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| ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** To any who think the following will make any sense whatsoever - what is wrong with you? Have you read ANY of my blog entries? HA! So you know that early night time of the day where it is lighter than deep night and you look at a clock and go - WHOA - it's not even real daytime yet? Why am I awake? Well to be honest I had some cracklie nightmares. Not normal people nightmares. I read what others think of as nightmares and I don't think mine fit in that norm. One was about a neighbor who had two dogs that were so obese it was truly scary. One of the dogs was a weiner dog who had so many rolls of fat it's little legs didn't reach the ground. Can't remember what the other dog was but it was way fat. Scary things. Then I dreamt about cockroaches. See we get units in for repair (computers) that are "infested". They get immediately bagged and tagged (marked as a biological hazard) but the critters who didn't get bagged come wandering around looking for entertainment. Yeah. So people here's some advice. A computer that is left on - roaches will love that warmth and build nests in it. Just saying. Giving you the ooglie booglies now? Good. Cuz I am awake at an illegal time. What do you do when you get awakened this early? Dan the Planning Man does all his writing and creating during these hours but I'm not used to them. Well if I had gone out and still been out and not yet home to fall over then okay, but not like WAKE UP YOU ARE HAVING NIGHTMARES kind of being awake. My puppies think I've gone nuts and don't even want to get off the spot they hold on the floor for sleeping to accompanying me. I did a circuit of the house - yes I was looking for critters - thought about taking the computer apart and cleaning it again. Stopped myself there. I am so not really awake so best to leave that job alone for a while. The only thing I could come up with to entertain my mind was come in here, write a completely (or mostly completely) random type entry and see if my overactive imagination won't go back to sleep - PLEASE! What absolutely ticks me off is yawning. Why yawn if I'm not gonna go to sleep? I heard that is a way the body has of getting oxygen to the brain. Yeah - okay. Uh body, my brain needs LESS oxygen and more sleepogen okay? I bought a balloon for Sarah's desk to welcome her back. It came in a plastic bag - but not for long. I asked someone, "How do I get this balloon unflattened?" So the guy told another guy to get it that way for me. Other guy takes it out of the plastic bag and sticks the opening area onto a tank of HELIUM and nothing happens. So I am standing there waiting patiently, cuz I'm patient - am too! - and guy mumbles and figures out THE TANK ISN'T TURNED ON! I laughed. He blushed. A good time was had. This balloon used up most of the tanks helium cuz I got her a HUGE PURPLE and GOLD creature. I dunno who it is though. But it sure is ugly. It resides in the backseat of the truck right now, bobbing behind the drivers seat. We had a talk on the way home and I 'splained why it had to stay out in the truck. Puppies LOVE floaty things. Actually they love making floatie things no longer so floatie. Do balloons get lonely? Hm. SAVE AND EDIT Christine was supposed to get Sarah a plant with flowers poked in it last night. She said she'd call me if that didn't work out - DAMN I turned my cell phone off - hang on let me see if she called  oh oh NEW VOICE MAIL!!"Hurry! Don't drive you vehicle without extending your refrigerator's warranty!" Huh? What is that about? Delete. Yup Christine called - no banner to be found. Darn. I wanted a HEY SARAH 'BOUT TIME YOU SHOWED UP GIRL! banner. Christine didn't think she could find one like that and she didn't. Balls in my court. Or banner is at least. *sigh* I got a purple stapler, purple ink pens, purple notepad to wrap up for Sarah.  Her favorite color is green. HA! Rachel got her a balloon and card we all signed already. OH and I got purple plates for our Sarah, whose favorite color is green.SAVE AND EDIT Can be awake too early cause stomach aches? I got one now. I think I am allergic to being awake. Think I'll go read and watch a DVD for a while. Maybe eat something. Drinking water now is making my tummy rumble. Think pizza is good for this time of day? Okay then - pizza and a piece of key lime pie it is! I just hope I can go back to sleep after that! Take care and go say BIRTHDAY somethings to Ski 'k? Good. |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Okay when I was a baby and dropped on my head the third time I had to put an end to it. I screamed. Loudly. At the top of my lung power even - I have great lung power. What I found out was no one like hearing me scream. *TA DA* School was far far away and when I was told I would have to wait one more year, I screamed. Now what I didn't understand was that screaming does not move Time in any way. Nope. I had to wait, in utter boredom, for school to start. Once in school I observed what happened when other kids screamed. It wasn't purtee. There was a rack and bed of nails - nope I had to change my tactics quick! Being a deep thunker, I came up with an absolutely brilliant plan. If a stuffy, boring, taller than me, adult wanted me to do something that I figured was not going to be done by myself, I would put on my quizzically expression. "You actually want me to do that? Are you sure? I mean I could get killadated doing that!" "Go sit down now young lady. That is not going to cause you any harm." "Well okay, but if something DOES happen, give my turn to feed the rodent to Jimmy. He deserves to be punished. OH, and all my crayons go to April, but you half ta break em in half first. No, I really do not like April. Smoosh em good then give em to her!" "SIT DOWN." I could never understand why adults got so LOUD at me when I wasn't allowed to get Volumneous to them. Didn't strike me as fair. How did the tall boring folks get me to do what they knew I didn't want to do? They didn't actually. Oh they tried reversing their psychology on me and bribing me but nothing really worked. And by the way, when you go to bribe someone - make it something the other person might ACTUALLY WANT! Stale hard candy covered in pocket fuzz - just won't get it. So the years flew/dragged/stumbled along and I had to keep switching my tactics to not do what I didn't want to do - until one day in Junior High when my best friend, Mary, asked me a stoopendous question. "Why don't you just say no?" Now this was before the "JUST SAY NO" campaign started and I think she may have had a hand in writing that slogan but anyway I tried that one out. Did you know that others do not like to hear that word? "Will you..." "No." "Hey Anyea wanna..." "No." "Can I have..." "No." There is a slight problem with just saying no. People who are on the hearing end of it want to argue about it. "Why not?" "No." See, it won't work in that case. You either have to argue back or walk away. Sometimes running is good. Depending on how large the person is, sometimes running is mandatory. I tried to refine my attitude over the years but basically what I got is this: SCREAM! It gets their attention, it makes them back down, it sometimes gets you what you wanted in the first place. Sarah is home finally but bedridden until the four blood clots in her lungs go away completely. Thanks to you all who threw golden thoughts at her! |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** So I cleaned my 'closet' out here.  