My Sunday...

And what did I do today???
Why, I painted my 1/2 bath !
And what do you do with a funkadelic 70's yellow bathroom????
(a quote about what you do when you have lemons, or some Polyanna-type shit like that, comes to mind)
Thought I'd share....






It's probably hard to tell but I painted the base a light yellow tone.
There's more to come, so I'll have to update as I go...

And...
Since I'm in the "sharing" mood tonight, here's the craft room I was talking about in prior posts....



It's come further than this as of now, but this is the most recent picture I have for the moment...
This, too, will be updated on when I get more pictures taken...

AARRGGHH ! ! ! ! ! !

I
am
going
to
kill
my
mother
if she EVER scares me like that again! ! ! ! ! ! !

Gre-he-hate.....

nice way to start my day.
that's all i'm sayin' for now.

The Last 7 Days....

Work days, that is....

That's all that's left...
And my calendar is filling fast - next week is going to be busy, busy, busy ! ! !
Friday (as in tomorrow) the girls and I are going out to dinner together, Tuesday Yenta is taking me out to lunch, Thursday I'll likely be having lunch with friends, my last day we're doing happy hour and I'll likely be having lunch with another friend either tomorrow or Monday.
WHEW !
Oh, and this coming Saturday we're getting together with friends for lunch.
VERY social will I be !
=0)
Plus, I've promised to bake a bit more before I leave.....and I've taken requests....
Today is gooey butter cake day.....
Then MORE baking this weekend and into next week !
EEK !
Better eat my wheaties ! ! ! !

ENJOY ! ! !

Oh how amusing ! ! ! !

http://www.glumbert.com/media/dancewhiteboy.html

YIKES ! ! ! !

What you see below are not see-thru skirts. They are actually prints on the skirts to make it look as if the panties are visible and these are the current rage in Japan. They'll be the rage here in the USA soon.

A Wee Bit Surly....

In the words of Macy Gray....


..............................


the way he treats me it´s obvious he´s confusing
me for some dumb bitch
who will stick around

..............................


yeah you you tell me that you love me but boo
if this is love
it´s a good thing you don´t hate me

A Letter To Your Pets

Dear Dogs and Cats,

The dishes with the paw print are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food. Please note, placing a paw print in the middle of my plate and food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food and dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest.

The stairway was not designed by NASCAR and is not a racetrack. Beating me to the bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn't help because I fall faster than you can run.

I cannot buy anything bigger than a king sized bed. I am very sorry about this. Do not think I will continue sleeping on the couch to ensure your comfort. Dogs and cats can actually curl up in a ball when they sleep. It is not necessary to sleep perpendicular to each other stretched out to the fullest extent possible. I also know that sticking tails straight out and having tongues hanging out the other end to maximize space is nothing but sarcasm.

For the last time, there is not a secret exit from the bathroom. If by some miracle I beat you there and manage to get the door shut, it is not necessary to claw, whine, meow, try to turn the knob or get your paw under the edge and try to pull the door open. I must exit through the same door I entered. Also, I have been using the bathroom for years-canine or feline attendance is not mandatory.

The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dog or cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough!

To pacify you, my dear pets, I have posted the following message on our front door:

Rules for Non-Pet Owners Who Visit and Like to Complain About Our Pets:

1. They live here. You don't.

2. If you don't want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture.
(That's why they call it "fur"niture.)

3. I like my pets a lot better than I like most people.

4. To you, it's an animal. To me, he/she is an adopted son/daughter who is short, hairy, walks on all fours and doesn't speak clearly. Dogs and cats are better than kids .they eat less, don't ask for money all the time, are easier to train, usually come when called, never drive your car, don't hang out with drug-using friends, don't smoke or drink, don't worry about having to buy the latest fashions, don't wear your clothes, and don't need a gazillion dollars for college - and if they get pregnant, you can sell the children.

I'll Join Impossible Jane and join the bandwagon...

