February 06, 2005
sort of. i guess it's not spring yet technically, but it was about 70 degrees today making it feel like spring. i got the rest of the stuff in the garage organized and the trash pile outside around the garbage cans is very large. i may not be able to put it all out tomorrow night since there is so much of it. i know we have a limit, but i am not sure how much is too much.
trash aside, i got all my laundry done and put away, got my mattress flipped and linens changed and i am so looking forward to going to sleep tonight.
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breakfast:
today it's back out into the garage and back room for more cleaning and organizing festivities.
a glass of diet coke and a slice of leftover pepperoni stuffed crust pizza.
and i am now having a cup of coffee.
also, since i realized that she set a "kitty tower" on its side next to her bed so cody, of the perpetually short legs, could jump up there worked, i am going to make a similar carpeted box for him. right now i have a dining room chair in at the foot of my bed for that same purpose and i am sick of looking at it. i have all the stuff to make one out in the garage so i don't even have to spend any $$.
i may have to make a run to either lowe's or home depot today anyway, just because a lot of the superbowl festivities start on TV at 2PM and i am thinking that those stores will be empty...hehehe.
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February 05, 2005
the last entry, while cleaning out the garage today, i found some albums. actual records. a lot of stuff from the 80s and guess what was in that stack? oh yeah, and pizza is on the way!
an original pressing of motley crue's first album "too fast for love". the one where all the songs just run together, with about a nanosecond between tracks. it was later remixed and more space was put in between the songs. i have quite a stack of albums that i will sell at the garage sale i am planning in about 3 weeks.
i have all of my stuff organized and all i have to do is make sure it's all clean and priced before the big day. getting rid of all that stuff will give me even more room in the garage. if i don't sell it all in a weekend, whatever is left is going to the thrift store that sunday afternoon. i don't want anything hanging around.
i am a pack rat and i have a hard time getting rid of stuff as it is, so this is a real ordeal for me.
we also moved a bunch of heavy furniture out of the back room and into the newly made space in the garage so now my muscles and back are really tired.
i guess the rest of the night will consist of TV and computer stuff.
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February 02, 2005
i had a great day at work. we got a lot done and i had the best crew. and now, since i am in definite sleep defecit for the week, i am sitting here nodding off. i guess i should get myself to bed. yes, at 7:35 PM i am ready for bed.
those are the kind of days that make you think you could stay for a few more hours. ok well maybe not that good...hehehe
on the downside, i also found out that we won't be getting raises again for a very long time. actually, i will be surprised if all of us still have a job here in six month's time. it's that bad.
oh well, nothing that i can do about it, so why worry?
that's just sad.
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February 01, 2005
strange day indeed. to make a long story really short, oh, i almost forgot, i paid for my dragon*con membership tonight too.
it started out weird on the way to work.
i saw a guy on a bike, (a crotch rocket), who i thought might be someone i worked with, (in the goood way), thought to myself "no way" and it turned out it was someone else from my work, (also in the goood way), that i never suspected. he looked right at me but because of his dark helmet i didn't see his face...until i pulled up into the parking lot about 5 minutes after he did. awkward and strange.
there were a couple more awkward moments today and to make matters even worse, we had a hot job, (as in a job they wanted to get done fast), and a part on the machine broke 20 minutes into the day. everything came to a screeching halt until about noon, when the offending piece was welded within inches of its life and put back in, all at about 200 degrees. glad it wasn't me with my hand and arm in there.
after lunch everything smoothed out and we had a really great rest of the day.
i was going to stop by besy buy today to pick up the new motley crue CD. it came out today and is on sale there for $13.99 and i have a $5 off coupon at that store. bonus!
i never made it but i have to stop by the not-on-my-way-home mall on thursday to pick up something i ordered so i will go into the best buy there.
i am now off to bed and hopefully i will go to sleep instead of reading more of my new magazines. the shower will have to wait till the morning.
had to do that before i forgot and the 15th rolled around. that's when the price goes up.
the con is 7 months away and i am already SO excited!
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January 29, 2005
roomie and i went to international plaza to shop this afternoon and i tell you, i love that place. i am not a mall fan at all but this place rocks. they have many different stores than your average mall.
we also went to the apple store and looked at all the pretty iPods. after we got home i decided to actually clean off my desk and fire up the old PC. amazingly enough, it all still works and i am sitting here with candles going and a glass of wine. i also finally got more vitamins. i used up the last of my old ones when i was in mexico and never got around to getting more. thanks to roomie, i got the really good ones and i am looking forward to them kicking in and getting me back on track.
we even went into tiffany's to look at all the diamond jewelry.
when we walked up to it i actually asked "are we going in there?"
i did get some really cool stuff from the bath and body works aromatherapy line and also some burt's bees stuff too.
now that i love the aromatherapy lotion i got, i will have to get everything else that goes with it. that's for the next trip.
i really want one of those.
yes, you heard right. i am drinking wine. there is only one kind of wine i can drink without breaking out into big red splotches everywhere and/or throwing up. it's probably the cheapest wine out there. figures that i can drink it. i get the "sangria" and it's quite tasty.
i have been trying to eat a lot healthier in the last few weeks. i've been taking salad to work for lunch almost every day and have really been making an effort to eat a good, balanced dinner each night, but i know the vitamins will help me stay healthier since sometimes i slip and just eat junk because it tastes good.
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January 28, 2005
i had to go to petsmart after work today and since it's right near borders bookstore i figured i would stop in to get the latest issue of LivingEtc magazine, a really cool, really well done decorating magazine from england. it's one of my favorite magazines ever but it's not always in stock. they "get it when they get it", or so the girl at the counter told me. apparently they have no shipping schedule on it. i would just subscribe, but according to their website they don't ship to the US.
in place of the LivingEtc that i didn't get, i instead bought three others. do it yourself, ready made and metropolitan home. i managed to escape borders after spending $14 and i am now in magazine bliss. since it's cold and rainy outside, i am content to spend my friday night curled up on the sofa with some new stuff to read!
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January 16, 2005
well i can do some things that involve cars. changing oil and filter and spark plugs, changing flat tires, etc... i am off now to look for the target that i had no idea existed. it's really close to me and i never knew it was there.
but i can't for the life of me figure out how to get the $%#@! lights out of my car.
it seems like it would be easy, but i don't know how to actually get the screws out. i am sure there is a simple way to do it, but the screws look like they are put in from the front. i know that's not possible since the whole thing is sealed. hmph.
i will ask my friend at work who has a 5.0, different year, and see if he has any ideas.
i should have gotten the fog lights instead. i can see how those come out. at least i know i can do that job myself.
worst case scenario: when i take it to the shop this week for a check up and oil change, (i never said i had the ambition to actually do the work!), i will see how much my guy will charge to do the job.
it amazes me. i run and repair machines at work that are bigger than my car and yet i can't take a single headlight casing out.
also panera bread is right nearby that i had no idea was there and also the new pier 1 is open. rock on!
the nice thing is, it's a nice day, well cool but sunny, and there are actual cow pastures out that way so i know the ride will be pretty.
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January 14, 2005
i am working overtime tomorrow. the first since, i don't know, september or something. we're not that busy, just fixing a job we did last year and the customer just got around to finding out that the CDs are bad. as in "don't work". wonderful. the job is huge, like ten thousand or more huge and they want it by monday afternoon. this is for a huge educational company and since we've lost a couple of really big accounts this year, we need to bend over backwards for the big guys i guess. i also got my new headlight/parking light/trun signal assemblies in the mail today. tomorrow after work i will attempt to put them in mysef. each side is in three sections so that might make it easier. it will be so nice to see better going down the road.
when i got home from work and getting groceries today, i made a pot ful of spaghetti sauce with dad's recipe. i think it is the best batch of sauce i have made ever. i don't know if it's because i have been just adding browned beef to classico's "basil marinara" jarred sauce as of late or if it was just extra special because i added a little more fresh rosemary than i usually do. whatever it was, the sauce came out great. this has been an unusually stressful week for me. no one reason, just random stuff. i quit drinking coffee a few days ago, although since i will be leaving for work tomorrow morning at 5:10, i fixed enough to fill my "to go" cup. only a third of what i was drinking daily.
for me it will mean a big paycheck next week. i am also going in 2 hours early on monday morning which means 2 hours OT for next week or one day where they will tell me to go home early. not a problem there at all!
i am now feeling lethargic due to the fact that i ate a lot and that i am so tired after such a long week.
there is also a lot of stupid stuff going on in my head right now that has been nibbling at me and this morning on my way to work i had an actual anxiety attack. well i think that's what it was. it was extra dark, very rainy and i was listening to a godsmack CD and all of a sudden out of nowhere i started thinking about my dad and about when he passed away and a bunch of other stuff and generally just feeling really "alone". by the time i got to work, my heart was pounding a little and i was breathing shallow and i was in tears.
anyone who knows me knows that's not like me at all. it was very weird and i had to sit in my car to decompress for a few minutes before going in. good thing i got there a little early so i could take my time getting out of the car. hopefully it was just an isolated incident.
similar stuff happened to me last year right after i lost my dad but hasn't happened in a very long time. maybe it's just because i have been taking care of some loose ends dealing with him and he's been on my mind even more frequently the past few weeks.
maybe i should stop trying to self analyze and just dry my hair and go to bed. i have to be up by 4:30 and that just sucks.
at least since i haven't been drinking so much coffee i am getting to sleep a little easier.
conjured at 09:09 PM | Comments (0)
hahahahahaha! can't stop laughing over this one! i'll take 25 any day ;)
13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.
i saw it here first.
too too funny!
only one question: does that make me young at heart or just way immature?
You Are 25 Years Old
Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe.
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January 12, 2005
geez i am tired.
i have only gotten about 4 hours of sleep every night this week and i think it has finally caught up with me. last night i was kicking it on the xbox and didn't realize the time until i was way past my bedtime. i haven't been able to get to sleep before 1 AM since sunday night.
it's now 8:30 and i am sitting here watching "lost". i just noticed that during the commercials i was dozing.
i guess i will go to bed and watch alias. hopefully i can stay awake.
must find a flat place to lie down.
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January 09, 2005
i finally sucked it up and decided that since i am always at the computer, well almost always, that i should try to use the free bill pay thingie on my bank's website.
i am such a slacker when it comes to paying bills. even when i have plenty of money in the bank to take care of it all, they will just sit there nagging at me daily until some of them are a day or two late.
and for no good reason.
i got my checkbook balanced tonight, set up the bill pay thingie for most of my bills, (some i just had to mail), and got everything paid.
amazing.
i figure if i have it all on the computer, i am more likely to actually pay them. on time.
we'll see how this goes.
i am off now to hit the xbox for a bit and then to bed.
after the laundry is done that is.
conjured at 08:59 PM | Comments (0)
January 06, 2005
i am supposed to be doing stuff. have i done any of this? no. i have been up for two hours and all i have accomplished is making and eating breakfast and text messaging with a friend of mine at work (she's supposed to be working, not texting...hehehe). i was just wondering what was going on there because our supervisor got canned yesterday at the end of the day. of all days, why did i have to take these two off? i guess i am just nosey is all. update--
**i know it's a mustang and if that light doesn't ever come on it should make you wonder, but still. mustangs, especially older ones, are like the harleys of the car world. there is always something to fix on them.
making phone calls to get fence estimates.
calling the a/c people to come fix my heat pump.
balancing my checkbook and paying bills.
cleaning the inside of my car.
calling my mechanic to make an appointment for him to check out why the "check engine" light keeps coming on**.
or maybe i work so much that i just miss the place? nah!
i'll vote for nosey.
have i started anything yet? no. i went outside with the doggie and while out there picked a grapefruit off my neighbors' (the nice ones),
tree. after picking out about 100 pits, weird i know, i ate half. wow. the cold weather a few weeks ago made them very sweet. of course i sprinkled on a little splenda to make it even sweeter but it was so good!
i was seriously thinking of going for a test drive in a 2005. but even with half the price put down in cash, the payments would still be close to $200 a month. not to mention the full coverage insurance.
someone else i need to call today, the agent that does my insurance for my home. he said he can do better than what i have now.
but i digress...
i have a friend who has a 2003 mustang and she has almost the same kinds of problems with her car that i do with mine, so i am guessing newer isn't always better. guess i will stick with the one i have, fix her up all brandy-new-like and revel in the thought that i don't have a car payment every month!
there. i feel better. think i will go get some stuff done now.
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December 27, 2004
when i was leaving for work at 6:45 this morning i looked at the thermometer. 31 degrees. brrrr. and there was ice on my windshield! as if i have an ice scraper. a cassette tape works well but i didn't have one of those handy either. i wonder how a CD would do. maybe i will get one out of the recycle bin at work and see if it does the trick. (no sense in ruining a good CD)
it's supposed to warm up a litte more each day this week until by new year's eve the high will be in the 70s.
that said, i love the snuggling up at night with my doggie in the down comforter and my hair is really loving the low humidity with the cooler weather so i really shouldn't be complaining at all!
i am off to bed early tonight since i have another long workday ahead of me tomorrow.
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December 26, 2004
finally. the holiday bruhaha is done with...well all but new year's eve, but that's not a prepare-gifts-cook-and-do-dishes-till-you-drop holiday.
i plan on doing all my laundry and to clean my room. i want to put on the black and dark purple duvet cover instead of the white one, and that also needs to be laundered before i can use it. ugh. i slept horrible again last night thanks partly to my brain working overtime and between the strange dreams and the waking thoughts, my head feels scrambled this morning. the other part of sleeping badly was the fact that it was windy and the "love thy neighbor holy rollers" next door have a banging porch door and a whining dog that shouldn't be out at night this time of year.
roomie went to visit her dad and i had plans to go to target to see if they had any of the cool ornaments i wanted on sale for cheap.
it's 48 degrees outside with wind chill of 42, (yes, i am a baby), and the winds are going at about 20 mph. i don't feel like going anywhere but if i don't at least go out to get laundry detergent, i won't do anything around here today.
oh, how i can't wait to get that privacy fence up.
i know it won't block all the sound, but at least it may help muffle it.
if i could only build a giant bubble over the whole house...
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December 22, 2004
i guess i am going to live with the color of my hair for now.
after the first washing, the excess color washed away leaving the cool color it was supposed to start out as and no more red stripe at the roots.
hopefully the color will stay looking good until i color again at the end of feb.
at that time i may either get it done by my awesome stylist or just do the regular color i use.
there was a lesson here: stick with what you know works best when it comes to your hair.
and if i want any more red stripes, i will put them there myself. on purpose.
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December 21, 2004
one of the fish in my tank is a female. not sure which one, but i think i might know who it is. **update**
when i got home today i decided to sit on the sofa and look at the pretty fishies and all of a sudden i noticed a baby fish swimming along.
right before the red swordtail gulped it down.
i so did not need or want to see that.
ever.
i know that's what happens in the wild but still.
in my own tank?
ICK!
i am now off to do some research to see which fish it might be.
(i am thinking it might be the lighter, larger, no-sword-having swordtail.
i asked for two boys when i picked them out. ugh.
hopefully the next time it happens, one of us will notice before it's too late!
i was right, one of the red swordtails is female and that little fish was gulped down by its own dad....YECH!
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happy Yule and Winter Solstice!
as i was on my way to work this morning and going over the bridge at about 7:16 the huge bright orange sun popped out of the water and slipped behind some cool looking clouds, lighting the whole sky up in oranges, yellows and lavenders with bright beams shooting out through all the clear spots where there were no clouds. such a spectacular sight on this shortest day of the year. what a perfect way to start my day!
thanks to roomie, i found this. enjoy!
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December 20, 2004
roomie was making homemade cookies when i got home from work today.
lots of homemade cookies.
some are chocolate chip and some are chocolate and peanut butter chip.
man they rock.
they rock so much that i ate way too many of them and it almost made me sick...
but they're SO gooooood!
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i am. really. i will now put on my parka and set off for work. yes, even though i live in FL i have a parka. remember...NJ in february.
i just went outside to let cody back in for the umpteenth time this morning, (he has a fur coat, i don't), and it feels like it's freezing out there.
it's 47 degrees and weatherbug says that the winds are at 15 mph, making the wind chill 41 degrees. it feels like it's in the 20s to me out there!
not too scary seeing as how it was in the teens for my friends up north last night.
living in FL for more than half my life has really made the cold seem colder. i swear i was never this wimpy.
i am always the one who waits for the cold weather every year.
i love snow.
i am the idiot that goes to NJ in february.
i feel so ashamed *hangs head*
for the first time in a long time i actually have a car that has a heater that works. yippee!!
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December 19, 2004
roomie and i went to petsmart yesterday. she got two fishies to put in the big tank, a fancy guppy and a tequila sunrise guppy. both boys since i don't want any more guppies...hehehe.
this afternoon i am off to target to get a firebowl for the yard (they're on sale) and to do the rest of my holiday shopping (if it's the last thing i do). somewhere in there will be a quick run to home depot...ack!
i also got two red swordtails and 3 more blue neons.the tank is looking quite colorful now.
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December 16, 2004
today my neck and shoulder are feeling a little better.
i still have to get a few holiday gifts and run by target and the pet store (i am getting two powder blue gouramis) and then some stuff to do around the house. if my neck and shoulder were totally healthy i could do more, but i need to make sure it all heals up properly. i don't want any recurring problems with that.
i ran a crew at work which meant sitting down for me, (it's good to be the crew leader), and then we had our company luncheon and recognition ceremony which took up a little over 2 hours. all that equalled a lot of relaxing for me. the day went fast and i am now very glad to be home. one more work day this week and then a much needed couple of days off.
i could lie down right now and take a serious nap, but alas, i have to go to publix and then eat something for dinner. it's getting late and if i eat too late like i did last night, i will feel bad and won't be able to sleep.
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December 14, 2004
i went to work today but probably should have stayed home. as it is i am almost ready for bed and i have to check out the heat to make sure i can get it to work the right way. it's supposed to go down into the low 30s here tonight and i know it will be freezing in here in the morning if i don't get it working right.
i did get to sit down all day but i had to keep moving around because i would get uncomfortable quickly in every position. i tried to stand but that was even more uncomfortable.
i am feeling better but i am still pretty stiff and my head is hurting in the back right where my neck starts.
when i got home from work, which took forever with horrible traffic, i had to take roomie up to the tax collector's office to take care of some car stuff and then she reminded me that we needed to go to best buy to get the extended version of "return of the king" and while at the mall i had to pick up a gift for our gift exchange on thursday.
and to think, all i really needed to do was rest.
it's already 47 degrees and with the wind chill, it feels like 40.
tomorrow i have a meeting after work and a few errands to run afterward, but my back and neck may be hurting way too bad to even make it to 4, so we'll see about that meeting...hehehe.
in reality though, i hope i am feeling better than i was today. so far this has been the worst day for me. hopefully all this won't last much longer.
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December 13, 2004
i was feeling really achy this morning so i called in sick.
i got lots done today despite not being up to par. computer wise, i got a bunch more pics scanned for my gallery and added 2 new albums.
everyone was freaked out when i told them what was wrong.
i kept myself dosed up on ibuprofen all day but let it lapse after dinner, figuring i would take some as i went to bed. i thought i was feeling pretty good anyway so i figured it wouldn't make too much of a difference.
after i got up on the ladder to get some xmas stuff out of the attic and then took a really hot shower i started to ache and stiffen up.
i finally took more ibuprofen and am now having a cocktail to help me get sleepy, (and more numb) but so far, neither is working that well.
i have to work tomorrow so i am hoping i am feeling OK. i will dose up every 4 hours with ibuprofen and hope for the best.
i took care of some paperwork having to do with stuff left over from my dad's estate and managed to get all the legwork done online and on the phone. i still have a little bit more to take care of but i am waiting for some paperwork in the mail before i can finish the rest up.
i also added the "window blinds" program and got a bunch of neat skins. it's almost like the "themes" that come with earlier versions of windows but cooler. right now my skin is red/grey/black based and i have a "jack and sally nightmare before christmas" wallpaper. it looks cool and i can't wait to get more skins.
at least if i couldn't work i still had a pretty productive day and now that my attic is partially cleaned out, i can get some other stuff stored up there.
tomorrow after work i will hang the lights out front and put the poinsettias in the urns out there and i will get my xmas cards written out.
