Angel's Mindless Chatter

Okay, so I decided to do this crazy quiz/survey thingy of Shelly’s rather than actual work, which I have plenty to do, and it was way more fun than work.  My weekend was pretty good,  no overtime though, so that kinda sucked.  Spent a lot of time in my pj’s which rocked, and watched some movies with my boyfriend.  Read some more Harry, can’t get enough, but can’t find a lot of time to finish it either.  Went out with my boyfriend to test the 4-WD in his pickup, it works great, we were vertical at one point, I was hoping we wouldn’t go forward any more though!   Would have been embarrassing as there were other people around!  Umm..that’s pretty much it, OH yeah, ,talked with my friend Jess that I haven’t seen in over a year, and guess what??? She’s coming down the end of this month to visit me….I am super psyched.  We have so much fun together, and I miss her so much, ,she’s like my “soul mate” in a friend way…we call each other flake and Da Other Flake (you had to have been there), I can’t wait!  Okay, that’s it, ,onto the show……

 

Pause, Rewind, Fast Forward, Record

 

Pause. [currently]

001. What shirt are you wearing?: White quicksilver shirt
002. What pair of pants?: Um…faded glory, dark blue jeans
003. What color socks?: white with gray on the toes and heels and pink “Hanes” written under the toes
004. What shoes do you have on?: My size 6 boys Ozark Trail Hiking Shoes
005. What makeup?: None
006. What jewelry?: A watch, my belly ring, and one earring (the very top one)
007. What CD is in your CD player?: Ummm...at home  our Sleep CD
008. What are you listening too?: The normal chatter of cubicle land
009. Who are you chatting with?: No one, I guess my computer since I’m typing on it.
010. What other windows do you have open?(other websites you’re on): Work Email, work documents, nothing exciting
011. What are you eating/drinking?: Drinking water, not eating anything at the moment
012. What are you thinking about?: I’d rather be reading my Harry Potter book
013. What time is it?: 10:48am
014. What room of the house are you in?: Office cubicle…not a house
015. What season is it?: summer.
016. How are you wearing your hair?: In a messy sort of bun
017. What color are your nails painted?: Yellow
018. What are the other people in your house doing?: Not at the house, so I have no clue

019. What should you really being doing right now?: Work
020. What song have you been listening too non-stop today?: none, yet

Fast Forward. [future]

021. What will you do tomorrow?: Work,  like usual!
022. Who do you want to see tomorrow?: Ummm…I guess everyone cuz that means I am still alive!
023. What do you want to be when you get older?: I don’t want to get older…I’d like to stay the same thanks!
024. Do you want to get married?: I seriously think I do, hoping in a couple three years.
025. Do you want to have kids?: Yes,  but I can’t.
026. If you could, would you run for president later on?: Hell No, too much responsibility, plus no privacy!
027. Where would you like to live?: Somewhere green and by water.
028. Describe your dream house: A 5 bedroom, 3 (or 2 ½) baths, large kitchen with stainless steel appliances, large bay windows (with the seat built in), a library/study, a 3 car garage (or 2 car with a shop in the back), and a maid to clean it all for me!
029. If you could, what part of today would you fast-forward through?: All through work
030. When are you getting your next haircut?: Ummm…probably in a few months
031. When do you plan to go shopping next?: Actually this evening, looking for bedroom furniture!  So excited!
032. Would you rather die young and beautiful or live long and die old?: I’d like to live as long as possible and look young, but my answer is live long, die old.
033. How would you like to die?: Quick with no/little pain, I don’t want to suffer!
034. What are you looking forward too?: I’m looking forward to going to Venice with my boyfriend in 2-3 years.
035. What’s the next holiday coming up?: Shelly’s Birthday August 4^th!  Then my mommy’s Birthday August 5^th.
036. What do you plan on wearing tomorrow?: Probably jeans and a tee shirt
037. What’s tomorrow’s weather going to be like?: Probably Hot, but hopefully not!
038. How old will you be in four years?: I’ll be 29 years young, eeksss…
039. What time will you go to bed tonight?:  Around 9:30pm.
040. What day is it tomorrow?: Tuesday August 1^st

Rewind. [past]

041. What were your dream jobs as a child?: To be a doctor, an artist, and a cowgirl, turns out I am none of the above, though I dabble in the artist bit every now and then.
042. What was the worst time of your life?: My senior year of High School when I was dating a Satan Worshipping Jack Ass who screwed my life over.
043. What was the best time of your life?: College at SOU, from 2002-2004.
044. Where was the last place you were (outside of the home)?: Well, I’m at work now, so before that, I guess last night we went to dinner.
045. When’s the last time you saw your best friend?: It’s been at least a month…but another of my best friends that I haven’t seen since July 2005 is coming to visit me the end of this month, I am OH SO EXCITED!!
046. What was your most embarrassing moment?: U…when I was all doped up on cough syrup and dressed up with some friends, I was a drunken prom queen, unfortunately my friend took pictures, and showed everyone in college.
047. Four years ago, what was your dress-style like?: Umm…2002, starting college, it was pretty much the same as it is now.
048. What school did you go to for elementary school?: I went to a couple of them, can’t remember the main one, it was in Hawthorne, NV the other was Mary S. Black.
049. What about preschool?: It was in Phoenix, AZ, can’t remember.
050. What was the first book you ever read?: Geez…probably one of those My Little Golden Books like the dog one or something.
051. What were you doing before you took this survey?: I was reading blogs.

