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Archive for June, 2008

It’s called “short timers.”   At the end of this work day, I will be off work until Monday at 6am.  WHEEEEEE  While I have an assload of things to do this week while I’m off, in preparation for the mini conference this weekend, I’m going to sleep in.  I’ll be able to turn my alarm off and not freak out if I sleep past 6:30.

I have to print the name tags out this week and I’ll be starting that tomorrow.  After that, I’ll be doing nothing but working on my workshop stuff and hopefully will get that done by Friday morning.  After Friday morning?  I’m fucked and won’t have two seconds to work on it further.  Cross your fingers for me!

I’m a little cranky this morning cause my tummy is upset.  Don’t know why.  I ate a bagel this morning for breakfast and ever since, my tummy has been revolting.  Go figure.

The last few days have been a little bit of an emotional roll coaster and I believe it will be that way (if I let it) for the rest of the week.  Friday is the 3 year anniversary of Todd’s death.   I’ve gotten emotionally bent out of shape the last few years during this week.  I lost it a little bit at the meeting last night, and I’m OK with that.  This grief journey goes on and I’m just riding the train.

I really do need to call Todd’s mom.  She’s called a few times and left me messages and I’ve then forgotten about said messages and never called her back.  *le sigh*  I think part of me did that on purpose.  However, I’m going to face that this week and call her.

At work yesterday, we were going back inside the fire house to go upstairs to our office when we ran into a firefighter.  Can I just say?  HOLY SHIT!!!!  I said “WOW.”  Outloud.  I tried to do it under my breath but I don’t know if anyone heard me.  If they did, they did not respond or react.  Thank God.  That would have embarrassed me.  He was painfully good looking.  Over 6 foot, dark hair, brown eyes.  Yummeh!

Time to get ready for work and then get to the office and see what kind of eye candy there is for me today.

Until next time…

I would love to be able to do the wine of the month thing right now. I didn’t have a bad day, really. It was just an incredibly long, drawn out, dragging day. I had a lot to do when I first got in (Monday after a weekend – always bad). And then by 1pm, I was done and my trainer was busy learning her stuff from the Manager Lady.

I did a lot of twiddling of my thumbs and re-doing and going over everything else I had already done. It took me three or four times, but I finally got the time sheets correct (I hope!) I’ll be sending them out to the houses tomorrow afternoon. I sure hope they are correct, otherwise I will get some heavy shit dropped on me when I return to work on Monday of next week. LOL

WordPress is telling me that this is my 2008th post.  However, I know this to be NOT true because I used to delete posts all the time.  I’d do a draft and instead of just typing over/deleting what was there, I would delete the whole post.  LOL  ooooops!

I have no Dr. Pepper or bottled water in the apartment right now and I don’t care.  I’m getting ready to go sit on my couch until it’s time for my GA meeting at 7pm.

On my way to that meeting, I’ll stop and get some of what I need and then I’ll just have to carry the stuff upstairs.

I think I’m ending this post right here, I don’t have a lot more to say.  Maybe I will when I get home from my meeting.

Until next time…

In 47 days, I will be boarding a plan to Vegas.   On August 8th, my BFF is flying me out there for her birthday party.   I will return to the Ville on August 10th.   47 days remaining and I get to see my BFF again.  I miss her.  I can’t wait to see her.

Now that I have my trip to Vegas planned out, I need to start working on a trip to Georgia to see my family.  I just need to come up with the gas money to get there, but mom says she would pay for the gas to come back.  I also need to find a weekend to do this on.   I’m going to start putting some money aside with my paid blogging that I do and I’m hoping I’ll get down there either in July or August.  Maybe September at the latest.

I slept like crap last night.  I was awake and wandering the apartment several times throughout the night.  I slept the best from 5:30am until about 8:15.   I’m drinking my coffee and trying to get the energy to go take a shower and get ready for church.  Although I don’t to wash my hair quite yet, you know, to keep the color lasting longer.

I’m watching VH-1’s Top 10 Videos.  I miss the days of all videos on VH-1 and MTV.  *le sigh*  Now it’s just stupid show after stupid show.  Admittedly, I’ve watched and enjoyed a few of said stupid shows.

After church I’m going to rush home, finish printing out some stuff for the host committee meeting this afternoon because after that, some of us are staying there at the church and putting these packets together.  I’m hoping to get them all finished printing (except the name tags).

I’m taking a few things with me to church and right after, I’m heading to FedEx/Kinkos to copy them instead of printing them.  I’ve gone through 3 cartridges of black ink and 2 of color.  When I do the name tags, since they are mostly in color, I’m sure I’ll go through some more color ones.

I have this line from one of the songs in Rent going through my head “I’m looking for baggage that goes with mine.” I’m on a few “free” dating websites.  I don’t go on there very often and more times than not, I ignore all communications.  However, I do like to peruse the candidates and see what’s out there.  I noticed that a lot of them say they are looking for “no drama and no baggage.”   Are you insane?  EVERYONE has baggage of some kind.  It just depends on whether we’ve dealt with that baggage or not.  IMHO anyway.

Every time I see that on one of these guys’ profiles, I hear the full line “Life’s too short, babe, time is flying, I’m looking for baggage that goes with mine.”

Until next time…

I have been wanting a hair cut for awhile. My hair is thick and I can rarely do anything with it. My last hair cut was back in January or February. I could do nothing with my hair. I was always putting it up in a ponytail or a clip. It was B-O-R-I-N-G.

I checked with my financial adviser (read: Gary) to make sure it was OK if I splurge on a hair cut and color. He fussed at me. Not because I wanted to get the hair cut or spend the money, but because we had already discussed a hair cut and it IS in my new budget. Ooops. I forgot. And I’m so paranoid to spend any money at all right now except on bills, I freak out a little bit each time I want to spend money on something that is not a “necessity.”

