Lifestyles of the Common & Unknown

Benny, Benny, Benny and Jetssssss

2007-01-21T22:51:00.000-07:00

RIP: Benny Parsons, announcer (and former driver) of NASCAR.

http://www.nascar.com/special/parsons/

Blast from the Past

2007-01-13T10:17:00.000-07:00

I decided to do a search for a high school friend of mine I'd lost contact with. He was amazingly easy to find. It's so cool to be in touch with him again.

I have three other friends I'm looking for, but they don't seem to be as easy to find. Ah well. Maybe someday.

I'm such a geek

2007-01-13T10:14:00.000-07:00

We just got a new kitten. I've named her Vala (Mal Doran). Yup, after the SG 1 character. We also have another cat named after a Farscape character and our dog is named after a Firefly character. I'm hopeless LOL

Here's her pics:

End of the Line

2007-01-05T16:44:00.000-07:00

Well. I feel like a complete moron.

I got on the wrong bus yesterday. After having rode the bus 4 days out of the week for last almost 2yrs. This is the second time I've done it, but this one was a doozy. The first time I took the wrong bus, but it came back to the station within the hour and I was able to get on the right bus.

Not this time.

I took the way wrong bus and I had no idea where I was. It was dark out and I hadn't seen any street signs in some time. I knew I was pretty far out, because I was smelling cow patties.

I called Daniel to let him know, and he came and got me. Otherwise, it was going to be another half hour to catch the bus back to the Depot and an hour to get there from where I was at. Plus the wait for my next bus and the ride home from there.

In my defence, the bus I was supposed to get on, was pulled up to the curb when I arrived at the Depot. But I do recall seeing a different number on the placard in the window when I got on. But my brain was still convinced it was the right bus. All I can think is that bus took off when I turned around and the other bus took it's place. Or I'm just an idiot! LOL! Which is certianly a possibility. ;o)

SO freakin' shiny!!

2006-12-27T18:54:00.000-07:00

I just put in my pre-order for Serenity ornaments (bigbadtoystore.com):

DHC10027 Serenity Ship Ornament Due February 2007

DHC10039 Serenity in Disguise - Limited Edition Ornament Due May 2007

SHINY SHINY SHINY SHINY SHINY SHINY SHINY SHINY!!!!!!

And now I'm back...from outerspace...

2006-12-17T15:05:00.000-07:00

I've dropped my Myspace blog, so I'm back over here.

I made the mistake of accidentally inviting someone who I was just looking for their Myspace. I typed in their name and the next thing I know it says "invite sent!". Noooooooooooo! Oops. I haven't added them yet and I'm not really sure what I'm going to do.

It's really been a long time since I've been here. I went back and read all my old posts. Co-irker is gone. She was replaced by two more co-irkers (seperate times) who are now also both gone. One still works in the building but not in the Admin office, so that helps a lot. The other quit with no notice at all. Someone who left came back, and I like her. I think she slacks a bit too much, but at least I get along with her. There's only one person in our office that irritates me very much. Some days are better than others though, so that's always good.

Had a few deaths. My grandma passed last December and our dog Dixie passed in May of this year.

Kids are doing pretty good. Cameron's mellowed some and Susan's just her usual Drama Queen self.

Have added all the expansions and "stuff" packs up to Happy Holiday Stuff, including Pets. I'm trying desperately to get a wolf to bite my sim so I can have a werewolf and it' not working! *grr* "Seasons" is next, in late February (so far). Could be interesting. May make the game very challenging!

I think that's about it for now!

Jabber, jabber, jabber

2005-11-13T15:44:00.000-07:00

I keep forgetting to post here. A friend of mine got me into MySpace and I've been blogging there, lately.

I don't really like MySpace much. It's too hard to edit and tinker with. And too many people do way too much with their page and make it almost impossible to read or do anything with. Gaudy backgrounds, lots of "bells and whistles". It's getting to be the "dollz" thing all over again. Except that I never got into "dollz". Myspace, blinkies and countdown things are all the rage now. I've got some blinkies, only because the mods put them there (I did not ask for them). And of course a myspace. Nothing left to count down but I probably wouldn't use one anyway. I'll probably keep Myspace updated. The pic I promised to post here is over there.