Tightened up the space by 'hanger-sharing'. You know what that is right? Where you put two pair of jeans on one hanger, that hanger breaks so you are back at square one. Nevermind. Must be just me.You all like to create 'stuff' right? I love making stuff. I especially love making stuff that makes other people cringe, run screaming from the room or just double over in laughter. I will proceed to create such a monstrosity today. Yup! There is a co-worker who had a birthday about a month ago. They decorated her cubicle with streamers and purple balloons.  Said balloons are looking whimpy, air-lacking and just plain sad now. Will Sarah take them down? NO! So, in an effort to bury the poor dead things, I went and bought poster board, spray adhesive, silver paper, and bunches of purple decorations. I'm going to make the most obscenely purple poster board on the planet. Sarah and I have the "WALL OF INFORMATION" if you remember me telling ya in an earlier entry. She can post all her most IMPORTANT information on the hideous purple and silver board and know where it is immediately. Course, she'll want to post TONS of her vibrant neon glowing 3X5 index cards asap because she will want to hide the board. hehehe.*sigh* With the ways things are going lately, she'll love the stupid thing and refuse to mount anything on it. Sarah is very regal. VERY regal. It's an attitude thing. She's not stuck up or playing at "Princess" like many of the females around the place. She just has "Attitude"! It cracks me up. Sarah buys me imported boxes of chocolate. I love Sarah!  Thanks to her my first drawer is loaded with CHOCOLATE. When times get tough at work she'll just point at the drawer and I know I need to ingest some of my remedy for mood improvement.It was in the upper 70's yesterday. Today it's in the lower 40's. WHAT IS UP WITH THIS? Make up your WEATHER mind would ya? Just stay in the 70's and I'll be ever so happily.   NEWS FLASH!*!*!The indomitable Anyea once again came to the rescue and solved the Case of the Missing Jewels! Today, before she was completely awake, Ms. Anyea received a panic'd call from a victim of an insidious robbery. "OH HELP ME PLEASE!" The victim sobbed to her. Being a female of high intelligence, quick thinking and finder of the lost, Anyea scurried to the scene of the crime. "Where is the Jewelry?" She questioned the criminal who had admitted taking said jewels. All she received by way of answer was a shrug and an "I dunno!" She began her duties and tore apart each room in the place looking for the missing jewelry. As daunting as it was on an empty stomach, she even took apart the bathroom's sink. No purloined goods to be found. In an act of desperation she turned to the victim of the crime and began questioning her more closely. "What exactly did this criminal tell you?" After minute examination of the statements she received, Anyea fetched a tall stool, climbed up and reaching to her arm's limit felt the tiny space the criminal indicated the jewels were stashed. SUCCESS! I love three-year-olds with the ability to snatch and grab don't you? SHEESH! It took us an hour and a half and now I could kick myself for not asking the MOM what the baby said before beginning an exhaustive search. The kid told her where it was but Mommy didn't listen. I grounded both of them! HA! I just had a call from Sarah. She is in the hospital. She did not feel well all last week and we thought she had the flu. She had a blood clot in her lungs. They have her on major blood thinners and are keeping her for the next three days. Hold golden thoughts for Sarah please. She is a lovely lady and now I have a welcome back gift for her. I told her I would organize a road trip with all the peop's at work so we can go see her. She laughed, a tiny bit. "Do not make me laugh.", she intoned regally. Yeah that's Sarah. |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Did you know that on this site you are only allowed a certain amount of closet space? I am a closet hog. Okay? I've admitted it. Isn't that like Step Minus One or something, admitting a prob...um, a reality? Closet were not built for me. I don't know who they WERE built for, more like a "throw a tiny lil hole here in the house - they'll find a use for it!" Seriously who builds these houses and web sites? GUYS? See now I'm being mean. Okay I'll amend myself - but I WANT MORE CLOSET SPACE HERE!Now I know I have to pay a contractor if I want to add on to my closet and storage areas at WdC and purchase building licenses and bribe city officials and stuff. It would be tedious. So instead I decided to go clean out my closets. I am NOT giving my ART away - well I do have backups stored elsewhere, so I could maybe shuffle some out of there. I could go completely crazed running around looney and trash out all "D" - "E" - "F" and "G" folders. I would be down to my "A", "B", "C"s then. But I LIKE those others. *sigh* Maybe I could have a Site Sale and make enough GP's to add on to my portion of the site. Dang then I'd add up MORE stuff with sale signs and advertising and things - sigh - no, I best not do that. So I will have to be "circumspect" with this Clogged Closet of mine it seems. Wipe out some things - tighten up that belt, so to speak. A challenge it will be. Any suggestions on what to throw? *sigh* There is this girl I know who went to her first Fondue party and had a grand time. Now she wants to buy one of those pots and an entire cookbook. Talk about love at first bite! I'm not a big fan of fondue - chocolate fountains yes, fondues not so much. If I want to dip give me a huge bowl of 'to be used for dipping into' not some itty bitty hotter than smuck metal pot that will bite back! Yes I've had the experience of getting fondue burned, who hasn't? I want to invent a Traveling Chocolate Fountain. The kind you can take anywhere; in your car while you are driving, in a plane and shuddup about limitations on liquids - they so aren't talking about melted chocolate! That would be illegal. I would take mine to the movies and to the zoo, out hiking and climbing and on long road trips. I would have the best traveled Chocolate Fountain EVER! I would! Maybe I could get someone to invent a motorized carriage for it. That way it could keep up with me on my journeys. Yeah - and it wouldn't have to use gas cuz that would infect the chocolate - use electricity or battery powered even. What if chocolate became the next great fuel? Okay that just popped into my head, sorry! I get weird thoughts sometimes. Pop in - write out - pop in - you get the idea. I have to go to work tomorrow just so I'll enjoy my weekend. I don't get it but the up side is no more weird days off for holidays now for a long long long long long long time. I don't think until next Thanksgiving even. Taiwan doesn't recognize a whole lot of American customs and giving workers days off for Holidays they haven't heard of is the norm. That's okay though. I just L*O*V*E my job. L*O*V*E it. Totally adore it! is my nose growing? Have a grand Friday whether you are "off" or "on". |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** As I sit here sipping my beer slushee (it wasn't supposed to be a slushee but I forgot it in the freezer too long) I want to make my New Year's Revolutions. I am revolved this year to do it right. Now everyone jumps on the New Year and scares it into a crying fit. No no no - it's just a BABY starting out. You gotta coo at it, keep it warm, coddle it, talk baby talk to it and most of all feed it. You want those revolutions to occur don't you? Well then pay attention to what I tell you. Most peop's revolve to DO stuff or to NOT do stuff. This is all wrong. No no no. Revolve instead