052. Who was the last person you talked too online?: Shannon
053. What time did you wake up this morning?: 6am…I was late!
054. What things did you eat today?: Getting ready to eat lunch, before that though, 2 PB & J sandwiches and some of those breadsticks and cheese handi-snack things
055. When was the last snowstorm you had?: Um…February or March-ish
056. What part of your life would you do over?: Well I’d love to do my last 2 years of High School over so I didn’t date the psycho jerk boy, but then again, I wouldn’t be the person I am today or livin the life I am today, so I guess I will not change much!
057. If you could relive a year of your life because it was so great, which year?: My 1^st year at SOU, it was great!
058. What was the stupidest thing you ever done?: Started smoking.
059. What trends were popular last year but died out?: Probably all those clothes I don’t wear anyways!
060. Who was your first true best friend?: It was Corinna Scott.

 

** PART   2    IS    BELOW  **

Pause, Rewind, Fast Forward, Record [[ Part 2 ]]

 

Record. [memories]

061. What’s one of your fondest memories?: Graduating College (both times, community with an Associates, and university with a Bachelor’s), with my parents being there to see it!
062. Do you keep a diary?: Kind of.
063. What’s the last picture you took?: I think it was of my dog.
064. Name some people you’ll never be able to forget: Too many to name
065. Have you ever wrote your own song lyrics?: Yeah.
066. Ever written your own little story?: Yeah,  one day I may publish
067. What was your favorite grade in school?: 3^rd…I loved it.
068. What did you wear on the first day of school this year?: No school this year.
069. When was your first *real* kiss?: Umm…probably not until 8^th grade.
070. What were your first words?: Dada!
071. What’s your middle name(s)?: Danielle
072. Who is your inspiration?: My inspiration is Theodocia Swecker (aka Teddy) a college art professor…she has inspired me to be a better person, she gave me a completely new and improved outlook on life.  She taught me more than art, but life itself…she truly is an amazing person.
073. What thing (not a person) means alot to you and why?: My home…it’s my first home and it’s where my new life begins (seems I start a new life quite often…LOL)
074. What’s one of your worst memories?: Getting a phone call while at work from the psycho ex-boyfriend where he yelled at me, degraded me, called me a filthy whore, a slut, and a stupid bitch and how he wanted nothing to do with me ever.  I ended up crying and having to go to the restrooms to get myself together for finishing up my work.
075. Was there ever a time in your life where you thought you were really going to die?: Kind of…I was going to take my own life, so I thought I was going to die.
076. Who did you mostly hangout with while growing up?: My best friend Christine.
077. Where was the first place you lived?: The place I was born probably, Tonopah.
078. What’s the longest amount of time you were away from home?: Hmm…not sure, because I always come back home…I guess a couple years though.

079. What’s the best thing you’ve ever written?: My capstone paper in college, was fantastic, I spent so many hours, weeks, writing it and it came out great!
080. How long was the longest survey you took?: I think like 100 some questions.

TGIF!!!!!!!!!

 

I am oh so tired this morning, can’t concentrate on anything, is it time to go home yet?  I need a nap. 

 

Only a couple more hours to go, then off to home I go.  I am probably gonna stop at the grocery store on the way home.  I was totally craving ice cream yesterday and we actually don’t have any, so I will pick those up and maybe some sauerkraut and buns for our bratwurst that I am making for lunch/dinner (around 3ish).  Should be yummy.  I may go rent some movies tonight for me to watch alone with the dog, since the boyfriend is on nights.  We shall see.  So my plans for the weekend don’t exist, I will mostly veg out and clean house.  I’ll probably be online a bit as well.  I may paint the bathroom, but who knows!  Okay, sorry I’m so boring today, at least I kept it short!

 

Have a fabulous weekend ya’ll!

 

Okay, so just as I was finishing this post, my boss came by and asked me if I’d be willing to work overtime this weekend if needed!  HELL YEAH I WILL!  They may need help supporting all the firefighters fighting the millions of fires around here.  I may be called to help run supplies to them or to run people back and forth or even admin. Stuff.  And here I thought my weekend would be boring, well it still could be, but if I could earn some overtime, that would totally rock!!!!!!