Kids have friends over. Susan's being a little butthead as usual. She acts just fine at their place - or so their parents say. But at home? Nope. Why would she do something like that?

Oh, my friend and I got into the entertainment section of the newspaper. We were at the Thunderbird Balloon and Air Classic a couple weekends back, and got into the paper about that. I'm such a fat cow :/ (Makes you wanna run over and see that pic now huh?)

Well, later.

It's been awhile

2005-10-19T13:42:00.000-07:00

Nothing too thrilling has been going on the last couple of weeks. We did go see Serenity a few weekends back :o) I have a family pic, I'll try to post it sometime.

We got some fish. Three Zebra Danios and three Red Eye Tetras. I was hoping we could put more in the tank, but apparently you can only have 1" of fish per gallon of water. So...they can all grow to be 2-2.75" each, so we already have too many fish (when they all get full grown). They seem to be doing alright so far.

Got ahold of the people who were my God Parents as a kid :o) I need to write back soon.

Well that's it for now!

Work

2005-09-30T19:51:00.000-07:00

My supervisor said to an inspector over the phone: "The photo gal is out today but her back up is here". Back up? Is that all I am? Do I really suck that bad at my job? I realize she's been there longer and knows a bit more than me, but still. This turned out to be something I handled just fine. It wasn't anything different than from what I do day to day. Just kind of threw me the way she said it and how she called the other gal "the photo gal". I do photos too. Just as much as the other gal. But apparently I'm only "back up". *humph*

sigh

2005-09-20T14:20:00.000-07:00

Saturday night I found out that Cameron had been strangled by my friend's son, during a sleepover several weeks back. Enough that he lost conciousness for several seconds. Since it happened several weeks ago, plus my son isn't at all concerned about it, I really am at a loss what to do. He says he could tell the kid didn't realize he was being so rough. I'd tell the mom (who is my friend) but she'd either blow it off or make excuses. There's really no point. :(

Found out today that Cameron hasn't been doing his math assignments because he "doesn't care" if the only job he can get is working for McDonalds (he doesn't care if he doesn't do well/fails math). I personally don't care if he ends up working for McD's or not. But he sure as heck isn't going to mooch off of us all his life, either.

A few weeks ago he literally told a teacher that he thought the assignment she gave them was stupid and he wasn't going to do it. He did it. I made sure he did. Why he thinks he can just go around NOT doing his classwork is beyond me. Like I'm not going to take away his games and stuff?

I really hate conflicts. With him especially cause it can turn into something so totally off the topic it's crazy. Wish me luck that I don't strangle the kid myself.

Poor old thing

2005-09-15T14:27:00.000-07:00

Our oldest dog, Dixie, just turned 13 last month. She's really showing her age. Over the past year, you can really see that her joints hurt her. She's got cataracts and is losing her hearing.

Last night when we were putting the dogs away for the night, she was so out of it (asleep or not hearing him), Daniel had to go over and nudge her to get her attention. No amount of shouting her name did any good.

This morning she was the same way. She was breathing so shallowly, I really thought she was dead. But then I heard a really soft snoring. I clapped my hands right in front of her face with no reaction. I didn't want to get bit by accident, so I shook her kennel. It took awhile, but she finally slowly woke up. She looked so lost. I let her out to go to the bathroom and she just kept sitting, looking like she had no clue why she was outside or what to do.

Other days she's a lot more active and "perky". The last two she's seemed really dazed and confused. I have to wonder if we should let her die on her own (if that's the way she's really heading, and as long as it's not torturing her), or if we should eventually have her put down. I guess we'll watch her and see how she does.

The Sims 2 - Nightlife

2005-09-13T11:52:00.000-07:00

I should be getting my expansion pack today!!! I'm excited! We'll have to see what FedEx does with it, if there's no one there to get it. I haven't been able to talk to a person yet, to ask if it needs to be signed for. More than likely, it does. So I hope I can have it re-delivered or something, today. Although, if past experience holds true, they may deliver it to the first neighbor who answers the door. I hope not, but at least I can check online to find out.

I backed up my walls, floors and clothes that I downloaded. I'm going to re-install the whole thing from the beginning. I sure wish I could get it to run on the laptop, but I guess I'll survive.

