Empty Nest

Oh to file...

You know what I did today?  Spend a good deal of time filing and sorting out piles and piles of papers.  I haven't attacked any of that since I moved into this house.  It's not perfect by any chance and some people might not like my method but.....I can find stuff and that's all that matters.  You wouldn't believe what I threw away.  I'm such a pack rat and day's like this make me cringe.  I does give me a good feeling though, not to walk into that room and see the piles of crap sitting on that desk.
Then I paid bills, and left them in a pile...................Go figure.
Oh yeah, and 86 is too damn hot for this time of year in Tennessee....Go Cubbies, finally

DAY FOUR.....WITHOUT...

COFFEE !!!!!   AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I'd been having stomach trouble for the past 2-3 wks.  That's why I missed 2 days of work last week.  I really thought one morning that I was going to have to go to the Dr. But..I decided that I would try not drinking coffee and see if it helped.  See, my stomach was better around 12-1pm so that's where I got the ideas to give up coffee.  I've just started on Nexium and I've heard it takes 4-6 wks before it really works.

So, the weekend wasn't too bad.  I drank hot tea and it has a little caffeine in it so I was ok.  Keep this in mind...on the weekend I can sleep until I wake up.  Now that was 7-7:30 each morning but at least it wasn't 5:30....

Now....yesterday and today............AHHHHHHHHHHHHH.  Hot tea just doesn't do it...Holy crap I wanted to be in bed all day yesterday but.  but..but...Not even a little bit of an issue with my stomach!!!!!  Well, that's not quite true but I wasn't in agony and a Tums worked just fine...It was wonderful so I'm sure hoping for the same today because....I AM SO WANTING COFFEE THIS MORNING!!!!! Keep in mind folks......I only drank 2 cups of coffee a day..Not even 2 complete cups and then no more for the rest of the day so how in the sam hill people can give it up who drink all day..

Oh yeah, is not cigarettes, that I know too but geeze

One more thing.  I'm watching TV this morning and there's an ad on. I AM SO DAMN SICK OF SIGOURNEY WEAVER AND THE ALIEN THAT I COULD SCREAM............I WANT IT TO SMACK THE SHIT OUT OF HER.... TURN HER OFF. and if I ever remember what she's plugging, I'll not buy it!!!!

Have a loverly Tuesday folks.  BB tonight at 9.

My son's sweet Sadie.  I love that dog!!!

Neighbors...

I have this neighbor.  She's been there for quite a while and is nice enough but....if she gets to yapping....well, you're stuck.  She "dropped" by one time when I was cleaning out all of the kitchen cabinets.  Left 2-1/2 hrs later. So..I'm very seldom home on Friday night.  We have some friends who get together for a few drinks and munchies on Friday.  Usually home by 9 at the latest but last night.   with Zoot coming into town I had to clean up but more importantly "child proof" as much as I could.  So here I am, with the vacuum cleaner standing up right inside of the front door.  Swiffer mopping things everywhere, rugs out on the patio, Pledge and rags everywhere and I'm sweating like a pig...Doorbell rings and may god forgive me she had a cup of coffee with her!!!!
She comes in, note: I did not ask her to sit down and there was stuff in every chair so she couldn't......and stand there leans up against the wall and asks me if I want an Iris bulb or two, she's cleaning out her patio........
Well, being nice (quit: sometimes I am rather nice) I didn't tell her I hate Iris's and I'm not a flower person, which I'm not, I told her about the possibility of moving..but thanks!! and I grabbed for the door to let her out...  ONE F'ING HOUR LATER when my mercifully spoiled dog realized he wasn't the center of attention and started growling at her she finally left...I promply grilled Maxi a rib eye to thank him
On yeah, an on the way out she said and I quote"  My life has turned into a soap opera.  There is so much going on now....that man I married (she's now divorced) you just wont believe it"  OMG I was terrified she'd start and god only knows how long she'd have stayed.  So, as I was thinking of what I could gag her with if she stayed she said  " I'll come over one night and bring coffee and we'll talk"...........

PRETEND HE'S FLYING!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

Would my nose PUHLEASE stop damned running!!!!!!

argggggg

It's taken nearly 20 minutes to load this damn page.  It's slow on the laptop and the desk PC so I don't know what the issue is but.  If anyone ha emailed me and I haven't answered...I can't get gmail up for anything.....I didn't get to post this morning.  The other two that are there ...I sent from work.  My life right now is rather boring and I'm swamped at work and just plain tired.............that's it...that's all.  Nothing dramatic or anything else..  Later folks.  of course I have no idea when this will make it to the internet. 