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December 12, 2004
today when roomie and i were on our way to the lunch/shopping excursion, 2 people in front of us slammed their brakes on causing roomie to do the same and the car behind us slammed into us.
oh i forgot the part about the "soccer mom save" where as we were jolting forward, roomie snapped her arm out in front of me to stop me from hitting anything. awwwww. my hero!
good thing we weren't all going fast, traffic was pretty congested. we both jerked forward pretty hard and it was a good thing we were wearing our seatbelts or we might both be missing a few teeth...or worse. it was also a good thing that we missed the car in front of us too. by inches i might add.
the worst part my shoulder was already hurting and now it's even worse and all the muscles between my shoulder blades are really sore and i am starting to get a headache. it really just kinda feels more like a stiff neck than anything. i hope it's just muscle strain.
the strange part is the girl who hit us wasn't wearing a seat belt and wasn't hurt. the front of her car looked like it was totaled. she couldn't drive it at all. we were all very lucky that we weren't hurt, but roomie was even luckier because her car is still driveable and aside from the back bumper sticking out a little, it almost doesn't even look like anything happened to it.
so much for the shopping.
we did finally go back out to eat and then stopped at CVS where i got an extra bottle of ibuprofen. i have a feeling i am gonna need that.
we've been joking about this all evening...hehehe
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December 08, 2004
i am going to get some chinese takeout.
nyah!
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December 07, 2004
that pretty much sums up my day.
the bright spot was lunchtime when the friends i sit with and i all brought food in and we feasted. all that in our 20 minute lunch break. *update*
i am tired and cranky and had an irritating day at work.
my jobs went well and my crew, (1 person), was fine, i just kept dropping stuff and things were in my way, (including me), and traffic this morning was horrible.
i know it's bad when at 2 in the afternoon i was thinking about what kind of cocktail i should make when i got home.
i made baked beans, (my mom's recipe. she would have been proud), and we had tons of other food, (there are 6 of us).
all i could manage for dinner a while ago was a ham sammich...hehehe.
all that was nothing a little ben & jerry's peanut butter cup ice cream couldn't cure!
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November 28, 2004
i should be rearranging and cleaning my bedroom. guess i am off to start that cleaning.
i also have a hangover. ugh.
i think i used up all my energy going to the hardware store and to publix for groceries this morning.
at publix i saw a boy that was about 11 or so walking through the main aisle air guitaring with one of those cinnamon brooms. he was even making guitar sounds with his mouth. hilarious.
the sad thing is that i am in there so much that the cashier asked me if she knew me from somewhere. we couldn't figure out anything else in common so we both figured that i just go there so much the cashiers are starting to remember me. geez.
i will never learn to not have more than three drinks made by our special bartender who makes them with just enough soda to color the drink.
i had 4.
i am an idiot.
the whole time, i knew i would pay for that, but did it stop me?
no.
conjured at 04:12 PM | Comments (0)
November 26, 2004
roomie and i have decided to go shopping. i know it's late by day-after-thanksgiving standards but we were up late last night watching movies and doing website stuff, as you can see here. it's beautiful outside, sweater weather, and i am gonna get out and enjoy the day even if it does mean braving shopping crowds. happy friday!
speaking of web stuff, if you go here there are some cool new pics of gODHEAD up.
i even have an Xmas-y zonk board hehehe.
enjoy!
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November 24, 2004
to avoid doing any work of any kind around here, i am sitting at the computer instead.
and so far today, i am medicine free!
i did, however, look for my cool autumn-like tablecloth (unsuccessfully so far, i might add) and some taper candles for the table tomorrow (those i found).
he sent me another very cool article. enjoy!
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November 20, 2004
i can't believe i just uttered these words aloud:
"i am so lazy. it's beautiful outside and all i want to do is go out and cut the grass, then i want to come in and take a shower becuase it is a good hair day."
i need help.
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November 19, 2004
picture if you will... the fun part comes in when here we are, driving in my mustang listening to motley crue's "dr. feelgood" CD cranked up, her singing, me air guitaring. what a sight we were.
roomie and i just decided on the spur of the moment to drive to best buy...at 9:30PM so i could pick up a copy of "chronicles of riddick".
i wanted the director's cut and the one with the best buy special disc inside. good thing she was with me or i would have screwed up.
i actually got the last copy of the widescreen unrated director's cut with the best buy bonus disc. they had a bunch of all the other versions too. weird.
conjured at 10:25 PM | Comments (0)
November 14, 2004
it's so nice out today. a little overcast, but breezy and the temp is in the 70s.
after a small temper tantrum because i couldn't find them, cody's clippers were located and i am now just about ready to take him outside for his haircut and bath. he smells so gross that my nose tingles when he gets near me. YECH!
i have some laundry in, i plan on cutting the grass and then i will vegitate until it's time to get ready for the show tonight.
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November 13, 2004
last night, while i was getting ready to go out, i realized that it was so much easier to put on my eyeliner. today roomie and i are going shopping!
the last few times i wore it, i was on a ship and my eyelids were moving targets.
anything to avoid doing stuff around the house.
maybe we will even get to have eggs benedict, something she has been craving for a week now and darn if i don't want some now too. i had that while i was on the ship and it was soooo good.
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November 10, 2004
ok. i realize that owning a mustang is like owning the harley davidson of the car world. especially if it is an older one. they are always in the garage.
i also bought a new microwave today. the little one i have had for a while was getting to the point that when you pushed the button, the door wouldn't open right. target had a really cool stainless steel one on sale for $39...that's THIRTY NINE dollars!
last week the almost new alternator that was put in several months ago died and was replaced. now today, my "check engine" light came on two times while accelerating. i understand that in mustangs, this can happen if the gas cap is not tightened down enough, but it's still annoying. i got gas on the way home today. i cranked down on the gas cap when i put it back on, so i know that won't be the reason if it comes on again. i guess if it does happen again, i will take it into its favorite mechanic for a check saturday. i swear my car misses that guy sometimes.
it's beautiful and i can't wait to cook something in it.
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November 09, 2004
back to the normality of real life.
i took cody to the vet this morning and the little idiot busted something on his belly open while he was in the car acting like a total maniac. it is very fall-like out today and i have something similar to spring fever, only it is fall. i don't want to go back to work. ever.
i just happened to read one of the posts i wrote last night and ralized it was not very coherent. i was exhausted and ready to pass out while writing. i read through everything and made a few corrections, especially the link that didn't show up. d'oh!
so if i left you scratching your head, sorry, it's all fixed now.
they had to stitch him up and i go to pick him up at 4. geez, this will never end. i bet he will have to have that stupid cone on for another 10 days, and that will suck for everyone. i have bruises from that thing hitting me in the legs because he feels the need to be practically up my butt.
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November 03, 2004
not what i should be, that's for sure.
i should be packed and ready to go.
i'm not.
i am still doing laundry and i have clothes all over my bed.
some stuff won't be dry till tomorrow right before i leave since i can't put a few things in the dryer.
but i am making progress.
at least i found my camera!
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November 02, 2004
let's see... amazing. all this after an incredibly irritating day at work. at least tomorrow is my "friday" and on thursday at 4PM i sail for mexico. wow that sounds romantic. i am definitely getting a massage while on board on one of the "fun days at sea". i can't wait.
--cody is doing really well. my first day at work with him at home and auntie said he did very well.
--got my pony back from the shop. had the nearly new alternator replaced and the oil changed. my bill? $20. he even put air in the tires of my other car, since i seem to be retarded when it comes to putting the air in them. turns out, he removed the wheel covers to do it. no wonder he's a machanic and i am not.
--on the way home from the shop i decided to swing into the voting place in my community's civic center to see how bad the lines were. no lines. i was in there and out in 10 min!! i had my "cheat sheet" with me, (my sample ballot), and i just checked everything off. it was easy.
--went to CVS and got all the toiletries i need for my trip, 5 rolls of film and hair color and am now sitting here waiting for hair to be done as i type this.
--after CVS, i won an ebay auction for my non-blogging friend pattie.
imagine if my day had started out on a good note.
conjured at 09:03 PM | Comments (0)
November 01, 2004
i was telling roomie earlier that i think i am going to just close out my bank account and start giving my money away.
as i was crossing the bridge on my way home, my "check engine" light blinked. weird, yes, but i just thought maybe my air cleaner was getting dirty or something. since i am due for an oil change in another 300 miles, i figured i would get that replaced too. in other news:
now that cody is doing good, i guess the cosmos thinks i need to spend my money on other stuff. i swear it's payback for getting out of debt.
i got almost to the vet's to get cody and stopped for gas so i didn't have to do it in the morning. i heard this horrible noise that i thought belonged to someone else's car.
when i started back up i realized it was my car. it was horrible. since i was about 5 miles away from the mechanic i decided to try to make it there. i did and he listened to it and said it was the alternator i had put in not too long ago. i will have to pay for the labor i am sure but not for a new alternator since it is under warranty.
at least i was smart enough to just get the oil change done while it is in the shop. that way it will just be one trip.
i swear i am destined to be poor and in debt for the rest of my life.
cody is getting back to normal. he did great at the vet today (and no charge...yay!) he got some dead skin scraped off and then got a few stitches but nothing major. this was a scheduled visit.
he ate all of his dinner, and is begging for my dessert now. no whining, just the most pitiful face i have ever seen...hehehe.
while i had him outside earlier, he even barked at two of the neighbors!
now if i could just figure out this week's winning lottery numbers, i would be all set.
conjured at 08:56 PM | Comments (0)
you may be wondering why i am posting stuff this early on a monday morning. i have to leave late to take cody to the vet and leave him there all day. his belly thing got a little nasty over the weekend but i can't really bathe him. he looks uncomfortable and his appetite is a little off since yesterday. i knew the belly thing would do this, but he is kinda squirmy when i try to do anything to him. who runs this house anyway? ok i am off to work.
he will be OK, i think they are just going to take the dead skin off today. sounds like fun, no?
they might even keep him overnight. not sure. right now he is laying at my feet snoring and dreaming. at least he won't be getting carried into the place this time! he's been doing his "business" pretty good and walking around mostly normal except for his "lampshade" but i think he's even getting used to that.
what must he be thinking?
tonight i must start getting things ready for my trip. i can't believe i am leaving on thursday !!
conjured at 06:31 AM | Comments (0)
October 26, 2004
if i don't get sick it's a minor miracle...
first, two leftover-from-sunday pieces of hot and spicy chicken tenders from publix.
then out to wash car (finished in the dark).
cut back to kitchen, where i then complain that i don't feel like cooking while grazing in the fridge...read, eating cottage cheese out of the container...
after that, some chips and salsa.
and just now, a small bowl of cascadian farms' "honey nut Os"...after all, they are organic...hehehe.
*burp*
conjured at 08:48 PM | Comments (0)
October 17, 2004
my aching head.
on a good note: the phone guy got here about 10:30 and the phone is now fixed! it actually rings now and there is no more static. woo hoo! when i called the other day the woman said it might not be till the 21st but they got here way sooner. it was a good thing he did come early and when i was home because he had to get into the phone box on the side of the house and it's locked. i didin't even know what that box was for.
i tell you, i am a cheap date. 3 drinks and i was down for the count.
ok so they were "castle drinks" but still. the drinks there are pretty cheap, i drink bourbon and coke and they are 4 bucks, but they are super-duper strong and my last one seemed stronger than the first two. i think it was because it was the end of the bottle he just poured the rest in my glass.
we got home around 3 after having some taco bell and i am thinking i just passed out. i woke up way too early. i want to clean my room and bathroom today but i am so lazy, i don't even want to get up off the sofa.
the guy asked me for the key and i was at a loss. i remembered that my dad had all kinds of keys in the hall closet and i used to tease him about labeling them all. it's a darn good thing he did because i actually found one marked "phone box". amazing. thanks dad!
conjured at 10:44 AM | Comments (0)
October 15, 2004
just so you know, there is nothing i have to do this weekend. nada. roomie and i might do a little shopping tomorrow, and i have a skirt i can make, but i have plenty of clothes for going to the castle tomorrow night, so no biggie if i don't make it. the weather is gorgeous, under 70 degrees already and will be into the 50s maybe late tonight. i have enough velvet to keep siberia warm, so i am sure i can find something to wear.
i love this time of year, have i mentioned that?
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October 14, 2004
today after work i finally remembered to call the phone company. since hurricane jeanne the phone has had a LOT of static and for the past few days has been beeping a little and then the answering machine will pick up.
which reminds me to send a few emails that i have been forgetting to send.
i called once, went through this 15 minute thing they have where it's all voice activated and just as i got connected to a real person, the phone died.
i was hungry so i ate my dinner then called repair again. i decided that i was so not going to deal with that voice activated thingy again so i just dialed 0 when the call got connected and voila! i got a real person in about 30 seconds. the nice lady on the other end did a line test and determined it was outside so no one has to come inside to work on anything. the bad part is that it could be repaired anytime between tomorrow and the 21st.
i guess with all the storms i am lucky to have a partially working phone when other people still don't even have their electric working.
for that, i can be patient. besides, roomie and i both have cell phones so it's no big deal.
at least i remembered to call.
conjured at 06:17 PM | Comments (0)
October 11, 2004
after all that yard work yesterday, one would think that i would have crashed as soon as my head hit the pillow. not so. i was up kinda late doing laundry butwas in bed by 11 or so. i was still kind of awake at midnight.
somewhere between that time and 1:30 i got a little bit of sleep. then a very small kitty started trying to pull my bedroom door open. she figured out that it doesn't pull and it wasn't totally latched i guess, so she just pushed it open. i like the kitties that share the house, but i certainly can't sleep with any of them since i am allergic. anyhow, after jolting out of bed to close the door, i got the small herd of kitties into roomie's bedroom like she told me to do if they bothered me too much during the night.
my mistake was turning on the tv. i started to get interested in a movie instead of closing my eyes and going to sleep and before i knew it, it was 3:30 and i had to be up in 90 min.
i fell asleep a bit after that and then the alarm clock jolted me awake once again. i have been going ever since and i am exhausted. i bet i still have a hard time getting to sleep tonight.
conjured at 06:39 PM | Comments (0)
October 07, 2004
i think my "evil eye" is becoming not so evil.
update:
there is still a little swelling but the pain is lessening. now it's just itching. i mean ITCHING. for the next two days i will continue to do the teabag treatment with "sleepytime" tea. that is the most soothing and the camomile and lavender in it smell wonderful.
at least now i don't look like one of those funny goldfish in the tank at the chinese restaurant anymore. both eyes almost match.
by the time roomie gets back next week, my eye will be ready for makeup and going out. that will be the second part of her birthday celebration. now go visit her and wish her a happy birthday!
almost all the swelling is gone and now my upper lid has several flabby wrinkles because the skin was stretched so much. i hope these go away. it's now watering a little and even more itchy. time for some tea. for the eyelid of course.
conjured at 06:21 PM | Comments (0)
October 06, 2004
i woke up this morning looking like the right side of my face was smacked with a 2X4. the whole area around my eye, top and bottom, was swollen almost completely shut. i got a break at work today and got to sit down and work on someone else's crew so that helped me rest my face...hehehe. sometime late this afternoon, the swelling started to go down quite a bit and i can see a lot better now. it still hurts, but not as bad. there is still hope. i may not have to poke my own eye out with a spork after all.
a friend at work recommended their own doctor to me and i will call sometime this week and make sure they are accepting new patients and all that crap. he even said that when you call, you can get in that very day or at least the next day if need be. i have already been sick and needed a doctor and been told that i could be fit in a week from the day i called. the medical system we are forced to deal with in this country is pathetic. i am amazed that anyone survives when there is a serious health issue. meanwhile, if i have a problem, i will have to go to a walk in clinic that takes my insurance or the emergency room. as long as i get my change in by the 15th of this month, the new doctor can be available to my on 11/1. this has been one bad couple of months for insurance issues with me.
i was gonna try the doctor thing today, but when i called this morning i found out that my doctor, the one who was listed as my doctor on my health insurance that was renewed this past january, hasn't even practiced medicine for 2 years. two. years. did the insurance company ever check this out?
absolutely not. could i have put myself down as my own doctor? probably. they would never know.
conjured at 09:17 PM | Comments (0)
October 05, 2004
ok this officially sucks. my poor eye is about to close up shop and bite the dust. it's been half closed all day and is hurting bad. so bad that i actually stopped by the doctor's office on the way home but the office was already closed. i am now trying some home remedies which seem to be helping a little. a friend of mine had a bad one and her doctor told her to use hot compresses and it worked.
i guess i will try that since as i was walking towards the door to the doctor's office, i didn't see my doctor's name on it anymore. just 3 names that i couldn't pronounce. granted, i have never been to this doctor, but as a registered patient, i deserve to know if that doctor has moved. i swear, this insurance has jacked me around with doctors so much that i am just sick of paying out all the money i do for it.
i had a doctor i really liked a few years ago and all of a sudden i was notified that i had a new doctor. no reason was given as to why my doctor didn't practice at that office anymore. they wouldn't tell me when i asked. i visited that office one more time, hated the doctor they replaced mine with and then i found a new doctor. that is the one i have now and like i said i haven't been to see her yet. i am not one to run to the doctor for every ache and pain and it seems that every time i do visit a doctor's office, i get sick. i am hardly ever sick and don't want to unnecessarily bring it on.
maybe this is a sign that i should try something else before spending more money on a doctor. i guess if this gets bad enough i will go to a walk in clinic or the emergency room.
conjured at 07:23 PM | Comments (0)
October 04, 2004
bah! the eye thing is really bugging me. it hurts even worse now than it did this morning and my sight is kinda blurry. to add to the hurting, it's now itching too. if it doesn't get any beter by this time tomorrow, i guess i will go to the emergency room.
on a happier note, i just found out from roomie that the cruxshadows aren't playing at the masquerade in ybor on 11/7 when i will be in mexico, they are playing there on the 14th! i will get to see them on the 12th in atlanta and then here on the 14th. WOO HOO!! in other news, i got my d'argo action figure in the mail today...the collection grows!
that almost even makes my eye feel better!
conjured at 09:18 PM | Comments (0)
ack! when i woke this morning my right eye was swollen half shut. i remember what a co-worker did once; hot water soaked face cloth held over the eye. it worked a little. my eye hurts terrily and is still swollen, but at least i can see out of it now. if it gets much worse, i will probably have to go to the doctor or emergency room since a person could die before getting an appointment with a doctor anymore. maybe it was all the eye candy from saturday night...hehehe...i have been blinded from looking at HGB too long!
roomie summed the night up here quite well.
conjured at 05:59 AM | Comments (0)
October 03, 2004
*sigh* i have something wrong with my eye. it's been really sore all day and getting worse. not sure if it's coincidence or what. i have used the makeup i used last night a lot so i don't think that was it. unless i got some of the glitter from it in my eye. anyhow, i am a baby about stuff like this so now i will complain. waaaa...
conjured at 08:48 PM | Comments (0)
September 29, 2004
ok. either i am having one heck of an allergy attack or i am getting a head cold. since i never really get sick i am a real baby when it comes to this kind of stuff.
i took some benadryl which usually makes me sleepy (it hasn't yet) and it isn't really helping my stuffed up head, running nose, sneezing, hacking, coughing, wheezing...wow i sould like a nyquil commercial...did i mention the incessant nose blowing?
yech! i hope i am not feeling like this when i wake up tomorrow (at 4 AM again i might add). at least i am off friday. yay!
as for now, i am sending myself to bed.
conjured at 09:07 PM | Comments (0)
September 28, 2004
when you talk and start sounding like one of your favorite xbox game's characters...
dude, that's just wrong.