Tell that girl to shut up

2005-09-13T10:45:00.000-07:00

There was this group I used to like called Transvision Vamp, and that's a line from one of their songs. I wish I could find them again, or link to the song somehow. It was a funny song.

Anyway: the co-irker is bugging me again. She's working better now that our supervisor got after her. But she still annoys the living hell out of me. This girl talks and talks and talks and talks, her voice isn't all that pleasant to listen to either, and she's loud. If she says "tummy" one more time, I think I'm gonna scream!! You're 19, not 5!! Five days a week, she's got to talk about the baby, one way or another. It's her first pregnancy, but please. And what's really funny is that quite a few people still say how quiet she is. Yeah, right. I wish.

I think what annoys me the most is, for example: A girl came in wearing a camisole "shirt" (if you can call it that - it's basically a nighty). The co-irker said that she would never dress like that to come to work. Yet a couple times a month she comes in wearing a mini skirt. A mini skirt that has to be pulled down each and every time she stands up. Another example: Before she got talked to (and every now and then since), she always talked about how she was annoyed by people who had bad work ethics. Yet there she was, a huge stack of mail sitting on the scanner to be done, and she was doodling, spending over an hour just surfing the net, complaining about being bored, etc. Yes, our job can get monotonous, but when you're behind, you don't just sit around and goof off.

They're throwing a baby shower for her next week, here at work (with some wedding stuff thrown in, I think - she's getting married on Friday of next week). I'm really considering calling in sick. I really don't want to be here for it. I'd still pitch in for the supplies, but I'd just rather not go. On the other hand, I could use the hours. Daniel says it's okay with him. We'll see. I have a bit to think about it.

Can't sleep

2005-09-06T00:57:00.000-07:00

I did pretty good over the long weekend and now that I need to be asleep, I can't. *grr* Must have been because Sunday was the first morning I really slept in late. I was tired when I laid down. Frustrating!!

On the porch

2005-09-03T12:17:00.000-07:00

Susan has a friend staying over who is a bit younger than her, and they wanted to rollerblade, so I'm out on the porch keeping an eye on them. It's hot out, but a little sweat won't kill me.

I have Wi-fi on the laptop. I'm getting a low/very low signal, so I don't know that I'm going to be able to do a lot. I brought out some movies just in case.

I did get some yardwork done yesterday. Mowed the front yard and weed wacked most of it. The string or whatever you call it, is either out or sucked back inside (it did that in the past). It sure looks a lot nicer though. I can't wait until we lay down the seed that we got, for the bare patches. I also did some dishes. So the day wasn't a total loss. I was going to do down one side of the house, too. But the grass was too tall for the mower and the weedwacker was out of commission.

Worked on some crochet snowflakes last night to give as gifts at work, last night.

I'm doing laundry today. Nothing too hard.

Day Off

2005-09-02T08:34:00.000-07:00

Susan doesn't have school today because of Professional Development. So, I had to take the day off to stay home with her. I hate not working, but at the same time, it's kind of nice. We had almost nothing coming in anyway. I don't think it had much to do with Hurricane Katrina. We don't get a lot of inspections from that area, really.

I'm planning on doing some yardwork today. We'll see how much I actually get done.

Graffiti Busters stopped by this morning. Someone reported the graffitti that's on one of our brick walls. Funny...*I* called a year ago. No one ever responded to my call. Oh well at least it's finally getting done. Someone had written "Pac city" or something like that on the wall.

Well I guess I ought to go take care of some bills and get chores started. Have a good holiday weekend!

Teens

2005-08-25T07:39:00.000-07:00

Ah, the teen years. (sarcasm!) Cameron's been soooooo moody lately. One minute he's fine and the next he's quiet and sullen. Ask him to do anything and you get a glare like he'd like to pop you one. I just really hope he's not getting any of the family history of depression. I realize he's a teen and this is normal, but because we have it, I worry about it.

Last night he stayed in his room all night, didn't have dinner and went to bed early. He won't talk about it. I guess it's better than him blowing a fuse, but sometimes I wish he would let it out, just so we knew what was going on.

