retro in love with technology

Bosses

2013-02-12T20:13:54Z

So I had the last week completely derailed by my boss, she has a project she was working on that I was only to edit a spreadsheet and send the ONE spreadsheet to the vendor. On Tuesday (a week ago) she called me into her office and dropped 9 spreadsheets on my lap, figuratively.

Most of them were pretty easy however a couple had pretty complicated calculations and I am by no means a expert in excel. I managed to complete most of them by Thursday except one. I needed a rate from a different vendor to do the calculation. I requested from our finance group and another department that uses the vendor our rate.

2 people from the finance department tried to help me and a guy from the other department tried to get the information. I also called the vendor to see if they could give me that number. I received no calls back.
Yesterday my boss emailed a contact she has to try to get this information and by the end of the day she still hadn’t heard anything.

I know we are now a week late on our deadline and since I am sort of in charge of the sheet, I am worried I will be the one taking the fall for the lateness of the sheet. So of course I have nightmares all last night about the spreadsheet.

When I came in to work today I asked my boss if she had heard anything. Then I told her about my having had nightmares about the spreadsheet. She then pulls a file from her desk and says “maybe I have the rate here”

She had the rate and I had the sheet done and sent within 30 minutes…
I mentioned this to one of the contacts that had been helping me try to find the rate and she said we should have a “you can backhand your boss” day each year.

I am all for it.

I am back

2012-09-24T19:26:03Z

I am in need of an outlet, so I am going to try to post a couple times a week just to keep myself sane. Today's post is short and sweet! Now I am committed!

you suck at driving

2010-01-27T20:57:29Z

I work for a company that has trucks that drive around the state, each truck has a sticker with the driving complaint line on it along with the unit number. A few months ago I took over taking the messages for that line and forwarding the complaints to the driver’s managers for follow up.

When a company puts a toll free number on a bunch of moving billboards they are bound to receive some crazy calls. I am more astounded at the calls from people that really want to complain but they either:

A. are so mad they cannot refrain from obscenities
B. they complain but give no pertinent information to distinguish the driver/unit and place.

Today I screened a message that really took the cake.

“ uhh Yeah I am on Main Street and I just got cut off by your driver. My kid is not strapped into the car seat; she just did a little front flip and has a bruise on her head. Call me back.”

REALLY????

Maybe she wouldn’t have a bruise if you were not breaking the law and had her strapped in. now you are driving and calling on your cell phone to complain. Did you even bother to strap her in before you called? I didn’t think so.

work people are weird and gross.

2010-01-20T20:14:14Z

I have come to the conclusion that I would rather pack a lunch and keep it in an insulated lunch box than put anything in the fridge where I work. No, No it’s not that I think stuff will be stolen from me, it’s the manner people treat the refrigerators at work.

Each year, the last day of work before the New Year holiday it has become a little bit of a tradition for me to clean out the refrigerator. Only because it gets pretty dead in the office and I like to see just how disgusting the people I work with can be.

We have a couple downstairs in a large break room that the janitorial staff cleans twice a week, but upstairs in a mini break area we have a microwave and a small fridge. The fridge isn’t a tiny dorm size but more like 18 cubic feet for the executives to put their lunches and water in. I don’t personally use it because it is nasty.

This year I cleaned it out and threw out take out containers filled with mold, salad dressing that expired in 2008 and some left over mini chimis that we had at an event in the beginning of October! I filled 2 waist high garbage cans with crap. When I was finished there was one yogurt, mustard and ketchup in the fridge.

Fast forward to a week ago the date was 1-11-10, I was heating something in the microwave and wanted to see how my freshly cleaned fridge was fairing. I noticed an open yogurt with a spoon in it. Now, what you people do in your own homes is your own prerogative however when you put shit in a company fridge use some common sense. That is just weird and disgusting.

So the next day I peeked and IT WAS STILL THERE!!!! So I took a picture.

Then I had to document how long it was there.

Alas today I looked and it was gone… someone finally threw out their yogurt, I guess a week and a half is the limit to how long a open yogurt can stay in the fridge. Maybe they got hungry after I left and ate it. I’ll never know.

I used the camera I keep in my purse becasue it puts the date I took the picture on the picture. Next year I am totally taking pictures of the crap I throw out.

are you serious?