Flaming rum gets Bacardi in hot water

Miami women burned by hot shot; sues spirits producer 

 

Updated: 1:40 p.m. PT July 26, 2006

MIAMI - A woman who was allegedly severely burned by flaming rum during a Bacardi promotion is suing the wine and spirits producer, claiming the product was defective and dangerous. (It's alcohol, hello stupid, alcohol is FLAMABLE!!!!!!!!!!)

Danielle Alleyne, of Miami, was injured after she was doused with the flaming rum at a Miami night club in August 2002, according to the lawsuit filed Monday in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court. (Okay, I don't get this, why has it taken her 4 years to file a lawsuit for this? She's not gaining any points with me yet.)

“The burning rum stuck to her skin and continued to burn as she fell to the floor and tried to put herself out,” the lawsuit said. Alleyne suffered second and third degree burns on her face, neck, chest and back and is permanently disabled and disfigured, according to the lawsuit.

After hours telephone messages left at the Miami-based Bacardi USA Inc., were not immediately returned. (Hello...after hours phone calls...DUH of course they weren't returned immediately, no one was there AFTER HOURS....still no points for jack-ass)

A bartender, who was not identified in the lawsuit, was pouring shots when a customer (so sue the customer) lit a menu on fire and placed it in the stream of alcohol. A bottle of Bacardi 151 that was being used to pour the shots turned into a flame thrower and sent flaming rum all over Alleyne, the lawsuit said.

A telephone message left after hours at the office of Robert Dickman, Alleyne’s attorney, was not immediately returned. (okay, again, why are we leaving AFTER HOURS phone calls, too important not to talk to someone during working/business hours?)

The lawsuit alleges that Bacardi 151 proof rum “emits a high volume of combustible and explosive vapor” which makes it “unreasonably dangerous” and defective.

© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

 

People never fail to amaze me....I can't believe how greedy society is...suing Bacardi (4 years later mind you) and not the jackass who started the fire...hmmmm.

Okay, so I have been busy at work all day, hence no entry til 11.  I've been working on researching all the information we have about this Ghost Town we are proposing improvments to some of the areas.  I am learning a lot, and it is turning out to be a quite interesting project.  Maybe I need to become a recreation specialist,  sounds way more fun then environmental compliance crap that I do! 

Anyways, enough of that....so Shelly had some random questions on her blog, and I took the liberty of answering them myself.  Here they are.

1.  Does anyone really care if Oprah is gay or not? Oprah is Oprah, whether she is gay or not…leave it at that!  She is an amazing (and very wealthy) woman!  She is like one of the top 10 Women CEOs in the World…that is amazing to me…who cares what her sexual preference is,  it doesn’t affect who she is as a person.

2.  What is your favorite old time game show on tv? Okay, The Price is Right is my all time favorite, but I love the Whammie one too…Press Your Luck!  I am a game show addict! (When I have television)

3.  I had waffles for breakfast and I was wondering what do other people put on their waffle? I usually just eat them with butter and syrup, however the flavor of syrup varies depending on what kind of waffles they are.  Plain waffles get either strawberry or original, blueberry get either regular or Corn syrup and other flavored ones usually get corn syrup!

4.  Who do you think would make a good President of the United States?  I would!  But, unfortunate for all of you out there, I don’t want to be President of the United States.  Too much pressure and the media is always watching you, whether your taking a shit in the bathroom or sleeping naked on the beach!  Too little privacy for me

5.  If you could do anything this weekend what would it be?     If I could do anything this weekend it would be to lie on the beach reading my Harry Potter Book (the Goblet of Fire) while sipping some frosty beverages (either margaritas, daiquiris, or mai tai’s).  That’s what I want to do.

 

© WireImage.com Lance BassLance Bass of 'N Sync Reveals He's Gay
Jul 26, 10:37 AM EST

The Associated Press

Lance Bass, band member of 'N Sync, says he's gay and in a "very stable" relationship with a reality show star. Bass, who formed 'N Sync with Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick, tells People magazine that he didn't earlier disclose his sexuality because he didn't want to affect the group's popularity.

"I knew that I was in this popular band and I had four other guys' careers in my hand, and I knew that if I ever acted on it or even said (that I was gay), it would overpower everything," he tells the magazine.

'N Sync is known for a string of hits including "Bye Bye Bye" and "It's Gonna Be Me." The band went on hiatus in 2002. Bass has also found headlines for undertaking astronaut training and failing to raise money for a trip into space.

Bass says he wondered if his coming out could prompt "the end of 'N Sync." He explains, "So I had that weight on me of like, `Wow, if I ever let anyone know, it's bad.' So I just never did."