Ramblings

2005-08-21T12:14:00.000-07:00

Monday there was an Open House at the High School. It was nice to be able to meet all his teachers and hear exactly what they do for thier classes. My favorite teacher of his is Mrs. Yanez, his accelerated math teacher. She seems like a neat lady.

Daniel took this past week off. Didn't get a lot done, but I guess that's okay. He did install Cameron's ceiling light/fan. The fan part doesn't work yet, but at least the light is up. I took two days off of work myself. They went by far too fast. I can't believe I have to go back to work tomorrow!!

We got supplies to put grass seed on the bare patches in our lawn. Don't know when we'll get to it now. You have to keep it wet all the time, and with no one here most of the day after Monday, I don't know how we're going to do it.

Saturday my friend took Susan and I up to the Grand Canyon. We didn't leave til noon, so we didn't spend much time up there looking around. But it was still nice and I got some decent pictures. I haven't been up there in awhile and it was winter (or coming to the end of it) last time. I'll try to post a few here soon.

That's about the size of it at the moment. Nothing too exciting going on. Catch ya later.

Miscellany

2005-08-06T18:23:00.000-07:00

Cameron's all registered for high school. We thought he was required to have a chicken pox vaccine, but he's not. They can't hold him out of school for it. It's required to get into 4th and 7th grade, but not 9th. So, we'll see. He's going to have accelerated math and science. He wanted to take Spanish this year, but he's not getting it for the first quarter. He's taking foods instead, which is fine.

Susan's all registered for school. They told Daniel that there would be an open house at 7pm on the 4th. WRONG. We went there and it was 5-7. Not only did they say 7 at the registration, but we got a recorded phone call the day before that said the exact same thing! WTF?! We did get to meet her teacher briefly and she got a free backpack (most of the students did, for the whole school). Got her registered for the after school program. The bad news is that we think that they're going to be having "half day" Wednesdays like the high school, but the after school program knew nothing about it. They don't know if they still do care for those days. At least that's not til Septemer, if they are going to start the "half day" Wednesdays.

We'll have to wait til Monday to deal with the lunch money. I have to go in and ask for a refund or to have it put into Susan's account.

Not too much more going on. Co-worker's still being lazy and no one's saying a word. I'm taking a couple days off later this month, though, so that should help.

Just two more months until Serenity (the movie LOL)!!!

Shindig! Next Saturday!

2005-08-06T18:18:00.000-07:00

The last get together to watch Firefly eps until the Big Damn Movie! At least as far as I know, anyway.

Feel free to drop by:

Place: Samurai Comics at 5024 N 7th Street (phone 602 265 8886)
Time: 4:00pm
Date: August 13

Bring a few dollars if you want to share in some pizza and have some soda's (.50cents for the soda).

Weekend 7/22-24

2005-07-24T14:24:00.000-07:00

I'm so sore! I did some major vacuuming and mopping yesterday. The back of my thighs, the right side of my back and my right arm are all sore today. Mostly my thighs. But it looks better, so that's good.

Did 3 loads of towels today. Measured the windows for curtains. I thought we'd go look today but Daniel has a headache and Susan's being annoying.

Tomorrow Daniel's is going over to the elementary school to see if Susan needs to register there, or if they already have her things transferred from the other elementary school. Cameron's registration is on the 28th. Other than that, it'll be a basic week.

School starts August 8th. Ooo, that reminds me, I should have Daniel go over and register Susan for the after school program too. Or at least get me the paperwork and I can fill it out on my lunch for him to take back to the place.

I also need to call MyLunchMoney.com and see if I can get money that's in Cameron's lunch account given back to me. They don't deal with his high school. Or if I can get it transferred into Susan's account.

Co-worker rant

2005-07-20T17:51:00.000-07:00

I know I'm not perfect, and I know that everyone has different ways of doing things.