to change the spin on your life. Start out thusly; "Oh you cutie you! Dew widdle sweetie! Awww come on now let me see that smile." At this point shove a bottle of warmed up sunshine into it's mouth. As it slurps, and noisily I might add, upon this feast explain in slow soft tones what your revolutions are to be. "Isn't that nummers baby? Mmmm good. Make im grow up all strong and attractive it will. Mmhm. Hush lil baby and listen to my voice. Hear the cadence of my revolving? Mmhm..that's right. Oh! Baby gotta burpie?" G-A-R-A-A-R-C-H! "Oh my what a big burp you had. Dew had air in your tum-tums didn't you?" is this making you as nauseous as it is me? It's in your tone of course, keeping that new baby Year calm and sucking down on it's bottle. Slip those Revolutions in while Baby New Year relaxes. "This New Year Baby you and I are going to be the best of friends. Yes we are!" You get the idea now right? Good I can't keep this up much longer. GAK! The whole point being that when you greet the New Year keep in mind that (a) it is a baby starting out (b) it won't speak your language at first (c) a whole lot of peop's are going to be clamoring for it's attention. Ever notice how no one NAMES a new year except to give it a prison number? YO 2005 get in line or it's back in solitare for YOU! HEY 1822 move it move it...old geezer! I'm gonna name 2009 Claude I think. Claude has a nice ring to it don't you think? Course it should be a "Pat" name shouldn't it? Hm. Okay let me ponder that for a bit but you can name your New Year whatever you want. Here's the most important part of your Revolutions for 2009. Do NOT - I repeat - NOT - tell anyone what you Revolve in 2009 OR what you named 2009. This is very private stuff and you should keep it between you and the New Year Baby. PHEW! SMELL THAT? DANG BABY! Sunshine doesn't smell so great coming out does it? Happy Hollerdays to you and yours and watch what you Revolve to do with this new Year okay? It just might happen this time. |
| ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** As writers; whether it's lyrics, stories, poetry or just blog entries, we borrow from those before us. We have read stories or books, listened to music and lyrics, recited and memorized poems. We soak it all up. Then when inspiration hits us P*O*W we begin creating. WAIT A MINUTE! What? What's with this "WE" stuff? This is a writing site, correct? Correct. All of us here write, right? Right. This then applies to each of us here. Now shuddup! In the midst of creating, that spongie mind of ours starts to leak. Suddenly we find ourselves penning "It was the best of times, it was the wo..." HANG ON A MINUTE! THAT'S STEALING! *sigh* Yes and no to stealing. We are leaking that's all. We absorbed all those wonderful words and lyrics and even music others wrote and some of it just leaks back out when we create! Now please shuddup? As I was stating - ahem - this leakage is slow, merely drips into our own works. Then when we go back to edit, we get yanked by our short hairs. WHAT SHORT HARES? Not rabbits you fool, the short hairs...nevermind which short hairs just wait a minute would you? Damn! Lost my train of thought with all these interruptions! Ah now I remember. We start re-reading our own creations and see the shadows of other's work. Do we erase them? Do we write it all over so we just know it's all originally us? Do we leave it in as a tribute to another artist? WHAT IN THE BLUE FIR TREE ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? I'm talking about original works - unadulterated, new, never before seen, read or heard works. Is there such a thing? There are only so many words out there - more since I began creating some and there are other's also doing this creating, but mostly there is a limit to words to use, notes to place in certain order. YADA YADA YADA - SO WHAT? I guess I'm getting to borrowing other's creations and how we use them for our own inspiration but putting them back before we begin our own creation. I think that's where I was headed before all these EXTREMELY RUDE INTERRUPTIONS! P*F*F*F*F*T*T *sigh* Anyway I had a point to make but darn I can't remember exactly what it is so I'll go with this - If you borrow it, return it, don't keep it - it's not yours. HA! |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Tis NOT the season anymore so I can write this entry now. Yes that long stretch of Election Blues are behind us now. We have so much to look forward to, but I want to write about something all Americans think about with Politicians. A Politicians Promises!Just like delicate ice crystals formed on a glass window, then exposed to the winter's sun, a Politician has promises so delicate they melt away at the first touch of reality. I wish we had a Drive-Through Window through which we could customer order our Politicians. There are many fast food chains named after famous people you know, like "Bush's Chicken", and for this I am glad! The man will have something to do with his time when he steps down. I looked for more than this one and came up with the following list:  Kennedy Fried Chicken Roy Rogers Family Restaurants Stewart's Drive-In you know of the Martha fame? Einstein Bros. Bagels - who knew Al had brothers? Little Caesars Pizza - now THAT was a politician huh?We have to have a NAME for this new type establishment though. Everyone should hear this name and know that is where you go to order the Perfect Politician! What to call it hm? How about Ab's Last Stand of Integrity?No? Okay well you guys think about it and help me out with a name then! HA! Can you imagine what the drive-thru would be like? "Welcome to Abe's! What can I get you today?" "Yes I'd like one Politician, in Senate-size please with a side order of commitment. Please put some passion on that with a double dash of good judgment!" "We are having a special on Responsibility today. Would you like to include that in your order as well?" "Um...okay sure. Oh and throw in extra Honesty and Sincerity with that would you?" Oh yes, that would be the place to go. It wouldn't be in business all year round either! I don't suppose any money would be made by the owners so maybe it would have to be a Non-Profit Drive Thru. Don't think we have one of THOSE yet do we?    Well that's all I got for now - time to head to bed. I hear sleigh bells - no wait that's just a rap song playing. Never mind. Take care of yourselves now. |
| ...S... ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** HA! Okay I bad - you all knew that. So here's my new deal - wasn't there some Ambassador or President or Governor that had a New Deal? Maybe it was a Big Deal I can't remember right now. ANYway, I started to pick on new peop's. Well, not 'xactly pick I guess, but what I did this morning before I drove 4,522 miles to work (okay okay it's only 35 miles shuddup) was go to the I AM BLOG page and ASSIMILATE five new bloggers. Yes, I am into assimilating now.  