Weekend, my darling... Please, I am begging you. Please don't go so quickly. I wait for you all week... I count down the hours until you are here again... And then I blink and there you go walking out the door... Leaving me to go to work all day where I daydream of my time spent with you... Pining for our next time together...
So please, Weekend... Please be kind... Just take as long as 2 days at the office feel...
Please?
That is all...
Friday, October 30, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Things I CANNOT (or WILL NOT) Live Without
This post is a part of 20SB's Blog Carnival: Can't Live Without, and Alice.com is awarding prizes to lucky bloggers and readers!
Obviously my husband/friends/family would be first on a serious list... But those aren't the type of things that I am going to focus on here... Neither is air, water, food, or sleep... hahaha
In no particular order...
- Diet Coke. Seriously. I have mini panic attacks when my pantry stash starts getting low. I buy one almost every time I am at a store... I may be able to live without this, but I certainly don't want to.... hahaha
- My DVR. I can't imagine how I made it through life without one of these sooner!
- Funny websites - People of Walmart, Failblog, Emails from Crazy People, Passive Aggressive Notes, Cakewrecks, Crazy Things Parents Say... What would I do without all of you? And that was just the tip of the iceberg... I have TONS that I love.
- Jack in the Box curly fries. They are the best. Whenever I have an upset stomach, they are the only things that help.
- My laptop. I feel lost without it.
- Books. New ones, old ones... Doesn't matter. I wouldn't be happy borrowing my books from a library because I wouldn't want to have to give them back... I have tons of books and I like to re-read them.
- Target. I love Target. Maybe a little too much.... There was a while there that the checkers knew me by name at the one by my office.
- Converse All Stars. I've been wearing these since I was 11 years old. I am getting extremely frustrated by the fact that I can NEVER find my size at stores anymore... I always have to order them from zappos.com.
- Milk. Ice cold 2% milk, to be exact. YUM.
- Blankets. Throw blankets, quilts, vellux blankets... I love them all. There are currently 3 blankets of varying warmth and size piled up on my usual place on the couch and I just grab the one I need for the moment and snuggle up.
- Jammies - I prefer baggy yoga pants and a big t-shirt. Changing into them is pretty much the first thing I do when I get home from work...
- Re-runs of my favorite shows being played all the time. I love relaxing and playing on my laptop while The Office, House, Bones, or Scrubs plays in the background... Or Simpson's, Family Guy, What Not To Wear...
- Seatbelt Bags. They are awesome, they last forever, and they aren't terribly expensive... There are at least 6 that I can think of right now that I want...
- My Dyson Animal vacuum. Love it.
- AIR CONDITIONING! I despise being over-heated...
- Self-checkout lanes. Unless I am buying a lot of groceries... Then I'll go to the regular ones...
- Having every channel. Luckily this became a much less expensive must-have once my husband started working for a major cable company.
- A cable modem. I remember the days of dial-up. And it gives me nightmares.
- Pepcid Complete. Nothing works better for heart burn/indigestion. NOTHING.
- Johnson's Body Care Melt Away Stress Lavender and Chamomile Lotion. It smells fantastic, it's not greasy, and it makes your skin SO soft. I was so excited when they started making it in a pump bottle instead of just the little squeezy tubes...
- Really good dark chocolate. 'Nuff said.
- On-line bill pay. I always hated writing checks and buying stamps... Now I don't have to!
- My debit card. I almost never carry cash...
- New cars - frequently. A perk of my job... I will have my next car (it's at the bottom of the post I linked) for three years, and if I wasn't so excited about it, I would probably be freaking out a little bit about having a car for that long... I'm usually a 1-year kind of girl...
- Nice toilet paper... No more of that super-thin, sandpaper crap that I used to buy when I was BROKE.
- Video games. Yes, I am a 29 year old woman that loves her Wii and Playstation 3...
- My cute red usb mouse for my laptop... I hate using the touch pad...
Umm... My brain doesn't want to think of any more right now.... haha Enjoy.
Obviously my husband/friends/family would be first on a serious list... But those aren't the type of things that I am going to focus on here... Neither is air, water, food, or sleep... hahaha
In no particular order...
- Diet Coke. Seriously. I have mini panic attacks when my pantry stash starts getting low. I buy one almost every time I am at a store... I may be able to live without this, but I certainly don't want to.... hahaha
- My DVR. I can't imagine how I made it through life without one of these sooner!
