you attach any conditions to our aid package designed to improve our client's budgetary discipline?"

I love it! (Yes, I am a dork.)

Comedy of Disasters

Latest installment in the Comedy of Disasters known as My Life:

Today while I was setting up for a meeting, I dropped one of the sodas I was carrying. Normally they just roll on the ground and maybe get dented a little. But today, because the universe likes to laugh at me, the can exploded. All over my shirt and pants and our brand new carpet in the conference room. So I had to dash home and change, with only 45 minutes to go before a meeting I had to be at. And of course everyone just happened to be in the hallway as I was walking out, so they could all stare at me and ask me what happened and make me feel even more ridiculous.

I feel like this is the sort of thing that only happens to a certain type of person. And apparently I am one of those people.