NotScarlett

It's beginning to look a lot like.....

How the heck did it get to be Weds. night already?? Seems like the days and weeks are flying by....I cannot believe it is already holiday-time again. Holiday-time is where I lump Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. I am going crazy right now because I am so busy at work I do not have enough free time to make ornaments and other fun holiday projects. Nina and I have been painting wooden ornaments for the past week or so, but I wish that was all I had to do this week. How I would love to wake up early, have a cup of tea, go for a walk before it gets too sunny and hot, and then just veg out in the house by the big bay window, painting ornaments and watching movies to my heart's content.
I realized today I have to start preparing for the holiday baking soon....it is creeping up on me. I have a ton of people in the office to bake for this year, but I love doing it. I am thinking of hand-painting plates for all my baked deliciousness this year....I wish I was Martha Stewart, without the mark of the beast and the legal trouble.
I am going to go home tonight, watch Lost, and get some cleaning and laundry done....maybe I can squeeze in some knitting time. I will probably just fall asleep in a puddle of my own drool though.

October Surprises-More than just a razor blade in your Halloween candy

I think an "October Surprise" should be a cake, or cookies, or perhaps some other type of baked good. Maybe they (they=politicians, the media, etc.) should give them a new name.....I mean, they mention "October Surprise" on the news, and I am thinking I am gonna get free gas, or money, or maybe a nice bundt cake, and then they tell me that the surprise is Rehnquist's thyroid cancer. Not what I was expecting. Sure, it was a surprise and everything, but I like happy surprises.

I am on the Wild Oregano Oil bandwagon...I have been taking it for 3 days and my usual allergy induced sniffles and scratchy throat are gone. Let's see if it keeps me healthy during flu season.....my poor immune system needs all the help it can get, and when you don't have health insurance for another 30 days, you will try anything to stay well.

I just got back from another field trip....a computer wasn't syncing properly with a palm pilot. I figured the USB port was bad since they had tried several different cables at this particular location. I was wrong. I go out there and someone has managed to completely change the satellite forms and uninstall the drivers. Then, as I am fixing everything, I open up a program file for the application I am reinstalling, and it is filled not with program info, but with PORN.

Specifically, porn with titles like "Britney and Eminem Porn", "Britney Gets it in the Ass", "Dark Anal Angel", "Britney Blow Job", etc, etc. There must have been 100 different images. So before I wiped everything out, I took screen shots and emailed them to myself so I can tattle on the salespeople who go to the models on the weekend and download porn. I mean, porn is great, I love it, but seriously, do it on your own time. Maybe I am just disturbed because I know who downloaded all that shit and now he gives me the heebie jeebies even more than before. I never wanted to know about an elderly man's Britney fetish.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Just another Manic Monday

So far this is shaping up to be a bad Monday. I spilled coffee all the way down the front of my shirt. I am wearing jeans and a polo shirt and tennis shoes because I have to go out in the field and install new machines, and the president of the company is giving me dirty looks because apparently he feels I should wear skirts and heels to crawl around construction sites.

Friday Nina and I went to the Greek Festival with Tanya and her kids, and drank some really strong Greek wine. I ate a gyro that I am pretty sure had lamb meat in it, but it was really good and I was too tipsy to care.

After the festival, we met up with Brian and one of Nina's friends and headed out to a drag show at this city's only gay club. It was the headlining drag queens birthday, and it was awesome. Some not cool shit went down with some friends of a friend, but we still had a good time.

Ahem...back to the weekend....Saturday we all just kinda chilled....Brian went out and saw some friends and bought the ugliest purple and gold Dean guitar I have EVER seen....but it plays awesome, and it being hideous makes it that much cooler. The three of us went out and got some porterhouses, and Brian cooked his famous steaks for us while Nina and I began work on our ornaments and projects we splurged on at the craft store. We stayed up til about 3 making ornaments and being dorks...we did see Ashlee Simpson in all her shitty lip synching glory on SNL. AWESOME!!!!!!

Sunday, Brian and I hung out around the house, then Nina and I were taken to dinner and the movies by my charming man. We saw "The Grudge" and sat in front of some daffy bitches who talked to each other in their normal vocal volume for the entire film. That made it suck more so than just the bad acting. Sarah Michelle Gellar should be locked up.