The singer says he's in a "very stable" relationship with 32-year-old actor Reichen Lehmkuhl, winner of season four of CBS' "Amazing Race."

Bass and Fatone, 29, are developing a sitcom pilot inspired by the screwball comedy "The Odd Couple," in which his character will be gay.

"The thing is, I'm not ashamed — that's the one thing I went to say," Bass says. "I don't think it's wrong, I'm not devastated going through this. I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy."

 

Okay, I'm sorry but I always thought he was gay, him and the other guy Chris Kirkpatrick.  They just struck me as gay, not just because they were in a boy band either.  Lance was the "pretty boy" and Chris was like the "bad boy" but they both just seemed gay.  Let's see if Kirkpatrick comes out next!

I will admit that I must be screwy and gay since I loved N'Sync and still have their CD's....haa haa...I love their Christmas CD, mainly because I love Christmas, and I gotta admit, they can sing...okay, that's all I gotta say, had to share since I found this!

 

 Hump Day Hillbilly challenge...you know I always  look forward to these so much because I can take a break!!  It gives me a reason to "escape" reality at work and do something fun!  Okay, here goes:

This week, we're going to be naming name brand items you use or eat on a monthly basis. These must be personal items that *YOU* use [like degree deodorant] or name brand items you eat [like sara lee ice cream]. If you get stuck, go to your kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom and look around. ;) Feel free to put in parenthesis what exactly you're talking about. The name brand has to start with the letter to the left. You can not do this: T - Tea [Lipton's] You'd have to place it under "L" like this: L - Lipton's Tea.

A – Always (the maxi-pads I use….LOL, couldn’t resist putting this one here)

B – Bushnell (the scope brand on my gun)

C – Camel lights, the cigarettes I smoke

D – Downy Fabric Softner (Lavender Vanilla)

E – Energizer Batteries

F – Faded Glory (Jeans I have on right now)

G – General Mills (cereal)

H – Harley Davidson (shirts, bandannas, etc…)

I – Ivory soap – lavender scent

J – Jansport (backpack I use for workout clothes)

K – Kodak (picture printer paper)

L – Lactaid  (the milk we drink without lactose)

M – Mitsubishi Endeavor (my vehicle)

N – Nine West (the eyeglasses I wear)

O – Ozark trail (tent brand and also the brand of shoes I have)

P – Palmolive Dishwasher Soap

Q – Quartz (the crystal I wear on a necklace,  have decorating my cubey and at home, plus it’s in my watch too)

R – Round-up weed killer (used it yesterday in fact)

S – St. Chappell Wine (many different kinds in my house!)

T – Tommy Girl (my all time favorite perfume)

U – Uncle Ben’s

V – Vlasic Dill Pickles

W – Wheat thins, I like the original flavor

X – Xerox (the brand of copy machine and paper we use at work)

Y – Yasmin (my birth control pills)

Z – Zippo

 

Thank goodness it's Hump/Camel day....man I don't think I can survive much more of this crap I call work, without a good nights sleep.  It's been SUPER frustrating lately, I realized I do have "7 bosses" and it takes over a week to write a stupid letter to some company because I forgot to put in a period or a comma, or I spaced twice in the sentence.  Grrrr.....give me all the corrections the first time and this won't be a problem.  Then the "7 bosses" come up with something new to add to the letter,  each time they revise it.  I revised this one letter 8 times before a "FINAL" was completed....yeah 8 times!  I mean I am not a bad writer at all, ,but it was those little things I just mentioned, a comma, something new to add etc...

Anyways, so ya my night wasn't too bad, watched Harry Potter and The Sorceror's Stone, I can't believe how young they are in the movie, I mean I haven't watched that since it first came out and they are so much more grown up now!  Other than that, ,cleaned up house (dishes, etc) and worked on a 1000 piece puzzle. 

So today I am back at work, soooooo tired again, want to curl up under my desk for a few hours, ,then I promise I will be totally productive for the rest of the day.  Oh I guess I need to check this weeks HumpDay Hillbilly Challenge...okay, ,will update later with the Challenge!  As soon as I find out what that is!!

OMG...I am so ready to strangle my co-workers (several of them), they are really irritating me today.  I have been working on a letter for over a week....a 3 page letter.....okay, should take an hour at most, but NOOOOOOOOO everyone in the world has a comment on it, and they don't tell you it all at once, but one here, then you fix it send it to them thinking it's final,  and they give you another correction...over and over, for a week, yeah, getting old....then to top it off, everyone is making changes without telling me about them, but expect me to have it printed and ready to mail out. 

 

OKAY, done venting for a sec.  Other than that, I have a new project that is very interesting about some improvements for a recreational Ghost Town area.  Should be pretty interesting, but seems there is way too much drama attached with this as well.  I don't know, maybe it's just the way the government works,  without drama there is no fun!

