Had an awesome holiday weekend filled with shopping, great weather, yummy food, dog-walking, fireworks, and more shopping!  I can't complain.  Plus I happened to hit some wonderful sales and I couldn't pass up buying myself a few items. ;-)

Monday tomorrow but shh...we won't speak of it!

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!!

Sorry this is so late today but I wanted to wish foxylovesme  the happiest of birthdays!!  Deb, I hope you had a terrific day so far and I hope this coming year brings you all the best that life has to offer.  You're a wonderful friend!

Well, I'm off to Maine tomorrow morning.  The H-man and I are hittin' the highway and driving north for (hopefully only) 8 hours!  Yikes...anyway, I'm not sure how much time I'll get at my brother's computer but I'll be back Monday with lots of pics of my nephew. :-)  I hope you all have a wonderful couple of days and I'll talk to you soon!!

(If anyone can find me a lighthouse icon, I'd be ever so grateful!)  :-D

I'd like to thank everyone who made me banners on their LJ's, sent me virtual gifts and/or sent messages for my birthday yesterday!!  You are such a wonderful flist and you made my day so much brighter. :-)

Thank you all for being a part of my life.  I hope your week is going well!!

Very happy birthday wishes to one of my new friends, icor13tor47 !!  I hope you have a wonderful day today, hon!!  I'm looking forward to
squeeing with you over Grey's Anatomy this next season. :-)

a.  I'm off from work for 4 days....4 glorious days!!!  Yay!!  I'm ridiculously happy and hoping the sun shines at some point during the next 4 days instead of this humid, rainy crap.

b.  My brother sent me flowers for my birthday.  He seems to have morphed into a different person since having a kid. ;-)

c.  I've been visiting my uncle who is in the hospital and now transferred to a nursing home.  He has advanced Parkinson's disease.  It's a horrible fucking disease.  Whatever stupid problems I think I have pale in comparison to having that shitty disease.

d.  I may do a flist cut this weekend just to clean things up in my little space.  If I cut you and you don't want to be, speak up okay?  Otherwise no hard feelings.  I'm in the mood to clean up, purge, whatever...

Finally I got most of the day to myself, which I spent doing laundry and watching Glee, which I really, really enjoyed and didn't think I would but it quite surprised me.  I'm kind of bummed that it's not starting until the fall.  I'm already hooked and spending way too much time listening to Don't Stop Believin'. 

The weather's been humid and stormy (last night) and I'm happy I don't have to work tomorrow.  I had a pretty major allergy attack last night and couldn't sleep at all, so I am grateful for a day of peace.

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!

...is all kinds of crazy right now, and you know what?  I'm sick of it, sick of that always being the case.  I'm either taking on too much at work or taking care of the people in my life and sometimes, there is just nothing left of the day for me to be able to much of anything.  I finally got my new computer up and running last week and I've only had about an hour of free time to play around with it.  I haven't gotten a chance to see Star Trek or write about what I thought of Lost, House or Grey's Anatomy.  I'm sick of doing so much for everyone.....I know, whine, whine, whine.

I am ridiculously happy I finally have my internet at home now because I was freakin' sick of only having it at work and I am so sick of being at work, I could scream.  Thank God it's a 3-day weekend.

I can't believe I'm leaving for Maine in 3 weeks to see my nephew and Henry is coming with me.  I've never traveled with the H-man before.  I hope it won't be a colossal mistake!

One of these days I'll get my act together.

Sorry for the stream of consciousness...I slept about an hour last night.

Wishing a very, very Happy Birthday to elise_509 !!  I hope you have a wonderful day today, hon!! :-)

I know it's early for me but it may be tomorrow already for you, hon, so a very happy Birthday to polvodestrella !!  I hope you have a most wonderful birthday and I'm so glad I got to know you here on LJ!  (And Facebook too!)

Have a great day!