- Funny websites - People of Walmart, Failblog, Emails from Crazy People, Passive Aggressive Notes, Cakewrecks, Crazy Things Parents Say... What would I do without all of you? And that was just the tip of the iceberg... I have TONS that I love.
- Jack in the Box curly fries. They are the best. Whenever I have an upset stomach, they are the only things that help.
- My laptop. I feel lost without it.
- Books. New ones, old ones... Doesn't matter. I wouldn't be happy borrowing my books from a library because I wouldn't want to have to give them back... I have tons of books and I like to re-read them.
- Target. I love Target. Maybe a little too much.... There was a while there that the checkers knew me by name at the one by my office.
- Converse All Stars. I've been wearing these since I was 11 years old. I am getting extremely frustrated by the fact that I can NEVER find my size at stores anymore... I always have to order them from zappos.com.
- Milk. Ice cold 2% milk, to be exact. YUM.
- Blankets. Throw blankets, quilts, vellux blankets... I love them all. There are currently 3 blankets of varying warmth and size piled up on my usual place on the couch and I just grab the one I need for the moment and snuggle up.
- Jammies - I prefer baggy yoga pants and a big t-shirt. Changing into them is pretty much the first thing I do when I get home from work...
- Re-runs of my favorite shows being played all the time. I love relaxing and playing on my laptop while The Office, House, Bones, or Scrubs plays in the background... Or Simpson's, Family Guy, What Not To Wear...
- Seatbelt Bags. They are awesome, they last forever, and they aren't terribly expensive... There are at least 6 that I can think of right now that I want...
- My Dyson Animal vacuum. Love it.
- AIR CONDITIONING! I despise being over-heated...
- Self-checkout lanes. Unless I am buying a lot of groceries... Then I'll go to the regular ones...
- Having every channel. Luckily this became a much less expensive must-have once my husband started working for a major cable company.
- A cable modem. I remember the days of dial-up. And it gives me nightmares.
- Pepcid Complete. Nothing works better for heart burn/indigestion. NOTHING.
- Johnson's Body Care Melt Away Stress Lavender and Chamomile Lotion. It smells fantastic, it's not greasy, and it makes your skin SO soft. I was so excited when they started making it in a pump bottle instead of just the little squeezy tubes...
- Really good dark chocolate. 'Nuff said.
- On-line bill pay. I always hated writing checks and buying stamps... Now I don't have to!
- My debit card. I almost never carry cash...
- New cars - frequently. A perk of my job... I will have my next car (it's at the bottom of the post I linked) for three years, and if I wasn't so excited about it, I would probably be freaking out a little bit about having a car for that long... I'm usually a 1-year kind of girl...
- Nice toilet paper... No more of that super-thin, sandpaper crap that I used to buy when I was BROKE.
- Video games. Yes, I am a 29 year old woman that loves her Wii and Playstation 3...
- My cute red usb mouse for my laptop... I hate using the touch pad...
Umm... My brain doesn't want to think of any more right now.... haha Enjoy.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Cool night... Literally and figuratively...
Last night we had a mini adventure... We did our usual thing - went and hung out with our friends, had dinner, and played cards. On the way there we had seen a strange "star" that was ridiculously twinkly and kept flashing different colors. I was driving, so J was able to look at it more and he thought that it must be a plane that just looked weird, so we didn't really think anything of it...
On the way home (around midnight) we could still see it - obviously in a different position in the sky because of the time that had passed... So we thought maybe it was a planet or something that was visible... So we decided to grab our nice binoculars when we got home to get a better look. After looking at it for a while that way (it kind of looked like a firework hanging in the sky through the binoculars), J went and got his really nice camera with his strongest lens and got a couple pictures with it on the tripod. We still weren't sure exactly what it was, so I went back inside and grabbed the telescope ($150 telescope that we got a Tuesday Morning for $20. LOVE Tuesday Morning... haha) and set it up. We messed with it for a while to get it set up properly and get it focused...
It was a comet. We could see the comet and the firey tail and everything. It was absolutely gorgeous. From certain angles of it passing across the field of vision, you could actually see every color of the rainbow coming from it. We got it with a fairly low magnification and could keep it in view with minor adjustments for about 10 - 15 seconds... Once we switched to high magnification, it would haul out of the field of vision in at most 4 seconds. That thing was booking. There were also a bunch of meteors in the sky last night too... It was so fascinating that we ended up tracking it for about 2 hours... We figured that since we didn't have any plans today, that it didn't matter how late we stayed up... (I guess not having kids yet is good for something.....) We were finally too cold and too tired to stand in our back yard anymore, so we packed everything back up and went inside...