ASS I MILA TINGIt's a rare flower in the southeastern corner of west North Carolina. HA! Is too! IS SO! oh shuddup... So I went - I read - I assimilated. GROUP HUG. Now it's not that I want/need/desire/pant over/salivate about a response from any of my Assimilees. Yes it is a word! IT IS TOO! It is just that I want to PICK ON NEW PEOPLE AND WATCH THEM JUMP! hehehe...Well...I'm a brat you all know it and you are still here right? Right? H*E*L*L*O!!!! Whew okay one of you is still here. Is fun time to pick on them. I leave such outstandingly AWESOME entries. DO TOO! UH HUH! shuddup. At work my SECRET Santa behaved herself and gave me THREE BAGS OF CHOCOLATE - all DARK of course. Now to figure out what to do with the four Mason Jars filled with cockroaches I had planned to dump in her filing cabinet. Hm.....Maybe I can train them to do tricks! Yeah and instead of a flea circus (which is stoopid) I'll have a ROACH COACH - hm...needs work I'll get back to ya all on that one. She came over and said to me, "Aren't you my Secret Santa?" This elicited much laughter which went WAY over her head and when I could breath I said "Um, yeah that's it!" So she holds out the gift card and asks me, "How much is on this?" I told her $8,525.00. More laughter. I got smacked by Sarah! She was laughing and smacking - is that legal? I don't think you should smack someone while laughing with them do you? Nope didn't think so. Can I fine her? WAIT! My pet cockroaches! I'll train them to be NINJA COCKROACHES! HOW COOL! what? Okay fine I won't. Spoil ports..huh? ohhh sports...okay if you say so. Giddy-up here is the really cool part of the day coming in now....they cut our phone number off an hour and a half before we left! HA! We had NO calls coming in! Is that cool or what? I played volley ball by myself of course. It is good exercise you know? I invented a method of incorporating jokes in the customer's long files that are only translatable if you know ancient Mayan and I reprogrammed two data bases. Now if you look for someone whose last names STARTS with the letter "A" you get all the customers whose names start with the letter "Z". Is funny huh? I didn't do that - you guys - come on - I'm bad but I'm not illegal. Sorta kinda - nope I am not. That motor cycle cop pulled over the guy ahead of me so see? I'm good! There was the BIG HOLLIDAZE lunch today which we had to PAY FOR. I would have gotten a better meal at Bugger King let me tell ya. The greens weren't half bad - but the rest - GAK! Money poorly spent. Sarah gave me her ice cream she brought from home though so I got a little food. PLUS I had three bags of chocolate! MMMMMMM... Now I should go pick on puppies for a while. Think I'll throw the frisbee for them in the very dark back yard and giggle when they run around trying to figure out "WHERE'D IT GO? Huh?" Big fun for all! STAY WARM! b-r-r-r-r-r |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** It's been a long road Gettin from there to here It's been a long time But my time is finally here And I will see my dreams come alive at night I will touch the sky And they're not gonna hold me down no more No they're not gonna change my mind 'Cause I've got faith of the heart I'm going where my heart will take me I've got faith to believe I can do anything I've got strength of the soul No one's going to bend nor break me I can reach any star I've got faith I've got faith Faith of the heart Such awesome lyrics, aren't they? Yes, yes, yes, I've been watching Star Trek's Enterprise again. I have watched the seven seasons once and am now working on watching them a second time. Partly cuz I'm still so tired and worn out and the other reason is I like Trek shows, movies, spoofs and all things Trek. Space travel - something humans had set their hopes on, now dwindling away. Many blame the lack of good ole competition with the U.S. - as Communism certainly was - for our failure to keep expanding our exploration with manned space ships. Others claim it was poor planning, weak designs, flawed products but I think we are just way too comfortable with Terra Firma no matter how we hose her resources and destroy her water, air and lands. Space can come after this planet is no longer habitable - right? OH NO I AM TURNING INTO A *gasp* CYNIC. Or a Republican! (opps sorry guys! )Watched the movie "Happy Feet". How is that a kid's movie? Have adults lost their sense of what scare the crap out of lil kids or what? THAT MOVIE HAD SCARY STUFF IN IT! I, personally, didn't have nightmares, but I can imagine some lil kid dreaming of a killer seal after him, or a six pack plastic ring around his throat. I mean come on! That was some scary stuff in there. So I started thinking about what kids are allowed to see nowadays. Harry Potter movies for instance. Very scary stuff and tension-ridden to boot, yet parents find it acceptable to have their kids see it. Independence Day was another movie lil kids got to view with no hesitation on the parents parts. How about that movie with the HUGE Elf in it? I just cannot force myself to watch such horrific stuff as mutant elves. Sorry! I slept about sixteen hours yesterday. It was a memorably forgettable day in my life. I guess it got up to about 70 degrees out. Missed that. Today it is all of maybe 45. Wow. Tropics. Should have stayed up yesterday and slept all day today - wait..wait...I have been sleeping most of the day today as well. Next week will be slightly shorter. I work every day except the 25th. This is the second offical day the company is shut down. Thanksgiving and the 25th of December. That's it. A four day week is good. As long as I don't think about loss of pay on that fifth day it's good. Okay I'm gone for now. It's awesome having PS 7 working again - sort of that is. I had to jury rig a partition to get it up and working but hey I have new art work! HOORAY FOR ANYEA! I need a nap now. Night and take care. |
| ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** WARNING controversial subject matter within! So this is Christmas And what have you done Another year over And a new one just begun And so this is Christmas I hope you have fun The near and the dear one The old and the young A very merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear And so this is Christmas For weak and for strong For rich and the poor ones The world is so wrong And so happy Christmas For black and for white For yellow and red ones Let's stop all the fight Those lyrics come from a song. Guess which one? Guess who sang it. Guess how he died. Yup, that is about how I feel after the past week. Like I've been assassinated. I think I was. I know I was in tears yesterday and all my coworkers were the object of my miserable attitude. Physical exhaustion does really BAD things to your mind. I do not recommend trying it however, even in an experimental fashion. Don't go there. I slept until 8:00 AM and had a panic attack. I was going to be late! Oh, wait it's Saturday. Whew. Enough about me. I want to discuss an extremely controversial subject now. I began it at work yesterday, which was the height of stupidity on my part, and never got to finish it. Why is Christmas considered a religious celebration yet Halloween is now non-denominational? See there is the area where our engineers sit. It's like an floating office in the center of this huge building. They put up walls and gave them a door so they are all nestled in this portable room which has no ceiling. For Halloween the Engineers went crazy nutso decorating. They decorated the outer walls with these plastic sheets that showed torture chambers with hanging skeletons etc. The put long black plastic sheets over the top of it giving the room an eerie glow (from all the monitors etc.). There was a sign on the door to "Beware" and another charging a $1.00 fee for entrance. They put an office chair, the rolly kind, outside their office and a fake skeleton was chained to it. Most funny this all was. Then Halloween was over. So I figured it would be Santa's workshop right? I mean how perfect would that be? Nothing. Not one bulb. Not one light. Nuttin. So I asked Sarah when Halloween was considered a non-religious holiday. I mean she agreed at one time (ha) it was a pagan holiday and I pointed out that is a religion. Okay now I am talking to a 7th Day Adventist about Halloween vs. Christmas and pagans. I got out of the conversation with my ears intact only because both our phones rang, but I am still wondering the why's of it all. Religion. Here's the thing. When I was 'groaning up' I was taught there are three things you never discuss in a group of people. 