FYI

When you have a tension rod running across your bathroom/laundry room, and you use it to hang clothes on it when they come out of the dryer......Put the toilet seat down when you're adding clothes to it..............Just saying.   As my daughter says.    Place like that had poop in it........eeeekkkkk

GRRRRR

I'm so darned sick.......................just crap.   Have a good Wednesday folks and Jerry had better go home tonight.............grrrrr
Signed,
Grumpy

JUST CRAP

Why the hell do people think they have to come to work when they're sick.  I don't care if we're short handed. I'll do it all myself and stay healthy..Now, I'm sick.  I've got a dreadful sore throat and runny nose and sneezing my head off   All so someone will look good coming to work sick............SH*T.............SH*T...............SH*T.  I take care of myself so I won't get sick.  DA**IT..grrrrrrr

Why?

Ok, I'm listening to the news and I picked up on one thing.  They said, that after the school shootings yesterday, our school system is going over our security measures.  WHY?  Why the hell are they doing it NOW.  Did they forget Columbine?  Shouldn't this security be up to snuff everywhere, and shouldn't it have been since Columbine?  Another 7yr old died ....Do you thing her parents are going to be pleased that they're NOW going to have better security.   20 yrs ago something happened that pissed him off.....Sweet Jesus, this one you're going to have to handle, for you wouldn't like the way I'd take care of it.. You know the plan, and I don't .and that might be a good thing

Tell me to calm down

Tell me to shut up.  Tell me to stay away from what has just pissed me off more that I can say.  Tell me not to post anything else in public about it......Tell me.....please....for I'm so angry right now I could cause a whole lot of trouble and if something bad happens........Don't tell me then..........'cause I won't pay attention ...grrrrr...Being a Mom is so very hard...

AAAHHHHHH

I don't know what kind of category title to use for me when I end up looking like I do.  How bad do you think 24 hair washings in 3 days will be for my hair?  See, when I colored it yesterday I had this box of color left from last year. (I had frosted my hair)...So I used it, and dammit it was WAY..WAY..to dark.  Now mercifully, its Clairol Instincts or something like that and will wash out in 20 plus washings...I've used it before but obviously a lighter color than this, or I was used to the frosted look and thus it looks darker..Folks, its plenty dark though.  and guess what this "ash" brown did to the tips that were frosted?  Turned those sob's RED.....Now, why does someone use "ash" colors?  To NOT have red hair...Well, the whole head isn't red...Just the parts that were frosted and it looks red as hell.  Especially when the lights hit it.  Grrrrrrr.. I don't have to go back to work until Tuesday, that gives me a day before they laugh and point.  So..
Since I've been fighting 'Pity party" moods I decided to treat myself to the home cooking kind of menu tonight.  Meat loaf, Potatoes (red ones), Field peas, Sliced cucumbers and tomatoes,and steamed cauliflower.  Might not be your kind of home cooking but it sure as hell keeps me happy.  And, I'll have enough to take to work Tuesday for lunch...
Can you tell I feel better since yesterday?  Still kinda tired but feel a whole lot better.

• Some sports observations....Titans really, really suck.  I love the Titans but good god what I saw last night makes for a really really long football season. 
• I'll reserve judgment on the Vols but everything I'm hearing is scary.
• Thanks Cubs....
• Tiger Woods is just amazing.
• Jeff Burton just can't win a race.  Dammit...
• Go USA basketball team...
• Thats is folks!!

<===== She's invited to my pity party.  I think she'll take care of the pity part............

DIDDLES.............

I drive a little Saturn.  It's really cute and LITTLE.  I stopped for gas on the way home......IT COST $27.00 DOLLARS TO FILL THE little THING UP..............................SHIT

This day s*cks

At least I have a job.....right?  At least I have a job....At least I have a job...At least I have a job.....etc all night long and all day on and on...At least I HAVE a job....
I come home and the internet is down............Finally gets up and running and At least I have a job.............good god...

CRAP

I had a lovely post and lost it................it's just plain gone..da**it.  SO, in short, its pouring here...Thunder, lightning, terrified doggie just plain depressing...put on the bowls and nap all day...............later folks

Im sick dammit

I must say I'm better than yesterday but would be no help what so ever.  What I do just can't be done from a bathroom and my body has not decided to accept nourishment yet...This mornings coffee might as well have been a torpedo for gods sakes.  Hoss's recommendation of Jack Daniels doesn't even SOUND good...
But I found a picture send from Miss Zoot that I want to post because.............well....I want to, this is my blog.....and I want it up on my screen so I can see it and maybe it'll help me feel better...

   and one more that I fell in love with...

   that would be Zoot's head there and I just fell in love with this....
Off for now...........

