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Thursday, September 17th, 2009
7:03 am	Ummm....? Not sure why, but the last post I can see on my Friends Page is from September 13th... Why? Current Mood: confused (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, August 31st, 2009
8:56 am	Did'ja know, mang... It's ma mang's Birt'day...         Happy Birthday Ryan!!! (Comment on this)
Monday, July 20th, 2009
7:17 am	Writer's Block: Family Heirlooms Is there anything in your family that has been passed down from generation to generation, or from family member to family member? What is it? And who do you plan to pass it on to? Submitted By licktheknife View 502 Answers We have a house in RI that was passed down... My father is the 3rd generation living there... My brother is the 4th... Sadly though, I think it will be sold once my father dies. It requires too much up-keep for my brother to handle and no other relatives live anywhere near RI. My mother wore an opal necklace every day. It was her birth stone and is mine as well. When she passed it was given to me. I hope to have a little girl some day (either my own or a grand-daughter maybe) so I can give it to her. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
6:57 am	Blah - update 1. I'm tired 2. I'm eating potato salad for breakfast 3. The guy who comes in 1st (usually) didn't come in today and so no coffee waiting for me ~sigh~ 4. Made coffee 5. Talked with my dad about his up-coming Alaska trip, planning his visit out here, and my son's birthday 6. Gotta take my son in for a doctor visit today... He's doing a weird blinking thing that we need to have checked out 7. My husband has been working out and dieting... He looks *A*M*A*Z*I*N*G* 8. Spiders have invaded my house... 1 really big black one last night next to a light switch, then 2 more on the bathroom ceiling this morning 9. Made STELLAR lamb-kebabs last night. They were gone in seconds... 10. Going to Cabo in 2 weeks... Wish it was more like '2 hours' (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 13th, 2009
7:57 am	Bored? I see a lot of people around me spending money on things they really don't need. Yesterday as I folded the laundry I noticed that we still use bed-spreads and sheets, pants and tops, towels...etc. that we've had for YEARS. In some cases, things that we've had since childhood... My mind wandered to thoughts of people buying new items that might be more 'attractive' or in-style and overall, just NEW. It made me wonder why we (Ryan & I) don't really do that. Do people buy new things because they're bored? Do the items they have (which are likely fully functional still) seem dull and boring? Or are people themselves just bored and going to stores because they have nothing else to do? Stores can dazzle, I know this. New, shiney, pretty colors, things in-style... Sort of like what they say in that movie Fight Club... Marketing inspires people to buy shit they don't need so they can feel complete and satisfied. Also, buying new things gives them something to talk about with others... "Hey, how's it going? What did you do today? ... Oh, I went to ABC store and found this great new XYZ..." So I dunno... My mind wanders when I do mundane tasks like laundry... I think of it now because I was asked the question "If you had to tighten your financial belt, what would you be most likely to give up?"... And I found that question more difficult to answer than I would have thought. We already live pretty frugally. ... And that reminded me of this mental-conversation I had with myself the day prior... Yadda yadda... so on and so forth... Current Mood: blah (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
2:13 pm	Firm believer... That men are dumb. Sorry guys that feel this is harsh... But today, men are very very dumb... (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
8:13 am	Austin & Work Austin wouldn't go to sleep last night. He got up about 5 times between 8:00-10:15. Each time we put him back to bed and he'd promise to stay there... ~Sigh~ I finally caved because I needed to sleep. I sat in the rocker with him until he was sacked out and twitching. Put him in bed and there he stayed... UNTIL about 12:30 in the dark-ass-night. Back to bed. Then again up at around 1:45 am. Again at 3:50 am... Each time with a different need or request. ~Sigh~ I let Ryan sleep through all of this because he has 4 job interviews today and I know he will need to feel refreshed and on to of his game. But it means I'm sleepy today. I'm trying to stay focused with work, but I am clearly failing because here I am, posting on LJ. Hahhaa. Okay, back to work! (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
2:53 pm	Writer's Block: Left Behind What do you want done with your body after you die? Submitted By crunch_crunch View 501 Answers Burn baby, burn... Cremation and then... I dunno. Ashes sprinkled in a stream flowing through a redwood forest maybe. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