 

I am just trying to keep smiling....(sing along now, to the Just Keep Swimming sung by Dorrie on Finding Nemo)...Just keep smiling, Just Keep smiling, just keep smiling, smiling, smiling..."

So I just got off the phone with my best friend and we were chatting about the weekend and guess what????  Her boyfriend (the control freak one) punched her while they were at a bar.....YEAH!  Yet she stays and he is going to supposedly quit drinking for a month (at least...we shall see) and go to counseling for his anger managment issues.  Yet she stays...I guess a friend was with them and took her away for a while, while the boyfriend cooled off....the friend takes her home to find the boyfriend walked home (thank goodness since he was drunker than shit) and was passed out half in the driveway and half in the road....NICE.........I told her that his controlling of everything (where she works, who she hangs out with, etc...) sounded to me like the early signs of someone who will be physically abusive as well, but yet she stayed, though she is a little freaked out by him too.  They are both still married to their exes but have planned a wedding next July 4th....now he hit her though, I don't know.  She will probably stay and there's nothing I can say or do about it.  I don't know if I should tell my boyfriend though, or he'll probably kick her boyfriends ass.  I don't know, whatever, I can't believe it!

 

Just had to vent quickly!

Mood: Blah and tired!
Listening to: Co-workers shuffling papers and talking

Okay, so I had a pretty good weekend.  Until yesterday, the gloomy sky got me all depressed and bummed out for the evening.  BUT the rest of the time it was awesome!  I had a great time with my co-workers outside of work.  People are so different when your not at work, they are more relaxed and just themselves.  It was a good time, though the weather didn't want to cooperate at first.  It was HOT...then clouds came in and it got super WINDY, right as it was time to eat.  Good Food...and good company.  I wish my boyfriend didn't have to work nights so he could have hung out and enjoyed it also.  

Saturday afternoon my parents and little bro came over, it was a blast.  It seems like forever sincee I've seen them.  It's only been a month, but when you see them almost every week (or every other week) and go that long without, it is a while.  We had delicious BBQ pork spare ribs...I made salad and baked potatoes to go along.  We also had the most delicious homemade salsa...yum.  We then hung out chatting most of the night, my boyfriend and my brother ended up playing video games all night. 

In the morning we had eggs, pancakes and sausage, so yummy.  THen hung out a little before my parents left.  My boyfriend and I pretty much vegged out the whole day yesterday, me well mainly because I was all depressed.  I think it was due to the weather and it seemed my boyfriend and my dog didn't want to hang out with me and watch a movie, so I watched it by myself while they were in the other room playing  video games (okay the dog wasn't playing games but watching!).  Oh well!

I slept so terrible last night, couldn't fall asleep forever, then it was off and on, ,broken sleep, ,bad dreams and my boyfriend was up and down all night, as he wasn't feeling good, so that didnt' help either.  Poor baby.  He was up laying in the living room on the giant bean bag playing his video games, and I crawled out there and laid with him for a while, until I had to get ready for work.  I really didn't want to go today, I am too tired and I don't want to be here.  Maybe I will take tomorrow off or something, just to get some time away.  I won't though.  It was a nice thought!  So okay, the weirdest thing...I got to work and was looking at my calendar to see what was in store for the week, well supposedly (according to my calendar) I am taking all next week off...but I didn't write why.  I can't even think of why I would take that week off...I can't remember anything we had planned.  Just called my boyfriend to ask why, he has no clue either, so I guess I am not taking it off! Haa haa!  Okay, must get back to work, my dumb ass coworker is here, and will be bugging me soon!

Don't get a case of the Mondays today!

Okay, the virus problem is gone.  I also talked with my mom.  She had a virus not long ago and they had to call the computer guys to come fix it, well he went to a website and did a free clean and scan so I did that too, it worked!  It's at Ewido (click the link, should work!).  But yeah, so anyways, that problem is fixed, but now the window size thing in Pogo.  Okay, I went to Pogo's help and there was a question about it the answer was something like this "If you have your screen resolution at 800x600 or smaller  and your screen at the bottom is cut off, we are still investigating the problem." Grrr....okay, so I decided to play with the screen resolution a bit, didn't work, I made it have huge fonts and pics, or small fonts and pics, yet the bottom was still cut off.....ggrrrrr...I guess I will have to screw around, maybe try some of Shelly's idears too. 

 

Anyways, so other than that, I got a text message from my friend saying she wanted to come over tonight....okay, I am usually Miss Homebody and I neva-go anywhere, but this weekend I have plans and places to go, and my friend decides that she wants to finally spend time with me the weekend I have plans...grrr.

