| Monday, September 18th, 2006 |
| 6:10 am |
i'm not ready for monday yet...
man, i'd like to crawl back under the covers and catnap awhile longer... i'm just not ready for the weekend to be over yet.... so starts another week. it's not a good thing when i've still got stress living in my neck and shoulders and head and arm on one side to the point i've got numb spots and i haven't even started the work week. so how's everyone else on monday? :) Current Mood: dreading workCurrent Music: fergie... london bridge |
| Sunday, September 17th, 2006 |
| 10:08 am |
boo! *blinks*
let's see.. where to begin... where to begin.... life's been busy... the kids have started a fresh semester in college... lauren's been through her first year away from home... she seems to be doing fine... cody's found a nice girl.. lauren says, 'i hope she's the one'... this alone tells me alot... :) lauren's found her first love.. i'm not sure he's 'the one'.. but it's first love, so it's powerful.. :) my job has been so stressful and so demanding lately... we had a consultant in our office for 7 weeks straight... 'nuff said.. i hope i never have to go through anything like that again... here's the kicker... i had to fit a move in those 14 hour work days the first week into the consultant's stay... i'm in dire need of a break and i don't see it happening anytime soon. just peekin' in.. i'll try to be around more often.... :) man! i feel totally out of the loop here. |
| Friday, December 23rd, 2005 |
| 7:17 am |
i've been tagged by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) pixie_pistol Name 5 of life's simple pleasures that you like most, then pick 5 people to do the same. Try to be original and creative and not to use things that someone else has already used. Tag 5 people on your list. 1. a new box of crayons 2. sunshine soaking into my skin 3. a slight warm breeze ruffling through my hair 4. a small bite of chocolate 5. a child's giggle that turns into an all out belly laugh tag, you're it!: ~ thunderslug~ corto~ thisismostlyme~ cynnerth~ symian Current Mood: i don't wanna go to work todayCurrent Music: dawn cracking over the horizon |
| Thursday, December 15th, 2005 |
| 7:47 am |
:/
i just poured juice on my cereal. Current Music: pussycat dolls... i'm gonna stick witchu |
| Thursday, November 24th, 2005 |
| 9:47 am |
gobble gobble... :)
happy thanksgiving, everyone!... :) i have to stir the good stuff into the middle stuffing of my twice-baked potatoes and pack my bag and i'll be off for a couple days to stay at my dad's... my sister and her family are coming down from wyoming so this will be my chance to soak up a visit with them for the holidays...i'm not sure who else will be there, but i'm so excited to see them... it's so far we don't get to see them often enough and i miss them terribly... :) i'll be staying through most of the day saturday... hope you all have a nice holiday weekend... :) Current Mood: festive! :)Current Music: madonna.... hung up on you |
| Saturday, November 19th, 2005 |
| 1:40 pm |
i like this meme...
Fill this out, and if you're extra cool, put it your journal. If you haven't already. 1. Who are you? 2. Are we friends? 3. When and how did we meet? 4. Do you have a crush on me? 5. Would you kiss me? 6. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it. 7. Describe me in one word. 8. What was your first impression? 9. Do you still think that way about me now? 10. What reminds you of me? 11. If you could give me anything what would it be? 12. How well do you know me? 13. When's the last time you saw me? 14. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't? 15. Are you going to put this on your blog and see what I say about you? Current Mood:  obviously not busy enoughCurrent Music: the sound of the tv |
| Monday, August 29th, 2005 |
| 7:11 pm |
i've been tagged by penpusher Here's how this meme works: 1. Go into your LJ’s archive. 2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to). 3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to). 4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions. 5. Tag 5 people on your friend list. the kids'll be here this evenin' when i get home from work, so i need to make sure things are spiffed up a bit... :) tag, you're it! laciannspurbabythunderslugteaserthebet Current Mood: just relaxingCurrent Music: god gave rock and roll to you... kiss |
| Thursday, July 28th, 2005 |
| 6:42 pm |
anyone remember spirograph?