Not too good today

I'm home sick today folks....I don't know if Maxi is sick too but I'll tell you what we're both freezing, laying on the couch (except now) and shivering.. I did turn the heat on and its not helping....Just sh*t....that's all .....................later

DAMN DUMMY

TO THE IDIOT THAT WENT SURFING IN GALVESTON THIS MORNING.!!!!  THE COPS HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO THAN WORRY OUT DUMMIES LIKE YOU!!!! THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN COUSINS MARRY

(Can you tell he pissed me off!!)

No, Not Walmart

Something is dreadfully wrong with my computer,dammit...I had to do another system recovery today.  Bad thing is I lost everything...Email addresses, Favorites, Pictures, Documents, Recipes scanned documents...What an idiot. I didn't have a lick of it backed up...........I'm rather grumpy now...Why couldn't have this happened yesterday...I do have to work tomorrow......dammit...dammit..dammit..

And to make things worse....the Titans would seem to suck...................

WALMART

What a saga of Walmart.  They're remodeling my Walmart.  This has made a quick trip to Walmart a total impossibility.  They move stuff every day. It's not where it was the last time you were there..

Last night I went up there to get some yarn.  That's all I needed.  Yarn.  So, I'm picking out the colors that I need and I'm kind of laying them out in the buggy to make sure nothing looks like shit and of course some of the colors.. They didn't have enough and while I'm there all caught up in yarn colors this young man comes up behind me, holds up something and asks me if I know of some place else he can get this thing and cheaper........I politely shook my head and said know.  I had no idea what it was he had but there were quite a few of them on the wall behind me.  He spoke with some kind of accent. I don't know what it was...So he starts talking about how he needs one that you knit circles and make socks with it..And he just stares at me.  I smiled and said I didn't know where he'd find one, maybe JoAnn's. (I'm thinking Slovakia, to tell you the truth). Well, he just keep talking about how to make the socks and he starts raising his foot and by now I'm thinking...what the hell is he doing? If he starts knitting a sock here I'm going to die...I'm also thinking, the person I'm making this afghan for is just getting the colors I have and there had better be enough.............And this dude starts asking me questions about the "sock" things and have I seen the ones with something that goes all around and suddenly it dawns on me.. He thinks I work here..I may NEVER go out again not in full makeup and a dress.........Jeeze.  I told him I had never made socks.  You should have seen the look on his face.  He says "You haven't?  How can that be?" Holy shit people do I look like a sock maker for godsakes?   Hell fool, I don't repair a hole in a damn sock I sure has shit am not MAKING SOCKS!!!!  I finally managed to convince him to go to the register or to try JoAnn's but I wasn't going to help him...Me and my yarn head to the house.....

Trip two...Tonight.....Sewing and broke a needle...Machine needle.  Realized I should have used a stronger needle so off I go...6:00 pm....Where was my brain folks.  Yes, I was quite sober.  Hadn't had a thing to drink.  I was going to wish I had.  Walk in the door and head straight back to "sewing dept"..  Passing lines and lines of people waiting to check out. I should have gone home needleless..  Of course, they weren't where they were last time I was there...i.e. yesterday.  I finally found them and, since I had been dumb enough not to write down what I needed I had to "peruse" them to find the size I needed.  I picked two separate packs just to make sure and off I went to the front.  DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA how many people are in Walmart at 6 on Saturday...?  Millions, I swear, millions...So, the side of the store that I first went to was hopeless.  Self service, 20 items lines, regular lines.  Minimum of 5 in line everywhere. I headed to the other end of the registers.  Checking out every line...Hopeless..and that end of the store was the same so.  I get into a Self service line. I'm third.  The people at the register have about 50 items crammed into a little "carry" thing.  Of course, the gentleman in front of me and I didn't realize that until they started unloading.  The line was soon very long behind me.  The people checking out......didn't know how to use the Self service.  OMG.  The guy in front of me had bacon and apples and I had two packs of needles and I'm not sure who wanted to KILL those people first....Of course the couple had absolutely NO idea what to do with produce, or stuff that wouldn't scan oh god.  I do think we'd have all left the line but..where do you go?  To make this long  story short....They finished, picked up their 6 bags, took their change and left.  The machine locked up immediately...The bacon/apple dude couldn't get it to work.  They had to REBOOT the damn thing.  Good god when those things act up, they sure do act up.............So if finally boots up and the bacon/apple guy couldn't get it to scan his bacon...Holy Shit I was thinking of telling him to just steal the damn stuff..........Finally he got done, I got done and it took me 50 minute to go to a store that's one mile from my house to buy two damn packs of fu##ing needles.........JUST DAMMIT..

