Ham. Phones. Eyes. Random Tuesday Thoughts

It's Random Tuesday. I'm not sure these are even enough to be considered full thoughts, so we'll just stick with Random Tuesday.

I have something going on with my eye. It's not pink eye or any kind of infection as far as I can tell. It's just a little puffy and teary. And it HURTS. Like, been taking excedrin for several days hurts.

I love Subway. Black Forest Ham. mmmmmm

I'm gonna brag for a minute here, bear with me. I got another compliment on my weight loss last night. My friend said I was looking down right skinny. Yea me!

Today, I sit here and eat Lay's potato chips. Probably won't do much for the keeping the weight off, huh.

I don't owe any more money to my attorney. At least not this week. They said I was paid up. For now. I'm sure that will change soon.

My son was cleaning at his dad's house last night. I want my cheap labor back. Then I can be lazy and get bon-bons and gain all my weight back.

I broke another cell phone. That makes three in less than a year. I really should get the insurance. Ooops.

Moving makes me crazy. And it's expensive.

That about sums up what's rolling around in my head here. Now go check out Keely over at The Un Mom and check out all the other random shit. And don't forget to play along. And comment.

Baseball and Apple Pie: RTT

It's RTT! Go check out Keely at The UnMom for more random.

I was talking with some other moms this weekend. I have now fully realized just how happy I am to have a boy. One of the women had four boys only and the other woman had all boys, then finally had a girl last. And holy cow, her stories matched stories from Drama Girl. All girls must be pretty similar. I know they all aren't, cuz Baby Girl is more like Destructo Girl. She is a total daredevil and like to take things apart. That is my kind of girl.

Both of the girls like flowers. They like the kind from a flower shop and the kind they can plant into the ground. I think that Creep likes flowers and veggies and things that he can plant. He likes to garden, and so do the girls.

I know that Creep believes in unicorns, and I don't know if the girls even know what a unicorn is. I will have to ask them. Destructo Girl will say she believes whatever Drama Girl believes in. She loves her big sister.

I saw a post earlier today about underwear. I have decided I do not have enough underwear. I am forever doing more laundry so I can have more clean ones. I need to hit of VS for more of those sexy and comfy undies.

Creep seems to be doing okay. He is playing baseball. He seems to like it okay. He got cut from one team and put on another, but seems okay with that. He says he did not like the first coach and says he does like the new coach he has.

I really don't have anything to say about apple pie. I do like it though. Especially home made apple pie.

That's all Folks!

T-T-T-T-T-TUESDAY!

IT'S TUESDAY! You know what that means. All about random. Wait this blog is always about me. It's Random Tuesday Thoughts. Go over to Keely's, grab a button and play along.



Today is my un-birthday. I have been reading about birthday's on a few other blogs, but today is not my birthday, it is my un-birthday. Yeah for me!

I have been packing and have discovered that I really don't like it. I keep procrastinating. That won't help me down the road here when it's time to move.

Oh yeah, it's time to move. Well almost. I turned in my official notice. The last day that I have to work with the bit** in the office next door is April 30. Woo Hoo! Then I can purge her from my life forever.

Someone will take her place. It always works that way. I'll get all moved and into my new job, and there will be a new bit** from hell.

I am not pregnant. Just thought I would throw that out there as I have had a couple of people ask me that lately. Here I thought I was losing weight and looking better and now folks are asking if I'm preggers. Kind of a blow to the self image there.

It is finally turning warm here again. That damned Spring came and teased us, then ran off. But she's back, and the bit** better stay this time.

Now go grab a button and play along. Happy RTT!

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I slept last night for about 2 1/2 hours. I got up and made a phone call in the middle of the nap to S, but he did not answer so I went back to sleep. After about a total of 3 hours of sleep, I got up and putzed around my house, then was back in bed 3 hours later. I feel soooo much better today. I am tired of being tired.

Work is still crazy busy. I keep getting more and more piles of things to do. I feel like I am drowning in paperwork. Our whole office does right now. My co-worker said the same thing yesterday, that she feels like we are all drowning in paper work in this office right now.

I am very excited to see sunshine. I need my fix of sunshine. It's like a drug that I cannot get enough of. Hook me up, baby.  Fill my veins with that sunny goodness.