2009-11-19T15:39:55Z

this lovely place is on your way down to sierra vista, i am sure they only hire the very best looking strippers.

thoughts

2009-11-05T15:17:51Z

“Pain killers” is such an interesting term. It makes me think that after I swallow the pills and they dissolve in my stomach and head out to my blood stream they are a bunch of little ninja like guys. Those guys then find the pain and an one on one fight occurs. The little ninjas with daggers in their mouth wrestle the evil pain down then they kill it. Sometimes there is more pain than the killers so you have to take another dose.

Hmm

odes by me

2009-10-01T22:38:49Z

Ode to the kon tiki

Kon tiki, where we can go and forget the daily grind, drink a luscious beverage and munch on a monkey, ouch why do you punish me in the morning?

Ode to The Shelter

pour me a drink yes I’ll have a martini, its ok that I have no gogo boots; I’ll sit by this handsome fellow, wait is that JFK? Oh just pour me another.

Ode to leslies house

Yes I’d love some wine, look there goes a kangersquark. The patio or the living room, perhaps the lounge. Is Steve here maybe we can sing

Ode to no happy hour

Limits mean no bar, no bar tab, no fuzzy conversations and laughing about nothing. No going out past ten… maybe tomorrow but probably not; there is laundry and dinner to be made. when did this happen? Where did we go? what happened … oh just life and responsibilities. Honey pick up some wine on your way home

i know i am a slacker

2009-09-30T21:38:15Z

It has been a few months since I have posted about my awesome life. Only because things have been normal awesome and I have been slack on my absurd observations. Next week the hubby and I will be heading to LV for a couple of nights and we have nothing planned other than having fun! Normally I get too many things planned to do and our vacations get a little stressful.

All is going well with the kids and animals.

Umm I’ll try to look for something good to blog about …

slacking

2009-07-17T15:41:51Z

This week has been weird; the step son has been out of the house for about a month. And my step daughter left to visit her mother’s mother in Iowa we have 2 weeks of totally alone. What can we possibly do with all that time? I’d like to say that we’ll get a million projects done, but I know that won’t happen. I am just hoping to get a few things done around the house and get our yard looking pretty.

I am very tired this week also, I believe this has to do with the fact I am working on my final in my class and still doing all of the things I need to do. Sigh my advice to anyone out there is stay in college its sooooo much harder to go back when you have a house to clean and other people to feed.

here i am!

2009-06-24T15:15:52Z

Howdy!! It’s been a long time since I posted. So here it is all in one fell swoop.

The hubby is doing much better; we go in next week to schedule the surgery to remove the rods in his bones. Then he is off to physical therapy. He isn’t able to do much to help out around the house but I am so glad he isn’t in as much pain as he had been in for the last month. Seriously there is nothing worse than seeing your loved one hurting and there is nothing you can do to help. I just don’t know how a parent goes through that with a child.

I have an unexpected break from the kids this week. Long story short we were exposed to swine flu and just don’t want to risk getting his daughter sick so we are waiting a few day to see if either of us gets sick. The break comes at a great time because this week I have 3 chapters to read and 3 assignments and 3 tests all while my midterm is due also! In fact I should be working on my midterm right now but I am sneaking a blog post instead.

The husband’s son who is 18 will officially be out of our house next week; I have mixed feelings about it. I hate to be that hard ass parent but he knew a year ago if he decided to not go to college his free ride ends. He is moving in with his grandma. I just hope he gets a job. I just don’t understand this generation. When I was 16 I was chomping at the bit to get a job and car. Then moved out the week I graduated from highschool. Of course I also went to school full time for the first 3 years out of highschool.

I made a couple amazing things recently. I made a chili verde from Kates blog.(http://superdaintykate.livejournal.com/) It was SOOOOO EFFN yummy!!! I changed it a tiny bit because, well you know me I like to make it lighter, so I used chicken instead of pork. Next time I think I am going to make it in the crock pot because I don’t think cooking it for a long time will hurt it at all. The husband put corn chips in his and I tore up a corn tortilla and put in it. I topped it with a bit of sour cream and some chopped green onion.

The other thing I made was watermelon martinis!!! Sooooo freaking good. Unfortunately this was not a light recipe! I blended some watermelon in the food processor. Then strained it, added some simple syrup and vodka. Shook it with ice and put it in a sugar rimmed glass. It was soo pretty and gosh darn good. Unfortunately they go down very easy. Hehe

I will not dwell on my whole weight watchers issues but I have to admit I haven’t been very good about working out. So I am hoping to remedy that this week.

where am i?