8:58 pm	WTF? So I still don't have a comp plan... Wow. Insane. Stretch marks... wtf? Seriously... I'm thrilled that I seem to fit in my old (pre-baby) clothes again. I'm less thrilled that although they fit, they don't seem to 'hang' the same way. ~sigh~ My boo lost his mind tonight. Reasons unknown and I'm too tired to look into it further. Good news is that his melt down caused insta'snooze at bedtime. Awesome, sorta... Pour me another damn glass of wine cuz tonight, FUCK IT. HA!  Current Mood: Awake, w/a hint of passout (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
4:35 pm	Maybe I'll live longer... My job gives me headaches. I get them constantly so I keep a bottle of Tylenol in my purse. I take at least one Tylenol every other day, if not more. ... At first I thought 'Uh-oh, this isn't good'... Then, I remembered reading/hearing something about how Tylenol helps with blood pressure or something. I don't recall exactly. At the moment, I don't currently have high blood pressure.  However, maybe this will help as I get older not to *develop* high blood pressure....? Am I stretching on this one? Current Mood: tired (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
6:45 am	Short update & thoughts... I can't talk long... I've started my new job and it's a bit overwhelming. But I had some thoughts I wanted to share... (ALL PUBLICITY AND NEWS STORIES ASIDE:)   I watched Palin's speech lastnight. I liked her. I thought she did well. And I respect her and admire how much she's done. But respect doesn't mean that I agree with some of her views. As VP, possibly even President some day... She'll have a lot of power to influence and make changes that I won't agree with. She won't be representing MY views... We differ on some pretty *top of the line* issues like Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice for example. I'm impressed that she "walks her talk"... So many don't do that... But that doesn't mean I want her taking choices away from me. She CHOSE to live her life a certain way... I'd like to have that same privilege thankyouverymuch. And there are other issues like not paying off the dept we've wracked up with this war... Look, we've been fighting a war and putting the bill on a charge-card... It's time we tighted our belt and started being responsible with that dept and PAY IT OFF or at least down. When she was promoting 'drilling in Alaska' to help with energy was the right thing to do because doing 'nothing at all' was wrong... Well, isn't not raising taxes to help pay off depts kind of the same thing? "Doing nothing at all"...? I don't LOVE the idea of taxes... But I do believe in paying down our national dept. Time to tighten the belt straps people. I'm willing to chip in some. More than those less fortunate even. ... Anyway... there were a few things that struck me. And please don't think I got this from my husband... I don't talk about politics with him. I don't have the time. These are all my thoughts. So all the respect and admiration in the world won't change that Palin and I have different views. I can like her, but I won't vote for her. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 11th, 2008
12:35 pm	It's official! ... so I can talk about it now. On Friday, I quit. I quit my job and accepted a new one. The new company's solution isn't as interesting as the product I have been working with, but the opportunity there is practically unlimited. I'm excited and scared... All tempered with being paid awesome money.  It hasn't really sunk in yet, but I'm getting there.  Last day here: 8/22 First day at new place: 8/25 First board meeting at new place: 8/27  Current Mood: chipper (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, August 1st, 2008
9:05 am	Feelings today on 'stuff' going on in my life... ... This is why I don't tell 'ppl' when I'm sick. I'm not a lepper and I'm not evil. I'm scared either way they decide. Either way I feel like I will let someone down. People around me are annoyed at their management, and management seems to be clueless. Sometimes I really really like the old '50's' type of brass-horns, big-band music. Isn't it lovely outside today? I am surprised that I'm not more stressed about the two parties we're throwing this weekend. Where's the cake? ..."I see trees of green. Red roses too. I see them bloom. For me and you. And I think to myself... What a wonderful world..." Current Mood: awake (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
8:31 am	Current obsession... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAp9BKosZXs  Current Mood: naughty (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 21st, 2008