We tried looking on the internet to see if we could find what comet it was that we were watching... We are not 100% sure, but based on the description of its position in the sky, we think it was the Linear Comet... (Apparently there are about 7 comets visible right now and a lot of meteor activity going on... So cool...)
Tonight on our way home from running errands and stopping at our friends' house for a little while we could see it again... And ANOTHER one... We are hoping to be able to see both of them again tonight... Hopefully MUCH earlier... haha If you are outside tonight, find Orion and look down and to the left... If you see something really bright and ridiculously twinkly... That's the comet we were watching.
Awesome.
On the way home (around midnight) we could still see it - obviously in a different position in the sky because of the time that had passed... So we thought maybe it was a planet or something that was visible... So we decided to grab our nice binoculars when we got home to get a better look. After looking at it for a while that way (it kind of looked like a firework hanging in the sky through the binoculars), J went and got his really nice camera with his strongest lens and got a couple pictures with it on the tripod. We still weren't sure exactly what it was, so I went back inside and grabbed the telescope ($150 telescope that we got a Tuesday Morning for $20. LOVE Tuesday Morning... haha) and set it up. We messed with it for a while to get it set up properly and get it focused...
It was a comet. We could see the comet and the firey tail and everything. It was absolutely gorgeous. From certain angles of it passing across the field of vision, you could actually see every color of the rainbow coming from it. We got it with a fairly low magnification and could keep it in view with minor adjustments for about 10 - 15 seconds... Once we switched to high magnification, it would haul out of the field of vision in at most 4 seconds. That thing was booking. There were also a bunch of meteors in the sky last night too... It was so fascinating that we ended up tracking it for about 2 hours... We figured that since we didn't have any plans today, that it didn't matter how late we stayed up... (I guess not having kids yet is good for something.....) We were finally too cold and too tired to stand in our back yard anymore, so we packed everything back up and went inside...
We tried looking on the internet to see if we could find what comet it was that we were watching... We are not 100% sure, but based on the description of its position in the sky, we think it was the Linear Comet... (Apparently there are about 7 comets visible right now and a lot of meteor activity going on... So cool...)
Tonight on our way home from running errands and stopping at our friends' house for a little while we could see it again... And ANOTHER one... We are hoping to be able to see both of them again tonight... Hopefully MUCH earlier... haha If you are outside tonight, find Orion and look down and to the left... If you see something really bright and ridiculously twinkly... That's the comet we were watching.
Awesome.
Friday, October 23, 2009
How Do You Get Past Times Like These?? Any advice?
Do you ever go through phases where you are just completely unmotivated? Where you just don’t feel like playing? I am dead center in the middle of one of those right now. I used to move a lot growing up and got so used to it that now every couple of years I get really itchy. I was thinking the other day about how I’ve been in Southern California for 15 years now. That’s more than half of my life and weirder to me than I even know how to express. It feels surreal... Like it’s not true... Like any minute now someone is going to come pull the rug out from under me and I’m going to have to start over again - new home, new friends... Where you don’t even know where the grocery store is or how long it takes to get anywhere... It’s just an “itchy” phase... I know it is - I really do go through this fairly often. I know that I’m not going to be moving any time soon... Most likely never, which is really fine with me... My husband and I both have really good jobs that we are happy at and we are happy in our little house (even though we both wish we could expand it back into the yard a bit - we have a large yard, which is rare for Southern California.) Plus, my husband is a California boy - born and raised - so the odds of getting him to leave here are pretty much in the negative region... Haha!
It just seems like everything irritates me when I’m going through these phases... My cats meowing bug the crap out of me, people at work who I can normally TRY REALLY HARD to tune out just slice right through and make me want to stab myself in the brain with a letter opener... If I wake up early, I get mad... People on the road or in stores piss me off - especially the really rude ones... I feel like I’m always running late. The fact that it's 90 degrees out and it's OCTOBER makes me angry because I hate being hot and summer is SUPPOSED to be over! Ugh. I need to snap myself out of it. I was thinking maybe I just need a change - like dying my hair or something... But it took forever to grow my hair out to its natural color for the first time since I was 16 and the sun has finally lightened it up a bit so all of my natural highlights are coming back out... I don’t want to cut my hair because I’m still a little scarred from cutting it all to donate it last year...