when i was a kid i spent hours playing with a spirograph...i'd pour through the design book and pick a design i wanted to make and find the right plastic ring and pin it down to the paper and pick just the right little sawtoothed wheel to lock into the matching sawteeth on the ring and pick my pen color and place it "just so" into the correct hole that would make the design i chose.. and around and around and around i'd draw...spirograph was an endless source of fun for me as a child. i have also always had a lifelong fascination with kaleidoscopes...there's a little bit of magic inside them and i never tire of watching the beautiful and colorful designs they make. this cool link appeals to both my love of the spirograph and kaleidoscopes... take a look and see what you think Current Mood:  nostalgicCurrent Music: the hum of the air conditioner |
| Friday, May 27th, 2005 |
| 10:00 am |
many thanks... :)
thanks for the wonderful birthday wishes... :) life's busy... very busy. lauren's graduation is tonight. my mom and her hubby should be here some time mid afternoon to stay overnight.. i took the afternoon off so i wouldn't miss any time with her and so i'd have a little more time for preparations for all the company...my dad and his wife will be coming also...the wasband and his wife... and the wasband's brother and sister-in-law have been invited... i don't know if they'll come or not...but i did invite him personally and tell him i had no problem with his wife coming along... we'll see... he is terribly uncomfortable about it.. i told him we all know he's part of lauren's life and this is about her.. hopefully he can put his uncomfortableness aside for lauren... this should be about her. i have to run get busy again... happy friday... and thanks again for the birthday wishes... i'll reply to each individually as i find time. :) Current Mood:  busy |
| Saturday, April 30th, 2005 |
| 3:14 pm |
it's been a very uneventful day so far... i've indulged in far too much of the reading of my friends list today in an effort to catch up on being behind...my house is just beginning to feel "not chilly" and it's mid afternoon.. we got pretty cool around these parts last night so we had a long way to warm up before we made those in the 60's temps they forecast for the afternoon. i woke up some time between 4 and 5 this morning... i was dreaming...it was a whole convoluted thing... in some house i wasn't even familiar with... there were some people involved that i knew in real life... some i didn't (it's pretty common for me to just dream up people--folks i have no clue who they are--i just make them up i guess)...but the thing that woke me up was that i was dreaming that my son (in my dream he was my brother?) died.. and in some ways i was grieving and finding it unbelievable that other people in the dream weren't feeling devastated...in some ways i was feeling like it was all very surreal and just not based in reality... i guess maybe that's why i woke up... because i just knew it wasn't real... *sigh*... why do we dream up stuff like this that is so bizarre? i think i'm off to spend a little time outside while it's still warm and nice... i've missed the sunshine the last couple days.. :) |
| Friday, April 29th, 2005 |
| 7:47 am |
i guess it's time to get up....
i've been cutting back the kitty food slightly... my kitties are getting roly poly these days...their bowl was empty all night long...i guess they were ready to be fed... crash, the male kitty, pulled about 4 vcr tapes out of one section of the tower i store them in...the resulting crash woke me up. my body is steadfastly refusing to acclimate to the time change.. what is this... 4 weeks now?... i swear it takes about 6 weeks for me to deal with that one hour's change. it's all wet outside this morning.. i can't tell if it's just that damp from morning dew or if we actually had some rain at some time overnight. i walked to the post office again yesterday when i had to make the afternoon mail run at work.. i feel good about that small change i've made in my life...i just have to keep telling myself that i'm not being selfish to walk rather than drive in the car...it amounts to roughly around a big city block when you add up and back...takes less than 10 mins...so maybe it doubles the time it would take to go up and back in the car... but this is my body and something has to give... and just think of all that gas i'd be saving.. *chuckles*.. ok.. i made myself laugh there... so a block a day in the car won't make that much difference... but if everyone did the same thing... then it would start adding up... i know some of you guys out there in big places are laughing and thinking, "a block!.. driving a block?"... people around here just don't walk short distances. hmmmm... how did walking to the mailbox turn into pondering saving energy resources? i am totally completely caught up with anything i know to do at work these days... i even found something extra to do that will help one of the other gals when it comes time to reconciling the bank statement at the end of the month... yesterday i figured out how to add our bank deposits into the accounting software... a simple thing.. just something i'd never done before... someone else had always done it... i put in all of this month's deposits and i'll try to catch the next few that will happen before the end of the month. Survivor was both great and disappointing last night... that's all i'll say. time to get the vitamins down and move on to breakfast... i must be getting the mix just about right with food lately...for the first time ever i've been actually feeling hungry before bedtime and wanting a small snack late after having supper between 6 and 7...that's happened about 3 times now in the evenings recently...that hungry empty in the pit of my stomach feeling...some yogurt with wheat germ stirred in or a stick of string cheese seems to solve that problem well. Current Mood: starting to wake up...Current Music: hollerback girl...gwen stefani |
| Thursday, April 28th, 2005 |
| 6:00 pm |
a meme from cynnerth... Reply with your name and I'll tell you something I adore about you. Afterwards, copy and paste this into your own journal. Current Mood: meme-ishCurrent Music: walk this way...aerosmith |
| Wednesday, April 27th, 2005 |
| 6:38 pm |
it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...