Never feed your cats a solid diet of tuna for two or three days. Get your ass up and go buy cat food. Your nose will thank you later. Especially if your cats are indoor only and use a litter box. I think I am going to have that smell in my nostrils for days. *hacking and gagging*

Well, work is finding out today about me leaving. We'll see what they say....


That's all for today kids. What's random in your life today?

It's Snowing in Hell

You know what that means. It's Random Tuesday Thoughts. For days like today. When you can't hold a whole thought in your head for anything. Or at least for an entire post. Go check out Keely at The Un Mom for all of our partial thoughts today. But wait til you're done here. Don't worry though, it won't be strenuous. We're all totally random over there today.

My new phone broke. Well, I got it in August, or was it July? Hell, I don't remember but it was not that long ago. The touch screen on it doesn't work anymore. And what makes it better? I can't get into the menu without the screen to reset it like the nice gal on the other end of the phone told me to do. I called for the warranty, but they most likely won't replace it because I scratched the phone. Not the screen, the bottom of the phone, but if there are any marks what-so-ever, it voids the warranty. So now I have to come up with the money to get it fixed. In the meantime I'm using my old crappy phone that drops calls, has low volume and a big crack down one side of it so the number pad doesn't always work. Yippee.

I'm going to K's house tonight. I can't wait to tell her about my weekend and see what sort of gems I get from her. It will be funny, I'm sure. I will hopefully be able to remember them so I can share. I also will get dinner. I always eat her food when I go over after work. Mmmmm. I love dinner.

I found some new blogs yesterday. If I keep doing this, I'm going to be stuck with my face glued to the computer screen all day and night trying to keep up with them. My eyes will cross, I'll get that blank look on my face and sores on my chin from drooling because my brain froze. That would probably end my new love life cuz how attractive would that be. Mmmm, drool encrusted chin and glazed over eyes. What a turn-on.

I might take the day off on Friday. I have some time to take and Friday is as good a day as any. Plus I can meet up with my Mail Man Friday night. That would be fun. And right on my way to S. Yum Yum.

I will not discuss the Olympics. Because I am the only person on the planet not watching them. I don't have cable, therfore, no Olympics. And, you know, I just really am not sad about that.

It's snowing here again. I swear this is the winter from hell. I think it must actually be snowing in Hell too. Why else would we get this much snow, over and over again. All those evil people wanted us to have some of their evil snow and ice. It won't end. It won't quit snowing. It won't warm up. The sun won't shine. I need sunshine. Well, I had some this past weekend, but shit, one and a half days of sunshine does not make up for this long, cold, dreary, snowy, windy, icy, never-ending misery. I will just have to hope that it's nice down south again when I go see S. Hahahahahahaha. Like that's ever going to happen til, like, August, when winter finally pries it's cold dead fingers off this country. Damn groundhog.

My new boyfriend's (bleh, I feel like some snotty high schooler calling him that. What do I call him? Any suggestions? Besides hot or stud or ass, cuz I already call him that, but I would really prefer to have something else to call him around my parents) roommate must have really liked me. When Mail Man called this morning, he told me that they had been talking about me (no wonder my ears were burning) and that his roommate said I was welcome to come back any time. I'm sure it was my sparkling personality and not the tank top and silk skirt that I was wearing. Horny-ass men.

Now, head on over to Keely's and check everyone else out. And link up. We won't bite. Too hard.

Random Tuesday Thoughts

Come join in the fun with Keely over at the Un Mom. Lots of strange and unfocused thoughts going on over there today.

One should always be careful when sending a text message. I have a touch screen phone, and for the most part, I absolutely love it. I love scrolling with the touch of a finger rather than having to keep pushing buttons to scroll down my list of contacts, or when I am surfing the Interwebz (To visit my bloggy friends of course). As with all things, though, there is the potential for trouble. I typed up a text to send to my new beau. I opened my contacts and with the slide of a finger, scrolled down and selected the name. And promptly sent it to the wrong person because the screen apparently was not done moving. I am still not living this down. I have a feeling I will hear about this for the rest of my life. At least it was not a steamy message.

I really hate year end at work. Lots of nothing to do for a few days, then swamped when everything comes rolling in. Then nothing, then swamped. And trying to keep things straight for which year, and the bazillion journal entries to go with it all.