01. Dyed your hair: More times than I can count
02. Been a DJ: Only when driving to work - I ROCK ! LOL
03. Climbed a mountain: Uh huh
04. Been arrested: Not as of yet...
05. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol: Absolutely not. VERY scared of guns thanks to being the victim of a pair of gunshot wounds as a child.
06. Held a tarantula: Not yet but hope to some day !
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone: Yup.
08. Said "I love you" and meant it: Unfortunately.
09. Taught yourself an art from scratch: Just a few.
10. Done a striptease: When motivated properly.
11. Bungee jumped: HELL NO.
12. Had a booth at a street fair: Does being the "condom girl" at my college's spring festival count?
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea: Don't I wish !
14. Stayed up all night long, and watched the sun rise: When I was young and needed little sleep - did it all the time.
15. Seen the Northern Lights: Nope.
16. Gone to a huge sports game: Rangers games (which are always huge to ME) but I suppose the Devil's playoff game last season counts?
17. Walked the stairs to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa: Nah.
18. Grown and eaten my own vegetables: Not yet ! But I Do have gardens this year !
19. Touched an iceberg: Nope.
20. Slept under the stars: Never. Nature? ICK !
21. Changed a baby's diaper: MANY.
22. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon: Nope.
23. Watched a meteor shower: Yup. And stupid me didn't realize that's what it was - I was just thinking "wow ! there are a LOT of falling stars out tonight !". Yes, I'm a giant dork.
24. Had to put someone you love into hospice care (nursing home, actually): Not yet, but I keep threatening mom with it if she doesn't behave !
25. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced: OUCH ! No.
26. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100 mph: Nope.
27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment: Oh yes. That's ususally when they hit me.
28. Had a food fight: Uh huh. A few, as a matter of fact.
29. Built your own PC from parts: Sort of.
30. Taken a sick day when you're not ill: OH YEAH ! ! ! !
31. Asked out a stranger: Uh. No.
32. Had a snowball fight: HELL YEAH !
33. Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier: Nope.l
34. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can: OH YES.
35. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over: Nope.
36. Enacted a favorite fantasy: Nope.
37. Taken a midnight skinny dip: Nope.
38. Taken an ice cold bath: ABSOLUTELY not. I HATE the cold !
39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar: Nope.
41. Rode on a roller coaster: Unfortunately.
42. Hit a home run: Not so sporty am I.
43. Rode on a motorcycle: Every Spring/Summer/Fall ! And can't wait to get my own !
44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking: All the time !
45. Adopted an accent for an entire day: Only on "Ren Faire Day" and "Brit for a Day" events (which translates into me and my friends being dorks for the sake of being dorks).
46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors: Not yet. Hope to soon.
47. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild: Yeah - No.
48. Rode a horse: ABSOLUTELY
49. Had major surgery: Thankfully, not yet.
50. Loved your job for all accounts: Not the one I'm currently in, but in a prior job, yes.
51. Taken care of someone who was sh*t faced: Oh Yes.
52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied: Absolutely not.
53. Had amazing friends: Still do !
54. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (if fish count): ABSOLUTELY not.
55. Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt: Yup - and I'm still glad I did it.
56. Stolen a sign: Nope.
57. Backpacked in Europe: Nope.
58. Taken a road-trip: Sort of - CT to FLA or NJ to FLA
59. Rock climbing: Never done it before.
60. Selected one "important" author who you missed in school, and read: I've re-read a number of books I didn't appreciate in school.
61. Midnight walk on the beach: Nope.
62. Sky diving: EEK !
63. Changed your name: Not until the witness protection program gives me a new one ! ;0)
64. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love: Yup.
65. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them: Nope.
66. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language: Sort of.
67. Benchpressed your own weight: Nope.
68. Milked a cow: Nope.
69. Alphabetized your records: Not records, but CDs and DVDs - ABSOLUTELY.