2009-06-01T16:48:09Z

So, I have not fallen of the face of the earth. I have just been given 42million things to do.

My husband broke his right arm about 2.5 weeks ago, he has not been able to use it for much of anything until recently. He had surgery last week and they put a load of metal in his arm to help it heal. But he cannot do anything around the house nor can he drive.

My class started last week and I’ve been running around madly trying to keep up with it. We had to replace some plumbing in the bath room. So I have been putting off tiling, in fact because there is so much going on we are having someone come look at it to possibly do it for me.

I have completely fallen off my weight watchers wagon… and I haven’t had time to work out. BUT the hubby thinks he can start walking again in the mornings with me next week and this weekend I am joining my little community gym to at least use the treadmill 2 to 3 times a week.

I am feeling very swamped but optimistic I can turn it all around.

bionic pictures!

toastmasters

2009-05-21T14:47:33Z

Toastmasters….

Well I did mention that I was asked* to join by my boss who thinks it is a good development opportunity for me. This all stemmed from the fact I didn’t want to go in front of the whole company at our meeting a few months ago. The real reason is not that I can’t do it but I feel a bit like I just don’t get paid enough to do it. I know, I know that is very selfish of me to say however let’s just put this in perspective. The VP and Directors are the only people that speak at the company meetings. I am not either, in fact I am sure all of the people that speak make at least 2 times my pay most 3 to 4. I am not saying it has only to do with pay but these are responsibilities that fall on senior management and I am not even management in this company. That is the core reason I asked not to be the substitute. I can do it with preparation but I will be nervous and I probably won’t like it. You see my reasoning?

I speak weekly to my new hires and at various meetings; I have done this for the last 15 years of my career. I can speak about things I am knowledgeable on and have not problem with groups of people. With this being stated, Toastmasters is a little piece of hell.

My club is relatively new and I am lucky that it is with in my company so I do know all of the members.

Here is how it works:

We have 3 presenters that have a speech those run about 5 minutes.
We have 3 evaluations of those speakers those run about 2 minutes.
Then we are off to table topics and that is where a speaker discusses a subject and asks questions of other members and they need to get up and speak about a minute on that topic.
All the while we have a Toastmaster who runs the meeting,
We have grammarian that tracks what everyone is saying and reports at the end any problems.
We have the AH counter this person must ring a bell each time anybody says Ah or um.
We have a few other duties that I won’t go into.

Personally I feel like this club is a bit out dated… the goal is to get people ok with speaking in public and to help them speak clearly with out cluttering their sentences with unnecessary words. Before you speak you must address the crowd and the toastmaster “madam toastmaster, Fellow toastmasters….” You must shake the hand of the toast master before and after you speak. They hit a gavel to call the meeting to order and then again to adjourn the meeting.

I wonder if I will get a secret handshake to use when we aren’t in the meeting to recognize a fellow toastmaster. I think we definitely need a hat we can wear in the meetings and we need a secret word to call out if we believe the meeting has been infiltrated by a non toastmaster. Maybe a passage to escape….

If you never hear from me again I may have been “taken care of” because I am not even sure I can talk about the club this openly…

In all seriousness I feel dread before the meetings typically about 24 to 48 hours, I had a nightmare last week before the meeting. I had to speak and do my speech this week and I did great! The feed back I had was good and there were only a few things I needed to work on. Where I have problems is during that table topics part, I have a hard time talking to a group about something right off the top of my head. Weather or not is a subject I am knowledgeable about or not. I am unsure if this is a skill I am in need of having.

I believe I could reach the same goals by talking a class in college or something that requires me to speak or have me speak more to the company. I think I just can’t get over the weird rules this club follows.

I am a member for another 6 months…

* by asked i mean she put it in my Developement plan. She says I can't be a manager with out speaking to groups. The sad truth is I am aware there is no oppotunity for me to become a manager here due to the fact I can't relocate. It all seems to be a moot point.

tueday

2009-05-12T21:59:37Z

Well yet again I was pretty dang good till Sunday.. Then because it was mother’s day I crashed and burned.(really I am sure mothers day is an excuse.) I am going to stay on plan this weekend come hell or high water.

So recap of today…

Walked 55 min with the hubby in the morning

Two quick 15 min walks at work.

I ate my planned lunch and snack at work and tonight I am going to try a super healthy one dish dinner. I’ll post how it goes tomorrow.