I have been walking with my sister twice a week early in the am. We missed a day last week, and it totally messed me up. My whole body got kinda screw-y. We walked again on Thursday and again this morning, and I feel like I am getting back on schedule now. I never thought I would say that exercise was something that I would do, let alone wanted to do. Yikes.

Man, there is just not a lot rolling around in my head today. I guess I'm not feeling very random. I tried to at least.

Random Tuesday Thoughts

Keely over at The UnMom is host to our random-ness. Check her out.

Let's dive right into some random-ness:

I get really annoyed with the co-workers that think they should come to work when they are sick. That is why we have personal days. Take a day or two off instead of coming to work to spread your coughing, sore throat self around. Because we don't want that. At all. Except now, I am starting to feel it. Echinacea here I come.

I love snow, but hate winter. Not really sure how that works. I love to watch it snow and see it all pile up, but I want to watch it from inside where it is nice and warm. Then I want it to melt off the next day, maybe two days. I just do not like being cold. With low blood pressure, cold hands and feet are standard and snow covered cold hands and feet do not mix.

I picked up my boots from the cobbler on Saturday. Then forgot to wear them today in the snow. Guess that is why no one has accused me of having it all together lately.

I was off work yesterday with a reason I shall share another day. When I come back today, I have piles waitng for me. Why is it that work happens that way? Is there some cardinal universal rule that says every time you take a day off, everyone else is super productive and puts all their projects on to your desk for the next step? I know I am not the only one this happens to. It happens to all us people, so it must be universal.

I think I figured out the secret to my losing weight. I have been eating breakfast. I have read many times that eating breakfast is the best way to lose weight or keep your weight down. And the best part? Breakfast is usually Hardees or McDonalds. Not good for me, I know, but fast and easy. And on my way to work. If this keeps up, I might even start to eat donuts again. Mmmmmm. Donuts. Lovely. Tasty. Sweet. Deliciousness.

It's starting to look like I will totally be driving in the bad weather again on my trip down. It seems like for the last 4-6 trips there has been snow and slick roads on the way down and on the way back. WTH happened to global warming? Where is my warm(er) weather instead of all these crazy piles of snow?

I think my brain just froze up. I am done. See you tomorrow.

Random Tuesday Thoughts

Hello? Hello? Where am I? I think I forgot how to get here, or there, or anywhere.... What?

I am back again. I thought Random Tuesday would be a good place to begin. Go on over to The Unmom and check out everyone else's randomness too.

I, uh, well, I really don't know where to start. I'm sorry seems like a good place. I have abandoned my blog here for the last couple of weeks. And for no good reason. Mostly I have been very easily distracted and unfocused. I am going to start working on that. Let me share a couple of stories to give you my frame of mind these past couple of weeks:

A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that my tub was not really draining very well. Now, I have had issues with this house's plumbing pretty much since I moved in. Usually not too major, and never with the tub. But it was draining slow. I left it alone for about a week. Then a week ago, I went to Walmart and got a couple of buckets from their bakery. I took them home and washed them out. Those things are great for storing anything and everything. And best of all they were free. Any way I digress, again. Washing the tubs out, yes that's where I was. I washed them out and dumped the water. It did not drain. I left it alone for a bit and it did eventually drain completely. I took a shower and noticed that I don't use nearly the water for a shower as I would have run for a bath even for a small child. Decided to hardly ever take a bath again, only showers. Not that this has anything to do with the tub draining, or not draining as the case may be. I had to soak the free tubs with some baking soda and vinegar to get rid of the icing smell completely. While I was at it I decided to soak the garbage cans too. I went in to dump the cans and nothing drained. I came back a little later, and nothing had drained. I tried plunging and nothing drained. Next day after work, I bought some draino at the dollar store, except it was more than a dollar. Why do they call it a dollar store if everything is more than a dollar? I poured in the drain cleaner when I got home. I waited about 30 minutes and went back to check still no draining. I ran hot water like the directions said to. No draining. I poured more in since the directions said to repeat if necessary. 30 minutes later, still had not drained. This is where I started to ignore the directions. I started plunging even though the directions said not too. At this point I am wondering if my cats stuffed a mouse carcass down the drain to save for later. No draining. So I gather my courage and stick my bare hand down the drain. Now I know that I should have used a glove since there was so much drain cleaner in there, but how was I supposed to feel anything? Yeah, I felt something all right. The drain plug. I had apparently knocked the little lever while cleaning the tub originally and finished knocking it closed while cleaning the buckets. I opened the drain. It drained. No mouse, no clog, not even slow....Whoosh, all the water when right down.....