Thank you , I feel much better now and I can watch my car race.  You are great for listening and if you didn't read this, I don't blame you.....Have a nice evening...

Why?

Why?  Why the hell am I awake now?  Well, because I've been awake since 3:30.  I laid in bed tossing and turning until 4:30 and just got the hell up. You ought to see Maxi.  I went to the kitchen to get another much needed cup of coffee and the look.........he looked like he was thinking "come on sparky, get the hell off to work so I can go back to bed!!"  He doesn't like his "daily routine" being messed with.  Nope, not a bit.  Heck, neither do I but I don't have long, sad looking ears to draw attention to my plight..

I'm wanting to kick someone on BB. anyone ...they're all just plain odd.  Kaysar deserves to go out again.  He deliberately gives up HOH by falling for some damn cheerleader, and then he tosses off the POV so Rachel can win.  What the hell was that?  Doesn't he know that if he won it, he'd be safe?  James is the smartest one in the house and isn't he good?  He's got that "Eric" group believing that he's not evil.  I just can't wait until he shows them what idiots they are.   I'm becoming a hateful person here..I hate Jennifer, April, Ivette and Beau.  Believe it or not I do like Maggie.  I think I'd be ok if she wins.  But she's the only one of that group that I like.   So, who do you think is going off Thursday?  Kaysar.....Janelle?  Who do you WANT to go?  I think I want Janelle to go but then again, she's smarter than Kaysar and I want someone to take care of Jennifer.. like make her go away..Lying_______ 

That's it folks...Off to work.  and making Maxi happy..

AHHHHHHHHHH

Just venting here....It is 11:15 AM here.. My talk radio is on, with the speaker against the outside wall.  I can barely hear it upstairs, which is where the bedrooms are and guess what..................He just came over and asked me to turn it down....I got mad and told him it was 11 am on Saturday and no I wasn't turning it down.  I told him it wasn't loud, and I was sorry that they can hear it, but it's not loud.  I guess I could put a radio in every room on low and see what happens...any how.  He told me if I didn't turn it down, he would call the police on me..so I said go ahead...........grrrrrrr.  I'm posting this in case I get murdered.  I've never had this happen before and its making me very nervous, to tell you the truth...grrrrrrrr... Vacuum cleaner, here I come!!!!

Oh Yes, I forgot.

Let me extend my personal thank you to the sob who faxed us 76 pages yesterday AND IT WAS THE WRONG NUMBER......JERK!!!

I swear

I'm on my way home from work.  I know tonight is Amazing Race etc so I decide to get gas tonight while the weather is nice.  I probably had somewhere between 1/4 and 1/2 tank.....I pull in and this morning it was $2.12 and tonight its $2.19...shit, shit, shit....And get this, a tank of gas will last me nearly two weeks.  I don't go anywhere.  Every so often Mr. Maxi and I go for a drive, for I've heard your car loves you when you take it on a trip down the interstate..  Hell, that's an expensive little trip isn't it?  I don't know how everyone else that works with me can afford it.  A lot of them live far, far from where we work.  I'm only about 7 miles so although its cut into the budget its not nearly what other people have to do....That gas cost me almost my former monthly budget for gas for less than a full tank.  It was a bit more than 7 gallons...All I can say is I'm sorry for all of you who are getting hit a lot harder than me.  What are you guys going to do?  My car is small too. It's a little Saturn and thank god for that!!!...

I'm so ticked off...

Ok, I'm watching my hero Anderson Cooper and, of course, most of the show is about Terry Schiavo.  Yadda, Yadda, Yadda, same stuff every day but then I noticed for the second time....All kinds of "Terry's best friends" showing up all over TV...On one show or another and here's my question?  "Where the hell have you been, best friend?  This has been going on for 10 years..." It's just pissing me off.  It looks like they're in this to make some money.. They're going to talk about her weight problems etc.  I just can't believe that anyone who truly was her friend would drag all of this stuff out in public.  SHUT UP...and give this girl some peace...PLEASE.  If you won't talk, the press can't do this....and Terry may die in peace..

Sorry...I had to let it out, it annoys me more than I thought.

Just annoyed

Ok, I'm watching the news and its awful...Just plain awful.. Thank goodness that at least Anderson Cooper varies it a little bit so you're not so dreadfully down due to his new show..