But today I was just so mad at my co-worker! She comes in late for work every day. Today was worse at 30min late. She also comes back late from lunch practically everyday (today it was 10min late). She proceeds to come back from lunch and log into her bank account. Prints out some emails. Spends some time at a hospital's website (she's pregnant). Scans her ultrasounds and emails them to her fiancee (who works in the same building, btw and they live together). Doodles. Signs what will be her married name. Signs her baby's name (they know it's a boy and have named him - he's due in Oct). She spent well over an hour doing nothing related to work. Then she did about 15 min of work, goofed off. Worked 10-15min and would just chat with the other ladies. I wouldn't mind if she was waiting for something to finish or something, but she wasn't doing anything at all. Just chit-chatting. She'd work a little, then call her fiancee and chit-chat with him (not work related). On and on like that the rest of the day. For goodness sake, you LIVE with him, talk to him at home!! And then she left early too, without even helping me out by shutting down some of the lights in the office.

This would bug me in any instance. But today it just really aggrivated me because we have been short handed and we are way behind!

I hate to say it, but I really hope she decides not to come back when she has her baby.

Miscellany

2005-07-16T19:20:00.000-07:00

Finally catching up a bit here.

Sunday night I buzzed both hubby and DS's hair, to about 1" all over. DS didn't like his that length, he wanted shorter! Susan and I went Monday. Susan's was about to the middle of her back, now it's at her earlobes or so. Mine was a little past shoulder length and got it about the same (earlobe). But they left the top/sides about the same length as before (trimmed a bit). I may go back and ask them to trim it. I really don't like my hair in my face, which happens anytime even a small gust of wind hits me. But I may also look into hair accessories and see what I can find. See if I can learn how to use some of them. I have very little "girl" in me, and have no clue about accessories. I did DS's to 1/8" on Friday. I don't like it, but it's his hair and it's not hurting anything. He'll just have to be sure to take a hat if he's going to be outside for long periods of time.

Susan had a friend sleep over last night. It wasn't too bad. Susan of course got up after we went to bed (her friend slept in the living room on the hide-a-bed) and stayed up late with her. They were asleep when my husband and I came out at 9:30 or so. They slept til around noon. We played Mario Party 5 for about 4 hours and then I made dinner. It went pretty quickly today, I was surprised.

Tomorrow Cameron's supposed to have a few friends over for awhile. His "girlfriend" is bringing her little sister. Susan and her are kind of friends, but the last time the girl was over, I guess she made a big mess in Susan's room and took one of her SP games. Susan said she could have one but the girl took her brand new one. And Cameron said they pestered him and his friends the whole time last time. Hopefully it'll go better.

We may go buy a chain saw tomorrow. Get rid of some of our dead trees and such.

I'm going to try to work on a birth record for a co-worker who had her baby on July 1st. She's brought her in twice now. The baby is so tiny!! And she's 7lbs 10oz now. I don't remember Cameron being that small and he was born at 7lbs 9oz! Susan either and she was smaller, at 6lbs 12oz.

I think next weekend we're going on a road trip. Someone found the helicopter prop from the Firefly episode "Ariel". We'd like to go out and see it ourselves. It's a little less than 5 hours away. We could do it in a day if we really wanted to. Or leave Saturday night, stay the night and see it Sunday morning and come home. We'll see. Hubby's talking about taking some vacation, so we'll see how it goes.

Shindig 7/9

2005-07-13T17:43:00.000-07:00

Each month, on the 2nd Saturday of the month (at least til next month), there is a meeting at Samurai Comics of people who like Firefly/Serenity.

They're fun. We watch Firefly epsiodes (usually recruit another fan or two) and have pizza. The next one will be August 13th.

Then Serenity will be in theaters September 30th. Even though I saw the advance screening, I can't wait to see it again!!

San Diego July 2-4th

2005-07-09T11:20:00.000-07:00

Click here for photos. I took close to 600, but weeded them down to 376! LOL! These are 16 of my favorites.

My friend finally decided that they'd like to go to San Diego for the weekend. We left late Friday night and of course went right to bed when we got there.

Saturday we got very, very lost looking for Balboa Park. But we finally did find it. We walked through the rose garden, and then through some of the park itself. There was at least 3 weddings going on. One of them was kind of gangster themed. The guests brought 1962 - 1965 Impalas that were souped up and had hydraulic shocks (so they bounce). We went to the Botanical Garden but it was closing, so we weren't in there very long. Just before we left, we saw some jugglers.