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September 18, 2004
really i am.
roomie and i got started adjusting yet more things on my page here and later on after i come back inside...cauf cauf... we are gonna do a revamp, create a stylesheet, and maybe even a halloween design.
i added a "monthly archives" section and then realized that all of my earliest entries were not categorized. not a big deal really, but they would be easily accessed under the "entry categories" this way. i went way back into the depths of my blog and started to assign categories to each post. after doing a LOT of them i realized that this is gonna take a while since i don't remember what each post is about exactly. i was going back and reading some of them. weird stuff...hehehe
but. i do need to get outside so that stuff will have to wait till later today. i am gonna fire up the PC and work in the office with roomie instead of in the livingroom on this computer. that just makes the whole exchange of ideas and changeover thingy a whole lot easier.
now i am off. really i am.
conjured at 01:18 PM | Comments (1)
September 11, 2004
after cody's haircut and bath i had big plans to cut the grass and do some laundry and cleaning around here. i took a shower instead and then napped on the sofa for the second time today. i think it had a lot to do with staying up kind of late last night and all the sleep i didn't get last weekend in atlanta and during the work week. i woke at about 8:30 this morning and that all equalled me still being sleepy. of course now i am pretty much awake and won't want to go to sleep anytime soon even though i should.
conjured at 11:44 PM | Comments (0)
September 10, 2004
i had my mortgage closing today! finally!!
the best part of all this? i don't have to make a mortgage payment till nov. 1...YAY!
the last 11 months has been a real challenge for me, but it's all finally done with. of course i am now insured up to my earlobes so if hurricane ivan decides to hit us, at least that will help.
of course, now that i have all that, it will probably make ivan turn away, which is a good thing.
i have lived in FL since 1981 and i have never felt this threatened by storms in all the previous years put together!
hopefully, if the storm comes close to us it won't be bad enough to evacuate. i really hate that part. especially unsureness of it all right up to the last hours.
that gives me a little time to save up some extra cash for my mexico trip the first weekend of november. not that i will need a lot of money for it, but i am sure i will want to get some cool mexican silver jewelry and the trip to the mayan ruins is also extra. not much though. i am SO looking forward to that trip. by then, hurricane season will be over and i will truly be able to relax. i need relaxing right now.
conjured at 06:54 PM | Comments (1)
August 30, 2004
wow. just ate dinner. pasta with hunt's sauce, which always gives me heartburn and to that i added some hot italian sausage that i have had frozen. man was that stuff hot. good but hot. i
oh, and those really weird looking "spaghetti claws", the things that kind of look like a ladle with claws for getting spaghetti out of the pot...i want one after borrowing roomie's. it rules!think know i will have to sleep with the tums by the side of the bed.
burp.
conjured at 06:52 PM | Comments (3)
August 23, 2004
what a day. i worked really hard today, not getting to sit down once, but it's over. i am now off to home depot. i would have done this on the way home but i left my list at home and just knew i wouldn't remember something important. after i get back from there i will start the lawn *grumble*. i will have enough daylight left to at least get it all cut. i will do the trimming tomorrow. i want to have some time left to come in and relax and play a few xbox games and answer some email.
i also have the new storm/screen door for the front picked out and a new light for over the dining room table. woo hoo. those i have to get at lowe's and it will probably be next weekend. that's ok because i won't have time to do it all this week.
also on the list of things to do is getting my list ready for dragon con, (yes, making a list is on my list), and instructions for the house/pet sitter. it's good to know someone will be here for a good part of each day while we are gone and maybe i won't be so freaked about leaving all the "kids".
conjured at 05:25 PM | Comments (0)
August 22, 2004
our internet connection has been down all day and it's amazing what you will do to keep yourself occupied. it was almost like the power was out or something the way we were griping about it.
i also dug out a lot of my VHS tapes while cleaning the entertainment center today and found one of some old friends of ours doing an acoustic show at a club we used to frequent. a lot. we were watching a little bit of it earlier and wow, was that different...hehehe.
roomie and i cleaned this place like the white tornado and rearranged the living room. you should have seen the gleam in her eyes when i said the word "rearrange" hehehe. i mean this whole place is spotlesss. and the new living room deal looks really cool. i am gonna make this short and post it while the internet connection is still up because i don't think this will last long.
and laura, i know that you know exactly which tape i am talking about ;)
i also found one of my old band. i am not brave enough to watch that yet. maybe tomorrow.
conjured at 09:54 PM | Comments (0)
August 17, 2004
in the mail today i got my copy of the court order that basically says that i am not responsible for any of my dad's debts and that the house is indeed mine. perfect timing since i took tomorrow afternoon off to go to the bank and try to get everything sorted out. by now all of this should be recorded with the county and a new deed should be on it's way to me any day now. i am hoping that i don't have too many more obstacles in my way with this thing. i just want to get past this and get on with my home improvements and my life basically.
today while i was at work, roomie was kind enough to drop my mustang off at the shop for an oil change and i picked it up after work. that was painless, and now i can drive to work and not worry that i really need an oil change. i was only about 100 miles over the 3000 limit so that wasn't so bad. i just didn't have the time to do it last weekend with all the hurricane "festivities", and since the back seat folds down, that was the car i needed to drive since cody rides a lot better in that than the back seat of the other car.
everything has been on hold for me pretty much since last october as far as all of the financial stuff is concerned but i think i might be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. hopefully it's not an amtrak train heading my way...hehehe.
i need a new inner tie rod on the other car and need to get the windows tinted before my trip to NJ next april. i'm glad i have a little time before all that has to get done. i am still debating on whether to sell it next summer. i will have to really do some thinking on that.
ok, it's off to sleep for me since i have to get up at 4 again tomorrow. wish me luck at the bank!
conjured at 08:58 PM | Comments (0)
August 16, 2004
wow. today went by so fast. it was quite hectic when i got to work due to everything having to be plugged back in and machines needing to be uncovered. all our materials had to be brought back out to each area from when everything had been secured because of the hurricane.
i also listened to the new soil CD about 3 times in the car today to and from work. i just can't get enough of it. it's cool that i actually really like a newer CD by a metal band. most of what i have been listening to is industrial and goth but this CD is great. we just got back from eating and then going to publix and i am really beat. i have to get to bed soon since i have to get up at 4 tomorrow. i am going in early the next two mornings so i can make up the 4 hours i am taking off wednesday afternoon to try to get the house loan and insurance issues straightened out. oh yeah, and i know she will kill me for writing about this, but this afternoon i got to see roomie pour diet coke in her bowl of cheerios. it was one of those moments where you see it happening and can't say something fast enough.
i got to work by myself for a time today too so that was cool.
what was so strange though, was that it seemed all of a sudden it was lunch, then break and then time to leave. it all went so fast. i wish every day went by that quickly.
conjured at 09:47 PM | Comments (0)
August 15, 2004
as if having to evacuate and "re-vacuate" weren't enough of an ordeal, we decided to go to the castle last night to have a few drinks, listen to good, loud music and watch cute guys in skirts. after several clothing decisions we got there a little late (well late for us) and had a hard time finding a free place to park. since there are plenty of lots that charge to park and cars still get broken into, we like to find the free spaces and usually have no problems. as we walked back to the car roomie noticed that we had gotten a ticket. bad deal as it is, it's always a chance because the "parking nazis" (not the actual police) seem to just look for things to give tickets out for. as we got closer, she unlocked the doors and as i walked up to the passenger side of the car i realized that the window was gone and there was glass all over the seat. we called the cops and after an hour of standing in a creepy area where most people had left and gone home from, several shouts from passing cars getting off the interstate and a few unsavory looking characters passing by, a cop finally arrived. he was really cool, dusted for prints (hehe) found none and then let us go on our own recognizance. we got home around 6am, tired, hungry and cranky. oh yeah by the way...nothing was stolen out of the car. nothing. even though the car was in neutral and the emergency brake was off (roomie never leaves the car like this) they couldn't even take the car because she has one of these. i thnk i will order one for myself. she got it after her last vehicle was stolen. they are relatively inexpensive considering the alternative. at least we had a car to drive home in, even if it was missing a window.
i slept till 10 and since more storms were coming i got myself out of bed and to home depot and publix before the rain started. oh yeah, and i had "breakfast" at taco bell...yum yum
by the way, it still hasn't rained, *grumble*. i bet i can get it to rain if i get that lawn mower out...hehehe. i think i will install the closet door i bought instead. anyhow, the lawn is soggy and it can wait.
then again, maybe i will just nap.
conjured at 02:42 PM | Comments (0)
August 13, 2004
i started to cheat off her since she is sitting here right next to me.
yes we both brought our computers and the router so we could have internet hookups until the power is turned off.
we are holed up in north tampa at fadi's place, 5 cats, 1 dog, 2 birds and 3 people so far with another person and 2 more dogs to follow soon.
so far everyone, (pets that is), is doing fine and coping. i am not sure how cody will react to other dogs, since he's never been around dogs.
i guess a short time after we left home our area was put under mandatory evacuation.
now the storm has shifted a little and has also become a caregory 4 storm, and possibly getting stronger as it sits out there waiting to strike. what a pain, i just wish it was all over with.
conjured at 11:46 AM | Comments (0)
August 08, 2004
i worked yesterday and although it's not bad to work on the weekend, i was still there and not at home doing anything. i am trying to save up some extra cash for bills and for dragon con so i may work the next three saturdays. they were asking for us to go in 2 hours early for this monday morning and i already passed so i don't know how much ambition i will have in the overtime dept.
speaking of money, i got a letter in the mail yesterday from a *big corporate credit card giant* letting me know they finally closed the case of the credit card debt that i inherited from my dad. (all his other credit debts were closed with absolutely no problem requiring only a phone call and me sending them a death certificate). they were making it sound like they were doing this out of the kindness of their hearts. uh huh.
i was all set to do 8 extra hours last week besides saturday but they never called for the OT so i lost a little of my enthusiasm.
i do need the money though.
not only has this issue dragged my fianacial stuff out an extra 5 months, but it has taken my lawyer a lot of extra work (which i just know i will have to pay extra for) and papers signed by a judge to get them to do this. not to mention the wait on the home equity loan to straighten out the rest of the finances and do some home improvements and holding up getting everything in my name. now it will probably be the end of october before i get the loan settled and get everything in gear. that will mean it has taken exactly one year to get a *3 month* will probate settled.
don't ever die, it's a pain in the neck for your family.
conjured at 10:16 AM | Comments (0)
August 03, 2004
wow, what a long day at work. i did a lot of different stuff so that made my 10 hour day go by a little quicker than usual though.
the grass should be mowed by then since i will be starting it when i get home from work tomorrow. i am just slacking and i need to kick myself and get out there.
i stopped on the way home to get a few things and found a little plastic pool for cody too. there isn't any water in it yet but he jumped in anyhow. it was even funnier watching him jump back out. it's not deep but it was slippery with no water in it. he gets in the laundry basket just fine. when he was a tiny puppy, yes he weighed 5 pounds when we got him, his little home was an old laundry basket with a poufy blanket in it so he's partial to them...hehehe.
i might wait till the weekend to fill it. i am working overtime on saturday, but i should be home by 2:30 so we can have some yard fun when i get here. it is also good for my feet when i am sitting outside.
since i got only 4 hours sleep last night, i am now off to bed and will put *pirates of the caribbean* in the DVD player.
ahhhh my poufy bed.
good. night.
conjured at 09:27 PM | Comments (0)
August 02, 2004
plenty of things going on, most of them in my head mind you.
i have also decided that i am going to try to work as much overtime as i can between now and dragon*con so i will have lots of extra spending money for that weekend.
i got a lot of stuff done yesterday including the monumental task of balancing my checkbook and paying all my bills. each month i promise myself that i won't let it go again and at the end of each month i find myself in the same position. i dread the finances, but soon they will all be over and it will all be straightened out.
i am actually in the mood for organizing too. that might have something to do with company coming at the beginning of september. even though it's a construction zone around here, there is no excuse for all the clutter. i got rid of a lot of that this weekend and plan to do more next weekend too.
we have also been tossing around the idea of going to orlando the wednesday after the con to see the cruxshadows and butterfly messiah but i am thinking that might not be a good idea due to finances and, since it is a 2 hour drive. i do have to work the next day. i guess i could always be dropped off at work on the way home...ha! after all, we will get to see the cruxshadows at dragon*con and that might just have to do.
the weekend after that is company weekend so my calendar for september is already filling up. a few months later, i am off on a cruise to mexico the first week of november. no more major traveling after that until april when i drive to new jersey to visit family and friends. early next summer i am also going to try to get to the keys but who knows, maybe i will do another mexico trip.
anyhow, i have been sitting here enjoying brownies and letting the water in my hair soak up in the towel for long enough. i am beat and i have to get up at 4:30.
let the overtime begin!
conjured at 10:30 PM | Comments (0)
August 01, 2004
i was planning on getting up a little early this morning...HA!...to cut the grass. it has been pouring just about since i woke up. i am guessing it stopped long enough for me to go out and fetch the newspaper. i was inside just a few minutes and it sarted pouring again.
we *castled* last night and the place was pretty full. even with the club being on the goth side, i was still surprised to see quite a few people draped in long leather or leather-like coats(!) and long velvet in florida in JULY!
i am hoping to at least get the front cut so that the future ex lawn guy doesn't think he can cut the grass. i figure it this way. this time of year the lawn needs to be cut once a week...at least... he wouldn't show up for 3 weeks sometimes which is not good for my "curb appeal" nor for my grass. i figured since he took his time getting here regularly, i will take my time to tell him he's fired. he must be thinking that i put something on my lawn to keep it from growing because for the past 3 times he's come by to cut the neighbor's grass mine has been perfectly manicured. and since he's not all that bright, he might actually think something like that.
i was wearing a long rubbery skirt and a short sleeved top and i was so hot i thought i would spontaneously combust right where i stood.
my new shoes did well except that i got a blister on the back of my left ankle. something i can easily remedy and my feet don't hurt or anything today.
now i am off to do something around this house since i am forced to stay indoors today.
conjured at 01:28 PM | Comments (0)
July 30, 2004
i'ts been a busy week at work and i am extremely glad it's over with.
tomorrow will consist of house cleaning and laundry and trying to start the lawn extravganza again. oh yeah, and both cars need a good washing.
after waking up a little late this morning and almost being late for work (had to be in at 6 this morning) all was going well until i almost had to get into an argument with someone who had no business even butting into what i was doing. that gave me an attitude for a few hours but then i realized that it wasn't worth getting all drained about so i just let it go. luckily i ignored the person and the situation. well lucky for the person involved that i was in a fairly good mood and my tact was, well, intact so to speak. normally i would have railed into the person for showing me such disrespect but getting into it would have put me right at the same level. for once, my mind kicked in before my mouth did.
to make a long day short, since i was running late this morning i figured i would put gas in the car after work since there was enough gas to get there. i am not used to that car since i don't drive it a lot and i didn't know that when the needle hits the red, (it looked to be at about 1/8th of a tank), you aren't low on gas...you are almost out. well i forgot to get gas right away and finally remembered when i was part of the way home, in the left lane of a really busy road and no gas station in sight. the car jerking and almost stalling out reminded me that i had to get gas like 5 minutes ago.
anyhow, i made it to a gas pump in time and all was well. i would have been really mad if i ran out even though it would have been my fault.
after that part, the rest of my day has been pretty mellow.
after all that, we will go to the the castle. as roomie says, she won't believe it until we are walking from the car to the club. i say i have new shoes and we are going!
conjured at 10:36 PM | Comments (0)
July 28, 2004
i worked extra hard today and i am tired but not really sleepy.
i also finally remembered to trim my bangs before showering tonight. this means i will be able to see again. yay.
a while after getting home i noticed one of roomie's kitties yakked all over my comforter cover.
ewwwwwwwwww. i know it was *gift* from him and i should be thankful.
did i mention ewwwwwwww?
the cover is out on the clothesline where i sprayed the offending yuk with laundry soap and then it rained on it. tomorrow afternoon i will wash it in bleach. one of the only good things about having a white cover.
i am also finally feeling better and i am thinking the tummy episode is over for now. i was actually hungry this morning and made bacon, eggs and toast.
those of you who know me well know i am not an egg person, but real breakfast sounded yummy and since i barely ate anything yesterday, i was starving when i woke up this morning. i didn't eat much for lunch but had a killer dinner of chicken tenders and salad and there's enough left over for tomorrow night's dinner.
everything is aching and just screaming for my bed so i think i will go dry my hair and be done with this day.
conjured at 10:14 PM | Comments (0)
July 27, 2004
i fell like writing something but there isn't anything really exciting going on around here today. for some reason i keep thinking it is monday.
oh i just remembered, i have to take all my silver earrings out tonight and polish them. i have been sweating a lot with all the yard work i have been doing and my sweat tarnishes the silver.
i have been feeling kinda crummy all day and i woke up feeling like last night's dinner never digested. i managed to eat a banana-nut muffin around 8 when i got to work and that made me feel a little better buti am still not great. i figured a pb&j sammich was pretty harmless so that's what i had for dinner. even cody has a tummy ache too. awwww. hopefully i will be feeling better by tomorrow.
i have actually had to have parts replaced on the floyd rose on one of my guitars because the sweat that runs off my hand had taken the chrome plating off. yuk.
that reminds me, one of these days i should get my guitars lined up and post a pic here. i guess because i don't play that much anymore i never think about putting up pics.
today roomie and i were discussing the list of things we need for dragon*con in just 38 mere days. oooh the excitement.
there are lots of cool things going on along with a lot of crappy things but roomie has volunteered us for a few of the cool ones, one of which includes us being able to be in the parade saturday morning! last year i took some cool pics during the parade and it will be fun to be in it this time.
ok guess that's enough rambling for now. glad i didn't really have anything to say!
conjured at 08:21 PM | Comments (1)
July 18, 2004
or...."could i put any more links in one post"....
i did, however, color my hair finally and even though it is a little more burgundy than black, i am thoroughly pleased. it feels great too. i did cheat a little and used a product called "glossy" by the "got2b" haircare line before drying. (i was gonna put a link to them but their site isn't working...hehe) i will shut up now and write the recipe: 1 box velveeta shells and cheese cook pasta. add cheese sauce, the cream of mushroom soup and the tuna. stir it all together and devour. oh yeah, and i drank coffee *gasp* this morning with breakfast. and now i hear more thunder......
it's been raining all morning with a few breaks in between. this is unusual but welcomed. everything, including me, has needed a break from the heat. what a pleasure it was working outside yesterday without practically getting heat stroke.
we never did go to the castle last night. by the time i came inside and made dinner with roomie's recipe, (i call it "lazy tuna casserole"...recipe follows), it was after 8PM and roomie had already decided to rearrange the office so we both decided the castle wasn't a priority. i swear we will be going soon. besides we have the last dance at the masquerade on wednesday night so that might get us in the mood to drive to ybor over the weekend. i have thoroughly been enjoying my weekends off and have been so lazy that i don't really want to leave the house. my overtime is on a short hiatus and i will take advantage of that while i can.
it is a clear, great smelling gel-like substance that smoothes and glosses your hair. (you can use it on dry hair too) it also doesn't contain alcohol and has conditioners in it. i have been using another product that i get at the salon that costs a lot more ($11) than i paid for this stuff ($4.50) an my local grocery store. i might have to try more of their products. at least all the products i checked out smelled good.