1. Religion 2. Politics 3. Sex Why? I mean so what if other people have passionate points of view? Why can't they be discussed? It makes these subjects X-rated or something, and okay with sex I can see the point, but the other two? I mean I have studied Earth's various religions and have learned alot about all the different Gods out there. Each religion has their own God. That's okay isn't it? I figure if people get the warm fuzzies with their own God and try to do good stuff then what's the harm? Man, I tell ya though there are some who get all riled up when you ask them about their God versus another religions God. Wow! But it just educates ya into how other humans believe right? What's wrong with that. My favorite statement from these various religions, no matter which one, is "There is only One God!" I'm like - "yeah your God is your only God and the {insert a religion here} has their only God and yadda yadda yadda." I think humans need to be more tolerant about the various God's worshiped is what I'm saying. Moving past this subject, mostly cuz it bores me after a while, let's discuss cereal. Breakfast cereal - that's right breakfast. What a scary meal that is huh? Do you know there are people out there that actually EAT that meal - in the early morning yet? How scary is that? I can choke down a brownie if I have to, but when it comes to the first meal of the day - LUNCH rules. Anyway yesterday for the early part of our training we played "games". Oh ya. Whoopee. Hip hip whatever. One "game" you had to write down which breakfast cereal the clip of art was taken from. They projected onto the screen just a small portion of the cereal box. I just sat there in the dark looking around at the others trying to figure these cereals out. These folks eat breakfast, excuse the expression (ha!), religiously and were having nervous breakdowns when they couldn't figure the cereal out. We were getting paid to do this. The only good part of the experience. We also played other games but my favorite game involved throwing a ball. Yes it was a soft squishee ball, but at least I got to be physically active for 30 seconds. I did myself proud cuz when I threw the ball to the next person, I picked one at the end of the room, about 15 feet away from me. It was a lovely throw. Everyone was like "What are you? Some kind of freak jock?" I responded with, "No - just a freak!" HA! *sigh* I need a nap now. I have been up for 2 & 1/2 hours and still ache from the exhaustion. No - I still have no tree, lights, bulbs, reindeers, sleighs or other accouterments of this season. I did manage to make the brownies, hiding one pan of them so I had something to bring home with me. I am wily huh? Our division did not "decorate" our area at all. I put up my sign and on the back it says in shiny silver "Nice!" so when I leave my cubicle and it is flipped over to state "Naughty" someone flips it around. It's turning into a war of the banner! I AM NAUGHTY DAMN IT! Leave my banner alone! *huge yawn* Yup I need another nap. About 5 hours should do me. ...waves at all the nice people... Happy Holliways to each and every one of you. Stay safe and warm and whatever you do - do NOT discuss the most controversial subject of them all - WHITE CHOCOLATE vs DARK CHOCOLATE! |
| ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** No, no one died or is sick. I am missing Photoshop like crazy is all! I have so much inside my head that should come out and if it isn't words, it should be art and if it isn't art it must be words and I am out of chocolate! I bought two boxes of mix for brownies with walnuts today. Hm. My thoughts are that if I make both boxes, take some to work every day next week I should make it through those eleven hour days - right? Right. Earlier there was a blog entry screaming for some of my fun art work and I had no Photoshop to create something spectutular for it. I am sad I am forced to use pre-existing art from other sites. YUK. Yeah okay something is better than nothing. GAK. The contest is done. The winners have been awarded their lil pressies and I am ready to move on to something new. Just what that will be I have no clue yet. I'll start jotting ideas down next week as my brain and body go into total exhaustion. I should come up with something fun. A woman at work's uncle had an accident last week. He and his son were out picking on trees and a huge branch came crashing down and hit the man in his back. He will never walk again. She told me she was so depressed. So inside my head I'm wondering why she is depressed. She can still walk. I think I'm getting cold to people's emotional states. My response to her was something like, you can't be depressed. You must be brave and optimistic for him. By showing him you are depressed will only give him permission to give up. I don't know. That answer did not seem to win me any new allies. They moved our desks last week. Another co-worker went into hysterics about change. I laughed at her. I love change. I see it as just something new to try. She did not find my response amusing. We had to do this "Secret Santa" at work and I picked this name of this girl that I cannot stand. Seriously cannot stand. Totally emphatically cannot tolerate. The reasons are many. Here is the good part! She comes to me and says "I know it's supposed to be secret but I'm your Santa - what do you really want? I am not getting you something you don't want." So now my suspicious nature takes over. Hm. How did the 2 of us manage to draw each other's names? We cannot stand each other. THE SECRET SANTA THING IS FIXED! Or Cosmic forces love their little jokes. Today I went and got her a gift card from a craft store. She loves to scrape book. I told her to either get me chocolate or chocolate. She decided to get me chocolate. I explained only dark chocolate or there would be floods of cockroaches in her cubicle. I think she got my point. I have no tree, no decorations here at the house but will be putting up my idea of seasonal decorations at work. It's a wall hanging in black that says "NAUGHTY" on it. Well I wonder how long before I'm told to take that one down. There is a girl who I sit next to who is a freak about order. I bought her neon colored 3x5 index cards and now we have what is lovingly referred to as "The Wall of Information". She has each card up in exactly a precise spot. It's funny cuz so many people laughed at first. Now they drop by to find that phone number or that address or whatever. We laugh at them. HA! I think they moved us together so the "Wall of Information" stayed intact. It covers both my cubicle wall and hers. In the middle is a huge 3 month calender that assists both of us in figuring out delivery dates etc. Other people try to grab it and Sarah growls at them. She cannot stand disorder. Everything in its place you see. I was so stressed and tired on Friday, I managed to leave my bag at work. My wallet is in it. My cell phone is in it. Everything except my bank card (which was in my back pocket - whew) is in it. The building goes into lock down at 8:30 PM and no one can get in after that, so my bag will have to suffer all alone until Monday. The place has so many security cameras there I may get over my phobia of having my picture taken at some point. Talk about 1999 (is that the name of that book? you know the one with Big Brother in?). Okay I am going to feel guilty next week for not reading anyone's blogs and not writing, that I'll be stopping in to EVERY BLOG OUT THERE TONIGHT! HA! okay no I won't. But I'm gonna try to hit every one's blog I can. Just re-read this entry next week and pretend it's brand new each time okay? Good. Gotta go vacuum now. WHOOPEE!!! I am SO excited! YES YES YES...hehe.... You all TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES. Watch out for falling branches too! |
| ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Well, I sure haven't been keeping up in here have I? *blows dust bunnies so she can sit down* Sorry bout that. I do see THE funny man of Blogging is back and happy am I to read his witty words. Hm. Strange witty words. So yesterday I went and tied a bandanna around one half of my face then leaned against a rack back by the repair depot. It didn't take long for some repair type techie to stop and ask me if they could help me. "Yup." I proclaimed - sorta loudly. "What's wrong?" I was asked. I had to wait for a suitable sized audience before going on. I clasped one hand on my head wearing the bandanna and told those assembled; "My Empathy Button is broken! Can you fix it?" Okay there was laughter and I worked for that but in all seriouslyness, my empathy well has run dry. Sympathy you want? Indifference is what you will get. I listen to such whining every day that it has grated my last good nerve to dust. "MY LIFE IS OVER WITHOUT MY COMPUTER!" "I'M A WRITER! HOW WILL I DO MY JOB?" "I AM IN SCHOOL! HOW WILL I BE ABLE TO STUDY?" "WHAT DO YOU MEAN A WARRANTY DOESN'T LAST MY LIFETIME?" etc. So, yeah, my Empathy Button is broken. Next week I get the honor of working eleven hours a day Monday through Friday. This is something I know about as when I was in Phoenix, working two retail jobs, walking to both of them. My days were about eleven to twelve hours long. I remember I would get up, walk the dogs, get ready, leave for Job 1. Come home, change, walk to Job 2. Walk home, take care of the puppies, go to bed. I had an exciting life. NOW, I will get up let the puppies out, quick get ready, kennel the pups, drive 45 minutes to work, work 11 hours, drive 45 minutes home, release the pups, feed them, and go to bed. I am giving up eating all next week. Plan on squeezing in tons of sleepage though. NO not at work. Well..wait...wait...nah I'll behave. So anyhoo I'll be around but not blogging yet. This week was devoted to my contest, which is a hit by the way (WHEW) and I am down to seven entrants out of fourteen. This contest was to see if a writer can reign in their words. Pare the writing to barest minimum and still put out a cohesive story. It isn't easy to do you know? NaNo you write as many words as fast as you can to punch through to 50K. It's hard, but write a meaningful one word sentence! Except for Party. He has his own idea of what a one word sentence should be! Now I'm off to get ready for another day of (with no vocal inflection) "I'm sorry to hear that." Later all. IT IS FREEZING HERE BY THE WAY! |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** As you approach the store you notice there in the usually darkened window a single tiny point of light shines. It's light is cast out over the walk and people can't help but stop and stare. One tiny light breaking the winter's gloom. Fighting the odds. One - just one light. You decide to stop in again. Last time was just so much fun! Pushing open the door you hear the sounds of a choir singing Greensleeves. The clerks are dressed in outfits from the 1800's and Peace settles over you. "If you are here for the purchase of gifts - we have no recommendations. If you are here for the latest in electronics, a cheap buy or cheesy toys, you won't find them. If you come seeking Quiet and Tranquility you will have to go to the second floor of the store." Climbing the stairs, your footsteps resonating on the marble, you reach the upper story. Before you is a huge room, dark and still. Overhead the Milky Way spins it's Eternal song and music from the ages of Mankind play quietly. There are couches scattered about and you find one to sit down on and deposit those heavy shopping bags on the floor. Take a deep calming breath. Serenity has arrived and all the stress from this season of "Peace and Joy" fall away. The Universe smiles. Remember - the inner you is where the good stuff is. You won't find that in any store. Take care of that part of yourself and above all - STAY WARM! |
| ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Ah - AH -----CHOO! I hab a cowd. Yup I do. Da whole place here has a cold. The ground has one. The weeds have one. The bushes got it. The Air especially has one. The Air got the worst one and sneezes all the TIME! Doesn't bother with the "Ah" part of the sneeze either. CHOO!and anotherCHOO Here a CHOO! there a CHOO! Everywhere it's CHOO CHOO'ing. Stoopid Air. Asked a pharmacist for a cold remedy for the Air and he told me they didn't carry anything. How come? I have been busy with my contest and it's going really well. It's going really well for the entrants, not so good for me. I mixed up on somebody's sig/name/whatever and emailed the wrong person the wrong thing about the right stuff. It was and may still be a Nightmare on Anyea Avenue. I have to stay up until midnight WdC time (that is only 11PM my time) to close each day out. I want to give em all every minute of entry time they can get. The writings are shaping up now. I just hope they are having fun. Trying to read blogs lately is difficult. This time of the year, what with this Seasoning going on, puts peop's in an especially bad bad mood it seems. Everywhere I read, the entry is angry or upset, or depressed or yukky. This is not good. You know we threw all those months out - maybe I should have added December to the stockpile huh? Going to a friend's this weekend to make homemade FUDGE. Okay I'm not doing the making but Namanda is and it will be AWESOME. She is also going to make Kibbles? Okay I don't get that one but she promised me it is yummy. Yeah okay. Dog food now, mmm....nope don't see it! There are houses around here that have lights up and pushed into the ground and stuff and I keep thinking, "Um, you aren't going to get snow are you? Well what's the point then?" In Phoenix Seasoning Lights always cracked me up. We would go to Sedona to see Holiday Lights and get to have the fun of wading through SNOW. Yeah, okay that was a one time thing and then Anyea went - NO. I don't like cold. Wonder if I put a space heater outside if Air would get over it's cold? Hm...I'll consider that some. Stay warm or stay inside where it is warm or move somewhere warm! Don't let the Seasoning get ya down k? Good. |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** I just got back from shopping. I went r-e-a-l late, on the advice of a friend. Well her advice was more like, "Wait until April.", but the puppies needed food. The store was trashed out. The store personnel looked like refugees from a war zone - oh yeah they were. I was as gentle as I could be with all of them. I went totally overboard tonight. I was going to just get a few things. I have to make something for the week and usually cook it on Sunday. I am going for a 14 hour crockpot BBQ beef slop. Then I took a peek at crockpot desserts and found a double chocolate cherry cake - so okay I fell on my sword and bought the ingredients for that as well - yeah yeah and whipped cream. Now I should have been satisfied right? WRONG-O! There is a little girl who just turned three and well gee - her birthday was on