From there they decided to try to find a Lighthouse they'd heard about. We drove along the coast and saw some old ships and neat artwork, so we decided to try to come back again before we left on Monday. We finally found the lighthouse. It was interesting. Not quite what I was expecting. It was more a house with a top of a lighthouse on it. I guess I am just used to seeing the standard tall, straight lighthouses. It was still neat to see though.

Sunday we went to the San Diego Zoo. It's a really nice zoo. We took the bus tour and Skyfari ride. I liked the Skyfari ride the best. There were a few things we didn't like. They had so many kinds of pigs/warthogs, I couldn't believe it. There wheelchair ramps going onto the sidewalks left a lot to be desired, too. My friend is able to get out of her chair and walk some, but people who are totally wheelchair bound would have a hard time. Overall it was nice, though. I bought a couple straps for carrying water, 2 pairs of earrings and a hat. We were there until almost 10pm.

Monday we went back out to the coast where we saw the ships and the artwork. Booked a 2 hour boat tour of the bay. That was a neat thing.

Overall it was a really nice trip and I'm glad I got the chance to go.

July celebrations

2005-06-29T20:58:00.000-07:00

I'm sure there's lots more, but I got a kick out of some of these July "celebrations":

Be nice to New Jersey Week (July 3-9)

Nude recreation week (July 4-10)

Don't step on a bee day (July 10)

Embrace your geekness day (July 13)

Gruntled workers day (July 13)

National talk in elevators day (July 29th)

Birthday gifts

2005-06-28T07:16:00.000-07:00

My mom sent me a box for my birthday, that arrived yesterday. She gave me a cross necklace, with a 7.5 blue pearl on it. Apparently the blue pearl is even more rare than the black pearl. And she gave me a ring that belonged to my Grandma (her mom). Her husband (my step-grandpa) gave it to her as an Anniversary gift one year. He gave it to my mom the last time she was down there, to give to me, cause my grandma had once said she wanted me to have it. My grandma is still alive, but she has Alzheimers going on 10yrs. She can't really speak much anymore and is bed-ridden (they put her in a wheelchair so she can get out of her room). The ring is a synthetic star sapphire, with 1/4 ct of diamonds on it. Here's pictures of them both (click on them for larger pictures):

Weekend

2005-06-28T07:15:00.000-07:00

Lunch with my high school friend went well. The kids behaved, if a bit chatty. I was late was the only bad thing :o( I thought she said 1p, but she said 11a! Oops! I'm so glad she called me to ask if we were still on! Luckily I live really close to where we were meeting and I was ready to go.

I hate how good food looks on t.v. and then isn't nearly as good at the restaurant. I had been seeing the Shrimp Cannelloni for Olive Garden and thought it looked really good. What I got was much smaller and didn't look quite as appetizing. It was o.k. But for 11.95 it sure wasn't much. Ah well. That's only the 3rd time I have been there in 7 years, anyway.

Cameron had spent the day over at his friends house. I picked him up for lunch and then took both Cameron & Susan back over. Came home and spent some time getting Good Eats off of our DVR. The kids came home a couple hours later.

Cameron went back over to his friends on Sunday. And since the race was on, I decided it was high time to organize the computer room. It took me 7 hours!!!! I couldn't believe it!! It didn't seem like I really did that much. Mostly just seperated paperwork and shredded stuff. But it sure looks better in there. We went out for dinner while Cameron ate at his friends.

Have some tentative plans over this week and weekend to get some other cleaning done. We'll see though.

Pet sitting

2005-06-28T07:01:00.000-07:00

We've been pet sitting a German Shephard (female) and a short-haired black cat (male) since Friday morning. The dog is a bit restless because she misses her master. They'll either go home Wednesday or Thursday. Our younger dog is a real brat. She was SO vicious about the German Shephard being here! She gets these vicious moments that really scare me :o( I have been hearing about this new pill that mimics the mother's "calming pheremones" (sp?). I am considering it for our dog. Last night she was making racket from 3:30am on, no real apparent reason. The older dog is used to both dogs and cats, so she hasn't been a problem at all.

The cat is quite talkative. Our other cats (3, all females - all fixed) don't like him yet, but they're getting more used to him. Two have come nose to nose with him without fighting. Some hissing, but no fighting. He takes care of himself well, though. He is not afraid to defend himself. I'm a little worried that he's spraying, but so far our house doesn't stink so hopefully that's a good sign.