Terry Schiavo...I don't know what to say.  I'm glad its not me, either in her position or having to make that decision..I don't think the government belongs in this...That's just my opinion.  It has been 15 years.. That's a lot of hell to put someone through, at least its more than I'd want.  So....If you need a living will, here is a site you can go to and order one.  Check and see if its legal in the state you live in and order one...If its not legal in your state, try to find out what is...No matter how you feel about this case, we all owe it to our families, not to do this to them...No one deserves this kind of hell if it can be prevented..

If I was in Japan, I'd be on top of the highest mountain, the furthest away from the ocean...Earthquake and stuff you know..

What's with Michael Jackson.?  Did you see him today..? He looks like he's into some serious drugs.

Please help me here.

I get home from work and I'm a bit tired and short tempered...I have a message on the answering machine so I push the button...

Its some dude from a collection agency , leaving the third message for some dude name "James something" telling him if he doesn't respond, something about the head of the company etc...So, dummy here decides to call and inform them that they'll never find him at this number

That kind of day....

                     

So far....ick

Ok here we go...The critter...I came downstairs this morning and there was insulation again...That doesn't sit well with me at all..What the hell is it anyway?  Soooo I get to work and call the landlord and left a rather annoyed message...After all this is the 4th time....

They call me back, not the landlord, someone else and we discuss it and so they're going to set some traps.  He's going to come by during the day's to check the traps 'cause if there's a dead critter in my house somewhere......well I'll just freak out...

So I head home and stop by the store to pick up a few thing... lettuce, tomatoes, cottage cheese, pineapple and oh yes, I've started drinking V8 juice again so I go down the juice aisle..There's my V8 up on the top shelf (12 oz  cans).. I am so happy and reach up to get the six pack and here they come....Yep  every can there down and on my head..............I am very pissed off.  No one even came near to help me so I left all the cans where they were and went thru the self-service check out and now am home with a nice knot on the top of my noggin...There had better NOT be a critter I have to deal with in here tonight.  My head is killing me..

So...how was your trip home? huh?

GRUMPY TODAY?

Here's why...or at least an excuse for being grumpy, sad, down etc....Thank goodness my birthday was yesterday!

Am I the only one?

Who absolutely can not stand that baby they use in the ads for Quizno's Subs........................grrrrrr

I used to think I would get one of those subs one of these days until they started with that baby.    Nope...No Quiznos...He's almost as aggrivating as the Sub dude.

Also...Are those beer commercials with the Refs in them rather annoying also..?  I don't drink beer but were I looking for one to drink it would NOT be that beer.  I don't even know which beer its for I find it so annoying......

MMMM. I may be getting old here.......

NEVER AGAIN

I'm going to say this now...This is the last time I root for Peyton Manning with all that I have...We did it for four years in college and now this year.  This isn't the first time Peyton should have won the big game and didn't.  I really, really, wanted him to win this.  I don't know if its him, his team, coaching or they're all just wooses in the cold but I don't see him ever winning unless they play at home...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..............

After the Holiday's

One of the biggest irks of my job is that the entire company has to do inventory the week between Christmas and New Years.  Two problems.....No one, and I mean No one gets vacation that time of the year, or can you call in sick ....Number two...even if we get done early with inventory (which we did) we can not use the computers until the "big house" tells us...In other words an entire week worth of work sat there until today..........And of course it all had to be done today so.................I'm tired now. That's all.....I am not even a bit entertaining so Bye..............

HELP!!

Does anyone know how I can fix the fact that part of my blog is running off the side.  My computer crashed the other night and re booted in the middle of the night and my fonts are a mess. They are large on the blog side and tiny in the e-mail.  I can't find anywhere that doing anything fixes it.  I've tried appearance and settings in the Control Panel and nothing works. 

SPAMMERS!!

I'm so mad.  My son was on the computer on Christmas day and mentioned that I was getting a lot of e-mails....I didn't think a lot of it but when I got the chance I checked...30+ Spams all in a few minutes and all responding to old posts.  I started to try to close the comments (one post at a time dammit) when 30 more came thru and my computer just gave up...crashed...I re booted a few times and finally got back on and tried again.  While I was doing that another 30 more came....and computer crashed again....I panicked and deleted all my old posts.  Every one of them.  I didn't know what else to do and there was no way to "close" comments on groups of posts. Only one at a time...sooooo...I lost a lot of stuff I would have like to keep.  Typepad says they're working on closing "group" posts but that was all and it took them a while to find the spams

So, in other words, if you notice the big blank space that's what it is...dammit and I'm rather ticked off. Just expressing myself....