70. Pretended to be a superhero: Every day !
71. Sung karaoke: EEK !
72. Lounged around in bed all day: Oh YEAH !
73. Posed nude in front of strangers: Nope.
74. Scuba diving: Not yet !
75. Got it on to "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye: Nope.
76. Kissed in the rain: Yup.
77. Played in the mud: Oh yeah !
78. Played in the rain: ABSOLUTELY !
79. Gone to a drive-in theater: Nope.
80. Done something you should regret, but don't regret it: Yup.
81. Parasailed: Nope.
82. Discovered that someone who's not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog: Thankfully, No.
83. Skipped all your school reunions: Haven't had any that I know of.
84. Started a business: Not yet.
85. Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them: No. But my parents are cleptos - does that count?
86. ...and gotten 86'ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you: Though they've never gotten busted.
87. Taken a martial arts class: Nope - but want to.
88. Swordfought for the honor of a woman: I should hope not.
89. Written your own computer language: Nope.
90. Gotten married: THANK GOD no ! Nearly made that mistake once !
91. Been in a movie: Nope.
92. Crashed a party: OH YEAH ! And what fun it was !
93. Loved someone you shouldn't have: Of course !
94. Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy: I don't think so....
95. Gotten divorced: Haven't had to yet.
96. Had sex at the office: If you've SEEN the people I work with (or have worked with in the past) you'd know why the answer is no.
97. Gone without food for 5 days: I could NEVER do that one !
98. Made cookies from scratch: All the time !
99. Won first prize in a costume contest: Never 1st - but 3rd !
100. Rode a gondola: Nope.
101. Gotten a tattoo: Yup. And am planning my next !
102. Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on: YES.
103. Rafted the Snake River: Nope.
104. Found out someone was going to dump you via Blogger: Nope.
105. Got flowers for no reason: LOVE that ! ! !
106. Masturbated in a public place: Nope.
107. Got so drunk you don't remember anything!: Uh (blushes) yeah....
108. Gone back to school: Yup.
109. Performed on stage: Yup.
110. Been to Las Vegas: HELL NO.
111. Recorded music: musically inclinde I am not..
112. Eaten shark: ABSOLUTELY NOT ! I'm far to big a fan of sharks to EVER hurt them let alone eat them ! ! ! ! !
113. Had a one-night stand: Nope.
114. Gotten someone fired for their actions: OH YEAH ! And what fun it was !
115. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about: Perhaps....
116. Bought a house: Sort of....
117. Been in a combat zone: Does my parent's house count?
118. Buried one/both of your parents: Not yet.
119. Shaved or waxed your pubic hair off: Nope.
120. Been on a cruise ship: Unfortunately.
121. Spoken more than one language fluently: Nope.
122. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone: Nope.
123. Bounced a check: Yup. Long ago.
124. Had your picture in the newspaper: Nope.
125. Read - and understood - your credit report: I'm too much of a chicken.
126. Raised children: Nope.
127. Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy: My friends and I are re-living our My Little Pony dorkdom ! WHEEEE ! ! !!
128. Eaten kangaroo meat: Um. No.
129. Been a sperm or egg donor: Nope.
130. Eaten sushi: Once - never again.
131. Found out something significant that your ancestors did: Nope.
132. Called or written your Congress person: Not recently...
133. Slept through an entire flight: Yup !
134. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours: Never.
135. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge: Nope.
136. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking: ALL THE TIME ! If anything, I sing LOUDER and in the DIRECTION of the new audience ! =0)
138. Had plastic surgery: Nope.
139. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived: Maybe?
140. Wrote articles for a large publication: Nope.
141. Lost over 100 pounds at one time: Nope.
142. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon: Not yet.
143. Piloted an airplane: Nope.
144. Petted a stingray: YEAH ! ! ! And fed em ! I love those slimey little critters ! ! ! !
145. Broken someone's heart: Most likely considering my track record.
146. Helped an animal give birth: Not yet.
147. Been fired or laid off from a job: Yup - laid off.
148. Won money on a T.V. game show: Nope.
149. Broken a bone: Only the one in my middle finger.
150. Had sex on a moving train: Have you SEEN the trains around here???? EEEEEWWWWW !