On another note, my summer class starts in exactly 2 weeks… eeek I am dreading all the papers that will be due!

A whole other note.. Has any one joined “toastmasters”? My boss had me for my work development. It is evil… I will have to blog about that

well no looking back

2009-05-08T14:09:34Z

So last week I was on a high, I lost over 3 pounds, then this morning I weigh in and I gained .8 its not even a pound so I am trying not to kick myself but it doesn’t make me too happy. I am sure it has to do with the splurge meal I had Sunday for dinner. But I did kick up my exercise and maybe next week I’ll see another loss.

The hubby and I walked 3 mornings this week for about an hour and it seems to be getting easier for him to get up and walk. I am SO happy about that. He even wanted to walk this morning but I had met a girlfriend yesterday and walked another 2 hours after work so I wanted to sleep in this morning.

Tonight I am going to the store and stocking up on veggies and getting dinner fixings for my Saturday night mothers day dinner. We are having my mom and dad and his mom and his uncle over for dinner.

Nothing more to post except hopefully next weekend we’ll tear out the tile in my bathroom and replace the leaky plumbing and retile!! Whoo hoo

stuff

2009-04-30T15:49:07Z

Sooo I am much more motivated than I was yesterday. This morning the hubby got up with me and we walked for 45 min in the neighborhood! Let me tell you I LOVED walking with him. It was pretty cold at first but then the sun came up and we both warmed up. I hope he decides to do this a couple days a week with me it was nice to be doing something with him that didn’t involve his kids or fixing something on the house. By the end he looked at me and said “gosh you are pretty chatty” I told him I was now awake and I never have had anyone walk with me on that path and I just wanted to show him all the things I see in the early mornings.

I made an awesome filling stew/soup from the website http://greenlitebites.com/

This site is awesome and I use it for inspiration often.

I made the Quick Quinoa Turkey Taco Stew.

http://greenlitebites.com/2008/01/15/quick-quinoa-turkey-taco-stew/

I changed it a tiny bit, I used a frozen package of Cajun mira poix, and in it are green bell peppers and celery and onions. I used 95% lean ground beef because that is what I had. I also didn’t have any green chilies so I added some ground red pepper to spice it up. I used about 4 small zucchini for bulk. It all turned out fantastic.

We garnished with ff sour cream and green onions. I used some of my chopped radishes also.

Yum yum

blarg

2009-04-29T15:36:33Z

Well nothing new to report, I am going to make a couple of table cloths tonight because I got a smoking bargain on some fabric at Joanns.

I am doing OK points wise… all except Sunday.. I ate too many corn chips. Damn those corn chips. This week I am hoping to see some sort of loss when I weigh in.

I am getting really depressed about working out, I am still getting loads of activity in during the week but I know it’s not as good as a 60 min hard work out. I typically do 15 to 20 mins 3 or 4 times a day. I have yet to get a walking partner that lasts more than 3 walks with me.

weight watchers

2009-04-24T15:23:11Z

Well week one official weigh in… sigh lost half a pound. A loss is a loss and I am happy I lost but I am still very sad that it was only half a pound. I really kicked up the work outs and totally stayed on plan. I am wondering if because my muscles are sore if I am retaining some water in them… actually I am hoping LOL. Hopefully next week I’ll see a bigger loss. I would like to be down 10 by my birthday.

This morning I just did 10 mins of yoga and then had to stay inactive while I tried to get online to register my step daughter in a summer program.

Registration started at 6 am and immediately the site was too busy to let me in... So I started calling the phone was busy every time. There were only 75 spots in the program and it is much cheaper than the YMCA since it’s through the city. I finally got in at 6:25 and got her in. by the time I got her in there were 20 spots left! Whew!

So today I’ll get 3 walks in here at work. That will be about 45 mins total. I brought my pedometer. I can’t wear it at work because every time I shift in my seat it thinks I took a step but I will wear it while I am doing my walks. My goal is 10,000 steps total during my walks.