Brian is staying tonight too, YAY! I just went and saw him on my way back from my field trip to hell. I had to go move and reinstall hardware, and it should have been simple, but it is me....so was it? Course not. It's ok though, it ate up most of my day and I really can't complain about having to drive around out in the country on a gorgeous day.

I think Nina and I have a promising lead on an apartment....hopefully the complex we are interested in will accept me with my bad credit and have a unit open. I love the floor plan...we would each have our own bathroom, kitchen is large, we get a screened porch or balcony, etc. Cross your fingers for me! We are going to go look at them some time this week.

I should be hearing from the body shop and my shitass insurance company any day now regarding the status of my wonderful vehicle. Please let them total it out. PLEASE.

Off to get a Pepsi......bye bye for now!

To vote or not to vote........

I don't feel very good about being registered to vote in the state of Florida. It is what, oh, 2, 3 weeks prior to election day, and we are JUST NOW launching a wide scale investigation into voter fraud? GOOD THINKING, GUYS!
Maybe the governor thinks if he waits around long enough to fix anything, he will buy his brother the election again. Did I just say that? Oops. Guess y'all know I am not a Bush fan. Not a Kerry or Nader fan either. In fact, I don't feel right about voting because there is absolutely NO candidate that I feel I can support....and I cannot vote based on my partisan leanings, since I don't have ANY.
Everybody knows the irony is that I am a double major in O Chem and Poli Sci, right?
Living in a state capital in an election year is fascinating though. Especially in a Bush state. People either love the governor and the president, or hate them with a passion that burns deep within their soul. There are protestors and activists on every street corner, and traffic jams up in front of the capital building because people stop to hear the chanting and read the signs of the demonstrators on the capitol lawn.
Thinking back to the media coverage of the last election, and living in Tallahassee now, I cannot even imagine being here when that whole mess was happening. This is NOT a big town...."downtown" is the size of your old fashioned All-American small town Main Street....I can only imagine the chaos the news vans and hundreds of additional people caused.
Let's hope it doesn't happen again thi year....although with the accusations of voter registration fraud that are flying, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

Read all about it

New book updates! WOO HOO! Check 'em out, if you are into that sort of thing.

I have a few questions; they are all related.
1. Has anyone seen the previews for that movie "National Treasure"?
2. Does anyone other than me think the script was cribbed from "The DaVinci Code" with a bit of "Angels and Demons" sprinkled in?
3. Is it wrong that when people are talking about "The DaVinci Code" to me, and they say "I don't get it, it was too hard to understand" I want to hit them upside the head with a shovel?
4. When discussing the book in question, is it ok to be disappointed when I try to bring up "Foucault's Pendulum" and all I get are blank stares??
(speaking of which, I may have to head to the library this evening, as I now have a hankering to read some Eco)

Discuss amongst yourselves.

I'm out for the day.

Have a safe trip my little sick sugarplum...you know who you are. And I have been told by the powers that be that you must ingest approximately 3 drops of the wild oregano oil to have it work its magic. You need to have a chaser handy though. :)

Jesus went to my high school

In a manner of speaking. I was just checking out the good old JFK alumni news, and I see
this... (check out page 3 of the newsletter)

My aunt attended the same high school I did, and will be digging out her yearbooks this evening since she graduated the year before our Lord.

By the way, I must give props to Fr. B.,the other gentleman in the photo, and the most wonderful man of the cloth I have ever met. Nobody needs to make ANY priest molestation jokes here, folks. Fr. B. is the real deal, an amazing guy, who has been a close friend of my family since before I was born. I have heard the legends about him giving the homily while sitting on the altar at St. Vincent's, his motorcycle boots showing out from under the hem of his robes. Plus, my aunt and his niece have been best friends since childhood. I had my first confession and first communion with Fr. B., and he helped me through a lot of hard times when I was younger with great advice.

Randomness

How hard does it rock that I am alone upstairs for the rest of the afternoon and can listen to Atomic Bitchwax as loud as I want?

Well, let me tell you....it rocks pretty hard, people.

Here are some random thoughts from me to you:

I really hate having a septic tank and no garbage disposal, and not being able to put things down the sink.

Just because people come into my office and I am listening to the news, or NPR, does not give them free reign to get up on their political soapbox.

I think I am having an allergic reaction to the carpet cleaner I used last night because I have blisters all over my fingers.

Man, I need a pedicure.