This was the hair I had cut off to donate to Locks of Love. It was 15 inches. I had to lay it out to dry.... So pretty... Even like this... (I love my hair.)
This was it braided - ready to send in... It was hard to do... There was a part of me that really wanted to go have it made into extensions and put it back on my head... But I knew that someone out there needed it more than I did... I still have the card that they sent thanking me on my desk at work...
That was a LOT of hair to lose all at once... haha It was hard to deal with... I didn't even trim it for just over a year after...
I don't know... I am sure that this phase will pass - just like it has every other time... Maybe I just need to get some sleep... Or to lounge on my couch with my husband and clean out our dvr... Or maybe just venting it all out on here will help...
I'll let you know.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Irritation...
I get really annoyed when people pronounce words incorrectly... There is a woman in my office that has absolutely no apparent mastery of the English language... Even though it is her first language... She says "Sectember" for one... Drives me crazy. So glad she doesn't sit anywhere near me anymore...
There are two radio commercials that play all the time lately and I just can't figure out if that was the best take they could get or if they just didn't care... In one the woman says "fustration." This is something that the woman in my office also says. And it is extremely "fustrating" to listen to. The second is a car commercial where the man says something about a "panoranic" moon roof. Ugh.
Just ugh.
There are two radio commercials that play all the time lately and I just can't figure out if that was the best take they could get or if they just didn't care... In one the woman says "fustration." This is something that the woman in my office also says. And it is extremely "fustrating" to listen to. The second is a car commercial where the man says something about a "panoranic" moon roof. Ugh.
Just ugh.
Monday, October 19, 2009
More of the same...
I really do keep intending to get better about writing on here again... And then life happens... haha
Remember before when I was ridiculously busy at work? Yeah... So it's still going on. AND we have a huge summit meeting coming up on Thursday... AND two more incentives that are going to make my desk remain buried under paperwork...
Well.... here are pictures this month of the continuing fun.... haha
My poor desk is being pushed to the breaking point...
The boxes are full of the ones I went through last month and already finished this month.... Ugh.
And here I am... Soooo very thrilled about having to enter all of those.... hahahaha
Remember before when I was ridiculously busy at work? Yeah... So it's still going on. AND we have a huge summit meeting coming up on Thursday... AND two more incentives that are going to make my desk remain buried under paperwork...
Well.... here are pictures this month of the continuing fun.... haha
My poor desk is being pushed to the breaking point...
The boxes are full of the ones I went through last month and already finished this month.... Ugh.
And here I am... Soooo very thrilled about having to enter all of those.... hahahahaMonday, October 5, 2009
If my ears would pop, I'd be golden...
Specifically my right ear... They have been really plugged up (fluid in them according to the not-so-helpful doctor that just told me to take dramamine for the dizziness and wait it out) for about a week now... Ugh. I got over the worst of whatever this is over the weekend. I struggled through most of the week last week, but by Friday I was done. I called in sick and proceeded to sleep for most of the day. Then slept most of the day Saturday and Sunday.... I don't have the horrible headaches anymore, but my ears are driving me INSANE. I'm actually getting slightly frightened of when my ears do finally pop because everything is going to seem ridiculously loud... I actually slept through my alarm for 20 minutes the other morning because I was sleeping with my right ear up and didn't hear it... haha
I'm hoping that I avoided passing it on to J... He was feeling pretty crappy on Saturday, less so on Sunday, and went to work today... So I'm hoping...
I've been neglecting my poor little blog... Mainly because I've been either out of town or sick for a while and either haven't been around physically or mentally in order to write... A few weekends ago we went on our camping trip. It was overcast the whole time, but that was actually really nice because you didn't have to worry about being too hot. One of my friends brought his projector and screen and we watched a couple movies while sitting around the campfire. It was a pretty plush extravagance while camping... haha The two puppies that were making their first trip camping did really well... Poor Cowboys paws were bugging him by the end of the weekend and he wanted nothing to do with sitting in front of the fire... Poor baby. My friend told me that he PASSED OUT in the car on the way home... He'll get used to it...
The next weekend we went on a weekend trip with a different group of friends to see one of J's coworker's hockey tournament.... Unfortunately they lost the game we were there to see, but they had the biggest cheering section there... haha While were there, our friends got engaged! Very exciting. The ring was gorgeous and she was so excited she couldn't stop hugging all of us and telling everyone we walked past... We had a delicious dinner at Il Fornaio to celebrate. Good weekend.