I ended up at the salon in JC Penney. Miss Laci raves about her hair person in a JC Penney somewhere here, so I figured I’d try the one closer to my house. I waited an hour. AN HOUR!!!!

However, it was WELL worth it if you ask me. I find my new hair cut quite sassy and fun. The color is brassy and SCREAMS Sodapop. I’m sure I’ll be taking more pictures over the course of the next day or so. But these were the ones I took today when I got home….

Front view with a bit of a smile. I realized you couldn’t really see the color of the hair in this shot…

So I took this one and BAM!!! Not only can you see the color much better, but my eyes are really sparkling!

Here is a back view of it..showing you the layers and the sassy way they end up.

And the side view. You can see the lighter sections, right? They are so light cause that’s where most of my gray hair is. LOL

Until next time….

In memory of Puppy Monster….

NYC Watchdog, I pray for you and I send positive thoughts your way. Know that you are loved by many and thought of often.

I was tagged by Miss Monique for this meme thing. I’m supposed to list 6 quirks that I have. *le sigh* I’m a Libra, I have so many more quirks, but six it will be!

1. I am deathly afraid of spiders. It does not matter what size. Small, tiny, medium, large. I freak out and almost cry every time I see a spider.

2. When I am home alone (which happens more often than not) and watching a Yankees game, I will cheer and yell at the screen, like I’m at a game in person. It scares my dogs to no end whenever I do that.

3. I am such a freak for the Yankees, I will schedule my social life around their televised games when it gets closer to the end of the season. If they make it to the play offs? Don’t plan on seeing me for awhile.

4. When I get in my car and before I go somewhere, I HAVE to turn my radio on, find the station (or CD) I want; get my cigarettes out and put them in the console between the two seats; put my phone somewhere I can hear it or feel the vibration because my music is always loud and then be able to leave. I freak out if I don’t do these things in order. OCD much?

5. I HAVE to fall asleep on my side, but inevitably, I turn onto my back or stomach and sleep the rest of the night like that. I can not fall asleep while laying on my back. This is a new thing since moving here.

6. When I go out to venture around my surroundings, I have to know exactly where I’m going. I will freak out if I don’t have good directions. Even if it’s less than a mile away from me, I MUST do a google map or mapquest.

Miss Monique tagged everyone I would have immediately thought of tagging.

I’m going to tag a few others….

Tense Teacher
Miss Britt
Vikki
Slobokan

Until next time….

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I just woke up at 8:49pm. Yeah. I laid down at 5:30 like a dumb ass and the next thing I knew it was 8:49pm. I’m going to be awake all night!!! I might have to take some Tylenol PM in a few hours to go back to sleep, but I WILL not be awake until 2 or 3 in the morning. If I can help it.

I had a pretty busy day at work and got a lot done. It seemed like a ghost town there today. Manager Lady told me it’s because it’s Friday and payday. Also, a lot of people are having to take their three personal (or leave) days before June 30th. I would be one of those people, but I’m taking most of next week off.

My work week will consist of Monday and Tuesday. I will most likely be busier than a one armed paper hanger those two days, but that is all I have to work. Wednesday, I will sleep in and then work on the registration name tags and some of spreadsheet for Gary. Thursday, I will finish off the name tags, if I did not finish them Wednesday and then do more of the spreadsheet for Gary. Friday, I will do my final preparations for the registration and head over to the conference area around 1 or 1:30 to set up the registration desk.

Registration opens at 3pm. I have two volunteers for that day, both working the entire 3pm to 9pm with me.

I’m going to go sit on the couch for a bit. Maybe I’ll go back to sleep. However, if I do that, I’ll wake up at 3am and be wide awake hahaha

Until next time…

It’s Friday! WHEEEE And it’s payday! I’ve been online already this morning and paid the bills that need paying and that I can pay.

I did quite a bit of printing of things I need for the registration packets last night. I started printing the name tags and messed some of them up. LOL I need to stop at Office Depot on my way home tonight from work to get more of the name tag inserts. Oopsie!

I’ve also got KP back in Vegas on the hunt for the illustration I need. He’s such a smart ass. He googled what I was looking for and found my blog. So being the smart ass that he is, he left me this message in the “contact me” area:

joe wrote:

you smell funny. There is so much of your crap on the internet when you search this thing you are looking for.

Website: derwagen.com
IP: 99.000.11.xxx

I got a good laugh from that. LOL Miss Laci even said when she googles it, she finds my blog, my Flickr page and the forums I posted my question in.

I need to go get ready for work now.

Until next time…

I am feeling overwhelmed right now.

I’m trying to get all the GA stuff together for the registration packets.  It’s a lot more difficult than it sounds.  I’m having to print all this stuff, copy it, etc. etc.   Just two or three things remain for me to do between now and Thursday of next week.

I am still in search of the Mad Magazine thing; I still need to print the name tags and I need to print the “schedule” of events I’m putting in each packet.

Most of this stuff I want done by Sunday, because about 5 of us are going to stay after the host committee meeting and put them all together.  I’ve done quite a bit here at home myself, just because I have no social life and needed something to do.

After I’m done with all that (or actually sometime in the middle of all that), I need to finish the stuff for my workshop I’m doing on having an “emotional transfusion” after coming into the program.

AND in the middle of all of this, I need to learn my job, work on the spreadsheet for GB and do all my other regular, normal stuff.

It’s just feeling overwhelming because the conference is in 8 days and I’m nervous about a) fucking up the workshop and b) fucking up the registration stuff.   Paranoia is mah fwiend.

Off to do more stuff before SYTYCD comes on.

Until next time….