the 17th but I couldn't celebrate it with her. I will probably sit on her next Saturday and figured she was due ANOTHER birthday party. Here's the grandly FUNNY thing. I got a roll of wrapping paper (why don't they make wrapping paper in those flat sheets anymore anyway?) and when I loaded all the stuff in the truck I threw the wrapping paper in the front seat along with the doll, the learning book and the flashcards. So I am driving away with the tunes jammin away and I hear this weird rattling noise. "Huh? Oh no! Mr. Big Truck you MAY NOT GET SICK ON ME!" So I proceed to drive back to the house very carefully watching the dials (which mean absolutely nothing to me by the way). Once in the driveway I jump down go around to the passenger side and... "HOLY SHI...THE WRAPPING PAPER ROLL!" Yup it was slammed in the door of the truck and had been scrapping along, quite nicely I might add. The one end is a tad blackened and I made sure the flames were completely out before taking it into the house. There is also this geometric dent in the roll. But hey, I am very imaginative and I'll figure a way to wrap Syd's packages with what I can salvage. I am not buying more of this stuff. I may end up using plain brown paper I have for shipping and just coloring all over it with my box of 96 crayons. We'll see. Syd will love whatever I do as it is what is INSIDE that counts. Teach em young. External beauty counts little - it's what is inside that matters...wha? Not like that? Hm. K - if you say so. Now I am trying to juggle in my mind how to do the cake in the crockie for three hours and then quick clean it out and start the beef for fourteen hours and have it ready for Monday. I love a good mathematical conundrum don't you? NO I AM NOT GETTING UP AT 3:00 AM to pull this off. I was thinking of doing the cake tonight but - I'm a little tired so I probably won't. Oh and I don't share....hehehe....I'll let you know how awesome it turns out. I may make myself a cup of exotic hot cocoa with teeny tiny marshmallows thrown on top with the cake and whipped cream. Overboard you think? NAHHHHHH - it is ME we are talking about. HA! |
| ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** I keep reading about Publishing Houses going belly up. I see more writers going into other types of publishing or trying to make it in various methods. What will we do when there are no more books? I feel a panic attack coming on here. No more books, bookstores, libraries, boxes of used books for sale, magazines, newspapers - wait, okay those aren't very good now anyway, get rid of them. WHAT WILL BE NEXT? COMICS? I just got two new books most folks would shudder and run from. The first one is The Science of Aliens by Clifford Pickover. I flipped through it quickly and noticed I had already created my aliens as proscribed in his book, so okay let's move on. The second book, World-Building by Stephen L. Gillett is SO COOL. It is mostly physic equations and then they went and threw in astronomy in for good measure. This book is awesome but not for everyone -- I understand. I had already gone on line to find information about these two subjects and came up with very little that helped or triggered my imagination. I was on my own for most of it. I had to *GASP* make stuff up. HA! So try to imagine no more paper. I mean the kind books and reading material are printed on, not the kind found in bathrooms for pity sake! SHEESH. WHOA! Imagine THAT one...okay no don't. ew. No paper. No written material just electronic. Then - copper mines are gutted and there is no more copper. No fossil fuel left either. I see a problem here. I love trees, don't get me wrong. I made good friends with some over my years on this planet. I'm on first name basis with some. I could tell you stories about this one pine tree and myself - well no, I better not go THERE! I think we can compromise on cutting trees down. Then I just have to come up with alternatives to petroleum products and humanity would be safe. Right. Ever notice my arguments never get flushed out? I'm listening to Disney sound tracks right now and am easily distracted. I can't help it okay? Where was I -- something something trees, petroleum OH YEAH - so I think we can recycle to obtain printing materials for NEW books. Use all those un-escape-ably UGLY clothes out there today, yup recycle them. They are so ugly. UGLY HEAR ME UGLY. Except for blue jeans. Overalls - recycle them. Polyester clothes would make awesome books! They wouldn't break down as fast right? AND YOU COULD WASH YOUR BOOKS! HOLD THE THOUGHT - this is cool. Washing instructions printed on each back cover. Wash in warm water. Use environmentally friendly soap. Dry on gentle cycle or hang outside on a line! Glass is made from sand - we still have a lot of that right? Okay maybe not such a good idea for books. Too heavy. War and Peace is already in the tonnage for weight. Did you know someone etched a book on the head of a pin? It is truth. Look it up on the web. It was a long book too. Can't remember what but it wasn't Cat in the Hat. Well I think something must be done to preserve writings on paper or in physical books. I don't like reading a book on-line. My monitor doesn't fit on my lap easily. Just some thinkings on stuff. See what happens when I get day after day off? *sigh* loving that. Take care all! |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** I have to move aside as Clogged Blog gives thanks today. Yes, it is unusual but trust me, when this Blog of mine says "MY TURN!", I listen. So with no further do-do's I give you THE ONE - THE ONLY - CLOGGED BLOG!!! crowd goes nutso cheering and throwing turkey legs at the CG! WORD OUT ALL! I juz wanna state that I am thankingful for stuff as well. I am only a blog. Not 'xactly the lowest of wordages, but up there. Hell, I'm awesome and I know it. Today all you humans are running around waving cranberry swords in the air and I just wanna tell my Bloggie buds out there in Blogsville HI HELLO AND THANK YOU. I wanna thank em for existing, for inspirationally motivating the small stinky human of mine. hehe...she doesn't stink but it is fun to give her back some of the grief she hands out. Here are my personal buddy-blogs that I wanna wave at today and hollar a big ole thanks - Carolina Blue  "Invalid Item"  ccstring"Invalid Item" bugzy is baaaccck!! "Invalid Item" David McClain "Invalid Item" Voxxylady  "Seeking Elora" Mrs. Whatsit "What's up with Whatsit" Mel aka Mrs Tor "Invalid Item" Nikola~Santa Bring a Pony!  "Invalid Item" Nada "Invalid Item" PuppyTales "Invalid Item" fleckgirl"Invalid Item" Dave Gordon "Invalid Item" Auntynae "Invalid Item" Eagle~The Cowboy's Wife "Invalid Item" scarlett_o_h"Invalid Item" Special Kay "Invalid Item" PlannerDan "Invalid Item" Debi Wharton "Days with Debi" Douger "Invalid Item" And all those other lil blogs that don't see the light of day anymore - a thank you to you as well. You all know which ones THOSE are right? Hm. Okay nuff said. Sometimes when you are truly alive everything surrounding you awakens and moves to your energy. This was just one of those times. Find one thing at least you are thankful for - hang on to it. Stay safe and have some fun today. |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** You all have heard that one right? Boss walks in, gives a big lecture to group of underpaid, overworked stressed to the max worker bees. He/She/It will end with that old worn out statement, "There is no I in teamwork!" There is however an ~i~ in FIRED, and one in LAID OFF, and also one in TERMINATED. See how personal they make it when those happen? Good to know. I got something for all those motivated bosses out there! The ANYEA-ism of MOTIVATIONALAZATION. Remember everyone - there is always someone bigger, someone smarter, someone faster and perhaps taller but when it comes to MEAN - I got em all beat! Okay maybe that isn't quite so motivational. I love to play with peop's minds. I do! What? You haven't noticed. Okay well don't let this story upset you then. I'm at work and walked over to my Team Lead's (cute title huh) desk. "Hey Dusty! Whatcha doing for Thanksgiving?" I get this long list of "mom and sis are cooking...blah blah blah...bunch of white noise" I wait calmly for her to wind down and for her to do the obligatory "What about you?" oh I so love this part...hehe "Me? Oh, well I'm going to be all alone. Yes, just me and the two puppies. All alone. No turkey I suppose. Maybe I can buy a frozen dinner?" Then I lower my head, and give this tiny sad little sigh. I THOUGHT SHE WAS GOING TO EXPLODE FROM GUILT! It was so funny. You all should have been there. No - wait - if you all had been there one of you would have whacked me upside the head huh? Oh well. I couldn't stop laughing all day. It was good. So then she is running around trying to get people to DRIVE TO MY HOUSE AND GIVE ME FOOD! Oh oh...my gosh she cracks me up. Today I brought in Fortune Cookies. The only people who got one were those who told me WITHOUT being prompted if they planned on having a happy Thanksgiving. One person went to grab one and I told her, "You really wanna see how fast I am with a pen?" Hand was withdrawn and quite quickly too! hehehe Let's see what else? OH OH OH I got TWO books from that lovely Fed Ex man today! I have a crush on him. Anyone who delivers books and/or chocolate - Love em! This is the sorta backwards way I think. Both books were to help with my book for NaNo. Now I suppose you wanna know why I waited until AFTER I wrote NaNo to get the books? Nah - you can guess. I found a CD with artwork on that I don't think I've used in my CB yet. WHEW. I am going to try unloading PS 7 and re-load PS 6. Maybe I can get this stupid RAM to do 6. Found out I can't get more RAM for this old dino anymore. Too old. Eight years old. COMPUTERS AGE FASTER THAN DOGS! Okay just a piece of trivia you can use in those family get togethers. You are quite welcome. I shall return tomorrow with some idea I had yesterday - if I can remember it that is! Until then, stay safe there are complete IDIOTS on the roadways now. |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** I can't stop! I swear I meant to just finish the book and not update any of the NaNo stats but I started writing again this morning and W*H*A*M - I updated those stats. SOMEONE STOP ME! okay...I'm better. Hey did you guys know we had an election this month? KIDDING - yes I voted. No I'm not telling you who. HA! November is one of those wacky "HUH?" months. Yup it is. I mean what exactly is the purpose of November (besides that celebration that all must observe and I'm not talking Gobblegiving either). Think about it a minute. You got January - that's a must cuz everything must start somewhere right? February well I suppose we could do without it except for all the Leaping part. You just gotta make that revolution work out somehow. March - well that one we can eliminate too. April is SPROING and we gotta have that. May - nah get rid of it. June? Well those students have to graduate and give their parents a break right? Okay we'll keep June. July - gotta keep that month for obvious reasons - mosquitoes. August, I never liked that dude but it's not a bad month. September keeping that one. Get those kids BACK in THE SCHOOL ROOMS! October is fun and chocolate is involved, keep it. Now we get to November. Well gee, it is one of those depressing months. I say keep the last day and throw the rest out. December? I happen to LIKE December. We are keeping it. I just got us down to an eight month year. Not bad huh? You guys want to vote on throwing out some useless months or what? Gee, I hope none of you were born in one of those months. Hey if you were we will just move your birthday to one of the keepers k? AND to make up for the loss of your month we will take seven years off your age. How's that for a real deal? Have a day - I fully intend to. *sigh* Hope I can stay awake for it though. Miss the sun. |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** I cannot believe after what I accomplished over this weekend I'm actually doing MORE writing! Sheesh. My pinkies hurt. I have re-invented Carpet Tunnel and I have finished the 50K needed to cross the NaNo finish line. The book still needs a couple more chapters to put an ending on it. Oh, ya, it also needs much editing but you know what? IT IS A GOOD BOOK. I am getting tears in my eyes here now. I have not written this much in over what - two years? No I did NaNo last year but most of that was garbage. This year I had a story, I had characters, I had plot, I had movement and excitement and just writing stuff - you know? To all that supported my efforts I want to say a HUGE thank you! I have missed just writing for fun and missed reading your blogs and making smart assed comments in them. Did I just say that? Ooops...you all weren't supposed to know I do that! I had to burn about 5 CD's for music this time around. The silence was too quiet. I have the MOST eclectic music collection from my NaNo experience, as well as this book. I watched word counts here and tried not to let it bother me when people passed my meager attempts by with a huge SWOOSH - but hey - I did it. I'm proud to see many who did finish. Huge huge kudos to all who took the steps to write and even if you don't make that "finish" line - who cares? YOU WROTE. That is the best part. Okay what's new? Some of you have snow hehehe...Not here. It is COLD here though. I'm thinking of going and getting Artic wear. Bought sweaters, then bought a sweater jacket to go over the sweaters, then got a coat to go over both of those. STILL COLD. This sucks raw eggs let me tell you. OH and there will be no new artwork from me for quite some time. I don't have my 'puter here and rescued this dog of a machine that resides here. I had permission to see if I could do something to get it to work. Well I got it to work alright but I had this delicate balancing act with software and RAM going on. Photoshop worked as you can see from previous entries. Then Soldier Boy got off on leave (BIG YEAH) and decided to install some things. *CRASH* there went my balance and now if I want this poor machine to accept, let me load and work with Adobe Photoshop, I would have to wipe the harddrive and start all over. *sigh* I was considering getting the damn thing more RAM then I thought why? I have an awesome computer - in Phoenix - just waiting for me to send ransom money for it's escape here to Texas. Yeah so now I'm planning on doing just that. Don't actually need all the other stuff like a keyboard, mouse or monitor, cuz this ancient slug has all that, some of which I bought to upgrade it. ENOUGH COMPUTER TALK ANYEA! oh...k.... I am taking off this coming Thursday (well the place is closed on Thanksgobble anyway) and Friday and then there is Saturday then MY B __ __ __ __ ___ ___ Y. Figured I would gift me that. Now to figure out what to have on Gobble day. Hm. Maybe Lasagna? hehe...I don't want to cook. The puppies would love a HUGE turkey, thank you very much mom, but I'm thinking not so much. K - now I'm gonna go and NOT write for a while! I AM BACK! I will invade your blogs tomorrow so BEWARE! hehehe |
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