Wow.

The next episode of pure genius occured this weekend. I was playing tennis with my son at the park. He really is not that great (neither am I) and likes to hit the ball as hard as he can. Right out of the courts, over the fence. And right towards the pond. Fortunately it hit a rock and did not become a floater. Time to go. We load into the new to me minivan (which has been great by the way). I turn the car on, and yes! that air feels great. We were both really hot and sweaty. I put the car in reverse, take my foot off the brake, hit the gas and we start to roll --forward. I slam on the brakes and put it back in park. I try to put it in reverse again. We roll forward. I am getting really scared at this point as it is time to take S back to his dad's. My car has to go. So, I open the door and step out of the car, and realize, are you ready for this? It was not on. Nope, the van was not running. I could not tell because the fan was running on high and I could not tell that it was not on. I turn the key and start the car. What do you know?! It went into gear. Yeah.

So there is the randomness of my life for the past couple of weeks. Want some more? If not then you can stop reading now. I have more though. I'm sorry again. If you are one of those people that has to read until the end and you want to move along, here you go: The End.

I took my cat in to the vet's office for her surgery for her skin cancer. It is the kind that does not spread (I can't remember today what that is called-I swear I am brain dead lately), it just affects the cells it is in. They grow, I get them cut off. She is high for a few days. This time they did blood work first, with my permission of course, and discovered that her red blood cell count was low. They could still do the surgery, just had to twilight sleep her and inject some pain meds. She was great, she was not high, and shortly after I got home she was back to her normal self. I took her in early this morning before work to get the stitches out. Poor baby does not like being in a cage at all. She kept trying to bite the carrier door. At one point I stuck my hand in front of her face hoping to stop her from chewing on the bars and breaking a tooth. Yup, she bit me. It hurt, but that was better than her breaking a tooth.

Our county is preparing for the H1N1 virus. It is kind of scary some of the things they are talking about implementing if the virus spreads too much here. I am really hoping that it avoids our area all together. I doubt it though as the college in the town next to us has already had 5 confirmed cases. No deaths, just students with the flu. Me, I think it's just the flu, some will get it, some will get it and die, some will not get it at all. It happens with the flu virus that hits every year. Why is this one so different? Get over it. We don't freak out when 1/3 of our county has the "regular" flu. I am concerned that it will affect my visits with my son if they "discourage" travelling. The interstate runs right through the middle of our county though. I am not really sure how they would do that any way. Besides, I live about 2 miles from the state line. I will just go out the back road and be on my way. (politics-warning!) Personally I think the "big scare" is to help the awful and dreaded health care reform get movement to be passed.

It has been really cool here for the past few days. I got up yesterday and today and it was only 60 degrees in my house. The warmest it got all day yesterday was about 64 degrees. It is a bit chilly in my house during this season. I would say time of year, but this is the first time it has happened this early. Usually it is still hot outside right now. Homemade potato soup sounds really good for tonight. Good thing I bought potatoes last night and stocked up on evaporated milk when it was on sale! Way to go stocking up!

I finally got rid of the fleas. I can't remember if I posted about my war on fleas, but it has been an ugly battle that I finally won! I sprinkled Sevin Dust all over my entire house. I did NOT put any on the cats, but sprinkled all non living things in my house liberally. This was after treating the cats, spraying the house and bombing/fogging the house. I have not seen any fleas since last Thursday. I will begin cleaning up every scrap and sprinkle of dust tonight. Time for the fall house cleaning anyway. Gotta get everything nice and clean to close the house up for the winter. I don't much care for spring cleaning, but I do love a good fall cleaning to get me in the mood to keep the windows shut and start burning those wonderful, good smelling candles. And now I can start baking without melting from the heat.

Gotta love fall. Crisp leaves. Beautiful colors. I am fall coloring by the way. I love the smell of the leaves burning after raking them up. I love a good campfire, or just a fire in the fire pit or the little fire table thingy I have on my patio. Yup, good times.