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can tuna (i use solid white in water) drained
how lazy easy is that?
conjured at 10:53 AM | Comments (1)
July 17, 2004
i got up early this morning thinking i would get a good start on my day that includes getting groceries, hitting a few thrift stores and some yard work (and maybe the castle tonight). i even cleaned up the kitchen like i had planned since i was too lazy to do it last night.
i am also eagerly awaiting today's mail since i think my newest aquisition may arrive today. it's an awesome vinyl and purple fur, (laura you would love this), reversible purse made by tripp. it reverses to all purple fur with a black vinyl star. i love their stuff. anyhow, here's a pic of just the bottom part (to keep it small) so you can see how cool it is. i think so anyway.
well it's raining. not a big storm but just enough to be a pain. i will get out of my jammies soon and get in my newly fixed (running a little quieter and different) beast and get some food. i hope the rain stops later so i can get the freshly painted clothesline poles moved and set so they can be used tomorrow.
i have 2 hampers full of laundry that i have been neglecting now since last week. i am now happy that i have a lot of clothes (usually it's a big complaint of mine) that way i haven't run out of anything.
conjured at 09:39 AM | Comments (0)
July 15, 2004
this is amazing.
in this day and age of crappy business practices and what seems as if everyone is out for your money and time, something amazing just happened.
i called my insurance company to find out that yes, the bill i recieved in the mail last week is in fact the first payment on my renewed policy. also the big envelope i thought contained numerous forms to fill out to return to renew said insurance was in fact my new policy with new insurance cards inclided!
when i told the agent that i wanted to add my other car i asked when i should come down to the office to do so. she just asked for the VIN number on the car and said she would add the car and they would bill me. BILL me. imagine that. i was stunned. maybe it's just me. i never have dealt with an insurance company like that. when i remew the three insurance policies on my house, i will gladly go through them (i get a discount too) kudos to brooke insurance for being so nice and so easy to deal with!
now off to auto zone, where a very nice man helped me over the phone and put a battery on hold for me. i think this is going to be a good day.
of course that could all be ruined once i hit the tax collecor's office to get the registration renewed.
just dawned on me, i can do that online. even tho it is a week overdue, i will get the sticker in 3 days in the mail and if i get pulled over for any reason, i will have a printed record of the transaction with me saying it is paid for and i am just waiting for the sticker....woo hoooo! *does happy dance*
conjured at 11:18 AM | Comments (2)
roomie and i went to the thrift store last evening because every other wednesday all their clothing is 50% off. i got 2 shirts and paid only $4!
in other news:
she got a bag of clothes for like $5 or something. oh the excitement.
i am home from work today because my car is in the shop...again....
my mechanic has got to be one of the most understanding people. i hear weird noises and he actually listens for them.
it all started when:
the other day i drove almost all the way home from work and stopped by publix to grab a few things, i got back out to my car in like ten minutes and it wouldn't start. it sounded like the battery was going dead. it does start a little hard when the car is hot but i have never been unable to start it.
i drove it right to the shop and of course, it wouldn't make the noises it has been making and he turned it off and it did start. bah!
he told me to drive straight there after work the next day and he would get in and we would go for a ride.
he was ready when i got there and we took off. in about 5 min. the car was doing its thing and finally someone else besides me heard the noises.
he told me that my car has been modified to go faster (geez, just what i need) and that the timing has been messed with, so today he will try to undo some of those things and get my car a little back to normal. he loves my car. he has a 1960s mustnag convertible and when i found his out, i knew i was taking my car to the right place. i love my car and i think it's one of the coolest cars on earth, but it's really just my main way to work and such and i don't need a race car. (it really annoys me that everywhere i drive, punks in their little rice burners with their fake tv antenna-like spoilers feel the need to show their manliness by trying to race me. and that is usually about 7AM when i am on my way to work...ugh) anyway, i just want something to drive that i like.
utilizing my day off today, i will get my other car (dad's car) all legal and stuff and drive it to work a few times a week. it's a 1987 taurus and while it's not the car of my choice, it is in great shape and drives really nice. i think i can afford to insure both vehicles, etc...so we'll see. i plan on taking a trip to NJ next spring and would like to take that car. i think after that trip i will probably sell it. then again, i don't know what the status of my mustang will be. maybe that will be my main car. who knows.
go granny go granny go granny go...hehehe
conjured at 10:22 AM | Comments (0)
July 08, 2004
after 11 pm and yes, awake again. i worked 12 hours today and got home about 8:45 tonight. the people on the night shift are starting to think i am part of their shift. but...4 hours overtime isn't hard to take and i got to work with one of my favorite people so that made it better.
i don't really want to do any overtime on saturday because i am getting a lawnmower and will start doing my own yard this weekend. i will also be taking down the part of my chain link fence that is up against the nice wood fence the neighbors behind me put in. plus i still have that "*to do* list to take a few more hacks at.
once i get the mortgage, the rest of the privacy fence is going up and i have had my eye on a really cool looking piece of wrought iron that would make an excellent gate to cover the big (only) arch on my front porch that isn't covered with a piece of it. i am hoping to make a nice gate to keep people off the porch and also so cody can go out there without running off. he's such a little escape artist and he runs out into the street because he doesn't know any better. he just wants to get out so he can pee on everyone's mailbox post. gee.
i probably won't be posting much again till the new design is complete, hopefully by sunday.
hope everyone has a great weekend!
conjured at 11:14 PM | Comments (0)
July 07, 2004
it's almost 11 pm and i am still awake. got home from target and publix a little bit ago and remembered that i forgot to throw some laundry in. the good part is that even though i had to shower, showering at night instead of in the morning lets me get up an hour later. it's not like i am staying up just for the shower part...i would still be up anyhow. it's been a rough couple of days for me since yesterday would have been my dad's birthday and he was on my mind more than usual all day so i was just generally feeling pretty down. to make matters worse, i came into work to a big surprise. i had to run a machine i am not too good at and i really hate runing it because of that. when i saw the schedule i just about cried. like i said, i was already in a mood. the day literally dragged and i was so tensed up all day that my back is still sore. all in all, we did really well so at least my day was productive. i still had a bit of mood carryover this morning but my day got better and we had a great day. on a happier note, even though i got a lot crossed off the *to do* list this weekend, i added even more stuff to it tonight. i would have gotten some of it done this evening after work but it was raining when i got home and then i ended up going to target. it's all cool stuff, so it will probably all get done. nothing would make me happier! also slated for this weekend is the design change for this site. man, ther eis a lot to get done this weekend. hopefully i won't have to work saturday even though i need the $$.
whatever happens happens i guess.
conjured at 11:09 PM | Comments (0)
July 03, 2004
my car seems to be fixed and the repair only relieved me of $120. the mechanic and i both thought it was the water pump. turns out it was just a few hoses that were old and leaky. so far everything seems to be right with it and it ran well when i went to michael's (crafts store) this afternoon. we'll see.
i am always paranoid when i get my car fixed. like it's gonna break again.
i have a great mechanic, and it's not like i don't trust him, but i am just always worried about my car.
conjured at 06:07 PM | Comments (0)
June 29, 2004
i stopped drinking coffee this weekend. i have had none since last friday morning and i am still alive. in fact, the only thing have had with caffeine in it was a pepsi i had sunday evening and some in the chocolate of the milky way i ate yesterday. i have been feeling really shaky and edgy the past few weeks and i am thinking the coffee had something to do with that. who knows. i do feel better though.
instead of coffee in the morning i have substituted with orange juice, v-8 (this morning), and water.
work has already kicked my butt this week and it's only tuesday! i am aching all over for some reason tonight, might be that i worked almost 10 hours today. i also got shocked by my machine, which i blew up 2 different parts of the die and 3 trays...geeez...i imagine it is just a continuation of last week's machinery and computer nightmare.
cool thing is that tomorrow we are having a going away party for our manager and that means pizza and an hour lunch (and a new manager). woo hoo.
i am looking forward to the 3 day weekend even though they have started working on me to get me in there on monday, which is a paid holiday for us. i would make double time and a half if i worked that day. really enticing, but i have a lot i need/want to get done around the house and some work on this site too.
ok. enough jibber jabber. i am off to dry my hair and then to bed. i am beat.
conjured at 10:03 PM | Comments (0)
June 26, 2004
after an awesome breakfast of home fries, eggs and ham i finally sat down and got all my bills paid. my reward was a shopping spree and dinner at olive garden.
after the ATM and the post office we stopped at the thrift store and i got a pair of overalls, (for working in the yard and basically just lounging around), are you ready for this? for $2.49!! if i waited till wednesday, all the clothing there is 50% off but i figured that i could afford to pay *full price* today and besides they probably wouldn't be there if i did wait. the ugly red plaid pants that i have seen there before were still there but anything i wanted but didn't get wouldn't be i am sure.
after that it was about 4PM and we were getting hungry so we went to olive garden. i had a $10 gift card from my points. i got the zuppa toscana (soup) instead of salad and then had the three meat ravioli with marinara sauce. wow. what a great dinner. i am still full. well not so full that i didn't have room for a piece of cake from publix.
after dinner we walked some of our food off at target, (where miraculously, i didn't buy anything), and pier 1 where i got more of the clove scented tealights, 2 smaller pillar candles and a long basket to put my pens and nail files and stuff in that will be kept under my coffee table. then onward to home depot where all i got was a roll of duct tape and then on for some groceries at publix. after all that i was pooped and ready to get home.
now all my stuff is done and i am relaxing on the sofa, watching HGTV and listening to the rain (finally) outside. oh yeah, and my new candles smell wonderful!
pretty soon i will be ready for bed.
conjured at 10:47 PM | Comments (0)
ugh. i have put off writing out my bills for a week now, some of which are late undoubtedly. not because i don't have the $$, because i am LAZY!
too involved in doing nothing to get anything else done.
i have been working a lot and the overkill of too much work/not enough sleep has caused me to be a lazy procrastinator in any spare time i may have.
for instance: i got up around 8:30, made coffee and then got all my bills together (most were on my desk, some were on the coffee table and some were on the kitchen table. organized, huh?) i then proceeded to sit down at coffee table...ok the computer is there but still...and cleaned it off then started reading my email and some other sites i read daily. it is now almost 9:45 and i still sit here, bills piled up on the sofa next to me and i am going to make breakfast since my roomie just woke up. guess the bills will have to wait a bit longer. once i sit back down and look through the list of sites i wanted to check out that were advertised in the latest issue of gothic beauty, i may get something productive done....HA!
conjured at 09:44 AM | Comments (0)
June 25, 2004
last night we went to sweet tomatoes for dinner. yumm. i ate till i could hardly move, but it was mostly salad or salad type things. ok, i did have a small bowl of chili and then some apple cobbler with vanilla ice cream on it. did i mention yum? hope everyone has a great weekend and i hope you laugh as much as i did at dinner last night.
on to the finger. you probably won't find this as hilarious as we did just because most of the time when one of us (me) makes the other of us (her) snarf food or drink it is usually something so silly that no one else finds it funny.
but...we were letting our food settle a bit before leaving and just chatting and i was talking about my finger, (which is a little better today fortunately), she said if it gets worse to "run", and before i could let her finish her sentence with "to the emergency room", i almost spit out my root beer at the thought of trying to run away from my own finger, or perhaps cutting it off and running before it could catch me. i am still chuckling at the thought.
ok.
anyway.
she also told me about something she saw in a recent email that went something like... i wonder what the first person to decide to try to eat an egg said..."wow, i'm gonna eat the next thing that comes out of that chicken's butt"
conjured at 05:57 PM | Comments (0)
June 23, 2004
a couple weeks ago at work i got a small sliver of aluminum in my left index finger. this happens sometimes and the sliver usualy works itself out.
not this time. what's even worse is that i can't really see anything in it, there's just a lump and then the first 2/3 of the finger is hard and swollen and hurting. a friend at work said he used to get metal in his hands a lot at his last job and that if i soak it in rubbing alcohol it should disinfect it and once it gets pruny like when soaking in the bathtub, i should be able to see the little offender and then yank it out with some tweezers. if i can't get it and the finger gets worse, i guess i will have to go to the emergency room and have it removed there.
i am now headed for the bottle (bottle of rubbing alcohol that is), i hope it works!
conjured at 07:04 PM | Comments (0)
June 20, 2004
finally sitting down to post, since some people have been wondering where i've been. i also just realized that the date of each post is missing off this page. not sure how that happened, but i am sure it is due to a malfunction on my part. will be looking into that in a few minutes. after that i am off to prepare feta cheese stuffed burgers, corn on the cob and baked potatoes for dinner. burp.
not much of anything going on really other than lots of work and legal stuff that i am trying to get wrapped up.
finally, the other day my very own copy of voltaire's *boo hoo* got here. voltaire definitely has a great sense of humor and i am looking forward to meeting him at dragon*con this september, (i didn't know it but we have a mutual friend), so it looks like i will get my CD signed for sure!
conjured at 04:57 PM | Comments (0)
June 11, 2004
i got off work at noon today and to my surprise the plumber was at my house before that! i got a call that he was there and already working and he was done about 20 min after i got home. wow. we now have 2 totally working bathrooms. what a relief that is. no pun, really.
update:
i now have the rest of the afternoon "off" and we are planning to do a little shopping. i am hoping to find the few CDs that i couldn't find the other day and who knows what else might find its way home with me.
think i may try to fit some ice cream in there somewhere too.
didn't get the CDs i was looking for but i did get this to hold CDs in my car, except mine is the next larger one that holds 64 CDs. (yes i need that many CDs in my car since i drive about 50 miles each day round trip to work. i need choices...anyway....)
i ended up eating at chik-fil-a but didn't get any ice cream.
we also went to pier1 where i bought some clove scented candles that smell wonderful.
i also had to order this online since i can't find it in any store. and i got their almost free CD deal too. not bad.
of course you know when i go to dragon*con in september, i am definitely gonna try to get voltaire to sign it for me.
ok, now we are about to watch "pitch black" (since neither of us have seen it yet) in anticipation of going to see "the chronicles of riddick" this weekend.
conjured at 02:24 PM | Comments (0)
June 09, 2004
i took the afternoon off work today to go to my lawyer's office and get some papers signed and on the way went to best buy and bought a few new CDs; velvet revolver's *contraband*, *songs about jane* by maroon 5, and the self titled dropbox. 3 very good, yet very different CDs. ok, now that i read all that i am tired all over again. besides, she made some chocolate cake thingy that smells awesome and i want some of it before i crash, which might be shortly!
i had to really push myself, but when i got home i made some phone calls that i have been needing to make and haven't had the time.
i actually have the plumber coming on friday, taking the afternoon off again for that and will make a few calls that thought of too late today.
i also have cody's groomer coming saturday and he will be all clean and sparkly after that. and you know there will be pics following that!
there are a few more i want but two of those will have to wait since best buy doesn't carry them.
i also managed to get out in the yard this afternoon and got some sun! *gasp*
i have a pretty good base farmer's tan going and was trying to even it out. not sure if i got more than a few freckles to be honest.
conjured at 09:23 PM | Comments (0)
May 29, 2004
i caved.
what i did was triggered by laziness and hunger, but still.
i never eat fast food. never. occasionally i will go to taco bell, but that's almost like real food. let's just say it's not a greasy burger.
i have been wanting to go to checkers for about a week now and i have resisted. until today.
i actually got a "murderburger" and some of those evily (is that a word?) delicious fries.
i will pay for this i am sure.
conjured at 11:58 AM | Comments (0)
May 24, 2004
well.
a very interesting day.
the big job is going well and i am taking next weekend off. well saturday and sunday anyhow. if i work monday (memorial day) it will be double time and a half and that will be just too good to pass up.
everyone continues to be pleased with our work which is good.
and due to a very unexpected turn of events not related to the job, things are looking up!
yay!
i am excited, at least for now.
conjured at 08:02 PM | Comments (0)
May 23, 2004
finally a chance to rest and get in a little shopping, gardening, and laundry.
tomorrow back to the grind and another week of overtime festivities.
i am definitely taking next weekend off though just to rest and recharge my batteries. i am finding out that i really do need more than one day in a row off once in a while. i really shouldn't gripe since this is the first real opportunity for me to make extra $$ this year and i need to take advantage of it before it's gone.
conjured at 06:46 PM | Comments (0)
May 20, 2004
even though my personal life is sucking right now due to way too much work, i once again feel that my job is challenging and worth going to every day and also fun at the same time. working on the most important job in the company isn't so bad after all. and today, one of the really big bosses bought my whole crew lunch. how cool is that. everyone is pleased with the job we are doing and it's nice to get some overtime.
ok that was an understatement. let's see...i took monday afternoon off to take care of my bank stuff and right now i have just shy of 40 hours in and still have 2 more 10 hour days to work this week. the big paychecks are really helping out. i worked till almost 7:30 pm tonight since 6 this morning so i am pretty tired. no life = lots of $$.
hopefully sat night i will get to the castle and maybe even out for dinner since i am rolling in dough.
that is all. good night.
conjured at 09:52 PM | Comments (0)
May 07, 2004
i should be in bed. i have to get up for work tomorrow, on saturday, at 4 AM. mandatory overtime. and of course the boss won't be there. figures. after work tomorrow i will come home, work on some jewelry ideas with her, take a nap, (yeah, right), and then it's off to the castle.
update:
anyhow, it's almost easier for me to go in on a saturday when i am forced to do it so i guess the mandatory part might be a good thing.
ask me about that in a few months of working every saturday. this job is supposedly going to take 4 months to complete. i will be rolling in cash by then (uh huh) or dead, not sure.
at least the good thing about working on a saturday is i won't have to be pestered by the owners, salespeople, engineers, planners and bosses about the job.
at one point there were more people hanging around my job than actual crew members. it's cool that they want my input and ideas, but i don't get a minute's peace with them all there. tomorrow the pressure will be off. i am working with the same 5 people so i know we will do even better numbers wise.
oh yeah, hopefully i will have my gallery page going by then end of sunday too. *crossing fingers*
tired
no castle
sleep
much sleep
conjured at 10:37 PM | Comments (0)
May 04, 2004
ok uhh, well, sail that is.
today, a friend successfully talked me into taking a cruise to cozumel, mexico in november. good thing we booked it now since we got one of the last cabins for that particular time. and we even got one with an "ocean view". wooo hoo!
i am finally getting to use the passport i got 5 years ago for a trip i ended up never taking.
i know it's so long away to get excited yet but i am sure it will sneak up on me quicker than expected.
i have lots of research to do as to what is available to do on land once we get there. i am hoping to find a tour to some ruins and also i am going to try to get some snorkeling time in. the only thing bad about this trip is that it's six months away. then again, that will give me lots of time to plan.
did i mention woo hoo?
conjured at 09:20 PM | Comments (0)
May 03, 2004
let's see. been busy.
cody and the kitties are getting along nicely. well, co-existing mostly peacefully anyhow. i am proud of my doggie and amazed all at the same time. no one has been eaten thus far. saturday night i went to see a friend's band, stayed about 90 min and as soon as they were done we bailed. good thing. about 12:30 it started storming and it would have been bad to drive in. i finally got back to sleep and then about 3:30 the real fireworks started. i haven't seen lightning like that in a very long time and the rain was so heavy and it was so windy that i had water and other stuff all over the front windows and that was under the porch overhang. i went to the mall yesterday and got new toy and changed my celphone plan to a cheaper one, saving about $15 a month! plus i got the cool phone for cheap. not a bad deal for "just looking". ok now that's all done, off to make dinner
work is picking up and the overtime will start this week sometime, meaning that i won't have a life for a few months. but the money will be good and will definitely help the cause.
on the good side, everything got watered and the hard rain cleaned off my car better than any car wash could have.
conjured at 07:03 PM | Comments (0)
April 23, 2004
i volunteered to work tomorrow. on a saturday.
i must prepare everything tonight so i can roll out of bed at 4, let cody out to do his business and then be on my way by 4:15. like that's all gonna happen. oh yeah, and when i get home i am going to disassemble my lawnmower that hasn't been used in a few years because we had a lawn guy but since the weeds are growing fast and my guy hasn't been here for like 3 weeks, he's officially fired. besides, this is a tiny lawn compared to what i used to cut.
not too bad you would think, but after i said i would do it, i remembered that i took a vacation day last monday and that isn't considered "time worked" by my company so tomorrow will just be straight time instead of time and a half. even worse is that we have to be in by 5. that's AM. uh huh.
to make matters worse, i was supposed to have a sit down job and it now looks like i will be running the big shrinkwrapping machine. oh well. at least it's extra cash to help out with next weekend's expenditures.
i just have to get my fancy machine running and then it will be a piece of cake.
wish me luck!
conjured at 07:05 PM | Comments (0)
April 22, 2004
this weekend i have to work saturday from 5AM to 1 PM, try to get some more organization going in the garage, take a nap and maybe go to the castle saurday night.
next weekend is the wierdest collection of live shows that i have ever been to in one week. oh, and i have just realized that i am probably never gonna get to bed tonight...
sunday i am pretty sure i will be sleeping a good part of the day away.
thursday night is *big bad voodoo daddy* at masquerade in ybor city.
friday night is *orgy* and *crossbreed* at jannus landing in st. petersburg,
and then seeing four star riot at a local club.