wow.. wish everyday could be like today.. we had sunshine and blue skies with just a slight breeze that got up a little bit this afternoon, but nothing like we battle at some times. yesterday when i got home from work, my yard had been mowed...i wasn't sure who did it...if i had let myself think of it very hard at all it would have made me teary because someone had done such a kindness for me... lauren came by later in the evening and asked if i noticed and let me know she'd been the one to do it... she also just went out for a few mins and ran the weed eater in the front...she said she would mow and weedeat the back for me this weekend while she's here.... what a load off my mind. at work this afternoon, i walked to the post office to mail the few things i needed to mail... it was just too pretty a day to not enjoy the sunshine some... i've wanted to do this for a long time now, but have always felt bad about not running down and back as quickly as possible in the car since they pay me to answer the phone around there...it takes less than 10 mins to walk to the post office and back and let's me enjoy some sunshine on my skin and get at least a little activity into a long afternoon of just sitting...i am worth that!...i also grabbed the yard knife when i got home and enjoyed about 30 mins of time outside working in the yard. i guess today is secretary's day?...my boss had a potted plant sent to the office for each of us that work there... the one that had my name on it came in what i thought was the prettiest pot... i've just spent some time online trying to see if i could find the name, but i can't.. it's a common houseplant that i've seen and should know the name of... but i can't seem to remember it at the moment...anyway it was a really nice surprise that made me smile... :) i think i've done better getting more fruits and veggies into my diet lately. work was work... nothing special.. nothing terrible...i'm still really caught up with everything. i finally got my nails filed today... they've been so long they were getting in the way of typing for 2 weeks now... i just never took the time to take care of it till now. is there a way to change my journal from posting to 24 hour time? Current Mood: accomplishedCurrent Music: quiet hum of the 'puter tower behind the desk cabinet door |
| Monday, April 25th, 2005 |
| 6:10 pm |
the weekend and water...
i had a pretty quiet weekend.. i didn't do much of anything and i can't really say i got much accomplished at all.. guess i just needed one of those kinds of weekends. i went into work early today, since it was monday.. got there right on time at 10...as soon as i stepped foot into the door at work, i realized i left my water jug at home.. pfft... i kept thinking i didn't have enough in my hands as i was gathering up to get out the door... i refrigerate the jug of water i take with me so it's ice cold when i leave for work... i had to settle for lukewarm tap water from the sink in the kitchenette. there wasn't as much mail today as i thought there would be, being a monday... and i'm still pretty much caught up on everything.. there were lots of bills set out for me to pay, and i had a little bit of stuff to enter on the 'puter... i was also asked if i could do anything about the amount of spam junk mail that seems to have recently found it's way to the work email address... so i got it all set up through the isp like i've done mine at home...finished that just before time to go home. when i got back to the house i carried my stuff in and then grabbed my yard knife and spent a few mins outside pulling some of the weeds that are beginning to get tall... i didn't really stay long because it's just pretty chilly out... it's progressively gotten cooler and more dreary outside since i left to go to work this morning and the air feels cool and damp... i'd have thought we'd have gotten rain at some point in the day long before now, but so far it hasn't happened...there are still a few hours left in the day though.. we'll see...there's some kind of critter digging in my yard...! Current Mood: mondayishCurrent Music: the quiet hum of the 'puter |
| Friday, April 22nd, 2005 |
| 8:20 pm |
well i settled on shoelaces at the little grocery store in my town... they weren't really what i wanted but they were the only thing that was close to the right color and length i needed... when i got home, the thought briefly flitted through my head that i should just sit down right then and change them out.. i procrastinated and thought, "nah, i'll just take 10 mins some time tomorrow morning to do it before i have to head off to work."... yeah, like that was ever gonna happen.. i forgot about it till i was ready to put my shoes on and walk out the door... no problem, i thought... i'll just take the new laces with me and do them at work... it'll be slow anyway...went to round up a few goodies to put inside some friend birthday cards i needed to send today and yes.. you guessed it... i went off without the laces... *shrugs*... i guess it's just as well, cos i was all kinds of busy at work today.. something i'd never anticipated...so here i sit... new laces still not laced into the shoes because i just never got around to it... anyone gotta round tuit?... i really need one of those things! :) i had a very unexpected surprise this morning in a phone call from a friend.. it was nice to catch up... :) i'm tired of pizza after having it for 2 days now... i think tomorrow i'll build a great salad for lunch. apparently i have nothing else to say.... :/ Current Mood: quietCurrent Music: you want it...old navy's got it |
| Thursday, April 21st, 2005 |
| 12:12 pm |
last night's banquet was nice...