This past weekend - in between sleeping and being sick - I finally coudln't stand it anymore... Being gone and working and being sick - we hadn't cleaned in a while.... Our kitchen was getting UNUSABLE with the amount of stuff we had dropped on the table and on the counters... There were bags and boxes and mail and empty soda cans and.... you name it. Plus, a sink full of dishes we had used during the week.... We are both pretty cluttery people, but that was WAY over the line. And the only reason there were empty soda cans on the counter instead of in the recycling can was because we had been too lazy to take the full bag of recycling to the outside can! It was bad. haha Better now though. I can breathe a sigh of relief and when I get home and need to set my purse down on the table (where I always put it... we eat at our dining table - never the kitchen one) I can do it without it immediately tipping over and falling on the floor...
I'm still dealing with my desk of chaos at work... And found out the other day that pretty much as soon as I am done dealing with the RO's for this incentive - we will be having TWO MORE that I will have to be doing pretty much the same thing for. I have a feeling that my bosses have a pool going for when I will snap... Fantastic. Oh well. It makes the days go REALLY quickly, and it's easy, so I guess I can't really complain. It's job security, right? As long as I have mountains of work, I am obviously necessary... But if I get one more stupid meaningless task dumped on me that the "dump-er" should be doing themself...... Well, lets just say I hope that person picked that day in the "Snap Pool." haha
Well...... I'm covering the switchboard again (our receptionist's husband is a professional motocross rider and he got in an accident in his last race and had to have surgery on his hand today) and so I had some time to write.... But I supposed I should probably start sorting this stack of RO's that I brought down here with me so that I can add them to the stacks that are already sorted and ready to enter.... It's really never-ending.....
I'm hoping that I avoided passing it on to J... He was feeling pretty crappy on Saturday, less so on Sunday, and went to work today... So I'm hoping...
I've been neglecting my poor little blog... Mainly because I've been either out of town or sick for a while and either haven't been around physically or mentally in order to write... A few weekends ago we went on our camping trip. It was overcast the whole time, but that was actually really nice because you didn't have to worry about being too hot. One of my friends brought his projector and screen and we watched a couple movies while sitting around the campfire. It was a pretty plush extravagance while camping... haha The two puppies that were making their first trip camping did really well... Poor Cowboys paws were bugging him by the end of the weekend and he wanted nothing to do with sitting in front of the fire... Poor baby. My friend told me that he PASSED OUT in the car on the way home... He'll get used to it...
The next weekend we went on a weekend trip with a different group of friends to see one of J's coworker's hockey tournament.... Unfortunately they lost the game we were there to see, but they had the biggest cheering section there... haha While were there, our friends got engaged! Very exciting. The ring was gorgeous and she was so excited she couldn't stop hugging all of us and telling everyone we walked past... We had a delicious dinner at Il Fornaio to celebrate. Good weekend.
This past weekend - in between sleeping and being sick - I finally coudln't stand it anymore... Being gone and working and being sick - we hadn't cleaned in a while.... Our kitchen was getting UNUSABLE with the amount of stuff we had dropped on the table and on the counters... There were bags and boxes and mail and empty soda cans and.... you name it. Plus, a sink full of dishes we had used during the week.... We are both pretty cluttery people, but that was WAY over the line. And the only reason there were empty soda cans on the counter instead of in the recycling can was because we had been too lazy to take the full bag of recycling to the outside can! It was bad. haha Better now though. I can breathe a sigh of relief and when I get home and need to set my purse down on the table (where I always put it... we eat at our dining table - never the kitchen one) I can do it without it immediately tipping over and falling on the floor...
I'm still dealing with my desk of chaos at work... And found out the other day that pretty much as soon as I am done dealing with the RO's for this incentive - we will be having TWO MORE that I will have to be doing pretty much the same thing for. I have a feeling that my bosses have a pool going for when I will snap... Fantastic. Oh well. It makes the days go REALLY quickly, and it's easy, so I guess I can't really complain. It's job security, right? As long as I have mountains of work, I am obviously necessary... But if I get one more stupid meaningless task dumped on me that the "dump-er" should be doing themself...... Well, lets just say I hope that person picked that day in the "Snap Pool." haha
Well...... I'm covering the switchboard again (our receptionist's husband is a professional motocross rider and he got in an accident in his last race and had to have surgery on his hand today) and so I had some time to write.... But I supposed I should probably start sorting this stack of RO's that I brought down here with me so that I can add them to the stacks that are already sorted and ready to enter.... It's really never-ending.....
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