Struggling for the legal tender
So I have been slacking off on my 365 – big time. Things are not crazy at work, things are not crazy at home, I guess I’m just lazy … or lack motivation. I’m betting on the latter.
I’m guessing that if I used my real camera and photo shop, this would be a lot more fun.
Tonight’s theme – cartoonish
Well, I missed the 9th … Mainly because after I drowned myself in Pappadeaux’s Pasta Mardi Gras, I came home and passed out. I should have had Larry take a picture of me drooling.
Vacationitis is setting in! I begin on Saturday. No big plans, just cleaning up the house, putting away the Christmas decor, maybe a picture taking trip to Fredericksburg.
Since there was no picture yesterday, here’s a double.
Tonight my thoughts are;
IT IS FREAKING FREEZING OUTSIDE! I can’t remember the last time it has been this cold, for this long in Houston. This is normally where I post a picture of me in shorts with a caption that reads, “Suck it Yankee’s”
Not so much, tonight the high will be 19 degrees. Today it got above freezing for about two hours. Tomorrow it will get to a whopping 36 degrees.
I’m wearing my scarf to bed.
Tonight my thoughts are;
OMG – tomorrow is the last day of extended hours at work. Can you freaking believe they have made us open an hour earlier & stay open an hour later through January 8th? Give me a freaking break.
Sometimes the people who make these decisions should be shot, even if I do love my new phone ;)
It’s the HTC Android, I had my little Palm Centro for three years and have been given/won SEVERAL phones during that time and never liked any of them. I LOVE the android phone.
Even if I am tied to it LOL
Tonight my thoughts are;
Meet DEXI! About a month after Frazier died, we started seeing a little black kitty come around the garage. She had been in the neighborhood for awhile, we have seen her many times.
Well, about a month ago, she started staying around the garage.
And then I started feeding her. And then I bought her a collar. And then I bought her some high protein kitty food. And finally, I named her.
She’s all black with a few white tufts on her chest and emerald green eyes. And she is a purring machine that reminds me so much of Frazier. When I stop petting her, she stretches out her arm and brings my hand back in. I’m kind of smitten with her.
She’s been around and is dark as midnight, so we named her Dexi, as in Dexi and the Midnight Runners.
Grandkitty is not too fond of her yet and Chloe is terrified of her. Nonetheless, I am sure, in time, we will all be one big happy city farm family!
Tonight my thoughts are;
Seriously? It’s only Tuesday? This week is dragging already. They always seem to do that just before a vacation don’t they? You northerners will find this next sentence funny, but; it is FREAKING FREEZING in Texas! Seriously cold. It even snowed in early December.
So instead of taking down the Christmas decorations like I had planned on doing during vacation, I kinda want to be laying on a beach that week.
Anyone have any ideas?
Today my thoughts are;
It’s Monday. 1st Monday of the new year and I am having a very hard time getting motivated. My vacation starts on the 15th and I am desperately trying to find somewhere to go. Somewhere warm. With a beach. And bloody mary’s.
Any ideas?
Tonight my thoughts are;
I can’t breathe and I need a manicure! The Texans actually finished with a WINNING SEASON! It was a nail biter for sure.
Matt Schaub is the number one passing quarterback in the league for 2009, yet he was voted a second alternate to the Pro Bowl .. what tha?
Denver lost, and if the Jets lose, the TEXANS will be in the playoffs … omg …
Please root for the Bengals tonight, my mental health depends on it.
Today my thoughts are;
GAME PREP!
Since we have to get up at the crack of dawn to TAILGATE, I have showered and fixed my traditional gameday hair. Pigtails underneath a Texans cap :) Tomorrow we will be bringing the homemade hot chocolate and BAILEY’S!
We hooked up with an awesome tailgate crew over the off season and we have a freaking blast on gamedays.
Tomorrow is probably the.biggest.game.ever for us. We need to win and 2 other teams to lose in order for the Texans to make the playoffs.
Tomorrow’s picture could possibly be of me breaking something …. I’m just sayin’. I desperately need a bang trim. (that’s what she said), I promise I’m not the ‘emo cover one eye chick’.
Today my thoughts are:
It’s a new year, so why not start ambitious? Like trying to post a blog and picture a day for the next 364 days? Except for days, like, you know, I am out of the country with no internet.
Sounds easy enough, right?
I halfway attempted to get the blog back a couple of months ago, today I hit it full force.
Hopefully you can all see the new post. I have much to catch you up on.
Stay tuned……
I don’t share this with anyone from work, the family hardly ever reads, so I can be myself here, flaws and all.
I’m devastated right now. I don’t have all the details, and the ones I do I can’t wrap my head around.
Ashley is getting discharged from the Navy. Discharged sounds so much better than kicked out, huh?
She is devastated as well. She has worked so.fucking.hard – for what? To hang out with stupid people who make stupid decisions that affect her.
Didn’t we do this 4 years ago?
I thought this was over. I love her, I always will, but that judging mom part of me is having a field day with the loving side.
I thought her email was a joke. It’s not.
Guilty by association - find one person doing something wrong, start looking at everyone else including ipods, laptops, video cameras, etc.