All The Happy Sadness....

Well.
I did it.
Yesterday I sucked up my courage, marched into my boss' office, and told him I was resigning.
The poor man was TOTALLY blindsided.
He did NOT see it coming at all.
You'd have thought that my desk being cleared of all personal items and looking uncharacteristically clean would've been a hint.
But no.
Anyway.
I began to get a little weepy and he, in his stunned state responded to my "I'm gonna start crying here" by saying "Well cry, then, dammit. Make me feel better."
He didn't get the least bit angry at me.
He even started getting weepy too !
I felt guilty as hell and I know he saw that.
He was supportive of my decision but sad for himself.

When I told Heifer, however, she was just like "whatever" and couldn't've cared less.

Yenta is VERY distraught.
I feel so bad that I have to leave her to the wolves.

All of my friends who know are happy for me but sulking because they feel bad for themselves.

The tough part is over now.
The next two weeks are all I have to get through now.
My boss won't be there my last day - which is good on a few levels.
#1 - I'll have time to visit my friends and say my goodbyes
#2 - He and I can say goodbye the day before and, though it'll be sad, I'll still have one more day
and so on and so forth.

WHEW !

So now it's over !
It's over and the next two weeks are going to be work but joyous seeing as how that's all there is left !

NOW I can really begin to get excited about my new job and new company !
SQUEEE ! ! ! !

The NERVE ! ! ! !

So.
I'll admit it .
I'm REALLY nervous.
Like, my stomach is in knots nervous.
Today is the day.
And I'm wondering WHEN I should do this - first thing, afternoon or last thing.
AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH ! ! ! ! !
I nearly did it last night when I was ready to leave because I had to stay late and it was just me and the boss man in the module.
But NO.
I'd planned to do it TODAY.
And so today it shall be.
Everyone things I shouldn't be scared or nervous because their attitude is "What do you have to lose? You're leaving. Fuck them !".
HOWEVER.
My company (or, should I say, soon to be former company) is one that can be equated to an abusive relationship. They shit all over you, mentally abuse you and then turn around and tell you you're the best thing going. Just when you get ready to tell them all where to go they make you feel guilty by being nice to you. The biggest "quality" they shove down your throat is loyalty. And leaving isn't a very "loyal" move, now is it?
TOUGH.
This is MY time and MY wonderful opportunity.
H said to be prepared for him to possibly try to counter offer me and fight to keep me.
Here' s the problem.
There is NO amount of money they could pay me to stay.
NONE.
The company is run by a giant, deranged child and I cannot be in that situation a moment longer.
*DEEP BREATH*
O.k.
Time to get ready to get outta here and go do the difficult !
Wish me luck !

The SQUEEING has yet to subside ! ! ! ! ! !

It's nearly "done"....
All that's left is tomorrow when I have to tell my boss that I'm leaving...
Something that made me laugh tonight was the response from my new boss to an e-mail I sent him letting him know I've accepted the position officially :

There's much cheering here amongst my staff (I've copied them on this message) as my calendar will soon be rescued by a competent professional!

We looking forward very much to have you join our team, and will try to have everything set up for your start date on March 7th.

Looking forward to our working together.

HOW COOL IS THAT?????
There have been hints in prior e-mails that this new boss man has a sense of humor...
And I think we've begun with a good rapport....
PLEASE let this work out and let this be the job and company I want to stay with and build my career at....
Considering my horoscope for today, I'm feeling pretty hopeful:

Horoscopes For Today: 2/17/2005
Guardian angels don't always show up in white robes, and they definitely don't always have wings. They tend to blend in with 'real' folks-otherwise, how would they get close enough to you to do their jobs? So when someone approaches you today with an offer that's absolutely everything you've been wanting and waiting for, don't bother pinching yourself. It's real. And you've certainly earned it. Have a friend check it over if you're still not sure.