Yesterday I met my friend MB at the mall for a little mall walking; she hasn’t been active in a while and warned me that she wouldn’t be able to walk very fast. I was ok with it since I think that even leisure walking is better than sitting on the couch. We are planning on doing it a couple times a week. And the only reason we meet at the mall is because we live in the hottest state in the union! AC is a must. I have lost touch with her somewhat in the last 4 years so this will be good for friendship and to get her out of the house.

admin day

2009-04-23T14:51:45Z

Well, you might remember that last year I was a little surprised to get flowers for admin day. It really did make sense since I go to the admin meetings and book travel and stuff for the departments that don't have an admin. And it did make me realize my place in this company I am an admin and a hr coordinator. This year I didn't get anything.... no flowers not card nothing. I am not too upset about it but a tiny part of me is a little sad. Maybe there was no budget.

It reminds me of when I was about 8, I used to have a full size bed and my sister and brother both had twins in their rooms. I also typically had the most picked up room only because my brother is messy (still is) and my sister was younger than me. So any time my grand parents came to visit I was the one that gave up their room and I would sleep on my sister’s trundle bed. That year when I go to go back to my room my grandparents had left a five dollar bill and a note saying thank you for letting us have your room. Well that amount of money is crazy to an 8 year old not to mention it was when my pop was laid off so I wasn’t used to getting that much money just for myself for nothing! Needless to say it never happened again and each time I got my room back I half expected it, but felt awful that I wished it were there. i didn't want to be greedy.

“gift horse….mouth?”

lists

2009-04-02T15:23:20Z

Things that make me happy

giggling uncontrollably with my husband
sleeping in
snuggling with my dog
finishing the last load of laundry
Making homemade bread (thanks for teaching me josh!)
freshly colored hair
fresh coffee
road trips
staying in on a Friday or Saturday night
spending time with my sister

Things that don’t make me happy

craving frosted mini wheats and having no milk
seeing a dog or cat on the road
Mondays
car trouble
meanness
laziness
bugs
lizards inside
cleaning the bathroom
losing things

deviledhoney @ 2009-03-13T13:53:00

2009-03-13T20:58:06Z

* * * * * * * * * * * FOODOLOGY* * * * * * * * * * *****

What is your salad dressing of choice?
ranch but I usually end up with ff Italian

Veggie product of choice?
Zucchini

What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
King Fisher, I want to check out Blue Fin also

What food could you eat everyday for two weeks and not get sick of?
Sushi!

What are your pizza toppings of choice?
olives mushrooms peppers any veggies!

Chocolate or Vanilla?
vanilla

* * * * * * * * * * * TECHNOLOGY * * * * * * * * * * *****

How many televisions are in your house?
4

Do you have a laptop?
yepper

How about a desktop?
not any more

How many cell phones do you own?
1 that I own, but I have one assigned to me for work also

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * BIOLOGY* * * * * * * * * * * * *****

Are you right - handed or left- handed?
Right

Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
yes, but it wasn’t supposed to be there in the first place.

What is the last heavy item you lifted?
my dog trixie!

Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
no but I passed out once when I was giving blood and once after I smashed my thumb in the car door and I was washing it off in the bathroom.

* * * * * * * * * * * * BULLCRAPOLOGY* * * * * * * * * *****

If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
nope

If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
not now but I didn’t like my name in elementry school , I wanted to be a jennifer or something easy no one got Jacquelyn

Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?
sure

* * * * * * * * * * * * DUMBOLOGY* * * * * * * * * * * * * *****

How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
1

Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
yuma cops when I wrecked my car

Last person you talked to?
Mary beth

Last person you hugged?
the most important person in my life, Brian

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * FAVORITOLOGY* * * * * * * * * * * *****

Season?
spring

Holiday?
used to be christmas but now theres too much to do I like thanksgiving

Day(s) of the week?
Friday/ saturday

Month?
February or march for the weather

* * * * * * * * * * * CURRENTOLOGY* * * * * * * * * * * * *****

Missing anyone?
my friends that live far away its been a while since I have seen most of them

Mood?
good mood

What are you listening to?
the AC in the office

Watching?
nothing

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * RANDOMOLOGY* * * * * * * * * * * *****

First place you went this morning?
to pee

What's the last movie you saw?
part of one that my hubby watched on sunday

Do you smile?
yep

Do you always answer your phone?
no cuz I usually can’t find it

You get a text message at 4 a.m. Who is it?
I don’t know, no one I know stays up that late and texts

If you could change your eye color what would it be?
I like my eyes

What flavor do you add to your drink at Sonic?
nothing

Do you own a digital camera?
yes and I keep it in my purse

Have you ever had a pet fish?
yes, spike ruled

Favorite Christmas song(s)?
winter wonder land

What's on your wish list for your birthday?
I don’t know yet

Can you do push-ups?
like 3

Can you do a chin up?
heck no, that’s why I started yoga

Does the future make you nervous or excited?
Excited

Do you have any saved texts?
Yeah

Ever been in a car wreck?
yeah on really bad one and 2 fender benders

Do you have an accent?
not that I know of

What is the last song to make you cry?
dunno

Plans tonight?
going to the store and then making dinner

Have you ever felt like you hit rock bottom?
yes

Have you ever been given roses?
Always, they are my favorite and my hubby knows it

Current hate right now?
hate is pretty strong of a word, but I am impatient with people that don’t bother to look for answers on their own before they bother me.