the food was good, not great.. but i was expecting better than the catered one a couple weeks ago...we had ham (which was kinda dry and tasteless), big baked potatoes (they were delicious), green beans with bacon in them (also good), and rolls and a relish tray, with strawberry shortcake for desert... the seniors all sat at long tables place up in front of everyone else... i'd have liked it better if we could have enjoyed conversation with lauren while we all ate...this was a church banquet, so the seniors were each presented with a bible and the girls got a book called "What Every Woman Wants to Know", i think... something to that effect anyway... the guys got something that pertains to them... can't remember the title... i sat across the table from the wasband and his wife.. it was surprisingly ok... i've never really had a problem with seeing him for things like this that we both need to attend but up until this past year, he's always been so uncomfortable with it that it's made things terribly awkward for everyone. gah!... it's humid around here today... getting ready for the banquet last night, i felt like i needed to hop back in the shower as soon as i got out... it rained and hailed while we were inside the church for the banquet... some of the hail was golfball sized...thankfully THAT didn't last long... that bit of moisture has only added to the humidity... if i was on my puter at home, i'd check to see the percentage of humidity but i'm at work right now... so i can't. one of my shoes laces is hanging on by a thread... :/ this morning when i gave it that slight little tug to tighten the laces it almost pulled in two.. i hadn't even been aware it was close to that point...i hope i can pick up laces at the grocery store downtown... if not, i either have to choose whether i'll be going back to walmart earlier than my usual run to get things (i was there only last weekend with lauren and usually only go once a month) or whether i'll wait and not wear my favorite every day shoes for 3 weeks...*sigh* most of you really have no concept of what it's like to live in the boonies like this. i came in early today... good to get some extra hours in... goodness knows i need it...the perfect opportunity came up a few days ago to talk to my boss about how i'm getting paid... i've long lamented that i get paid for a straight 4 hours regardless of what time i get here or what time i leave... but of course my pay gets docked when i'm late...when i get here early, i don't sit here and tap my toe till the other gal leaves... i find something i can do and take it to the round table...i work... i finally got to mention this to bossman the other day... he wasn't aware that was how my pay was being handled.. i also let him know that i recently got a quarter raise but before that i went for 4 years without any increase at all...he wasn't aware of that either....he said he'd have a talk with the other gal and straighten things out... i'm curious to see how it reflects in my check next time... also hoping it doesn't cause a strain between the other gal and myself... i don't want her to feel like i went behind her back vindictively... that's not how it was... i just need to look out for myself and get a fair shake on my pay situation here. i ordered pizza for a donation thing from the other gal's son... it was to be here yesterday evening... i was supposed to go pick it up when i got off work from the fire station.. i got almost all the way back home before i remembered the pizza...(at 5:05 when i was trying to lock the door some delivery guy showed up and i had to wait 10 mins for him to unload this big heavy thing {no idea what it was} so it was 5:15 before i left here)... we had the banquet to attend and my brain was focused on i've got to hurry and get home and get in and out of the shower as quickly as possible so i can get my hair dry enough to roll up in the hot rollers...the pizza totally slipped my mind.. well... i turned around and came all the way back...got to the firestation and just missed the other gal... i was told she's just taken it with some others to be delivered...i drove and looked back and forth through the streets to see if i could spot her around town but didn't see them.. so i headed home...even later than before... called her when i got home.. she'd put it in the fridge here at the office... no great loss because the banquet conflict messed up the pizza and movie plan lauren and i were originally gonna do...but gah!.. i hate messups like that...on the plus side... there's good pizza for lunch today... :) speaking of.... i think i'll warm up a slice. Current Mood:  hungryCurrent Music: i married an axe murderer on tv |
| Wednesday, April 20th, 2005 |
| 9:01 am |
busy days in the life and times....