 

OMG - there are some people here at work, working on the broken airconditioner and they are saying FUC* this and FU#K that really loud.  Ummm....hello, there are professional people working here!  I am going to go say something if they yell again.  Especially being a woman, I can say it offends me! Muahhh haa haa....I am so EEEEEEVVVVVIIIIILLLLL!!!!!!!!!  Okay, well I better get to work  now, as I'm only here half a day and plan on wreaking havok in a few minutes....Muaahhh haa ahaa haa haa! 

Gotta prepare for a meeting too...oh yeah I made the Jello-Poke Cake last night, can't wait to have some tonight!  I made two of them though, one for the fam and one for the Potluck BBQ with co-workers.  Should be fun!!!!!

Hasta Luego, my friends.  Oh yeah, my Pogo name is Hellica57P BUTTTTTTTTTTTT  I can't chat on there anyways, til I figure out the window size issue.  Maybe I'll see ya'll there

I guess it's about time for an update/entry in this blog, eh?  Okay, so what have I been doing....mmmm...work...mmmm....oh yeah,  went shopping like a good girl last night and got some groceries.  For the family BBQ on Saturday we are thinking, chicken and porkchops, some salad, maybe baked taters and a rice or noodle side, haven't quite worked it all out, but we got all the ingredients for the goods...oh I forgot the most important thing the drinks....some rum and diet pepsis and coors light...should be pretty darn tasty if you ask me! 

 

Other than that, I spent my night working on the computer trying to get rid of a virus my boyfriend got for us...GRRRRRRR....it's fine now (I believe) as it isn't popping up with the message Critical ALERT anymore. I don't see how it could not work after using 4 different programs to scan and clean the files/viruses and malware.   Played some WordJong on Pogo last night too after I finally got that virus problem taken care of.  Now I just can't seem to make the window the game pops up in larger.  I can't type into the chat box at the bottom and the UNDO button is usually barely on the screen as well.  Is there a way to fix that?  I can't figure it out.  If any of ya'll know I'd appreciate the help, as I have just become technologically equipped recently!  Haa haa....yep, I am a hippy or something and just joined the technology age, though we still don't have TV at home.

 

Other than that, work's been busy and I am trying to work with these difficult proponents on a project, so I am creating a letter to OUTLINE everything that needs to be done.  Oh yeah, woo hoo, today is Thursday! Only a half day to go for today and a half day to go tomorrow, so a day to go! Haa haa....then the weekend.  Work is having a BBQ tomorrow night so I gotta make my cake thing tonight so it can set up, and then I will get to enjoy some co-worker outta work time.  Should be fun!  I should go now however finish some stuff before lunch.  Please leave me comments if you can help me fix the window size on my computer, or if your in the neigborhood and just want to say hi that would be awesome too!

Okay, doing this challenge made me so hungry!!!! Haa haa....Anyways, enjoy the results, yeah I got weird tastes in some things, food, men, music, alcoholic beverages...the finer things in life! LOL

 

HUMPDAY HILLBILLY CHALLENGE

 

List your favorite foods! The foods *YOU* eat, not foods you KNOW start with that particular letter - that's the tricksy part!  Yep, it's that easy! Good luck! No condiments, though, like K - Ketchup; that doesnt count! lol! You can use any foods you eat, too! Sweets, Meals, Salads, etc.

 

A – Au Gratin Potatoes

B – Blueberries

C – Crab

D –  Deer

E –  Elk

F –  Fish

G – Goulash

H – Hummus

I – Iceberg Lettuce

J – Junk Food (all kinds!)

K – Kosher Dogs (they are a type of hotdog, they are soooo yummy!!!)

L – Lemons ( I eat them like normal people eat oranges!)

M – Manicotti

N – New York Steak

O – Oatmeal

P – Pizza

Q – Quiche

R – Rump Roast

S – Sushi

T – Taco salad

U – Umatilla (fruits like a tangelo, yummy…I haven’t had one in a while!)

V – Vanilla Ice Cream

W – Waffles

X – Xiao Long Bao (Chinese dumplings…..took me forever to think of something!)

Y – Yams

Z – Zucchini bread (I don’t like zucchini in general but the bread,  oh yeah baby, bring it on! Or deep fried zucchini sticks are good too!)

Well it's a cloudy day here in Nevada and I can't tell whether there is smoke in the air or it is just cloudy near the mountians.  Doesn't look much like rain,  though you never can tell out here.  The famous saying "If you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes, It'll change" is so true around here.  I guess that is what weather in the high desert is like.  At least it has been for as long as I remember (as I have lived in Nevada most of my life). I sure hope it does rain today though, it might cool things off as it's been in the 100's lately.  Also that would mean no road construction....that would be freakin awesome!!!!!!!  They have tore up all the main roads in town, so basically I can't go anywhere without having to go thru it somewhere.  I can get to work fine (Cuz I come in at the butt crack of dawn) but lunch and afterwork SUCK...they have the road in front of where I work all tore up and there is no other way into town without going thru the mess somewhere.