Pet peeves?
putting dishes by the sink and not in the sink…. sheesh

Met someone who changed your life?
there are many people that change my life for the better and for the worse, but my family and husband have consistently changed me and my views in good ways.

How did you bring in the New Year?
having a glass of wine and watching tv with the hubby and the step daughter

Would you go back in time if you were given the chance?
hell yeah, send me to the 50’s with a moving truck!

Have you ever dated someone longer than a year?
a few people

Do you have any tattoos/ piercings?
yes loads

Does anyone love you?
heck yeah, that’s why I have dogs!

Would you be a pirate?
nah I got sick one time in mexico on a boat

What do you sing in the shower?
nada

Ever had someone sing to you?
yeah alex loves to sing, and I swear Carlos is always singing just for me!

Do you like to cuddle?
when its not too hot outside… ;)

Have you held hands with anyone today?
nope not yet

Who was the last person you took a picture of?
the camera says: the hillbilly hellcats on Saturday night

What kind of music did you listen to in elementary school?
I don’t remember

Are most of the friends in your life new or old?
mostly old and a few great new ones thrown in for good measure

Do you like pulpy orange juice?
nope, but if you are adding champagne i'd drink it

Have you ever ridden an elephant?
nope

Do you like to play Scrabble?
no, have you seen me try to spell???

When is the last time you ate peanut butter and jelly?
god its been a million years… maybe I’ll have one this weekend

What were you doing 12 AM last night?
12, I was sleeping

OMG

2009-02-13T15:03:27Z

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/

i think the super nachos from NIco's belong there... and i am never having them again. sigh

pictures i took today

2009-02-12T03:35:12Z

so these are after i cleaned the bulk of the grime off:

looking at the kitchen area and next to it is the door.

looking toward the back, the couch makes into a bed. then opposite the kitchen there is a closet.

this is standing at the back by the couch taking the picture towards the front. the dinette makes into a bed and you can see the fridge. next to the fridge is the weird shower/toilet. i am thinking about removing the shower and toilet and making it a closet or cabinet. what do you think?? i am worried that it will lose value.

another shot of the fridge and now you can see the shower/ toilet.

and a couple of it in my back yard. i am thinking of a name for her.

my project!

2009-02-11T15:21:18Z

so i have been looking for a trailer. I found a 1968 13 foot travel trailer in pretty decent condition. i purchased it for a song and a dance! i am SUPER excited about owning it. we put it in the back yard and it hope when i finish restoring it I will be able to have my friends and family stay in it like its my own Shady Dell.
here are the first pics of it, they actually were emailed to me from the guy i bought it from.
last night i cleaned it out from the random garbage and assessed how much work it will need. i will need to replace a couple pieces of glass and a few of the birch panelings. i think i will plan on replacing the toilet in the thing and re panel the shower area. the good news is the sofa and dinette seem to be in good shape. I will purchase new formica and re- tile the whole thing. I also need to look for some period light fixtures.

why i should not be allowed out alone

2009-01-16T18:32:57Z

We almost got a new kitty just now

all black with yellow eyes, young, short hair

It was wandering the area by my work

I called it over and it let me pet it

so I know it is not one of the ferals that live around here

but i did my walk and thought

if its still there when I come back

I am taking it home

cuz we need another pet like i need to be shot

but it was gone...

I already named it

sniffle sniffle

jelly bean

bean for short

life and such

2009-01-12T15:27:54Z

in the last 3 weeks 2 of my best friends have lost a parent. Both friends i see infrequently because of life or distance but none the less i consider them close. I am lucky enough to have fairly young parents (for my age) and hope not to have to deal with this for a LOOONG time but i am truly shaken.
mary beth's father i s probably the hardest since i practically grew up in their house and we have been close since we were 15.