Are you kidding me?  I'm barely hanging on to my last thread of sanity because I don't have my computer at home right now. 

a.  Got talked into joining Facebook by my well-meaning co-worker.  So I'm trolling around on it at lunchtime and I find lots of people I went to high school with....great...now I can be rejected by the same people two decades later!  Fun times!

b.  I am still computer-less at home, which makes me joining Facebook even more stupid than I previously thought.  I'm going crazy without my own computer.  *sigh*

c.  I have a new project at work that will begin tomorrow and go through July at least.  Oh the joy....well, it's job security at least and it's something new which is kind of nice actually.

d.  It's 88 degrees here today...88!!  It was like this all weekend and I'm not going to complain but poor H-man has some kind of stomach virus thingie and he spent most of the day hiding upstairs.  Poor guy...I hate when he's sick but I made him boiled ground beef and rice for his dinner and he scarfed that up so he seems to be doing okay.  When the weather is warm, he likes to be outside hunting for dead things...birds, worms...yum...such is life with a hound dog. ;-)

e.  Hope everyone is doing well!  *hugs*

Well, it's official.  My old home desktop is on its last legs.  I had it fixed a year ago but it's finally kaput now so that means NEW computer for me!!  I didn't want to put out the money right now, but that's the way it goes.  I can't really complain.  'Ol Smokey (because I expect it to start smoking any second!) gave me many good years and I can't very well go computer-less now can I?

Woohoo...Happy Rainy Monday!

Lots of birthday wishes and good thoughts to petite_bella !!  I know you're feeling down right now, but I hope things start looking up for you soon!

Have a wonderful birthday!!

I need to return to the land of the living.  Somehow.  My house in a shambles, clothes thrown everywhere, dust settling on everything.   I finally listened to music for the first time on Thursday night.  After work, I came home and laid down on the bed with my iPod.  I'm not quite sure what's happened to me but I need to stop sequestering myself.  I'll have to just get on with it, you know?  Besides, Henry needs dog food.  Of course, some kid got shot last night at the house right up the road.  I don't live in a neighborhood where shootings are commonplace.  I'm not exactly thrilled but I don't think this was some random act of violence either.  I didn't really want to have to watch out for gun violence while I take my dog out to pee at night though.  WTF has become of this country??  (Don't bother to answer that.  I already know...) The good news never ends...

My friend is taking me out for dinner tonight.  Thank God, because I could use a decent meal.

I have a new obsession to add to my ever-growing list of obsessions...because in lieu of any good news in real life, I obsess over fictional characters and the actors who play them.



I'm so glad I didn't stop watching Grey's Anatomy after all.

I hope everyone is having a great weekend!

After re-reading my last entry, I feel like such a loser--whiny and childish.  So I'm done with work and I'm going out with my old friend, Andy later.  We're going to grab some dinner and then do one of my favorite things...browsing at the local B&N.  Nothing late or too heavy...just two friends who will probably end up bitching about our jobs!  Not that I want to do that but sometimes you need to vent and I can't do that here...not about my job anyway...

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend ahead!  I'm off to try and make myself look vaguely human at the very least.

It's so lovely and warm outside that I actually came home from work, hobbled up the steps and opened some of my windows.  You have no idea how something as simple as that could make me so happy. :-)   I hate winter.  Trust me, I know it will return but today feels like spring.

Happy Friday!!



Hopefully I won't have to see the Henry Winter Sulk Face anymore!

I have clearly done something wrong because I am surrounded by bad juju.  Last week was the headache from Hell.  Then I had Friday off.  Somewhere in there, I hurt my back and I've spent this entire week hobbling around in pain.  Yippee.  It's been tons of fun.  And then there was the snowstorm on Monday, bitter cold temperatures and my dog deciding to sulk in boredom and misery and oh, I've had to be at work for 12 hour days all week, dealing with the dreaded coworkers while in the midst of back spasms.  Um, yeah, fun.  *sigh*

I didn't even want to write an entry because I don't want to sound like I'm constantly complaining but I am kind of hoping things get a little soon.  I'll take being able to walk without pain for starters.

I hope you all are doing well.  I know it seems like I haven't been around much, but I'm still here!

I had the week from hell.  I also had a migraine all freakin' week to go with it.  I took the day off today to preserve what is left of my sanity and I managed to get some stuff done that I've wanted and needed to do for weeks.  So now I feel like I've restored a bit of order to my life and I'm feeling a bit more human.  If I've missed stuff on my flist, it wasn't intentional and I'm so, so sorry.  Hopefully by Monday, I'll be rid of this headache and have gotten some sleep and I'll be back to normal.  It was so nice not having to go to work today.  I definitely think I need to use my vacation days more frequently whether Workplace likes it or not.  Despite what they think, I don't want to be there 24/7.

Happy Weekend Everyone!  I'm off to go feed Henry and make brownies!