So, how have you been? How is life treating? Assuming of course you are still here reading....

Random Tuesday Thoughts

Stop and visit Keely over at the UN Mom to see her random Tuesday thoughts. And don't forget to check out the other links to all the randomness. So without further ado, my randomness:

I am going to have to start doing my couponing thing again because I miss it. I miss the rush of the deals.

I have been listening to Jack over at SurvivalPodcast for a couple of days. He was recommended to me by a friend of mine. I can't say that I agree with everything that he says as they are his personal views, but I can say I have enjoyed listening to his show. It has been informative and in the forum area, there is even a topic of couponing to stock up! I especially liked that!

I have also been super busy at work. Work, work work yesterday and today. Where is my slow time at work going?

I went to Victoria Secrets this weekend to get a couple of new bras. Mine were broke down, ragged out sorts of things. Old too. I found a couple of really comfy ones that were even on sale. Now I understand why people pay so much for the stuff at Victoria Secrets. All I can say is I wish I had bought bras there before. I will definitely be back for a couple more when I can afford it.

S started school yesterday. I talked to him about it last night. He was really excited because his teacher was nice to him. He said she was pretty nice to everyone, but was really nice to him. I really hope that my talk with her last week was productive and she stays this way, if it is even the reason that she was so nice to him. She is going through a similar situation with her daughter and her ex and I hope that gives her empathy for our situation.

S also has a baseball party this weekend. They are meeting at a waterworks sort of place. I don't remember the name off the top of my head, but he was really wanting to go. I made a deal that I would bring S back two hours later on Saturday and deliver him to the water park two hours earlier than my usual drop off for the party. Because let's face it, the kid is not going to want to hang out with me on the sidelines while there are a bunch of slides and pools to play in. Then S tells me that he wants me to stay. If there seems to be a need for more supervision, then I will indeed stay, but if he is having fun and there are plenty of other parents, we may go a bit early to get a head start home. My guess though is that we will be staying so that someone is there to keep an eye on S. Which means that we ultimately be getting a late start home as the party is not over until six. I just am confused on why the party is now. The ball games have been over for over a month. Almost two months I think. Those people down there just make my head hurt. I can't even think about it.

The good news is my cats are still just as destructive as always. I say good news because if they were suddenly different, I would think invasion of the cat snatchers. They also have fleas. I have been trying to rid my cats and house of fleas for a couple of days now. So far, I don't have fleas. But if I start scratching behind my ear with my feet I will let you know. I also found out that I can get frontline at the store for a whole lot cheaper than the vets office. I did not even know the stores carried it. They learnt me sumthin new -as my son say now. I am totally going to have to work on that, the little hillbilly.

I think that is about all that I have in my head at all today. Apparently my brain is not holding much. But what can I say. I thought that yesterday was the 13th. I even dated all the paperwork that went through my office as the 13th. Even worse, I didn't know any different until I got to work today and looked at a calendar. Wow. To me today is the 14th. Must be almost time for the weekend.

ETA: When I did spell check, learnt is apparently a word. Yikes. I always though it was not a real word.

I am not sure if that thingy up there will work. I seem to be challenged when it comes to posting the link pictures. Whatever it does, do yourself a favor and go check out Keely's blog at The Unmom. Read through all the randomness floating around over there.

Random Thought Tuesday:

Wow is it ever stormy here. I came in to work this morning and thought perhaps I should be going home for the evening it was so dark.

I am researching work at home articles. I would love to create some kind of income working online. I realize it would not replace the job I have, but it could someday. I would love to be able to stay home on those dark mornings.

I slept like a log last night. It felt great. When the alarm went off this morning, I seriously did one of those sit straight up in bed things. I wasn't even sure what woke me up to start with. At least I did not see any bugs on my ceiling. That is always a good sign-no bugs.

I have a gazillion things to do tonight after I get off work. I leave for a visit with S tomorrow around noon. I have to finish washing all the blankets, pillows, clothes, dishes, etc, etc, for packing tonight so I can load tomorrow when I get off work and get the heck outta here.

My head hurts today. I don't know if it is the weather or just because the monitor for this computer is too big. It's like it has dinosaur-ific proportions. Which would be great if I was old and had bad eyes, or sat 10 feet away, but the monitor is about one foot away unless I stretch my arms and lean back, then I get two feet of clearance. It just makes my eyes hurt. I think I will order a different one.