not too shabby of a weekend. hope i am not too tired to go to work that next monday...HA!
and i have also realized that posting, and especially adding links at this late hour when i am so tired takes at least 4 times longer since i have to go back and correct my links several times before it's all over...
conjured at 11:40 PM | Comments (0)
April 19, 2004
there has been a small sinkhole in the street about halfway down my block for more than six months now. i saw some of my neighbors who have been disgruntled about the situation gathered near the spot a few weeks ago chatting about it. update:
today at the crack of 7:30 AM i awoke to what sounded like glass breaking. apparently it was heavy machinery being unloaded from a trailer. the county has been digging a giant hole in the street since about 8 AM and only stopped for lunch. the block has been cut in two by the big pile of road and HUGE dump trucks that have been backing down the street. i can't believe all this equipment can fit on this street. the whole house is vibrating. just now i saw one of those dump trucks drive past loaded with what used to be the road and i hear another one being loaded. wonder how many months it will take them to get the hole filled in and the road paved over it. these things are never fixed in a day or so.
i am also waiting for a call letting me know that my a/c can or can't be fixed today. guess i will have to leave work an hour early tomorrow if they can't make it today because i don't want to pay them overtime. judging by the time, i am guessing that it won't be today. oh well. at least it isn't july and 95 degrees out. actually the temperature has been rather pleasant and every day i don't use the a/c means a cheaper electric bill!
a/c guy is coming tomorrow...yay!
and the road is finished
all that happened while i was napping on the sofa. amazing.
conjured at 03:54 PM | Comments (0)
April 13, 2004
your car is loud, (in the good way), when you start it up in a grocery store parking lot and it makes the alarm on the big "man truck" parked next to you chirp. every time i revved my engine the thing chirped. too funny.
conjured at 10:25 PM | Comments (0)
April 11, 2004
we castled last night and after many cocktails we made it back home a little after 4 AM. i think it is going to take me all day to recover but we did have fun.
today is being taken up by resting, laundry, chores, resting, watching "dune" on SciFi and did i mention resting......
i really need to/want to wash my car today but it's supposed to rain tomorrow. it's so dirty that i can hardly see through the back window. maybe later on i will just do the windows. besides, i have some cool new stickers that i think i might put on it. i only put them on the window because i am planning on having the car painted in the near future.
and now, time for more resting.
conjured at 02:42 PM | Comments (0)
March 31, 2004
i just got home from work and had to fill up my gas tank and as i was doing so, i happened to look across the street to the amoco station. i paid $1.67 which is bad enough, but for the first time in my life i saw gas prices over $2.
their highest octane gas was $2.03 a gallon! i couldn't believe my eyes.
i wonder how soon it will be before i can't afford to drive to work anymore...
conjured at 05:39 PM | Comments (0)
March 28, 2004
today has been a total learning experience. in the good way. i learned so much about HTML code that my head is spinning from it all. the greatest satisfaction is that i have gotten everything to work (with a lot of help i might add).
i hope it all looks good to the other two of you ;)
now i must go and rest my eyes. i am starting to see double.
good night.
conjured at 12:48 AM | Comments (0)
March 27, 2004
things are progressing but are still not finished. i apologize if the colors hurt your eyes, that will all be fixed later on tonight.
conjured at 05:43 PM | Comments (1)
March 26, 2004
so i am thinking that tonight's the night to get this thing changed. sara said she would help me tonight and that's good because i am too lame to do all this by myself. i have a few really cool designs on hand done by mystic and am playing around with them to see how it is all going to shape up.
i could just wait till sara gets here next weekend but i am impatient like that and besides, she doesn't need to be constantly packing stuff anyhow.
i am just helping her...yeah, that's it.
so, with color scheme in hand and a head full of ideas, i plug along. look out world (read...both my readers)here i come.
uh huh.
look at me go...
conjured at 05:52 PM | Comments (0)
March 24, 2004
as we speak i am working on a new design. look for some new stuff coming soon. they will be gradual so check back often...all 2 of you. oh, and i am still looking for ideas on a new title. if you have any ideas at all, send them to me.
i know i just left myself wide open there, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
go ahead. have your way with me.
conjured at 05:32 AM | Comments (0)
March 21, 2004
i just saw this on another site and though it was worth passing on
stop the fcc
conjured at 02:13 PM | Comments (0)
March 10, 2004
it's that time of year again. allergy season. i have been lucky in the last few years not being bothered much with any of the yellowish green pollen that seems to be covering everything at this time.
good thing a half dose of benadryl is working for me so far since the whole dose makes my head hit the table in my quest for sleep.
i have a prescription for allegra but to get it refilled again i would have to visit the doctor's office. since i am not sick nor do i want to catch any germs in that office that will make me sick, i don't want to go. therefore i can't get my Rx filled. and then i have to pay like $30 for it anyhow. and that's with insurance!
i also take a chance each time i take allegra, since once in a while i get a migraine from it. one of the listed side effects is headache. i never know if i will just get relief from my symptoms or get the added bonus of a migraine that won't quit.
my $1.99 box of generic benadryl is looking better every day.
now excuse me while i go through half a box of tissues waiting for this dose to kick in. ugh.
conjured at 06:43 PM | Comments (0)
March 08, 2004
once again my car is in the shop. oh yeah, and later i will color my hair.
this time it's the alternator.
a few weeks ago i told my mechanic about the little battery light coming on and the volt gauge dropping and then spiking, (yes, my car actually had gauges on the dash!!). mechanic said every time he tested it it was working fine, but i had a feeling the alternator was about to take a crap. this was just an intermittent problem and would usually only happen after driving fast and then everything would be back to normal. he said that if it got worse to bring it in. he didn't want to go replacing parts that i may not need. he's an honest guy.
on my way home from clearwater yesterday that little light came on, the meter dropped and stayed that way. this moring it was still like that so i called into work and dropped the car off.
i tell you, daytime tv aside, it's nice to be home when everyone else is at work.
so far i've gotten my bathrooms cleaned and did the vacuuming. in a bit i will install the new filter i got for the water dispenser/ice maker in the fridge and my car should be finished soon. hopefully. they called about an hour after i dropped it off to tell me the problem, so i am thinking it won't take too long.
if it gets done fast i will go run a few errands while everyone is still slaving away at their jobs.
i could really get used to this life of leisure and the ability to get stuff done.
i really miss my 3 day weekends...
conjured at 10:45 AM | Comments (0)
March 04, 2004
can not believe i am online right now. i had a little spare time this morning and wanted to see if my paycheck had been credited to my account which led to me balancing my checkbook. then i started looking at all the normal pages i read every day.
i guess i am just putting off the inevitable...work.
i think all my lack of sleep this week will lead to me crashing early tonight, although i said that last night too and was still up past 11:30.
will i ever learn to get to sleep earlier?
probably not.
i now have a date with my hairdryer...
conjured at 06:13 AM | Comments (0)
March 01, 2004
today was pretty uneventful as far as work days go. my manager *managed* to tick me off before my work day even started and that just gave me a crummy attitude all day. not a bad attitude or anything, just an *i could care less* attitude. he has a way of doing that easily. once i realized i was getting defensive, we both backed off and i decided that i wouldn't let it ruin my day after all and just had fun. amazingly enough, i got a lot of work done.
i was tired because even though i wasn't going to stay up late, i did because i wanted to see if *return of the king* won the oscar for best picture. i normally don't watch those shows, but it was intriguing.
i went to sleep right after it ended, but 5 hours was just not enough sleep.
i was going to go to the mall tonight to look for a pair of boots since after looking at their website for the last three days and finally deciding to take a chance and order the ones i think i want, lo and behold, they are sold out. go figure.
i am destined to not have the cool boots that i want. mind you, i do have until dragon*con to get a pair. i did however, find the same boots on ebay and that auction goes off tomorrow evening around 5:30 so we'll see if i can remember to check before they are gone. the seller even accepts returns, so if they fit horribly or look bad i can return them. i will just have to see how it goes. now i am off for a shower and then early to bed since i am even having a hard time staying awake to type this.
conjured at 07:36 PM | Comments (0)
February 29, 2004
i have an awesome dinner planned for tonight. i found the recipe online for my favorite carrabba's dish pollo rosa maria.
i am going to *cheat* on the recipe a little and instead of using butter, i will be using *smart balance* spread, which melts just like butter, tastes good and it doesn't contain any hydrogenated oils. in other words, better for you than butter.
no foreman grill for this dish, i will be firing up the gas grill so i get that tasty flavor in the chicken. the recipe doesn't seem too difficult so we'll see if i can get it to taste the same. i have a restaurant recipe cookbook and it has a recipe for the olive garden's *zuppa toscana*, my favorite soup there and that recipe nailed it exactly.
all the ingredients in the chicken recipe are good, so if it doesn't come out exact, it can't be that horrible, right?
now for the title of this post.
i have lived in FL for 23 years, longer than i lived in NJ.
i was in my local publix at the deli getting some prosciutto and fontina cheese for this recipe and some taylor pork roll (known up north as *taylor ham*) for breakfast and something really funny happened. when the guy was done slicing my stuff he asked what part of jersey i was from, just from what i ordered...HA!
funny how that jersey accent fades a little but the other stuff never leaves you.
now i will go have an attack of how much i really do miss all the cool stuff that is jersey....
conjured at 03:13 PM | Comments (0)
February 27, 2004
wow. time to change my ink now.
dinner rocked.
i mean reallly rocked.
wish me luck.
conjured at 07:51 PM | Comments (0)
in case you're that interested in my life: i got lots done this week. not everything i wanted to, but still. i have lots going on this weekend at home which right now seems too much like work, but after i am done i will be glad it's finished. i got the new issue of gothic beauty today and there is an interview with one of my favorite bands in this month's issue. i also got new ink cartridges for my printer this week and plan on installing them a little later on. i am going to try my hand at printing one of my dragon*con pics from last year on real photo paper since i have recently discovered how good my printer is. oh yeah, i also bought 2 CDs when i was in best buy for the ink; as for now though, i have a big pot of pasta fagioli (pronounced "pasta vazhool")
i got a new pair of pants made by tripp in anticipation of dragon*con. they are basically jeans with lot of metal, laces, zippers, etc.
they make noise when i walk.
they rock.
really, all i have left to get now is a pair of boots. i have seen several that i like but so far i haven't found them in person in my size. i am a little wary of just buying them online since my feet are so different from each other in size. i always have to try on shoes. hmmpf.
besides, she's coming down soon and i still have stuff to get rid of and need to call the plumber before this place is fit for guests. (i am somehow hoping that the partial clog in my one bathroom's pipes will dissolve itself instead of me having to call a plumber. i can hear the "cha-ching" already).
what a cool surprise!
the new incubus CD, *a crow left of the murder* and finally got disturbed's *the sickness*.
on the stove and since it is freezing out...ok it's 49 degrees, freezing to me...i am greatly anticipating enjoying something hot in my tummy.
conjured at 06:49 PM | Comments (0)
February 24, 2004
i woke up this morning and it looked like there was a giant flash bulb going off lighting up the whole sky at once. the lightning was so far off that i couldn't even hear the thunder. only the amazing flashing. i went outside with cody and the wind was coming off the gulf and i could smell the salt in it. i wanted to stay home from work and go back to bed at this point. oh, and i am leaving work 2 hours early tomorrow to go shopping. because i can.
i normally get to work about 25 min early. this morning i ended up leaving only 10 min late and i got to work about 4 min before i had to be there. traffic was terrible and the rain hadn't even started yet.
it was pouring on the way home and i could hardly see in front of me as i was driving slowly across the bridge. at least everyone had the sense to drive slower.
i finally made it home and now the next obstacle is dinner. of course i forgot to take something out so i will have to starve till it defrosts.
conjured at 05:53 PM | Comments (0)
February 20, 2004
of the week anyway. oh, and 3 more words (ok that was 6 more...so sue me)
i'm. wiped. out.
i had a very physically hard day at work and i have already napped once since i got home.
i want to get my house cleaned and laundry put away so i don't have to do anything else i don't want to this weekend.
must push myself. must push.
jake e. lee
that is all.
conjured at 08:27 PM | Comments (0)
February 14, 2004
uh huh
conjured at 11:26 AM | Comments (0)
February 07, 2004
took the car in this morning for that oil change.
i had them check everything out. a cooling system service, air filter, serpentine belt and front brakes later i paid my $291 and brought my baby home. the thing i was afraid of, the thing that has been making the clunky noise up front, the struts, need replacing. another $250 for that and i need new tires badly, $470, and a front end alignment $40. i guess that's what my tax check is for. guess i will get it all done next weekend. my wallet will be empty but at least i know that everything is in perfect shape and i won't get any surprises.
conjured at 04:54 PM | Comments (0)
February 06, 2004
wow, the work week finally ended and i am spent!
i did an 11,000 piece job today that took till almost 2pm and then i did nothing but fart around printing labels for other people the last two hours.
that was pleasant, but i would rather have come home.
i stopped by the mechanic on the way home and tomorrow i drop off the little pony for an oil change.
cody's groomer is also coming tomorrow and when his haircut is all done, he will he as naked as it gets...bwahahahahaaaaa.
and you know there will be pics!
hopefully the times for these two events won't clash. the garage closes at 2 so i know i have to be there by 1:45. hope i remember to tell this to the groomer when he calls to confirm tonight.
i don't plan on doing much this weekend other then a little house cleaning and some laundry. wooo hoo!
conjured at 06:35 PM | Comments (0)
January 30, 2004
work kicked my butt today but i am actually feeling a little better i think.
tonight i plan on getting my office/music room a little more organized and cozy.
there's not really much to do in there, just rearrange some furniture and get my amp into the room. hopefully it will be working fine, since i haven't even had it plugged in for a year. guess i will find out in a short while.
now i am off to organizing.
conjured at 08:11 PM | Comments (0)
January 29, 2004
wooooooo! i got a lot done tonight after dinner.
we got our W-2 forms at work today and i did my taxes and the info has been sent to the IRS. i am getting only $422 back, but that's better than having to pay. i will be putting that towards getting the privacy fence extended from my neighbor's fence all the way down both sides of the house. and i am also getting cody a doggie door. the door will most likely be installed by me. that should be a load of fun.
i also balanced my checkbook (something i dread all the time), and i printed out the form and put the check in the mail for my dragon*con 2004 membership.
how productive is all that?
i have impressed myself. all i have left to do is mail off a few bills and that will conclude this week's business.
i still feel crappy and now that the night is here my throat is hurting more than it has all day. almost time for my dose of nyquil.
and after 3 days i still love my new haircut.
conjured at 09:12 PM | Comments (0)
January 28, 2004
so i woke up with a sore throat today and it hasn't gotten any better all day. at least i had a good hair day.
my neck and shoulders feel sore and stiff and i am just plain grumpy
now i am gonna whine about it. i don't do sick well. i am a baby, especially when i only have me to take care of me. i am gonna go dose up on nyquil, pout and watch the rest of "once upon a time in mexico" till i pass out.
conjured at 08:40 PM | Comments (0)
January 27, 2004
i fired up the new vacuum i bought last night, a "silent ultra super shark". it's cute. looks like a fattened up dust buster, about the size of a thanksgiving turkey actually, (but lighter). it has a hose, three more parts to lengthen that hose, a rotary brush, a flat floor thingy and my favorite name for a part....a crevice tool...for those pesky crevices yanno. it's also bagless and has a HEPA filter...all in that little thing that has a strap that you carry it around with, (i wore mine like a guitar). i picked up the equivalent of 2 regular vacuum bags full of crap off my floors that i didn't even know was there. wow. impressive. money well spent. (ok it was on sale at sears for $49.99), and as far as vacuums go, it's reallly quiet. not exactly "silent" but very quiet. i managed to vacuum the whole house and even the sofas and it only tried to suck in 1 curtain, 2 bathroom rugs, 1 kitchen throw rug and 1 pair of underwear...clean that is, fell off the bed from pile of clothes that need folding. soon i will be off to bed. maybe i will get some sleep tonight. we had really bad thunderstorms last night and every time i would finally fall asleep, BOOM! and i was awake again for yet another hour or so.
oh, and it passed the biggest test...cody absolutely HATES it! he chased me around for like 30 min and then when i turned it off he was still trying to get the thing. that's the sign of a good vacuum.
i am pooped.
conjured at 09:38 PM | Comments (0)
January 26, 2004
i made an appointment and i am going for a haircut tonight. i am the person who would rather get their teeth cleaned than get a haircut. i took today off to take care of some business that needed doing and got it all done and even some extra stuff. i even got some bills paid *gasp*. overall, a pretty productive day if you ask me. oh yeah and a big thank you to my neighbor who is watering their lawn (i can only see the mist from their sprinkler over the top of the fence). some of it is coming over the fence and watering my yard too. of course, now there will actually be a green spot along the fence.
i am nervous.
my hair is about to my waist again and i am sorry to see some length go, but with all the coloring i do to it, the dead ends are looking crappy.
i will get the least amount possible cut off and am thinking of a few layers.
frank, my stylist rocks. i only see him a couple times a year but he does such a great job. and he's a lot more entertaining than my dentist. hopefully all will go well.
conjured at 05:05 PM | Comments (0)
January 18, 2004
i am just feeling crummy. i am not getting anything done around the house and it's starting to depress me. last weekend i didn't do anything because my right shoulder was/is messed up. this weekend i am just not feeling up to par. i have this GIANT cold sore that is taking up the better part of my upper lip, going from almost the edge of my lip right up to my nose. it's nasty, ugly and if it doesn't go away soon, it will get it's own zip code. it hurts really bad too, besides the ugliness. part of it popped in my sleep i guess and the pain woke me up. i woke several times in the wee hours of the morning from the loud thunder heavy rain that was pounding on the window over my bed. it sounded like someone was throwing pebbles at my window! it's still raining on and off, making me not want to even get out of my jammies, let alone go anywhere.
i guess since everyone at my job has been at work even when sick, i should be glad all i got was a few sniffles and that thing. a few people have even visited the hospital they were so sick. i should feel fortunate instead of griping.
hopefully, even tho the floor is still bare, i am going to organize my "office" area and get some order going in there.
ambition....all i need is just a little
conjured at 09:57 AM | Comments (0)
January 11, 2004
pretty uneventful but very restful.
saturday i cleaned the house, then Mystic came by to get her new (my old) desk and chair and then later on in the day, a friend came by to measure for how much tile i need for the floors. yay!! it turns out that i don't really need that much. i also figured out the square footage of the bedrooms and it might cost more to have carpet installed in those 2 rooms than to tile the rest of the house. i may end up doing that myself too.
i watched a bunch of tv last night and slept like the dead till about 8:30 this morning.
i read the ads and the local part of the paper and then after lagging around the house and grazing in the fridge one more time, i was out to get a new chair for my "office". it's leather, has arms and has a low back. exactly what i wanted. and not too 'spensive either. i need to go to target but will be putting that off as long as possible just because i am lazy.
i now have the last load of laundry in and am going to get in the shower soon.
hopefully it will be an early night and i will get a lot of rest to start off yet one more week of torture at work.
to make my job even worse, there is a temp who has been asking people about me. he thinks i am "cute". he's 22. i could be his mom. ugh...wonder when the grownups will show up.
conjured at 07:25 PM | Comments (0)
January 10, 2004
i don't feel so cold after all. just checking the temps where two friends live, asheville, NC is 25 degrees and clifton, NJ is 4. that's four degrees.
ouch.
think i will go put on a sweater.
conjured at 10:34 AM | Comments (0)
ok i know some of you that live in a colder place than i do will think this is funny.
early this morning a cold front came through. the temp is 46 degrees now and not expected to get a whole lot warmer. there is a wind chill advisory for tonight too.
i let cody out in the yard right after i woke up and what a shock that was! i think part of it was that it's pretty windy out too!