 Other than that, it is FREEZING in the office, I am so cold, the AC is on and it's not that hot out yet....grrrr...I am always cold at work in the mornings and have my jacket on, though it  may be 80 or 90 degrees outside!  Haa haa...

 

Anyways, it's Camel Day so that is good.  I also think I may be crawling out of the current funk I have been in.  I have a HUGE project that I am being put on, my first one and I am really nervous, especially since the company we are working with seem like they are going to be difficult to work with.  At least they are not just throwing me out to the wolves.

Anyways, other than that, I have to go shopping tonight, probably not until like 7 to avoid road construction, but I need to get things for the BBQ we are having for work on Friday...I am making a Jello Poke-Cake.  If you've never had it your missing out!  My boyfriend turned me onto it, he got the recipe when he was living in Missouri and working as a cook at a nursing home (which makes sense as this cake is easy to eat, and perfect in hot weather).  Then on Saturday my parents and little brother are going to come over for the evening and probably stay the night with us as they live 60 miles away and we would like to have Cocktails while we are hangin out and BBQ-ing.  I am excited as they will get to see our house now that we live in it.  They saw it as a construction zone, when all we had done was the kitchen.  I think they will be impressed.  I did some painting last night,  touch ups mainly and covering the nice artwork that my boyfriends kid left on our white doors.  Tonight I am gonna do some cleaning (and shopping, see I didn't forget).  Not the most fun, but hey it has to be done.  I should be getting back to work. Can't wait for the Hillbilly Challenge, I missed it last week!

Today I feel very blah....worse than yesterday.

  I wish I felt this good, drunk and trying to dance all cool like...yeah, instead I feel like this.   I am here at work, trying to do work, but can't find the motivation.  I have a good weekend coming up and am excited about that, but right now, I just can't even get excited about that.  Maybe I shoulda stayed in bed or something.  I woke up great and feeling fine, then I got to work and I started to get blah-ish and depressed....maybe I need to change the look of my cubey or something.  Well I better get to work.  Sorry to bore ya'll and depress ya too!

 

Mood: Case of the Mondays
Listening to: UB40 - Can't Help Falling in Love is the current song along with typing by co-workers and paper shuffling.

 16 REASONS WHY ALCOHOL SHOULD BE SERVED AT WORK...

1. It's an incentive to show up.
2. It leads to more honest communications.
3. It reduces complaints about low pay.
4. Employees tell management what they think, not what they want to
hear.
5. It encourages car pooling.
6. Increase job satisfaction because if you have a bad job, you don't
care.
7. It eliminates vacations because people would rather come to work.
8. It makes fellow employees look better.
9. It makes the cafeteria food taste better.
10. Bosses are more likely to hand out raises when they are wasted.
11. Salary negotiations are a lot more profitable.
12. Employees work later since there's no longer a need to relax at the
bar.
13. It makes everyone more open with their ideas.
14. Eliminates the need for employees to get drunk on their lunch break.
15. Employees no longer need coffee to sober up.
16. Sitting "Bare Butt" on the copy machine will no longer be seen as
gross.

 

Muaahhhh haaa haa haa haa.....hope you all enjoyed that one...I could use a bloody mary right about now!

 

Mood: Case of the Mondays

"Uh oh....sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays..."

"hee heee....sounds like a case of the Mondays..."

"Well I wouldn't say I've been missing it Bob..."

"Umm....yeah, I'm gonna need..."

 

Mood: Okay, it's Friday!
Listening to: Co-workers shuffling paper around on their desk and me typing!

I know I've been a great slacker this week, but let me explain, at least a little.  I've been busy at work actually, and then at home I've also been busy setting up the entertainment center, hanging pictures, doing dishes and laundry, and the like.  Well, Wednesday I got really nauseaous at work and tried to tough it out, ended up going home just so I didn't vomit all over my desk.  I think either I had eaten something bad or got the 24-hr stomach flu.  Either way it sucked...I was "chugging" Pepto Bismol just to survive. 

Then yesterday Aunt Flo decided to visit...that nasty bitch...and give me killer cramps and made me pissy all day.  Had a "surprise" meeting at 2:15 that lasted until 4:15....I get off work at 3 or 3:30 and so my boyfriend freaked out that I wasn't home, called my work phone once and my cell phone twice...and I was stuck in a meeting in a tiny room with 8 people in it,  the sun beating down through the window making it stuffy and hot, and then the people there were dragging things out and blaming us for things that haven't even happened yet....OMG it was super annoying.  Anyways, after that I went to get my boyfriend so we could run some errands, we go to the bank,  he goes in does his stuff...comes out with a sucker in his mouth, didn't bother to get me one just in case I might want one....I was pissed...I said "WTF!!!!!???"  He looked at me like what...I said that is so F*&#ing rude.  Then he tried to give me the sucker he had in his mouth,  I told him that I didn't want his second-hand sucker....that was so mean!  I was pissy, though I was trying to joke around but I was half serious...damn hormones!  Turn me into a raving bitch over a freakin sucker! Haa haaa haa.....oh well.  When the errands were done, we went home and had a turkey soup with dumplings...mmm...yummy, man my boyfriend can make some dumplings I'll tell you what!