Once I get tomorrow over with it will all be better....
I'm just scared to tell my boss that I'm leaving because I think he's going to be angry and try to make me feel guilty...
I just have to keep in mind:
SUCK IT UP GIRL !
There's light at the end of this dark tunnel - - - FINALLY !
=0)

Still SQUEEEEEEEE-ing ! ! ! ! !

It's really happening ! ! ! !
It's really real ! ! ! !
I HAVE A NEW JOB ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
YIPPEE ! ! ! !
I got the "official" "we want you and the job is yours if you want it" today and I am PSYCHED ! ! !
Once I get my paperwork I can give notice and my future boss understands that I NEED to do that this Friday to give sufficient notice.
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
LIFE ROCKS right now !
I am SOOO stoked and my whole POV is now changed for the better !
Though it's funny how I'm happier as a person but how at the same time my tolerance level is ZERO and I'm becoming more of a bitch to the people at work who piss me off.
2 more weeks.
I can do this.
Only 2 more weeks.
Then I get to go to a REAL company who takes CARE of their employees who will pay me a REAL paycheck and have a boss who ISN'T an asshole ! ! ! ! ! !
YIPPEE ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

How Much Longer?????

So...
It's been a whole 40 days, as of today, that I've been not biting my nails.
And sure I've had a lot of growth in those 40 days.
HOWEVER !
My nails are STILL not yet long enough to get a manicure !
There are only 2 nails on each hand that have grown past the skin of my fingers to date...
And so I continue to wait.
I thought that surely by now I'd have them grown longer than this !
UGH !
Funny how it works, eh?
I spend how many years biting them and then, when I decide to stop again, they can't grow fast enough for me !

All I Have To Say Is.....

SQUEEEEEEEE ! ! ! ! ! ! !

WHY? WHY? WHY?

Can someone please tell me why I remain "friends" with someone who's main goal seems to be to bring me down EVERY TIME she talks to me???
Someone who strives to pour salt in the wounds I have that she knows about?
Who is hellbent on hurting my feelings....
WHY???

Happy Valentine's Day Y'all !

Hope all y'all have a WONDERFUL Valentine's Day filled with love !

Day 827?

I don't even KNOW how long I've been working on that craft room now...but I'm STILL not done.
Before I was cookin' with oil and thinking it would be done 2 weeks ago...
But thanks to a busy schedule and lack of motivation, it's STILL yet to be completed. I've have 3, yes just 3, stripes left to do on on wall before I can start the molding that have been sitting there for a week now...
And a closet that needs to be striped...
And color "seams" that need to be fixed....
But NOOOOO...
I've been WAY too busy doing things like making homemade valentine's cards and baking valentine's cookies and painting SHEEP ! ! !
Last night one of J's friends came over....
Not my favorite guy....but I can tolerate him to an extent....
(the lack of tolerance is because I know something about him....and I'd like him if I didn't know this thing....)
ANYWAY !
J made me show him the room and he LOVED it and thought it was the greatest thing (which has been the reaction of a few people now which makes me happy to no end !)....
That reminds me !
One other thing I was busy doing rather than painting the craft room?
Buying fabric for the curtains in the craft room !
=0)
So this week is going to have to be all about motivation....
Motivation to, at a minimum, get those 3 fucking stripes done.
It kills me because rationally I know that would take me maybe an hour....
UGH !
MOTIVATION !
PLEASE COME VISIT ME ! ! ! ! !

Thanx Impossible Jane ! =0)

1. Judge:: Judy
   
2. Detroit:: Rock City
   
3. Hyphen:: Question Mark
   
4. Get it right:: The First Time
   
5. Pulsating:: Penis
   
6. Yoga:: Zone
   
7. Memorable:: Moment
   
8. Financial advisor:: What's that?
   
9. Ten million:: Lunatics
   
10. I:: Don't Want to Go to Work !
    

Yesterday....