I can not stand not being able to talk to her, to hold her or to let her cry on my shoulder.
She is so disappointed in herself, “I never wanted to let you down again, Mom. I guess I’m just that much of a fuck up”
I have to go have a breakdown now …. I feel like I am sure Ashley does, alone and scared. I miss my friend.
I found myself in a dessert called cyberland …..
Wait, wrong dream.
The past few nights my dreams have been out of whack. A few years ago when I was losing my mind personally, professionally and physically I had a reoccurring dream. Tornado dreams. I would be in the store, and a tornado would come. I was always getting the customers in a safe place, other times I would be trying to outrace it, but always, always a tornado. I looked it up, and as one would expect, it meant you feel your life is in upheaval.
So the other night, you guessed it, tornado dream. Everything for the most part is going well. The new store is a LOT more work than what was led on. 1/2 the people need to go. Two of them already have. It’s just a lot of work, the traffic both ways sucks ass and I seem to be behind the 8 ball all the time.
To make matters worse (or better depending on how you look at it), we have an amazing new phone launching. Seriously, I haven’t been this excited about a phone in over 5 years. There is MAJOR prep for it. Training, confidentiality agreements, the works! So much work and prep that the lovely vacation I had scheduled to start this Saturday was cancelled. I totally get why, it just sucks I don’t get to outrun the tornado for a week.
The tornado dream wasn’t as bad as the other one.
Two nights ago I dreamt that Dwayne had come to me to pick up Austin & Abbey. Problem was, I didn’t have them. Austin had been gone the entire day, and no one seemed to care. I was racked with panic and guilt, I knew I wasn’t supposed to have them, but couldn’t escape the fact that I somehow should have. Does that make sense?
What struck me the most about the dream was how cavalier Corie was. Indifferent really. Like it was almost a good thing. I haven’t spoken to her in almost a year yet she is filling my dreams, I have had more than just this one dream centering around her. Always me having to get something from her house, or seeing her somewhere, her asking why we can’t be friends, oblivious to anything anyone else is feeling.
It really pisses me off that my subconscious thinks about it this much. Truth is, I really miss the friendship we had, but not her. Not sure that makes sense either.
What broke my heart the most about the dream is that when we found Austin, he didn’t even know he had been lost. He had gotten used to all the shuffling and confusion, this was just another adjustment, not something out of the norm. He was accepting of being lost.
I love that kid. I hate divorce. I am not scared of tornadoes
My cat, Frazier is dying. He’s 17 years old and we’ve had him for fifteen of those. I can’t bring myself to take him to the vet to be put to sleep. Larry is going to do it.
But I am worried if I don’t go, I will regret it.
I am very, very sad today.
I stalked Billy Joel? Well, I used my stalkerish ways to discover what hotel he is in. Hannah & I will be going there directly after lunch tomorrow before the concert.
Check my Twitter for updates!
I’ve got to find a new web hosting service – I’m not sure if it is them or wordpress – but anyhoo ….
I’m loving my new mac!
Im back from Japan
Broken bones are healed
Ashley lost her appendix
I’m one of my boss’ ‘favorites’
Corporate auditors are in Texas (scary)
I have too many favorites on American Idol right now
I’m going to have to put my cat to sleep
I’m going to see Billy Joel/Elton John this Thursday
I have tix to No Doubt/Paramore
I’m buying tix to Depeche Mode
I’ve missed blogging!
You know that feeling you have? When everything is going so unbelievablygreat, like your job, your relationships, your luck, your Chi or your Wah (as they say in Japan)?
That’s where I am right now. Leading a charmed life. Just little things are working out so well, every single day. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Today, I had one of the single most satisfying football experiences of my life. We drove down to the stadium bright and early to do some practice runs of taking the flag onto the field. I was chosen to be in the 50 yard line with the red piece (the flag is in 3 pieces, red, blue & white). I had asked Sam (Hannah’s roommate) and Corbin (their friend) if they wanted to come with, hell yeah they did and had a blast as well.
After we got to hold the flag, we got to go INSIDE the players tunnel and watch them go out as they were being introduced. It was one of my football fantasies coming true before my very eyes.
Andre Johnson is incredible. He came over to the roped off area and grabbed hands (YES, MINE!) and gave high fives.
I feel so at peace right now, with everything. I haven’t felt this content in about 6 years. It’s worth the wait.
So Larry got me a camera for Christmas, it wasn’t the Canon, but it did do HD Video. I thought it was fine, but Larry being the geek that he is decided it wasn’t, and then, decided to go ahead and get the Rebel.
There will be some kick ass pictures to come ….. Like from THE PRO BOWL!
We decided to use some of the miles I worked so hard for last year and take a weekend trip in Feb to the Pro Bowl.
I can’t wait … someone SUZI should really come with us!
It’s not like there’s anything good here, why do they keep trying to steal it??
No time for losers, cuz I am the Champion … dun, dun, dun ….. Of the WORLD!
OK, maybe not the entire real world, but I did win my NFL.COM Fantasy Football game yesterday. This may be the ONLY place Houston Texans are in the Superbowl LOL
Wonder how the guy feels knowing he got beat BY.A.GIRL!