Then when he was leaving for work I started getting all upset and depressed cuz I would have to be alone, or something I don't know..but OMG emotional hormonal mood swings suck!  Once he was gone I was fine...I sat and read my Harry Potter, almost  finished with the 3rd book now, then I can start the 4th..OMG I love the books, they are so good, even if they are kids books!

Okay, so today is Friday, got a meeting at 10:30,  then lunch after and only like 1 hour after that, then I am going home for the day.  Yeah!  I probably won't have a very exciting weekend...at least however my boyfriend should get his truck running by today or tomorrow, so that is awesome, then I don't have to fight with him on who gets to drive the car! LOL!  I will probably just clean and read Harry Potter most of the weekend...but who knows!  I should go now so I can finish up some work and then prepare for my meeting.  Hope all is wonderful out there in blog land.

 

One more thing....everyone say a prayer for Mist and her Mom and Bobbie as they just lost one of the fantastic Purr Pile Kitties, Bear.  Keep them all in your thoughts!

It's only Tuesday, yet it feels like it should be the end of the week.  Not just wishful thinking,  but seriously I think this week should be over and the weekend should be here.  I have been working my butt off actually at work and I am ready for a break.  I have some things I'd like to do at home, but can't because I am at work.  Anyways, so onto other things.

So I got a few funny things in my email today that I'd like to share since I don't have a lot to talk about!   Enjoy!

 A bus stops and 2 men get on. They sit down and engage  in an animated   conversation.   The lady sitting next to them ignores them at first,  but her attention is galvanized when she hears one of them say the following:
"Emma come first.
Den I come.
Den two asses come together.
I come once-a-more! .
Two asses, they come together again.
I come again and pee twice.
Then I come one lasta time." 
The lady can't take this any more, "You foul-mouthed  sex obsessed pig,"  she retorted indignantly.  "In this country  we don't speak aloud in Public places about our sex lives."   

"Hey, coola down lady," said the man.  "Who talkin'abouta sex? I'm a justa tellin' my frienda how to spell  ' Mississippi '." 
$5.00 says you're gonna read this again!

Muahh haa haa haa haa....

And Last but not least, I will leave ya'll with the

 SCARY MOVIE SURVIVAL GUIDE

When it appears that you have killed the monster, NEVER check to see if it's really dead.

If you find that your house is built upon or near a cemetery, was once a church used for black masses, had previous inhabitants who went mad or committed suicide or died in some horrible fashion, or had inhabitants who performed satanic practices in your house move away immediately

Never read a book of demon summoning aloud, even as a joke

Do not search the basement, especially if the power has gone out

If your children speak to you in Latin or any other language which they should not know, or if they speak to you using a voice which is other than their own, shoot them immediately. It will save you a lot of grief in the long run. NOTE: It will probably take several rounds to kill them, so be prepared.

When you have the benefit of numbers, NEVER pair off and go it alone.

As a general rule, don't solve puzzles that open portals to Hell.

Never stand in, on, above, below, beside, or anywhere near a grave, tomb, crypt, mausoleum, or other house of the dead

If you're searching for something which caused a noise and find that it's just the cat, LEAVE THE ROOM IMMEDIATELY IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE.

If appliances start operating themselves, MOVE OUT

do not take ANYTHING from the dead

If you find a town chich looks deserted, it's probably for a reason. Take the hint and stay away!

Don't fool with recombinant DNA technology unless you're sure you know what you're doing

If you're running from the monster, expect to trip or fall down at least twice, more if you're a female. Also note that, despite the fact that you are running and the monster is merely shambling along, it's still moving fast enough to catch up with you

If your companions suddenly exibit uncharacteristic behavior such as hissing, fascination for blood, glowing eyes, increasing hairiness, and so on, get away from them as fast as possible

Stay away from certain geographical locations, some of which are listed here: Amityville, Elm Street, Transylvania, Nilbog (you're in trouble if you recognize this one), the Bermuda Triangle, or any small town in Maine.

If your car runs out of gas at night, do not go to the nearby deserted-looking house to phone for help

Beware of strangers bearing tools such as chainsaws, staple guns, hedge trimmers, electric carving knives, combines, lawnmowers, butane torches, soldering irons, band saws, or any devices made from deceased companions.