8:38 am	My mornings are about to change... Le Sigh... I live in the SF Bay Area. There's this radio morning talk show on every weekday on Alice 97.3 called "Sarah & No Name". They have a big group of people on it. The main characters/hosts are of course 'Sarah & NoName', but there is also 'WhoMan', Hyphie-Mike, Matty, ...etc. (Sorry if I'm a spelling terrorist.) A few weeks ago, Matty left the show to pursue a corporate career at a start-up. The show was noticably different. He was the producer, so the fun articles, the sound effects, the little snippy comments & howls from the production room... All gone. The new producer (a girl I think) is super quiet. I don't think I've heard her yet. Not good... Then, a week into it ...the whole crew (show) goes unexpectedly on vacation for two+ weeks. Now they're back... But that's the problem... They're not ALL back. Now the co-host 'NoName' is gone... They said that the station has decided to go in another direction. ~sigh~ NoName was the main reason I listened... He was super funny. My favorite part of the show was when NoName read the 'Half-Ass-News' every day. He'd read all of this stupid random stuff that was going-on in the world. The kind of news stories you ask yourself if it's true or not? The kind of stuff that is so rediculous and unimportant that you find it either on the second to last page of the paper or in the tabloids of some crap-news publishing. Seriously funny stuff. And his delivery of it made me laugh. Or the 'Ask NoName'... That was AWESOME! It's good to have someone who can make you laugh every morning during your drive into work. Mine is gone. That's two down now. Sarah is good. I'm sure she'll land on her feet. I like her. But truth be told... I stopped listening when it was "Sarah & Vinnie" all those years ago. Randomly about 7 yrs ago I was flipping channels and found that it had changed to Sarah & NoName. I started listening again. From then on, I listened every day. My entire commute to my office every morning. Even the 'Live at 5' clip on my way home... ~sigh~  This morning, after they made the announcement I listened to what they've scrambled together so far. No-bueno. I know they're just starting up and don't have a new co-host yet. Maybe I'll like the new person... Dunno. But I admitt, after about 20 minutes I switched channels and started listening to music. (17 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 18th, 2008
12:30 pm	Joke of the day... This guy is walking with his friend, who happens to be a psychologist. He says to this friend, "I'm a walking economy." The friend asks, "How so?" "My hair line is in recession, my stomach is a victim of inflation, and both of these together are putting me into a deep depression!" (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
8:24 am	I'm not surprised... I'm just saying... ~sigh~ 6 months ago (I think it was about that) the Bushinator (Our Pres) said in a press conference; when asked if he though the price of gasoline would go up to $4.00 this summer he said strongly "No"... No, he did not think gas would go up to $4.00 this summer.   That alone was ridiculous enough, even then...  But today, in his press conference someone asked him about that answer he gave 6 months ago... About his saying 'NO' to gas prices going up to $4.00's this summer... His response: "Well, I dunno. What are the prices of gasoline right now?".... The person asking the question was stunned silent for a moment and then she responded "Gas prices are approaching $5.00"...  For the rest of the conference the Bushinator repeatedly apologized for the high gas prices... ~sigh~ How can he help the economy? He has no real power anymore. He's got one foot out the door. But he doesn't even know what the American people are paying for gas? Really? Is he that out of touch? I found that very disappointing. Current Mood: blah (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, July 14th, 2008
8:51 am	Weekend WOW! I had what I would call an awesome weekend. There are different kinds of 'awesome' of course. But this was awesome in a relaxing, calming way. We went back up to Clearlake this weekend, just ourselves and the boo. Ryan needed to fix the gas-cap on the boat, so we made a trip of it.  Saturday morning Boo woke us up early. I took him downstairs and we watched Baby Einstein and ate brekkie. Then we got dressed and I took the boo to the store. Going to the store isn't like going from home, three blocks down, make a left & you're there... No no no... This was a 15 minute drive, up and down majestic hills, surrounded by vineyards and views of the lake... We arrived to an almost empty store parking-lot. The air was still cool, before the sun really starts cook'in. I'm not kidding, the store workers were literally calling out to each other by name, asking how each one was doing today and giving praise. It was amusing, but refreshing too. One other funny thing that happened was... It was early, so there was only one checker open. A woman was approaching the check-out line from the opposite side of the store from Boo & I. We got there first, but she only had one bottle in her hand, while we had a whole 1/2 a cart full, so I let her go first. She went up and I saw it was a 40 of King Cobra... Good lord. She was wearing a grey tank top and denim mini-shorts. Her legs had little bruises up and down them and she was overly tan. Probably mid-40's if I had to guess. She handed the checker some sort of paper slip. I thought maybe it was a coupon. They chatted about it for a moment, but I don't know what they were saying because I was busy singing and distracting the boo... (Otherwise he grabs everything with-in his reach!) When they were done, I looked up and saw that the lady had bought the King Cobra using nothing but spare change, mostly pennies.  (Am I evil for finding that amusing? A mid-40's woman, buying a single 40 bottle of King Cobra with a coupon and spare change at 9:00 a.m. in the morning?) Anyway, we drove back, unpacked... Ryan got up, ate, snuggled with us both and then headed off to work on the boat. Austin and I went down to the lake and spent about an hour feeding the fish an old bagel from the pier, watched a guy fish out a really nice sized fish and then throw it back. Then we went down onto the beach and throw rocks into the water. Austin was much less fearful of the water this time. He went in and even sat in the water by himself while I sat up on dry sand/rocks. I think it's because this weekend there were fewer boats on the water, so the waves were minimal & the water was clearer so Austin could actually SEE the rocks in the water. It seemed to me like the rocks in the water were 'calling' to Austin... "Throw me!" they must have said.  :-) He threw the same rock in about a dozen times... Catch & release, like the fish I guess. :-) We went back up to the cabin and I put him down for a nap. I read my book and made a pasta-veggie Alfredo for lunch. Ryan came back and hung out for a bit. We snuggled and almost took a nap, but the phone rang and woke the whole house up. Yes, Austin too. So I got him dressed again, fed him a good lunch and off we went to the boat with Daddy. We played with ducks on the beach until Daddy said the boat was ready. We went out on the water and splashed about. When Ryan went slowly, Austin loved it. But when we went fast and the boat bounced and banged on the waves, he was less excited. He got clingy and snuggled in my lap. But as soon as we slowed down, his head would pop up and he'd want to look over the side of the boat again and play in the water.  When we got back to the cabin, I BBQ'd. It was heaven. Seriously. After dinner we put Austin down for bedtime and snuggled up to watch a movie on the couch and eat 'half baked' Ben & Jerry's ice-cream. Seriously, it doesn't get better. There were little details in there I left out. Details like, feeding the deer and seeing so many! Babies and mommies. Turkey's too. And having my husband approach me in a 'naughty' way while I was cooking, which totally turned me on. (Unfortunately Austin was there & burners were on... So no-go.) But it was still a wonderful moment. :-)  It just felt good to spend a quiet, simple weekend with my babies. :-)  I'd like to do that more often. (Not a fan of the drive though... ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
8:38 am	Boo- Update So, I was gone for a week at our companies User Conference in Orlando, FL last week. When I got back my son had a few new words and phrases. The first morning I was with him I gave him some juice and he said "Tank hue Mawmee" as he walked away. It completely melted my heart. That sweet little voice!! That evening I laid down, kind of like a 'sprawl' across our couch on my tummy. Austin came up to me and lifted the back of my shirt with one hand, pulled the back of my pants down and out a bit with his other hand, and proceeded to stick his face down towards my backside (so close that I could feel his breath on my crack) and asked me "Mawmee poopoos?"   *O*M*G* Comedy! He discovered nothing was there and proceeded to daddy who happened to be sitting on the other side of the couch. He pulled on daddy's arm and asked him to move... When Ryan leaned forward Austin repeated the proceedure on Daddy. "Daddy poopoo?"   HAhahahaahaha! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
9:02 am	For memories later... Austin vocabulary: Deeg-Tuck = Big Truck Deeg-Ball = Big Ball Aauple = Apple (or oranges) Hhhhhhhhhhhhot = hot Dank Ooo = Thank you BeeBee = Binkie Deez = Chris Outside = Outside Shoe = Shoes or feet. (He hasn't really differentiated the two yet.) Soc = Sock DawDaw, oof oof = Dog KeeCa, Moaw = Kitty Cat Dut = Duck Tee = Tree Monkey = Favorite Stuffed Monkey Bear = Any teddy bear in sight Bye-Bye = Bye bye Nigh-nigh = Bedtime Bawba = Grandpa Daddy = Daddy Muhmuh = Grandma MeeMaw = Mommy Uh-oh = Something fell down by accident or because he threw it, knocked it. (Also 1st word) Graw Caw = Cracker Nana = Banana Botta = Juice or Milk (Used to come to him in bottles and he just stuck with that term.) No = No Slide = Slide Baby = Baby Buck = Book Pee pee = His manhood. *giggle*  Choo-Choo = Trains Nice = Something he says as he gently strokes your forehead (usually right after he hits your forehead.) Un, too, fee = 1, 2, 3 Tee-Gee = TV Bawks = Blocks Up, Down = Up, Down (usually when he wants out of his high-chair) Halloooo (& Hi) = Hello/Hi  Light = Lights See-rrrr = Sit here Wa-zah = What's that?  Nose, Mouth, Eyes, Ears, hair = All the face parts he knows. He loves to nod his head at things, yes or no. He'll point to things and just sort of give a higher toned 'uhh' sound to ask for something he wants. He's extremely athletic already. Strong, climbs EVERYTHING, runs, jumps, throws like a champ. He's all boy. He also likes to sing & clap to music. He's always repeating songs he hears. I'm probably forgetting some words. If you notice some missing, please feel free to comment and add to the list! :-) Current Mood: happy (4 Comments |Comment on this)