MysticWinter just made it to FL and is coming by later to pick up a few things. i bet she shows up in shorts since coming from the great white north. she will also probably laugh at me in my flannel pants, sweatshirt and jacket.
i have been in FL too long i guess and even though i keep my house frosty in the summer with the a/c on, once the temp drops below 60 i pile on the clothes. i get cold and stay cold.
i remember a time when i lived in NJ that 60 degrees at this time of year felt like a warm spring day...t-shirt weather. not anymore.
my next post will likely find me with icicles hanging from my earlobes.
conjured at 08:21 AM | Comments (0)
January 09, 2004
today started out crappy. i worked all day and am really tired. mostly due to the fact that first thing this morning when taking off jammies i almost popped my right shoulder out of it's socket. i heard this dull "pop" when i raised my arm and the pain nearly made me pass out. it's still really sore, but i am moving it better. i can't pick anything heavy up with that hand but i think i just pulled it. i think it will be ok.
because i am so tired, i also recognize that i am probably crabby too. i went to publix to pick up a few things at 8:30 tonight to make matters worse.
you know how when you are driving and you see a car and you can just tell by the way they turn a corner, they are gonna be a pain to drive behind? well, as i was leaving my development, there was a car in front of me going 19 mph. the speed limit is 30 mind you, which is plenty slow enough. the driver seemed to be having this major, in your face "discussion" with his passenger and was also all over the road......at 19 mph. bad. we finally get out onto the highway (there was nowhere to get around him at all) where the speed limit is 50, the guy gets his speed up to a whopping 25 mph!!!
i wanted to simultaneously die and kill him all at once. i finally made it to the store and it took me less time to shop than it did to actually get there. ugh.
one of the times i wish i was a traffic cop. i would have pulled him over.
conjured at 09:28 PM | Comments (0)
January 07, 2004
i am feeling better today. i took some night time cold medicine last night and slept like the dead. i also could not get up this morning, hitting *snooze* 3 times. i was pretty foggy when i got to work but after a few hours i was feeling more like myself. the coughing has lessened considerably and i don't feel very congested at all. debating whether to take more medicine tonight because i don't want to feel groggy again in the morning.
i stopped by target today after work to get a bookshelf and it seemed too small, although very nice, so i didn't get it. i ended up buying "underworld" which came out on dvd yesterday and a really big comfy grey sweatshirt in the mens dept. i also got a bag of beef jerky, darn you, and some new pens. i am a pen-oholic.
these are really bold and besides, the red-headed step child of a pen i have been using at work has to go.
i now have a dog laying not at my feet, but on them and i am thinking that i shoud bring said dog to bed and use him as a living, breathing hot water bottle to keep me warm tonight.
oh how i miss my old heated waterbed on chilly nights like this.
conjured at 09:21 PM | Comments (0)
January 06, 2004
everyone around me has been sick. real sick. so far my mostly healthy eating, vitamins and disinvocation of viruses and bacteria has proven successful. a little cough here, a sniffle or two there, but nothing bad or weird.
today at about 2PM i was at work and started coughing and wheezing. my chest feels tight and clogged. i took two sudaphed and it has eased up but i can still feel it in there. i am hoping it is a combination of the dust and mildew i stirred up with that carpet the other day and the ink on the product i was working with when it started up this afternoon. i have also found 4 or 5 mysterious (sore, not itchy) bumps on my neck and face, (also hoping that has to do with the nasty carpeting). never having chicken pox, i am a little nervous about them, but so far my temp. is normal.
the crossing of the fingers, warding off germs and yelling DISINVOKE! at them will now commence.
conjured at 09:29 PM | Comments (4)
December 24, 2003
as if this whole holiday season hasn't been depressing enough for me, obviously i am still at home. i got quite a way down the road and after a little over an hour of hearing cody howling in the back seat and slamming against the door fo his cage trying to get out (the benadryl didn't work till well after we were home, then he slept all afternoon), i turned around and came home. now i have 4 more days off work to sit here alone and do nothing. how depressing. i am tired.
aside from being alone, i can't even get in the holiday mood. at all. i have some"'tis the season" and "cranberry balsam" candles from pier1 burning. there's your holiday spirit. i don't even feel like making our family's traditional xmas eve foods. we would always put out a spread of snack like foods before opening gifts. the little hot dogs wrapped in dough, pepperoni bread, assorted baked cheese puffy things and always cream puffs, little sandwiches and lots of other snackies.
of course i used everything up in the fridge that would spoil and it has taken me all day to go out to the 7-11 to get milk. milk and a hot chocolate that i didn't want. i wanted vanilla capuccino. all i got was hot water. i decided that maybe anything hot, even hot chocolate, might make my mood a little lighter so i got that instead. and it is good. anyway the wonderful 'there-is-a-reason-i-work-at-7-11' broad behind the counter, when i told her the vanilla was out, said, "oh, i just filled it, it must be stuck, i will have to fix it". i paid for my too expensive hot chocolate and half gallon of milk, got in my car, put my money in my purse, waited for someone else to pull out of their sapce and do you think that chick moved from behind that counter? of course not. she's probably still standing back there...and the vanilla capuccino is probably still hot water.
i have nada.
i am cooking ham that won't be ready for quite some time. i will just have it tomorrow and maybe dig in to the ramen noodles and oriental veggies for dinner tonight. yum yum.
conjured at 05:49 PM | Comments (0)
December 23, 2003
cody and i went to see the vet last evening and so far, everything is ok with him. the little lump i found seems to be a fatty tumor, something older overweight dogs get. he also needs his teeth cleaned so when he is in there for that and knocked out, they will remove it. inless of course, something changes with it. then he will have to go sooner. the doc also gave me some benadryl to help calm him in the car. he said that is the safest way to do it with no adverse effects. we leave tomorrow morning for asheville at 5:30 (not going today because i want to do all my driving in the daylight and i feel crappy also). if the 5 minute trip to the vet's office is any indication, i will need a whole bottle to calm cody down in the car. he gets way too excited. he will be in his cage for most of the trip i am thinking, more for his own protection than anything else.
now off to run errands and then get some rest.
conjured at 10:39 AM | Comments (0)
December 20, 2003
i got home from work about 3PM after a quick stop at publix to pick up a few things i forgot last night, and since i am lazy, some chicken breasts because i forgot to take some out of the freezer last night. after i got home and a couple of caramel corn "quakes" i took off walking to the garage to pick up my other car. they closed at 2 and i paid for the repairs yesterday so it was ready and waiting for me. the garage is a little over a mile from here and it's about 65 degrees out. aside from me not being used to walking for long distances, it was a rather pleasant walk. i was glad to get to the car though and drive back. as i drive down that road every day, i think it looks prettier and cleaner from the car then it does walking up close and personal.
conjured at 04:27 PM | Comments (0)
December 18, 2003
today i had the hottest job in the building and a crew of 15 people that i had to basically just watch over, making sure they did everything right. they did.
called the vet and made an appointment for cody to check out the little bulge on his tummy and to get him something to sedate him in the car for the trip next week. when i got home i took the other car to the mechanic to have the oil changed tomorrow so it will be ready to go to NC. what a productive day.
i now have a tombstone pizza in the oven. yeah, pizza again *sigh*.
we had our lunch/gift exchange at work and i got a cool candle holder with giraffes on it and a candle to go with it. it's really cool looking. i would take a pic of it but i am too lazy right now.
oh yeah, my casserole came out wonderful and all the food was really good. i work with people that can actually cook! whouda thought.
conjured at 06:31 PM | Comments (0)
December 14, 2003
or make that the earliest. i got to the mall this morning at like 10:15 and the place was pretty empty. i guess no one knew they were open yet and besides, it was raining. it was rather pleasant. i shopped for a little over 2 hours and got most of what i needed and a few things i wanted. i got this, and this and a bottle of this, the best stuff in the world. plus almost all the gifts i needed to get. i won't show those so they are a surprise to anyone peeking.
i went to taco bell for lunch and since i don't eat fast food hardly ever, it made my tummy hurt. i am still not feeling too well.
it's getting windy outside and the temp is dropping. it's supposed to go into the 30s tonight. i will believe that when i see it.
conjured at 09:47 PM | Comments (0)
December 02, 2003
in my cart at target this afternoon....pirates of the caribbean DVD and a bonus size bag of beggin' strips. not a snack for the movie, those are for cody. oh yeah, and i think i saw a future ronald mc donald on my way home from work. a kid with big round glasses, bleached reddish-blonde hair and a mc donald's uniform riding a bike. scary stuff. and it was definitely on purpose.
conjured at 07:08 PM | Comments (0)
November 29, 2003
that i am losing my mind?
i let cody out a bit ago and as i was opening the door to the yard i saw these two *stars* i never saw before. i had to go all the way outside to check them out.
turns out they are two xmas lights on the peak of a neighbor's house.
duh.
conjured at 11:21 PM | Comments (0)
November 28, 2003
what a day. i woke at 4am to get ready for work. i went in at 6 and worked till 2. since i already got paid for today, it was a holiday for us, and i got time and a half for OT, i figured i was making almost $29 an hour to sit and fold some CD folders. boring, but not too bad.
i had my traditional sammich for lunch. that rocked.
i got home about 2:45 this afternoon to a most horrific stench in the house. turns out cody, my dog who ate way too much people food yesterday pooped on the carpet in 2 places. i know he was feeling sick and couldn't hold it and he was hiding like he did something wrong. a few wet paper towels and some resolve carpet cleaner later all was well. the carpet is coming out soon anyhow so it's no biggie. those two spots are actually cleaner than the surrounding carpet now. that's just gross.
well after the recovery from that episode i was finally able to make some dinner. had left over turkey and all the trimmings.
meanwhile it has rained and the cold air is coming through. it has dropped 20 degrees in the last hour and a half and will go down into the 40s tonight and the NWS is calling for a windchill of 35!!! brrrrrr
guess i better get that sweatshirt out of the closet before i run out to the store. that will be later in hopes of not running into a crowd of crazed holiday shoppers. then again, the longer i sit here, the less i want to go anywhere.
conjured at 06:19 PM | Comments (0)
November 27, 2003
while i should be cooking, i am sitting here instead. all i did was go out into the pantry in the garage to see if maybe there was some cranberry sauce out there to avoid having to go to the grocery. well there were a few other things i would have gotten too but nothing i really needed.
my dad was a pack rat. i think having a vast assortment of canned and frozen foods out there had something to do with him growing up during the depression and he never wanted to be out of food.
anyway, i found a small can of cranberry sauce, but not before i had had enough of the unorganizational mess that was the pantry. i organized everything and threw away some expired stuff. my dad was good for buying things in bulk and then not knowing how long the stuff had been in there. i am thankful for expiration dates on food.
i found three (!!!) 3 pound cans of regular coffee. i don't drink regular coffee, only flavored (vanilla or tiramisu) coffee. guess i will ask someone at work if they want it. i also learned that i have enough jarred pasta sauce to feed a small army (to go with the many different types of pasta in the small pantry cabinet in the kitchen), and about 5 types of beans out there. this weekend i guess i wil go through the deep freezer again (i did recently) and see what's out there so i can plan some meals.
it's pretty cool that i had everything i needed for dinner today except maybe for some brussels sprouts (i will make green beans or green bean casserole instead), and white bread for the stuffing, which i bought yesterday. now i will go cook.
conjured at 10:56 AM | Comments (2)
November 22, 2003
the new washing machine got here today. i woke about 8AM, ate breakfast (2 brownies), and then got to cleaning at least half the garage. i had to clear a path so the delivery guys could get my old washer out and bring the new one in. i can't believe how good that half now looks. next weekend (i have a 4 day weekend) i will get the rest cleaned and organized and will have my garage sale the weekend after. i can not wait. i want to get rid of all that stuff so that one car can go in the garage. probably my mustang...it's smaller and will take up less space. plus, i hope to make some cash to take to asheville with me at xmas time. chevron beads awaits! i also got the latest issue of gothic beauty magazine i
now, for the lazy part. i didn't know this, but my new washer has an automatic fabric softener dispenser. no more getting up to add softener. no more getting up to find out that i missed the rinse. i am excited. ok, i know i shouldn't be this excited over an appliance, but i guess for as much as the thing cost me, i can get excited over the small things...ha!will be have been pouring over it all evening. lots of cool stuff inside!
now off to do more laundry....
conjured at 09:32 PM | Comments (9)
November 19, 2003
so, i woke at 5am, rain pouring down and i was still mad at self for getting so mad in the last 10 minutes of the day yesterday. i don't want to talk about it here, but let's just say i could have gotten myself fired i was so mad, but held my tongue (mostly) for once. i did let it out to my direct supervisor and i will tell my manager about it tomorrow, because i am just sick and tired of rude people. oh, and don't worry....i am not really drinking paint...honest!
anyhow, this morning i decided to call in sick. i never call in sick. my reason? 'cause i didn't feel like working, 'cause it was raining, 'cause i had nice crisp clean sheets on my bed, 'cause i really hate the way things are being run around there anymore, 'cause it's none of their business...etc. (i actually told my supervisor that i wasn't coming in because i was feeling crappy). even if it was *mentally crappy*. in the past 8 years, i may have actually called in about 8 times. i knew we were a little slow today too so that helped. i got out of bed about 8 this morning. i am going shopping later. i am gonna do whatever i feel like doing today. and you know why.....
conjured at 10:35 AM | Comments (0)
November 15, 2003
i lived through the shower, it was outdoors at a park and the weather was beautiful. i brought home an empty plate! everyone LOVED the ham. i thought it was just something simple, but i guess not everyone makes ham that way. i did have a little piece left over that i saved and had a ham sammich a little bit ago. cody even got some. he loves *people* food, especially ham and chicken. even his *dog* food is a mixture of ground turkey, barley and mixed veggies. spoiled rotten i tell you.
conjured at 08:21 PM | Comments (0)
i got about 4 hours sleep last night. after a snack, i went to bed around 3:45am and got up at 8am, thinking about what i had to do today. i am in charge of cooking the ham for that baby shower. as we speak, i am making 4 one pound virginia baked hams. it smells wonderful in here.
i also got my camera ready for today's festivities. what kind of *photographer* am i that i totally left my camera on the kitchen table last night as i was in a rush to get to the club? ugh....could shoot self for that one.
i now will go take something for this "i haven't had nearly enough sleep, spent half the night in a loud smoky club" headache that has been plaguing me since i woke.
more about the show in a bit...
conjured at 10:29 AM | Comments (0)
November 11, 2003
still hitting the reese's bag......i thnk i may need rehab before that bag is gone!
conjured at 09:21 PM | Comments (0)
and reese's pieces are laced with narcotics. just so you know.
conjured at 07:27 PM | Comments (0)
November 10, 2003
i got a lot done this weekend and will try to get a little more done each evening after work. i finished all my jobs at work today and left an hour early so i could get to my car insurance agent to pay my 2 week late payment. that payment was the last thing on my mind and if they didn't send me a cancellation notice, i would have never even realized there was a payment. traffic was light and i had to go further north than where i live from work and was still home an hour earlier than usual.
the weather is great out right now and i left a few windows open this morning. it was beautiful in the house when i got home and the temp is already down to 68 and it will get even cooler over the course of the night. i woke this morning all wrapped up in my down comforter. i so did not want to get out of bed, but eventually had to.
i got the chair rail hung in the kitchen after dinner too. it has been stained and sitting in the garage for months now. just never got to it. it looks pretty cool but the wall with the long piece is slightly curved and that rail accentuates it. i still think it looks good though.
i've felt pretty good today, didn't have that total lingering underlying depression that i have been feeling over the past few weeks. it has been nagging me even when my spirits were high. i think the show coming up on friday and the thoughts of going to asheville for xmas have me feeling a little better.
now i am off to curl up on the sofa and watch a movie.
conjured at 07:20 PM | Comments (0)
November 09, 2003
ok well, just temporarily. i started moving stuff out of my closet and into the bigger one today. i realized that i needed more pants hangers and even though i resisted the urge earlier, i had to go to target. they had some stuff on sale that i had coupons for, (saved $4 thankyouverymuch) a few things i wanted and those hangers. i bought all they had. 20 hangers in all. i needed to really get my clothes organized. i had a ton of jeans and pants and some skirts that i really hated having folded over those bulky plastic hangers. well as a true obsessive/compulsive, i not only organized and got everything hung up, i also have everything together by color. i know a few of you will have a field day with that one. at least now at the crack of 5:30 am every morning i won't be wondering to myself, "where is that darn black shirt anyhow?"
i have also realized that probably more than 50% of my clothes are black. i know that shouldn't surprise anyone, but there are a few other colors in there...red and grey for example. i even have a few *gasp* white things in there! oh and some purple. i also found a lot of clothes that need to go to the thrift store. after my break from the closet is over i will do the shoes. i don't have that many, so it will only take a few minutes. i saw some of them out in the garage last week and i can tell that several pairs will also be in that thrift bag. this is a good thing. i am a pack rat by nature and being able to toss stuff is good for me. ok back into the closet!
conjured at 04:41 PM | Comments (3)
November 08, 2003
i finally got up off my butt and went to the mall. it's like pulling teeth getting me in there. i have been pretty anti-social as far as going to stores but i am glad i went. i got the skirt i was wanting and lucky for me it was the only one left and was the one in my size!! i was shocked. i started to get upset because i couldn't find it. the sales girl was so helpful and combed the whole store for it. i also got the mesh top i was wanting. that goes with a ton of other clothes i already own. i *almost* picked up a reversible skirt, similar in design to the black one i got except it had pink plaid on one side and was black on the other but the pleats on that side were the pink plaid from the other side. it was 50% off but good thing they only had one, which was my size but when i tried it on, it was too big.
i am so excited to have a new outfit for the show next weekend. man i sound like a little kid....hahaha.
conjured at 02:49 PM | Comments (1)
November 07, 2003
a gourmet recipe. i made the chicken salad all right. the lazy way out. slice chicken, slather rye bread with mayo, add chicken slices and enjoy.
stop laughing!
conjured at 06:17 PM | Comments (0)
i haven't really felt much like posting so i just didn't. today is friday and i think i will be going to the mall later (only because it's the only place i can get what i am looking for) and pick up a new skirt and top that i should have gotten last week. i just know that because they only had one skirt in my size, it will be gone and i will be mad. it fit perfectly too. my size is not even available on their site right now. here's hoping it's still there. i really want to get a nice pair of boots to wear with the outfit, but i am thinking with those two items, i will have spent enough $$ on new stuff. i guess since it was daylight when i started this post and about 100 other things, and now i am sitting in the dark, i better go turn on some lights and get some dinner. i am just cheezing out and making chicken salad out of the other chicken breast left over from last night. i had big plans...HA!
i guess if they don't have the skirt, i will finish the long one i am making (been slacking on that too) and just wear it with the new top.
i am still feeling down, but i am at least starting to get excited about the last dance/cruxshadows show next friday. i am sure that will cheer me up, even if just for one night. a new outfit may help too...hahaha.
work kicked my butt (and my mind) this week and i am just lazy i guess. i am waiting till about 7:30 to go to the mall in hopes that a lot of people will be gone home by then. right.
conjured at 05:49 PM | Comments (2)
November 03, 2003
mmmmmmmmmmmm dinner was awesome! i am glad there was a lot of it so now i have some left over for lunch tomorrow! i will be dreaming of tomorrow's lunch tonight!
conjured at 10:08 PM | Comments (0)
i am off work today and i got most of the business stuff taken care of that i needed to. i have to actually go out of the house to finish up and then home to vacuum, shower and get ready for dinner tonight. sara and rob will be here from NC and we are gonna feast at olive garden. i saw a commercial last night for something new they have called *stuffed chicken marsala* (review to come tomorrow). it looked delicious on TV so hopefully that will translate to real life. i may also go get a new cellphone today. my contract has been up but i have kept the plan till now. i think it's about the same as what they are offering now
for the same price. it would be nice to get a new phone. last year they had a special on a really cool phone for $99 with a year contract. i had $100 credit with them for paying my bill on time every month and got it for free! i hope they have something as cool this year and i get more credit.