To those of you who think I am lame for having a blog, let me explain: those who know me well know I hate talking on the phone, and I am too busy to send emails all the time. Forget about actual letters. So this is my update for my loved ones on all things having to do with my retarded life.

Ummmm that is all for now. Class dismissed.

Recap

Another Monday....
I think we should have mandatory 4 day 10 hour work weeks. That would rule.

This weekend was fantastic. Friday night I headed downtown to the library, got more reading material and then went home. I crawled my braindead self into bed, went to sleep at 7, woke up the next day at 10. Did I get up and clean, craft, etc? NOPE. I laid in bed and read and napped and cuddled with Puppy Chulo (Jasper) until 6pm. Then I cruised over to my aunt's house to have a bit of family time. Got home at 1am, read for a few hours, and then watched movies til 5am. Went to sleep, got up at 9, and started doing yardwork and laundry. Nina came back from Orlando and told me all about her business trip, then we decided to load up the dogs and head down to Mashes Sands. Met one of her friends down there, and we all hung out and played with the dogs. I saw horseshoe crabs for the first time....very cool prehistoric looking shit. Played with some hermit crabs, chased the dogs, and tried very hard to prevent them from drinking saltwater. I got a wee bit sunburned, but the day was so relaxing and beautiful that I don't mind one bit. Came home and cooked up a big batch of my famous chicken tacos and guacamole, did some laundry, cleaned up my room, read some more and finally went to sleep.
Did I knit? No. That's because I suck. I got all caught up in pulling weeds and reading books instead. I did make a trip to the craft store and was very tempted to spend money I didn't have to buy some yarn and some ornament making supplies. I did not give in to the dark side though, and I am happy to say the financial situation is much better than it has been in the past. I am still broke, but not overdrawn. Now if only Calhoun County would cash the check I sent them to pay the ticket from my accident. And if only my insurance company would stop being assholes.
I can't wait til this weekend...Brian is coming up since he doesn't have to work, and we are planning on going to the Greek food festival in town and the Stone Crab festival down in St. Marks. I cannot wait to see him! I hate it when he has to work on the weekends, but hey, he is Big Bank Hank'in it with the overtime, so it all works out in the end.
Hopefully this week I will be able to focus on getting some holiday gift knitting done.
The good news today at work is that I can see my desk! I am all caught up, for now at least. Planning on running some numbers this morning and doing some diagnostics on my database.
How the hell did I fall into this job??? I am a lucky, lucky girl. Thank you God, thank you Aunt Star, thank you me for my obsessive-compulsive organization tendencies.

Tree Be Gone

The county finally came and took away the tree that fell in our backyard during Hurricane Frances. It was starting to be very messy, so I am very glad it is gone.
Bye bye tree!

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in

I get to work, walk some builders through troubleshooting on their handhelds, upload today's building schedule into my palm pilot, and get a call to go out to one of our subdivisions because one of my builders can't send email. Drive out there, my inventory key for the model home won't work. Apparently the builder already did the lock out on the house, so I am standing on the porch, furiously smoking, and stabbing his number into my phone. He gets there, lets me in, and I go to the computer. Why can't he send me an email? He can receive just fine. Hmmmm...oh yeah, maybe it is because he has been spelling my email address wrong. YEAH.
I do have to say, there actually was another problem out there; the outgoing SMTP server was not set up right. So I fixed that, and walked him through how to spell my name about 10 times.
Come back to the office, head downstairs for a Pepsi, and start updating the production boards that I have badly neglectd for the past 3 weeks. I am really happy when I finish, because that was the last major unfinished chore on my to-do list. Yay! I am all caught up!
JUST KIDDING...when I get back to my office, there is a stack of slab packages, new starts, and plan signs on my desk, as well as a bunch of new lots to add to my database. Crap. Here I thought I was going to have an easy Friday, and that my OT hours would allow me to leave at 3 or 4.
Work, work, work.
No Brian this weekend....a tear....he has to get caught up with his wonderful job that he loves SO much (heavy on the sarcasm) and has to work. I think he also wants to practice with his band and the singer they found. I gave him a bunch of shit about it, but it was all in good fun, and he understands it is just because I miss him so much.
I have a huge stack of books, several craft projects, laundry, some knitting, and lots of cleaning to keep me occupied this weekend, so I don't really mind him not coming up here.
I am off to do what I do......