So.
I went to the city yesterday....
Finally....
We didn't make it to the museum...
Which totally ticked me off....
But we DID go to Cafe Espanol...
Which was YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY ! ! ! !
We had to take a subway yesterday....
ICK !
Before yesterday I've been on a subway 2 times in all my life...
And the concept of going again scared me....
I don't believe I've been this scheeved out in a VERY long time, nor have I been so happy that I've packed Purrell hand wash....
Granted, after dinner I didn't really mind the subway....
I was a little too toasted to notice the germs or pushy people...
At the restaurant we had a number of pitchers of sangria....
Mom got a bit drunk as well...
Considering that when I came back from the bathroom she ordered me to go back to the bathroom because she was busy having a "chat" with J....
So I went back to the bathroom...
And when I tried coming back to the table again I was, again, told to not...
So I went out into the courtyard and called Jules & then Dan on my cell and babbled to them what was going on....
When I saw them go past the courtyard, I had to dart back inside because they, apparently, were leaving....
I think I may have been a "smidge" drunk myself...
Considering that I think my southern accent may have been in full swing...
Though it was hysterically funny, I must admit, to hear my mom telling everyone how it was her "baby's" birthday....
And listening to her speech about the day I was born....
LOL
Y'all have NO idea the insanity of my universe last night !
To compound things, J REFUSED to tell me what she was talking to him about that made it so I couldn't come back to the table....
So now it's Sunday and I have 2 dozen wooden sheep to paint and a craft room to work on as well...
Good thing I'm not sleeping in today !
=0)

So....

No work for me today...
Took the day off...
We'll see if it was worth it in about a week...
In the meantime, I have a happy hour with the girls tomorrow after work to look forward to...
And a possible happy hour stop in on Friday as well...
Tomorrow should be interesting...
H is going to tell us about her trip to Costa-fucking-Rica...
Me thinks she didn't have a "great" time...
The hookers and 3rd world country reality of that place kind of knocked her on her ass - - - more the hookers than the poverty, etc., I think, seeing as how she's mentioned them EVERY time I've talked to her, briefly, about her trip...
The poor girl...
Her eyes have been opened...
And now I'm sure she understands what, exactly, her man has been up to with his friends on their previous trips...
I'm sure I'll get the whole scoop tomorrow night...
I just worry so very much about her...

So Much For Random Acts of Kindness ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Ya know, this REALLY pisses me off that these girls were just trying to do something nice and this fucking nutbag lady SUES them ! ! ! ! !
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Gift of Cookies Crumbles; Girls Told to Pay $900

DURANGO, Colo. (Feb. 4) - A Colorado judge ordered two teen-age girls to pay about $900 for the distress a neighbor said they caused by giving her home-made cookies adorned with paper hearts.

The pair were ordered to pay $871.70 plus $39 in court costs after neighbor Wanita Renea Young, 49, filed a lawsuit complaining that the unsolicited cookies, left at her house after the girls knocked on her door, had triggered an anxiety attack that sent her to the hospital the next day.

Taylor Ostergaard, then 17, and Lindsey Jo Zellitte, 18, paid the judgment on Thursday after a small claims court ruling by La Plata County Court Judge Doug Walker, a court clerk said on Friday.

The girls baked cookies as a surprise for several of their rural Colorado neighbors on July 31 and dropped off small batches on their porches, accompanied by red or pink paper hearts and the message: "Have a great night."

The Denver Post newspaper reported on Friday that the girls had decided to stay home and bake the cookies rather than go to a dance where there might be cursing and drinking.

It reported that six neighbors wrote letters entered as evidence in the case thanking the girls for the cookies.

But Young said she was frightened because the two had knocked on her door at about 10:30 p.m. and run off after leaving the cookies.

She went to a hospital emergency room the next day, fearing that she had suffered a heart attack, court records said.