conjured at 01:43 PM | Comments (0)
October 27, 2003
i haven't posted in a while due to my dad's illness. he passed away last week and i am still trying to deal with that and the 873,204,371 things that have to be done. he and i were real close and it has been really hard for me. i am getting better a little each day and thanks to all of my friends who have been there, even if it is just to listen to me when i need it. i never realized how many of you are out there! thanks a million times over. i don't know how much i will feel like posting for a while but remember, i am the same old me and can always appreciate a good joke or some teasing (and you know who you are). don't be afraid to try to make me laugh. i need that more than anything right now. tonight i will get into the spirit of the season and start decorating for halloween. maybe that might cheer me up. tomorrow i am going out to get a pumpkin and will carve a nice scary jack-o-lantern. i plan on getting dressed up in my best black and will sit on the front porch scaring the kids and handing out candy...bwahahahaha...
conjured at 04:32 PM | Comments (0)
October 14, 2003
it's been a long week and a half so far and i finally feel more like myself again. i am feeling a lot better and dad is doing good now. he may even be home by the weekend! it's very quiet here without him and i never realized this, but there are a lot of things that go bump in the night around here. i have been woken up a few times already out of a dead sleep only to be left scared (so unlike me, guess it's because i have been so stressed) and not being able to get back to sleep. good thing cody (our dog) is here to keep me company and snuggle with me when i get scared. (what a wimp, huh?) i guess after living here with dad and cody i have lost my nerve at night. i lived alone for almost 5 years and nothing ever bothered me. weird. like i said, could just be stress. i am making an awesome chicken dinner tonight and even though it's already 8:30 i am gonna eat some because i haven't eaten since noon. right after work i came home, fed cody and was off to visit dad and just got home a little while ago. good thing is that there will be leftovers for lunch tomorrow. it smells delicious...mmmmmm! tomorrow i am also going to check on putting my car in the shop. it has a few problems and needs an oil change too. i found out today that my mechanic sold his shop and now i am so scared to take my car someplace else. i did see a shop that is really close to the house on my way home today and at 5 they were still open. a good sign. found out from dad today that the guy used to work at the shop my mechanic just sold, for the guy who owned it before him. hope he's good, cheap and honest. i am sad to see my mechanic go, but i guess everyone deserves to retire sometime. wish me luck!
conjured at 08:35 PM | Comments (0)
September 29, 2003
when i left for work this morning it was a warm, humid/rainy morning, usual for fl this time of year, blech! meanwhile, i got the last dance's CD "perfect" (released in 2002) in the mail today. this one rocks equally as much as "whispers in rage" does. and in case you hadn't noticed, i am learning how to add even more stuff here. look out, a monster has been created...run for your lives!!
when i got out of work 8 hours later, it was a breezy, way less humid, fall-is-in-the-air kinda day. right now the temp is below 70 and i have opted to turn off the a/c in favor of opening almost all the windows. it's still pretty breezy outside and i can hear the palm trees on the front lawn rustling. what a relief from the warm crappy weather that we usually have. we don't get many of these kind of nights this time of year so i am taking full advantage.
hopefully the lack of humidity will linger throughout tomorrow and i will have a really good hair day....ha!
i am looking forward to seeing them live again, since that is where they initially stole my heart.
conjured at 09:13 PM | Comments (0)
September 26, 2003
the weekend is here and not one minute too soon i might add.
i have lots to do this weekend. some shopping (the fun part) and some home improvement (ok, also fun but harder work than shopping).
for anyone interested, i will be putting up new mini-blinds in my florida room, patching and painting the open holes in my bedroom walls (finally), hanging a chair rail in the kitchen and maybe even painting my bathroom. plus i have a lot of other goodies to keep me occupied too. i may even pop by the thrift store in search of a wedding gown so i can start making my halloween costume. i really need a few days off besides the weekend it seems.
here's to hoping i get everything done...wish me luck!
conjured at 09:33 PM | Comments (0)
September 18, 2003
wow it's almost over and even though i have to work this coming saturday, i am SO glad tomorrow is friday. yesterday sucked but today went a lot better.
there was a bad accident near the bridge on my way to work and traffic was snarled up pretty bad. i ended up being 20 min. late for work, not too bad, considering what it was looking like.
work sucked even worse, when i finally arrived, there was a total miscommunication of what i was supposed to be doing and i got all irritated about that. the day went fast and i ended up being able to work on another person's job and got to actually sit down and relax. today went a LOT better. i got a lot done and before i knew it, 4:00 rolled around. today was the last day i had to pick up and drop off a friend who works there too. it wasn't a big problem, but i figured out that i really enjoy my *alone time* in the morning. and i don't have to worry about seeming weird if i want to listen to the same song over and over as i drive...ha!
also today i realized that the stuff they give you to clean your ears when you get them pierced really IS evil. i got the 4th hole re-pierced saturday (this time in the right place) she talked me into it after getting her own done again. i was using that stuff on my ear and about 2 days later it started to hurt and feel infected. i just decided that if it hurt other people's ears, maybe that's what my problem was. sure enough after i soaped it up good and rinsed well with warm water in the shower, everything felt a lot better. today i can hardly even tell i got it done. no more evil cleaning solution.
this weekend, even though it wil be short, is going to be for patching the holes in my bedroom wall made when we had the leaking roof. i got the drywall from a friend at work and will try to do it myself. i can save a ton of cash that way. i may even do some yard work sunday too....we'll see.
hope everyone has a good weekend! i am off to buy a new CD "perfect" by the last dance yay!!
conjured at 07:22 PM | Comments (0)
September 08, 2003
OK today started out pretty normal. traffic wasn't too bad and i did the same job all day, making most of the day pretty mundane and time flew by. all went pretty good until i got outside and realized that i had left my lights on this morning when i got to work. ugh. fortunately, one of the only people that has a battery strong enough to start my car (another mustang owner) was still there and i got out my jumper cables and after a few minutes i was able to start my car. fortunately it took about an hour to get home and the battery is pretty much charged. it was still pretty warm out but i decided to not use the A/C and the breeze felt pretty good for a change. guess i will go to work tomorrow with the windows open too just for that extra charge. i guess i now know that i have a good alternator! i just hope the battery is charged enough to crank it in the morning. i don't want to have to mess with jumper cables in the morning that's for sure.
all i have left to do today is read my email and do some computer stuff. hope tuesday is an even better day!
conjured at 07:33 PM | Comments (0)
August 24, 2003
just not blogging. took all day yesterday to recover from work kicking my butt this week. been feeling kinda funky and i should have just taken friday off. i was in NO mood for anything, or anyone for that matter. then i finally got to bed around midnight or so and had a nightmare about 3:30 that kept me from going back to sleep for at least an hour. i woke again at about 8am and felt crappy all day. finally took an afternoon nap and felt a little better.
i stayed up late last night to watch *the crow* and fell asleep right before the end. i slept like the dead all the way through the night and woke to thunder (but no rain, it's sunny now!) this morning about 8. i feel pretty good today, even energetic, so a little shopping in a bit then to home depot for some supplies and then as soon as the sun lets up a bit i will get out in the garden.
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August 18, 2003
cheetos all gone.
conjured at 10:26 PM | Comments (0)
i was in the grocery store today at the checkout and the girl bagging was talking to another bagger, both of their ages combined were probably not as old as me. they were talking within 1 foot of me and i couldn't understand a word they were saying. i swear they were mumbling, but could perfectly understand each other because they were replying to each other. maybe i am just getting old, i mean really old. i swear, i did understand the girl when she said "ma'am, is plastic ok?" maybe she was asking me if i had a fantastic day. who knows, either way, i answered yes.......
conjured at 08:31 PM | Comments (0)
August 15, 2003
cheetos are the crack of snack food. i am surprised that there aren't people on street corners selling their bodies for cash to buy cheetos. i was in target last week and they had these huge almost pound size bags of cheetos on sale 2 for $3. i HAD to get a bag. i selflessly bought it to save others from the evils of crack in snack food form. must hurry to finish bag so no one else eats it......mmmmmm.
conjured at 09:18 PM | Comments (2)
August 13, 2003
just saw on the weather channel that a tropical wave will be moving over the state in the next couple of days. i knew something was up when my knees started hurting. i have had arthritis in them since i was a kid and every time a low pressure weather system comes through i get what feels like a migraine in my knees. standing in the same spot all day at work today didn't help either. hopefully the rain will be over quick and my knees will be back to normal. am i ever gonna get to wash and wax my car and pull the weeds in the yard?
on a happy note: i did get some cool red eyeshadow at *torrid* today
conjured at 10:10 PM | Comments (2)
August 12, 2003
not sure there is anything to say but i am sure if i sit here long enough i will think of something.
still sitting here and nothing.
well, car running good, job going OK, dinner was awesome. made some lasagne and used a whole pot full of dad's homemade sauce. good stuff. i wanted to go to the beach after dinner, but i stopped by target to get a few things and by the time i got home and got dinner in the oven it was getting late. by the time we were done eating it was already getting dark.
tomorrow it won't happen either since i need to go back to the mall to get a few things for the con in two and a half weeks. i went there sunday and it was just packed and i was feeling particularly anti-social that day so i made the trip quick and got out of there fast. so back i go to get the rest of what i need. ugh.
now that i am sleepy and full, i guess it's time for bed.
conjured at 08:21 PM | Comments (1)
July 28, 2003
i wished for a pool and got an indoor one....in my bedroom. now, just today at work a few of us were talking about being single. after saying i like being single most of the time, i also said something to the effect of, "well i never really go anywhere to meet new guys anyhow". so today? opportunity to meet a new guy, even though he was just the tow truck driver, it was still a guy. funny how these statements get turned around and i get exactly what i am talking about, just in a totally different way than expected.
i think going to the post office right next to the lottery payoff office and meeting a millionaire just picking up his winnings would have been a better way to meet a new guy if you ask me. shoulda stopped to mail those packages after all....
conjured at 10:07 PM | Comments (0)
i am SO glad to be home. today started out normal, just like every other work day, got up, started coffee, took shower, had a bite to eat and off to work. nothing special. my day was long but i had a good crew and we got a lot done and managed to have a little fun in the process....imagine that.
i left at my normal time and needed to go to the post office near my work before they closed but i had 25 min. before closing and the parking lot was packed....i passed and went on my way home. i got about 15 min from home and as i was sitting at a light my car jerked kinda funny. i thought "wonderful, crappy gas again" and the light changed and i took off. i noticed that my car was not feeling so powerful but again i thought "crappy gas". all of a sudden i was stepping on the gas and the engine was whirring but i wasn't going fast at all. i guess the timing belt finally went. my car has 133,000 miles on it so i guess it is about time. the only thing that kinda scared me was the fact that i was in the left lane and couldn't go anywhere. traffic was pretty thick by this time and i made it to a turn lane and pulled as far to the side of it as i could, since there was no chance of crossing 4 lanes of traffic with no power. fortunately i have AAA and a cellphone, so i called and since i was in the roadway they said the tow truck would be there within 30 min. reasonable at 4:30. meanwhile someone from my work saw me and stopped and waited for me till the tow truck arrived. this was really nice, and even nicer due to who it was. that person has totally redeemed himself in my eyes. i think he's also one of the only people that even lives up my way, (more than 20 miles from work). the driver got there in about 45 min and there we were, standing next to my car, in the median being blown around by all the wind being created by the traffic. the driver then informed me that the florida highway patrol had to be called because of a recent incident where a car was in a turn lane like mine and while the car was being loaded onto the flat bed, a woman drove up and didn't realize that the truck was stopped and right before she hit him, swerved back into traffic and caused a 3 car wreck. the guy from work left and then we waited almost 2 hours for the trooper to get there. staying in the median because crossing the highway on foot would have been suicide. after he got there, he politely blocked traffic while my car was loaded and driven to the southbound side of the road. i was at my mechanic's place in 20 min and after dad came to get me, home and in the shower in another ten. the tow truck driver was extremely cool and we had a good conversation while waiting so that made the time go faster. my mechanic was closed for the day when i dropped the car off and no one was around at all and that driver, even after i told him my dad was on the way and that no, he didn't need to stay, sat in his truck doing "paperwork" till my dad drove up and i was in the car. it's good to know that there are some good people left in the world.
the one thing that really bothered me was the fact that every punk that drove by had to honk their horn. what is that supposed to be? even a few people who had to go by me in that turn lane honked......like what am i supposed to do? move out of their way?? idiots. as one moron honked kinda close to me while speeding by, my new jersey came out full force and i yelled back "up yours buddy". i felt better after that.
i am now thankful that i am home, had dinner, showered and am now sitting on my comfy bed where everything is always OK. i am also thankful that i have AAA and a cellphone. if i didn't have either of them i may still be standing in that median.
so, how was your day? :)
conjured at 09:49 PM | Comments (0)
July 23, 2003
i know i should be paying bills right now, but i had to take a moment to pause and be grateful. i hardly ever write checks but i use my atm/checkcard as if someone other than myself deposits their paychecks into my account. i had not entered anything for weeks and finally when i was on vacation i at least checked my statement online and entered everything up to that point. never balanced it though. so today, almost one week after arriving home from vacation and after 2 days procrastination, i finally got brave and decided to get it done. it balanced to the penny. something that almost never happens even in a good month. i even have enough cash to pay my bills and that's before this week's paycheck is deposited! *happy dance ensues*
conjured at 06:55 PM | Comments (0)
July 10, 2003
i had a fun, interesting day at work today. what? you say......
it must have been the company. and i ain't sayin' no more, so don't even ask.
i had to stop by publix on the way home and after practically running through the whole place i happened upon the magazine aisle and there it was......
i was standing there drooling when i remembered i had frozen veggies in the basket.
i had to buy the august issue of *spin* magazine. i'm no freak...stop laughing....but really, who can resist a cover story on jane's addiction with a pic of dave navarro shirtless, red scarf and a short black leather skirt (!!) unzipped from the bottom up to his...(well almost) and black leather boots...the guy kind. men in womens' clothing does absolutely nothing for me unless dave is invloved. something about him....maybe it's all those tattoos. oh, did i mention the red nail polish?
the story was good too
conjured at 09:08 PM | Comments (0)
July 09, 2003
well after a shower i am feeling wonderful. i went to let cody (my doggie) out to do his nightly business and as i was standing in the slightly open doorway a bat flew right at me and the opening in the door. i closed it quick and then i got the pooch in fast. they don't fly at his altitude anyway, but they scare me. every morning as i go out to get the paper off the lawn they are swarming just before daybreak. i wonder if they live in all the fruit trees that are around here. they are only out at dusk and daybreak. little vampires. we are both in safe and sound and cody is doing *dog yoga* on my bedroom floor. it's a dog's life.
conjured at 10:02 PM | Comments (0)
July 06, 2003
yesterday was shopping day. i left the house a little before 10AM and didn't get back till almost 2PM. i didn't get to every place on my list, but did all the really important stuff. the "recreational shopping" can wait and be done after work during the week. or later today. i even picked up a "motion lamp", cheap version of a lava lamp for $10. purple liquid with pinkish white "lava". it's really cool. i also bought a bunch of things i *needed*. that's no fun. today i am suppoed to be *swiftering* the kitchen and bathroom floors and hanging the border in the kitchen, but i am almost certain with the mood i am in, very little or none of that will get done. i think i would rather go shopping... in my dream theater shirt....
i did happen to go to one fun place, michael's, got a few cool crafts things and saw a bunch more that i want (of course). i was wearing my new dream theater shirt i got at the show. as i was strolling through the store i noticed a guy, wearing a bandana on his head, biker style (this is not a bad thing). he was stocking shelves. i turned down the aisle and i heard footsteps, like someone was running after me. well HE was. much to my surprise he came over to me and was asking me about the show ( he didn't get to go but wanted to) and we talked for a few minutes, but he was supposed to be working so he had to get back to work. i never thought of a crafts store as a hotbed for meeting guys...HAHAHA. i think that shirt is a guy magnet. i may need to get 6 or 7 more (just joking....really).
conjured at 11:54 AM | Comments (0)
July 03, 2003
i just thought of something. dad's birthday is in 3 days and i don't even have a clue as to what to get him. i have planned to get a small carvel ice cream cake for him, but as far as a gift, no ideas. he is the absolute hardest person to get gifts for. he has everything he wants/needs and when asked, he refuses to give even just the slightest hint of anything he would like. i am sure i will come up with something, but if any or all of the three of you (you know who you are) have any helpful ideas, please let me know. i am really searching here.....
conjured at 08:33 PM | Comments (0)
since i have no life to speak of, i have decided to do some stuff around the house this weekend. tomorrow, if i wake up, will be spent going to the grocery store and then to home depot. must get supplies! i do need to catch up on my sleep and tomorrow is my day to sleep in. i am going to totally take advantage of it since i don't think i have to worry about rain and dad is doing good enough to get the morning paper off the lawn now. he even got the mail this afternoon and took in the trash cans! he's doing better each day now and i am resting a little easier.
the store stuff might have to wait till saturday which is OK by me.
also planned this weekend are yard work and repotting plants, vacuuming out my car and getting my bedroom back in some sort of livable order. that is as long as i am SURE no more rain will come in. i am sure the upset in my room is the cause of my bad sleeping lately. once everything is in it's place i will feel better.
conjured at 08:22 PM | Comments (0)
June 14, 2003
i just realized that the water i got in my ear when i showered is NEVER going to come out. i think gravity has taken it to a place where it will just remain forever lodged. well at least when i go to the club tonight the water will protect my hearing. as if i am ever gonna be able to hear out of it correctly again anyway.
grrrrrrrrrr
conjured at 09:16 PM | Comments (0)
June 07, 2003
dad is ok! when he took his little crash landing in the kitchen a few weeks ago he hit the tile floor pretty hard, scaring the bejesus out of me in the process. well turns out all the problems he has been having and all the pain is due to the arthritis he has in his spine being aggravated by the fall, and the tailbone and bottom three vertebrae being bruised. no broken bones! amazing. i think if i would have hit that floor that hard i would have broken something....or at least broken the tile floor. he got some anti inflammatory/pain med. from the doc and is already feeling better. not great, but better.
all of which brings me to the next part of my day.....
i went to sara's place for a few hours to help her move some stuff and hook her car up on the trailer so she could stat moving today.
sara and i have been friends for about 9 years and have helped each other move at least that many times combined. usually when we move sara's stuff we have to move this very old table that belonged to her grandmother. i swear, i have never done anything to "the table", as we fondly call it. today we didn't move "the table" so i escaped unscathed. that table has a taste for my blood and usually takes a piece of my leg or whatever else it can grab before it's all over with.
surprisingly enough, this day didn't turn into a total laugh fest. (usually anytime there is moving to be had, total hysterics follow) i think because i just couldn't stay that long, (had to come home and help dad) and because it was so frickin' hot. i think the best part, after pinching my arm in the folding bookcase, (yeah!), was when we moved the mattress. that was pretty funny, especially when it was stuck on the bottom of the upper landing and it took us a few minutes to realize why it wouldn't move. (and the joke that sara accidently made which will be kept to ourselves).
but the absolute best part? "the table" didn't get a piece of this girl today. i am sure that table is presently plotting my demise.......
conjured at 10:03 PM | Comments (0)
June 04, 2003
i am feeling just a little better now than i was earlier this morning. dad is feeling a little better and his spirits are better too. i am going to try to go to work tomorrow since i am going crazy here at home. i think dad will be OK alone tomorrow and if not, i am just a phone call away.
getting everything ready and within reach of a chair was a challenge but i think i have everything set up for the day.
i am worn out. can't wait to get to sleep.
something that cheered me up was that ups guy again....hahaha.
he brought my new sheets that i ordered. i washed and folded them but am too tired to put them on. i just changed the sheets over the weekend too so i may wait till the weekend to put them on in all their 300 count splendor. they feel SO soft! i better stop talking about them or i will be in there in a few minutes disassembling my whole bed!
on that happy note, i am sending myself to bed.....
conjured at 09:27 PM | Comments (0)
June 01, 2003
about the whole work situation. i may be trying to justify and maybe my thoughts are just there to try to make me feel better, but i have been thinking a LOT about this stuff for the last 2 days. i guess getting up at 6AM is a LOT better than getting up at 4AM, and maybe the shorter work day might not be so bad after all. going to work in relative daylight won't be too bad either. oh yeah, today is the first day of hurricane season, guess i better start stocking up on a few supplies. i should start making a list......