Awww

2005-06-23T16:25:00.000-07:00

My hubby brought me a cake, balloons and roses (that can be planted in the ground) to my office for my Birthday. How sweet!

Bummer

2005-06-23T07:43:00.000-07:00

Well, I knew she would. My friend backed out of doing Carlsbad Caverns. Everytime she sets up something "big" with me, she backs out of it with one excuse or another. She did have some valid reasons. But I wish she hadn't said anything at all until she was sure it was something she could do it with at least 90% confidence. I knew it was probably not going to happen when the very next day after offering to do it, she said she wasn't sure her husband could tolerate the 10hr drive. *sigh*

She wants me to think of something else that we could easily do over the weekend. I told her I thought about Sea World/the zoo but they've already been twice. And honestly, I think it's out of my budget at the moment. There's really not a lot of places I really want to go. I guess we could go to the Grand Canyon. I was there in the winter once and had a kind of crappy camera. I might like to see it again. I also thought about the Painted Desert/Petrified Forest. I don't know. We'll see I guess.

Crap...I forgot my phone and batteries for my radio. Man. Now I have to see if I can get DH to answer the phone and bring them by without him being late for work.

All in all it seems like a decent day though, still. For the moment, I'm awake. That's always good. I hope it lasts. I was literally falling asleep at my computer yesterday afternoon.

Call me MISSES Crankypants!

2005-06-21T17:12:00.000-07:00

Never, ever forget to take your anxiety/depression meds for more than a day! I try so hard to remember. But I'm also trying to make them last until I can see a new psychiatrist (long story, maybe another day). I just took my meds a few mintues ago, after being 2 3/4's day without anything.

I was doing okay for most of the day. Mostly I was just quiet and trying to keep myself calm.

After lunch, it went downhill pretty quick. My DD calls me and asks if she can play Xbox Live on her brother's game. I tell her she can, as long as it's okay with him that she plays his game. She says "he's not here". HUH? He has class from 8:30am-12:30 and it was 1:35. So I get off the phone with her and immediately call his cell. He's at QT getting soda, he says. And oops, he forgot to stop by the house to tell Susan what he was doing or even to call me and let me know. It takes him MAYBE 10 min to ride from the school back to our house. Maybe 15 to go straight to QT, cause it's right around the corner.

Then a co-worker made the mistake of handing me Builder Reviews. She said she gave them to me because there wasn't much work for me to do (which, there wasn't). But one of them was for places in Florida when it was already after 5pm their time. All I could call was personal references. Even then, I went through a list of no less than 20 people before I got the three references I needed. Then, I go to fill in the blanks as I'm asking the reference questions, only to find out she's completely changed the way the document worked, without bothering to tell me. The personal one was easier to figure out, but I could not for the life of me figure out how to work the professional one (honestly, I think she didn't get it set up right) and she was already gone by time time I discovered it. *sigh* I mean I filled it out, but none of the words went into the blank spots like they were supposed to. Everytime I hit "tab" to go to the next question, it just made things worse. I was so angry!

Someone else came up and told me not to process something that I already knew I wasn't supposed to. Two people came up to tell me to dress nice tomorrow cause we are having clients come in. I guess that's better than not being told at all, which is usually what happens. I think other than being told twice, what irked me, is I'm one of the nicer dressers. Everyone else wears T-shirts (like NASCAR shirts, logos, etc)/jeans, flip-flops, things like that. I wear slacks, a decent shirt, black shoes. Another one of my co-workers who usually comes in late or clocks in right on the nose, left early like she usually does, and didn't bother to say anything. At least she didn't lock my stuff in the office like she's done before. But it would have been nice to know she was leaving so I didn't have to go around the building making sure I wasn't locking her out of the office.

I get home to be asked last minute if my DD's friend can come over tonight. Um, no. You know better than that. Then I reemed out my DS for not letting anyone know he was going to go get soda and be gone over an hour to do it (when it should have taken him less than 20min).

Well, hopefully now that I've got my meds back in my system I will feel better soon. Gotta go see if I can make dinner without too much problem. Hoping for a better day tomorrow!!