The judge awarded Young her medical costs, but did not award punitive damages. He said he did not think the girls had acted maliciously but that 10:30 was fairly late at night for them to be out.

Day 27...

Well, it's now officially been 27 days that I've not bitten my nails !
(does a little happy dance)
They're still not very long - then again, they were bitten down to almost nothing, so I guess the progress I've made is huge, but I was so hoping to have more grown by now.
So, to try to continue, and possibly help progress, the situation I've made myself a vat of jello to chow down on and determined that I will be applying nailtiques every day. Hopefully this will help get these nails longer and ready for the nail salon treatment ! ! !
=0)
What can I say? So I'm a little proud of myself right now. I've once again made a decision and stuck with it.
Now if only I could do that with exercising. I still say my physical limitations make my determination that much harder of a thing to attain. I mean, it is a bit discouraging when you get all revved up and then, after only one day of gym time you're hobbling around like you're 80 and you can hardly walk because your knees are swollen up and full of fluid.
Enough pity party !
This was to be a happy post !
And happy it shall be !
I STOPPED BITING MY NAILS AGAIN !
WHOO ! ! !
And I'm doing great with that !
Go me !
=0)

BIG YAWN ! ! !

O.k.
I'm WHOOPED and have been all day...
YET I'm still up ! ! !
My plan for when I got home tonight was simple:
1. Tape off stripes in the craft room
2. Paint some stripes in the craft room
3. Do some laundry
4. Make a gooey butter cake and peanut butter munchies
5. Work out

Yeah.
Not quite.

I did get some laundry done, and the gooey butter cake and the peanut butter munchies are cooling right now....that's about all I accomplished from my plan. Instead of doing the other two things I cleaned up the kitchen and living room and part of the bedroom and I made dinner and I've cleaned up my dinner making and baking messes and am running my 4th load of dishes in the dishwasher at the moment (I've been running them since I got home since I had dishes that had to be done and then I kept running loads as I cooked and baked and tried to stay on top of keeping the kitchen tidy).
I'm EXHAUSTED and should be crawling into bed right now...
My back is killing me and I'm having some girlie issues...
And I'm ready to keel over...
Yet HERE I AM ! Waiting for cookies to cool so I can put them into their little bag, watching my Tivoed Judge Judy and writing in my blog ! (oh, and hoping the load of laundry in the dryer will be done soon so I can throw the batch in the washer in there and be done with laundry for the day !)
VERY long and annoying day at work - someone other than me seemed to be paying their monthly bill and it was NOT pleasant !
At least tomorrow's Friday and then I'm free of bossyness on Tuesday afternoon and I'm off work on Wednesday of next week...there's something to look forward to !
I would LOVE it if I had this energy tomorrow night because then I wouldn't have to worry about having to go to bed so I can get up the next morning for work !
My luck would be that tomorrow night I'll be even MORE exhausted and I'll likely get nothing done.
So much for having my craft room finished by this weekend, huh?
Oh well.
Maybe I can get it all done by the end of Saturday so that I can start moving furniture in there on Sunday...that would be nice !

Down Hill...

That's where I see this going...
Which isn't great, let me tell you.

Trust

Trust...
It's an interesting thing with me...
Break it once and, so far as I'm concerned, repairing and regaining it is nearly impossible.
I guess I can thank my grandfather for my ability to hold a grudge (the only bad trait I think he ever passed along to some of his daughters and grandchildren).
But it's not necessairly about a grudge, is it?
It's that a person is showing you what they're capable of, a glimpse at their "soul" if you will.
In some cases, an indicator of how your feelings on a topic mean absolutely nothing.
The problem is this.
How can one gain the trust back? What would it take? What would do it?
How could that person re-prove themselves?
It's not enough to stay out of trouble.
It's about somehow being able to prove that you can be trusted in certain situations that you previously screwed up in.
I don't know.
It just really sucks to be the one who can't trust and is made to feel badly about it when you're not the one who did wrong in the first place....