yesterday i worked the last saturday i will ever work on overtime. i wasn't going to do it, but last week's paycheck was so nice that i figured one more saturday won't kill me. i still have the next 2 mondays off to take care of some stuff. since i will have another good check this week i splurged on a few things. well i am not done, still have some shopping to do today :)
i actually bought myself a pair of new balance cross trainers for work. i hate spending so much on shoes for work, but standing all day takes it's toll on your feet big time. i saw another pair that i loved, maybe i will get them next week. those won't be for work.
today i am off to the home depot and that means danger. actually my new name for the place is "home debit". they have some cool landscaping plants and a few other things that i need like a wire brush for the grill. i have been a BBQ-ing fool since we got it last week. tomorrow i have a few more fence places to call for estimates and then soon the new fence will go up! i guess i will have to invest in a wireless network thingy so i can bring the computer out on the patio soon.....stop laughing!
conjured at 10:24 AM | Comments (0)
May 29, 2003
man sometimes things just plain suck. i have been at my job for 7 years. i like what i do, i even like most of my co-workers, but the way things are done around there is just wrong. i have had a 4 day work week for that same 7 years. 4 ten hour days, 6am to 4pm. i LOVED having a three day weekend every week. and even if i went in one whole day on overtime, i still had 2 days off, no problem....till about 1 this afternoon. no warning, not even a rumor. nothing. we all got into the room and they just blurted it out. we will be working 5 eight hour days starting in 2 weeks. no negotiation. we are unsure but the hours will most likely be 8 - 4 which, traffic wise, will suck royally. the good side of it is when i will be on my way to work i can actually get something for breakfast that doesn't come out of a machine. imagine a bagel and coffee on the way. as sara says, i am justifying. it's a bad situation. i guess i should be thankful that at least i still have a job. and that a shorter day might not be so bad. we will see. i know there are a bunch of people ready to go elsewhere, and i will be looking too, but jobs are scarce right now and no one will pay me what i make now to start over. i am sure my panties will be in a bunch over this for months to come, but i really have on other options for now and i am pretty sure that also puts the kibosh on me doing any overtime, especially on weekends...
conjured at 09:40 PM | Comments (0)
May 20, 2003
it pours!
first of all, NO one should EVER be allowed to get up at 2:30 to go to work. overtime looks great on the paycheck but after i am actually there i am wondering what i could have been thinking the day before when asked to do it.
i am gonna try hard to not say yes for the rest of the week. i resisted for tomorrow. i am exhausted today and my week would only go downhill from there.
ok, at 6AM, when all the other people and temps came in to work, i pick one guy to work on my crew and the first thing he says is, "weren't you a redhead yesterday?" mind you, i have been reddish headed in the past and probably will again, and i never even saw this guy yesterday, so how would he know in the first place. apparently he saw me though...and he thought i had red hair....ok!
about 30 min after i get my crew settled in, a guy, who i did see yesterday, came over to my area and just started talking out of nowhere. i think, ok fine. whatever. no problem. just be polite and the icky guy will go away...no such luck.
some hours later, i go to another job area and the guy is on me like superglue. i was working next to the job he was working on. he came right over, asking what perfume i was wearing, did i like silver jewelry, and those of you who know me, know the jewelry thing is VERY apparent. by the way, lancome's "miracle" is like a mating scent to most of the male population in case you are interested. so he keeps blah blah blahing for the next 20 min or so, helping offload product for my machine and the one next to me, i think that was an added bonus just for me, then he says to me "how would you like to go out to a movie or something this weekend" well if i wanted to go out with someone almost a foot shorter than i, 10 years younger, and not in a good way, again like anyone who knows me knows i have a thing for that....hahaha
(i swear i know more about this guy than i probably ever cared to) and when i told him i was going out of town this weekend, he was like maybe some other time, so i lied through my teeth and told him i was kinda seeing someone, so he, in a last ditch attempt, says "well things may change, you never know" and gives me his phone number.....i admit, he did go about it the right way, not coming off as too much of a jerk, but, and call me shalow if you must, i like them taller, cleaner and if they only own one thing, it needs to be a toothbrush (something this poor soul was in dire need of) anyway after i got to the parking lot and removed him from the place up my butt where he seemed to want to reside all day, i sleepily made my way home to a wonderful dinner of chicken parmesan made expertly by my dad, the best non-italian, italian food cook. that made my whole tired day better....
hopefully i won't have to work anywhere near the little stalker dude tomorrow....
conjured at 06:19 PM | Comments (0)
May 18, 2003
well. vacation has come to a close. i didn't get everything done that i had planned, but it was a good rest from work. i am going back a day early since they need me, but i can take an extra day off during the week or get a day of overtime. not sure which i will choose. i still have a running "to do" list, but i figure it will all get done sooner or later. i am now going to try to get to bed while it is still early. i am afraid that with all the sleep i got yesterday and last night that i will have a tough time sleeping tonight.
i am hoping that my self imposed attitude adjustment helps at work. we'll see by this time tomorrow........
conjured at 10:15 PM | Comments (0)
May 17, 2003
ok. what happened to today anyhow? seems like i just woke up.
Sara and i went to the castle last night and after too many vodka & cranberries ( I like to drink red stuff there, fits in with the dark mood i guess) i slept on her sofa. good thing i listened to her advice and took ibuprofen and water before crashing or i would have felt really terrible today. i woke up, got dressed and was sorta ready to leave, then laid back down and went to sleep again. when i finally got motivated, after what seemed like a really quick drive, i arrived home and had something to eat. dad made breakfast and saved me some. i then did some computer stuff and then promptly fell asleep on the sofa. after a while i got up and went to my room and took another 2 hour "nap". since then i have been doing everything but the stuff i planned on doing today. mostly laying around, and watching tv. i did pause all "activity" to eat dinner, then more laziness until i looked at clock and it was after 11. hopefully tomorrow i will be a little less lazy since monday is back to work for me.
conjured at 11:41 PM | Comments (0)
May 14, 2003
Today was definitely considered a working vacation day. It all started with a trip to my local home depot....the danger zone. I got lots of goodies there including a gallon of paint off the "oops" shelf. It was $5 and really close to the color I had originally picked out for my crafts room. It will be some time before I get to that room I realized today, but at least I have the paint.
After I got home I started painting the dining room and didn't stop till everything was totally finished. That included emptying, moving, moving back, and cleaning everything in the china cabinet. After I got everything put back together, as if all that wasn't enough, after dinner I cleaned the stove and the kitchen sink area. I guess I was on a roll. Tomorrow, after the fence guy comes to do an estimate and the sears guy is done working on fridge, I am going to mulch a flower bed and water everything outside. My reward?
Tomorrow Sara and I are going to see X-2 and The Matrix!!! Can ya tell I am excited? After today I think I need a break from any form of work!
conjured at 09:30 PM | Comments (0)
May 11, 2003
got up wayyy too early at 6:45. No one should be allowed to be up at that time on a day off. I guess because I went to sleep so early last night, (I was exhausted), I got enough sleep. I have been, to use Sara's word, puttering around here all day. Went outside early and watered all the plants on the porch. It was actually nice out. Later in the day I decided to prune one tree on the porch. Just one. Simple task....or so I thought. Once I got that done I looked out into the front yard and decided a few more things needed to be taken care of. A few hours, three spiders, one HUGE palmetto bug and two full trash cans later, a palm tree complete with killer thorns, a holly tree and the whole "island" surrounding all the trees were pruned, weeded and raked up. I am SO glad that I don't do landscaping for a living anymore! It does look beautiful though and I can see that once the privacy fence goes up around the back yard I will never see the inside of the house again. It was really nice to be outside.
conjured at 05:20 PM | Comments (0)
April 29, 2003
I haven't really felt like writing anything. I missed the big concert this weekend, I missed the Zebra show and I am going to miss going to SC for now. We are really busy at work, too short notice to take any time off and besides I need the OT. I got the first bill for my new TV today and a little OT will help, plus I need to get new back tires. I will probably remain tired throughout the week, so all of you hoping for something exciting, watch TV instead...HA! I am however, loving the new design thanks to a lot of help. I could have never done it myself. Never. I hooked up my Xbox this afternoon. After messing with it, the TV and the surround system for what seemed like forever, I got it all working. When the first game started I had the sound turned up too loud and it even scared the dog! I played "Tetris Worlds" for about 30 min and my eyes started to get way too tired. I figured I was playing a little too long when when friends were wondering why I was not online. Didn't know you guys missed me that much....AWWWWW! More Tetris and "Oddworld, Munch's Oddyssee" tomorrow...
conjured at 09:42 PM | Comments (0)
April 17, 2003
Tomorrow is friday, and I have had a pretty good week. But I guess compared to last week, a day in a shark tank would be a picnic. One more day to work and then I am off for 3 days. I bought a couple of really cool books at the book fair at work today, on backyard projects, from gardening to building sheds and furniture. It's going to be a busy summer. I have decided that I need a vacation. I am thinking maybe visiting a friend in SC. It will be a nice trip for a long weekend. Maybe a trip to the Keys....not sure. the SC trip would cost next to nothing and right now, cheap is good! I finally got a new fountain. Having the sound of running water in my room is so cool. The bad thing is that when I was in Bed, Bath & Beyond, I saw so much stuff I would love to get. Good thing I just decorated my room or I would have gone wild in that place. The good ting is, I did get something new today. The desk I bought at Pier1 last week came in today. Just in time. Got the message as I was on my way home from work and since I pass it I just pulled right in and in ten minutes was on my way home with a new desk. I am not quite prepared to get it in place yet, have to paint and hang shelves, so it will have to wait till Saturday. I wasn't expecting it to come in till Monday, so that was a big surprise. Once it is in place, my room will be complete. More on the vacation thing later..........
conjured at 08:16 PM | Comments (0)
April 15, 2003
Another exciting day at work. At least I managed to stay out of trouble so far this week. Not much else exciting happening. Started working on my "farmer's tan" today on my way home from work. It was kinda nice out and I had the window down for a change and all of a sudden I realized I was getting sunburned! It's not really red now, but you can tell there is a lot of color there. Guess I need sunscreen for the drive home. I was trying to get to Bed, Bath & frickin' Beyond on the way home but couldn't find it. I got onto the highway too far north I guess. Better luck tomorrow. I found my fountain in the garage the other day and after much excitement I cleaned it good and added all the rocks and water, then plugged it in and you guessed it....NOTHING! I had to trash it and now found a really cool one at B,B & B. Now if I could only find the store I would have it made. Maybe I will wait till the weekend to go there when I am in that area hopefully picking up my new desk at Pier1. I can't wait for that, this desk is ready to fall apart at any minute.
conjured at 08:25 PM | Comments (0)
April 13, 2003
Today I decided to tackle the garage. Having boxes piled up since Oct. was starting to get to me. I got everything sorted out for my big garage sale. The rest of the stuff that I want to keep and look through later is down to four....count 'em....FOUR boxes! Never thought I would see the day. My Dad is happy too. Soon he will be able to put his car inside again! I am exhausted, but it was well worth it. Tomorrow I get to rest and then it's back to work Tuesday. The birthday celebration was fun, had dinner at Rio Bravo. complete with awesome dessert. We then went back to Sara's place for tequila and movies. We were silly to begin with and the tequila made it worse. I got to taste "tequila rose" which, as Sara puts it, looks like pepto bismol (it does). Once you get over the way it looks, it tastes pretty good. Strawberry-ish. We managed to not get too drunk, therefore no hangover in the morning :) We watched "Ghost Ship" which was pretty good. I was afraid it was gonna be bad, but it had Karl Urban in it so it couldn't be awful. Turns out it was a little gory, but it was actually good. After that we watched "Moulin Rouge" since I had never seen the whole thing. All of a sudden it got to be 3AM and I was fading fast. All in all, a pretty fun birthday. And I didn't even have to be helped to the car. Well, there's always next year!!
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April 06, 2003
plan
My plan today: get new desk, new shelves, new under desk organizer and then paint shelves. Now hoping there is enough time in one day to get all that done. I am supposed to be cleaning out garage, getting rest of boxes unpacked form moving (last October) and readying multitude of items for huge garage sale at the end of the month. There's always tomorrow :)
My poor old desk is on its last leg so to speak. After being moved so many times it's starting to fall apart fast.
Best part of all, Dad is chipping in for half of the price of desk as my birthday present. That's the only good part about having birthdays anymore. Presents! The prospect of getting any older is depressing. I did have the thought to just tell everyone I was born 10 years later than I was. Well it was a thought anyway.
conjured at 11:21 AM | Comments (0)
March 30, 2003
goodnight Looks like I don't have much to do.
Really, I do.
At some point.
All my friends have gone offline and to bed. I should take the hint here and do the same myself.
It's unseasonably cool out tonight. The wind is blowing pretty good and the temp is down to 59.
The forecast is for the 40s but I will believe that when I see it! A good night for candles, a fluffy down comforter and a book. Good sleeping weather.
Or maybe I will take the lazy way out and toss in a movie.
Now that I am all alone I do seem to be feeling sleepy.....Z-Z-Z-Z
conjured at 11:47 PM | Comments (0)
Very late. Since Sara was nice enough to get this whole thing fixed for me I figured I should at least say something before bed. (Besides, I wanted to make sure I could get it to work.) Never thought I was going to get home but I made it. After a fire right in Sara's parking lot and then seeing a really bad accident, I finally made it. I am extremely tired. Have to get up early enough to fertilize lawn before it rains (exciting stuff, I know) so I better get to bed.
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August 10, 2002
I am finally back among the living as far as the computer world goes. I had some major stuff happen few days ago that made me think that Windows was missing some stuff. Instead of uninstalling and re-installing, I decided to just re-install Windows over itself. It froze up and wouldn't re-install at all. Since I have everything backed up on disc from when I put my new hard drive in I figured formatting would be the best thing and then I would just re-install everything. I was still in the process of doing this anyhow. Nothing I did worked and there I was with a partially new computer that would only turn on and off show the DOS screen.....nothing else. I was ready to get a new computer, figuring I had about had it with the old one. Fortunately someone I work with works on computers on the side and for an extremely small and totally worth it fee. Everything was back to normal in about 2 hours. I am not sure what all was done, but it works better than ever and all is well with my world. Guess I don't have to start continuously watching TV as a past time just yet.
conjured at 06:49 PM | Comments (0)
August 02, 2002
Well, another work week comes to a close. I am glad to be having 3 days off to catch up on a lot of things that I have been neglecting, including some fun stuff. I got my first issue of the Xbox magazine. It's really interesting and comes with game demos. I've already played a few of them, and realized I can actually play other games besides the one game I have.
I was going to try to get to the beach but I think rain is in the forecast on and off for the whole weekend so I think a little quality Xbox time is in order.
I have also been neglecting chores around the house so I can already tell where that is going to lead....that's the 'not fun' stuff. But at least I won't be at work!!!
Not much else to write here so I guess it's time for bed. Hopefully I will have a really interesting weekend and have something cool to write about.
conjured at 10:50 PM | Comments (0)
June 16, 2002
Xbox.....since getting my Xbox, I don't want to do anything else. Picked it up after work one evening and almost forgot to eat dinner I was so engrossed. I always thought it was silly to love something so unimportant as video games, but it's easy to get hooked. I am bound and determined to get through the game I bought when I got the system. Munch's Oddysee. Not like it's a really hard game, but I am totally bad at any games except maybe Tetris and the original Pac-man. Sad. I hesitated for a LONG time just to buy the system. I wasn't sure if I would use it a lot, I wasnt' sure if I would be able to play any of the games. Wrong and wrong. I am glad I got it and there are so many new games coming out that I will probably end up getting. Must.....go..........play..........
I'm addicted!
conjured at 05:34 PM | Comments (0)
June 06, 2002
Work work work, seems that during the week all that I have much time for is work. I did a little bedroom furniture shopping this week. Depressing. I guess I have better taste than my bank account allows. I don't like anything I can afford and the stuff I do like is WAY out of my price range. I am seriously thinking of buying some old wood furniture and refinishing it. That is a lot more rewarding anyhow. I have to do something soon in there, like it or not. Every time I move, I promise myself I will finally decorate my bedroom and I never do. I have been in my 'new' place since this January. Here it is June already and still, I have two unpacked boxes in there and clutter everywhere. I guess because I don't spend as much time in there as in the rest of my place, the decorating gets neglected. I think all of the clutter and disorganization is creating a hostile sleeping environment for me. I have been having a very tough time getting to and staying asleep, even though I have been working a minimum of 50 hours per week. This doesn't make sense to me, except that the clutter is making me subconsiously uncomfortable.
I have a bunch of ideas on different 'themes' for the room and will be planning them out to see which one will work the best. My favorite themes right now are a jungle type look, complete with a bed canopy consisting of a "tree" fabricated of papier mache, complete with branches, leaves and tiny white lights. Also working on an island type theme or Mediterranean look and then some off the wall ideas that can't even be classified. Fortunately I am pretty handy, so I will be able to do all or most of the work myself. This is all going to be a real challenge since I live in an apartment and I am not allowed to paint. I am considering covering a wall or possibly all the walls with some kind of fabric. Many ideas! Hopefully soon there will be some pics of the finished product...
conjured at 08:42 PM | Comments (0)
May 31, 2002
Well....as much as I try, I can't seem to contribute here every day. This disturbs me since, after reading other blogs, some
people find enough time to update several times every day! Mostly I am just too tired to put anything down I guess.
Not much happening in my little world lately. Just a LOT of overtime at work, which is a good thing....really.
Although I was suffering from a head cold last weekend, the Poison concert was good. Poison got to play a longer set
because one of the bands, Cinderella, couldn't play because vocalist Tom Keifer's voice was doing badly. Two band
members, along with a venue employee went onstage to give the bad news. What I found very wrong was the fact that
after the announcement was made, quite a few people in the crowd started booing. Not 'too bad for the poor guy whose
voice is shot'. He cancelled at the last minute I am sure, in the hope of being able to perform. I know if he got onstage and
had a really bad night vocally, everyone would have had something to say about how crappy his voice sounded. He couldn't
put on the best show possible, so instead of giving a bad performance and possibly injuring his voice further, he opted to
cancel. I would have done the same thing. Being a musician, I can understand how important a good performance is. Too
bad Tom will never see this, I would like him to know that unlike a good percent of the people there, I really felt for him.
Someone once said "You are only as good as the last thing you did". I totally agree.
The rest of the concert was good. Faster Pussycat was, well, Faster Pussycat. Need I say more? Winger, who I was not
expecting much from, was great. I guess with them all previously being studio musicians, it had to be good musically. The
crowd loved them and they played well. To all of you out there that would slam Winger just for being Winger (and you know
who you are....ahem), try getting up there every night to play and you could appreciate how hard these guys work (I know
some of you previously mentioned know this). Aside from the booing part, it was refreshing to see a packed house, no mosh
pit and a crowd who totally appreciated the bands who did get to play. I would have loved to have been in one of those
guys shoes for just a minute when the whole crowd was singing along with the words. That has got to be one of the best
feelings in the world!
OK enough rambling.......
conjured at 07:59 PM | Comments (0)
May 24, 2002
Ahhh the joys of sleeping in...
Slept till 9:30 this morning. This may not be considered "sleeping in" to many, my usual wake-up time is 4:30, that's AM.
I have 3 more glorious days off which = MORE sleeping in!
In my quest to shed some pounds, I have been trying to eat less and better. I have now decided that cereal for breakfast is boring, so this morning I actually ate PANCAKES...*gasp*!
The weekend is full with lots to do, plus Saturday night is House Of Blues in Orlando with my friend Sara to see Poison's "Hollyweird World Tour". An 80s hairband extravaganza. Dust off those cans of Aqua Net!! I will also try to squeeze in a beach day or two in my time off. Ain't life grand!!!
conjured at 07:33 PM | Comments (0)
May 23, 2002
OK so I'm a slacker. I never add anything to this so I figured I would now, just to say I added something. Besides I wanted to show my friend Gary who, by the way, rules, what this is all about. He may like the blog thing but the word freaks him out. Not sure why.....
conjured at 11:20 PM | Comments (0)