Ho-hum

2005-06-20T15:35:00.000-07:00

I'm bored. For some reason we only had 60 jobs come in since Friday evening. There's 2-3 of us who can do a certain part of the job, and we had those 60 done by 12:30. Since then, there's been one or two trickling in now and again. An hour left of work. I can't even play at Pogo, cause we have a Firewall. I would ask to leave early, but we can use the extra money.

We're seeing what we can do, so the whole family can go to Carlsbad Cavern with my friend and her hubby. Dh works Tuesday through Saturday, and usually can't take Saturdays off. There's only two people at his work that are "Biomeds". So when one's gone, the other pretty much has to be there. Otherwise, no testing/repairing gets done. So, we'll see. I couldn't believe it was a 10hr drive though!!!! It must not be where I thought it was.

Some lady called my cell just a bit ago, asking about the ad I put in the online classifieds about needing a sitter. I put how old, what age and how many kids. She had no clue *eye roll* Is it too much to ask that you read the whole thing before you call someone? Sheesh.

By the way, I didn't realize my settings had my comments limited to Blogger members only. They are open to everyone. I'm probably gonna regret it ;o)

Weekend

2005-06-20T07:10:00.000-07:00

Sunday was nice - a friend of mine I haven't seen in awhile, took me out for an early birthday lunch. We went to the Cheesecake Factory. I had Shrimp & Angel Hair, and part of a Chocolate Mousse Cheesecake. We walked around and looked at things. It was nice to get out and about. I haven't seen her in over 3 months.

She invited us to go with them (her & her hubby) to Sedona this coming weekend and Carlsbad Caverns next weekend (in July). I can't go to Sedona this weekend. I made lunch plans with a high school friend for Saturday afternoon. It's been literally years of trying to get together and we live in the same city! So I'm looking more at going to Carlsbad with them, instead. Hubby's trying to plan it so he can go too, depending on when she wants to take off, etc. I need to find out if they want me in for work on the 4th or not. Sometimes we close for bank holidays and sometimes we work a skeleton crew and get the option of saying if we want to work or not.

Some sad news, though. My mom's cousin passed away at the age of 66 (my mom will be 53 later this year). She was ill a few months ago but had seemed to be doing okay lately. But she just sat down and they found her dead later :o( I remember her some. My son and I had been up to see her in 1994 (well not just her, but all our family up that way). I need to get them a card.

Well I guess I ought to go finish getting ready for work. Have a good one!

Brrrr

2005-06-17T16:18:00.000-07:00

Where I sit at work, I'm directly under an AC vent. Plus, I'm on "the same bank" as the server room, which is kept ice cold to keep the server running good. AND, I'm basically in a cubicle. I have 3 walls, but they aren't partition walls, they're real walls. So it keeps all the cold air trapped in. My hands are SO COLD right now. My fingers are getting stiff!! Which isn't a good thing cause a majority of my job requires typing! LOL

One of these days I need to get a little heater in here. The one I brought from home is broken :o( It's the only place in the entire office that is just one desk all by itself. The others are groups of desks in rooms or offices. Sometimes the solitude is nice and other times I miss out on stuff. They tend to "forget" about me, and I end up being the last to know almost everything :o(

Misc

2005-06-16T19:15:00.000-07:00

Another interesting city name: Hillsville, VA. Another city name I like, but it isn't descriptive, is Apopka, Fl. I like the way it sounds.

I'm watching Superman 2 on the movie channel...the CGI isn't so great. Maybe it was better at the theater.

Traffic was thick getting home. There was an accident at the I-17 bridge and Peoria. I couldn't believe how people wouldn't leave spaces at the entrance/exits and side streets. Like a car length or two is gonna make a big difference. Ah well. I got through it pretty good. I even managed to get in all the right lanes.

City names

2005-06-15T20:16:00.000-07:00

I saw a couple city names over the past week, that were pretty interesting.

Bee Caves, TX

Niceville, FL

Twentynine Palms, CA

Share some city names you've seen that were interesting.

Welcome!

2005-06-15T15:46:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my blog! I'll soon be posting when I can and chattering about my mundane and unexciting life and job ;o) I know, that just makes ya wanna come back, huh? LOL Well feel free to come or go as you please. See ya in the 'verse!