My son was a chatty Kathy last night on our call. He is making grand plans for our visit. He is timing down to the minute. He told me what time we were eating all our meals. What time and what game we are playing at the top of each hour. I think it is funny when he does this. He will make all these plans, but when I get there he will change them and act like he doesn't know what I am talking about if I ask about the previous plans. He tells me I must be confused.

I am ready for lunch. I am starving. I have been hungry all morning. I had egg salad for breakfast. I know, I'm weird. At least it wasn't like live fish or something squirmy. Too bad it wasn't pizza.

Speaking of pizza, the pizza dude will be here shortly for lunch time deliveries. I need to eat my lunch first so I am not tempted to buy a pizza. And eat the whole thing. By myself. Those pizza's are sure making it hard to lose weight. And the donuts. And the whole box of macaroni and cheese. And the brownies...

Boring healthy lunch, here I come, dreaming you were something tasty.

Random Thoughts Tuesday

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My random thoughts for the day:

I have recently started reading the Stephanie Plum series. I don't think I have ever laughed so hard from reading a book. I think I will have to buy one or two to keep around the house in case I need a pick me up.

I am still reeling from this past weekend. I am totally glad it is over. Except now my family is already trying to plan another one. That scares me....

I wish we were having a real summer. It has been pretty cool here this summer. We had like one week of hot weather and that was it. I want some heat!

I had a lot of commotion at my house last night. I was playing on my new phone waiting for the time to call S. I could hear all the kids outside and decided it might be prudent to sit on the back porch for a bit. They were out there yelling and fighting with each other. Then fortunately they all separated. Some of the kids remained on the corner of my block being loud and obnoxious. Then one of the heathens spotted some buddies and took off running. Right through my yard. Now, I have been trying for the two+ years that I have lived here trying to keep the heathens out of my yard. I yelled for him to get out of my yard and got some smart ass remark about being sorry and he would not do it again. My response was yes I can see that. The other boys with him walked around my yard and told him to be respectful and not cut through other peoples yards. I wanted to go and give those boys gold stars or something. Anyway, this continued for most of the evening until it was dark. Then they tried hiding from me on the patio area of the church building next to me. When I started to go over there, they ran. Except apparently learning balance while running is next semester because two of the kids fell and one knocked the gutter off the side of the building. Of course they ran really fast after that. I called to let the church folks know the damage had been done. I went around the front to see which house they went into just for my knowledge. I went back in and started dishes. I could hear the kids yelling outside my kitchen and bathroom windows. I was going to ignore them until I heard them right under my bathroom window. I went outside only to see the police driving in the church parking lot behind my house. I went out to meet them and asked who finally called them. No one called them. The stupid little bas***** stole the window washers/squeegees from the gas station and ran right out in the road in front of the cops. They took off towards the church building and dropped the washers in my back yard. The cops asked me if the the gutter hanging off was new and I told him yes, and I knew which kids did it cuz I watched them. He thought I meant right then and I said no, they were hiding from me over by the building earlier and did it then. I of course knew which kids they were talking about, what clothes they were wearing and what they looked like, and most importantly which house they would be hiding out at. I told the cops what I knew and off they went. They were gone for a little bit and when they returned, I saw all the kids going off in different directions. It was quiet at my house for the rest of the night. I played on my phone-it has internet, so cool, I am really excited about that. Then I went to bed around 12:15. I could not sleep for a while so I tossed and turned. I fell asleep somewhere after 1 which is when I last looked at the time.

Work sucks. I don't really like my job all that much. Well, it is more that there are a couple of key players in my workplace that I don't like. I am annoyed because one co-worker in my office has been coughing and sick sounding for over a week, has not been to the doctor and just keeps hacking all over everything. I think this co-worker went to the doctor today. I hope anyway. The other ones that annoy me are just a couple of those people that are just cruel and mean. They are just not right as some folks would say. They make my job hard to do and make it miserable to come into work. For the most part, my office gets along really well. Just add in the crazy folks from the other offices and things go downhill.

I think that is all that has been rattling around in my brain for today. Now my brain is empty. You know, that is a good feeling for today.