i suck at journaling, i guess. i'm out of the habit.. i make an effort to remember to post and it seems i don't have anything interesting to post about... then life gets busy and all kinds of things happen and i either forget all about or don't take the time to post... *sigh*... it's become an ever-repeating cycle. i'll try and remember some of the things worth noting that happened lately. last wednesday, lauren was asked to give a speech to a women's group meeting...someone around town commented that she did well..it made me proud. lauren also brought in proofs of her casual senior pictures for me to look at and choose which ones i like.... she stopped by just before school this morning and brought my pictures to me... they're really great pics. last sunday, lauren and i trimmed the bushes out in front of my windows...*sigh*... i got another letter from the realtor i rent from last week... reminding me that it was my responsibility to keep the yard up and make sure the place looks nice because they want to sell it.... *another sigh*... we will never see eye to eye on this matter... this place was for sell long before i moved in... it was vacant at least 2 years before i moved in... it's my feeling that they've made lots of money from me at $300/month rent over 5 years time.. money they'd certainly not have made had the place just remained empty...and if they're the ones wanting to sell this place so badly... then i feel like it should be up to them to pay to keep the yard up... i'm living on a part time wage and it literally comes down to the fact that i barely clear $600 a month at my part time job.. i'm giving them half in rent... you do the math... i don't have it in my budget to pay someone to mow my yard all summer... i don't have a mower myself....*frustrated* lauren's prom is this coming saturday...i have a small repair job to do on the dress she borrowed to wear. another little gal around town also came by yesterday evening and left me her dress... i have a simple alteration job to do on it... i need to get both of these done today.. preferably before i go to work today... which means i better hop to soon. lauren's going to the regional uil contest on thursday and friday. tonight there's a senior banquet at one of the churches for seniors and parents.... i have no idea what i'm going to wear... maybe prospects will be better if i do laundry today... how am i gonna cram in all this stuff i want to get done this morning...working out is still a hit and miss thing... at least i'm trying to make the effort though...life is getting in the way... this also is an ever-repeating cycle for me it seems.. i finally muster up the motivation to do it and for one reason or another it feels like forces conspire to keep me from getting to do it. yesterday, coming home from work... i was just heading out of town back to my town... barely getting up speed.... 45 miles an hour... up to 50 miles an hour... what the heck?... the steering wheel is shaking and shimmying... and it feels like the car's gonna rattle apart.. my first thought is i must be loosing tread or a tire's about to go... pull off the side of the road and check... tires look fine... except i can see icky tar with all kinds of rocks stuck to it on all 4 tires.. it's gotten my tires so out of balance my car won't even drive like it's supposed to... so i turn around and limp back into town... head back to the shop... find a handy dandy tool sitting handy as i walk into the shop area (it's the scraper thing they use to remove old inspection stickers) and grab a paper towel and head back out the door...it's hot (almost 90°), windy, my hair's long and blowing all around so that i can hardly see what i'm doing... but i'm at least getting some of it off... i finally decide to take it to the auto shop (which my boss also owns) and ask if they'll put it up on the rack so we can spin the tires and get to all of it cos i can't get to the stuff on the inside of the wheel.. the mechanic there didn't put it up on the rack, but he scraped off what he could get with his pocket knife... he kept just sticking the tar he scraped off into a wad... i kid you not, people.. it's the size of a baseball!... and that's just the stuff that he could get off... i made it home fine.. but it was an hour late with that little delay... sometimes i think i'm the only person to which things like this happen. Current Mood: busyCurrent Music: hollerback girl...gwen stefani |
| Monday, April 11th, 2005 |
| 9:51 pm |
what a day...
i wanted to run away from work today. it had nothing to do with the people i see in the office. it was all about frustrating phone calls and problems that cropped up and interruptions. it's rare when i end up feeling that way over my job. i'm exhaused this evening and i'm pretty sure it's because of the steady nag of frustration from work all day. Current Mood:  tired |
| Monday, April 4th, 2005 |
| 8:06 pm |
are banquet dinners ever really good?...
i just got home from an academic awards banquet...lauren's a senior this year.. this is the last one of these... she'll also be the salutatorian of her class...i'm very proud of her...it made me proud to hear her name called and watch her walk up to receive her medal for having a 90 or above average for the last 3 semesters... :) i can't really say much for the banquet though... i paid $10 to go up and eat a catered meal consisting of greasy bbq brisket meat...sausage (which was actually pretty good)...cole slaw that had no dressing on it (what were they thinking?)... beans that had no flavor (i literally took one bite)...a dessert that was covered with a plastic lid you couldn't see through so i didn't get one since i had no idea what it was... a slice of plain white bread (which i never eat anyway)... and the extra stuff like pickles, peppers, and onions which i never eat anyway either...the sound system was really terrible and they had it turned up so loud the voice of everyone who spoke in the mic was distorted...they also cut it really short and hurried through all of it because there are some final games on tonight... whatever. but i got to watch my kid go up and get an award and i was proud... :) Current Mood: hungry |
| 9:50 am |
:/
i hate the time change. it throws my body out of synch for about 6 weeks. did i mention i hate the time change? that is all.......... Current Mood: out of synchCurrent Music: you and me...lifehouse |
