Well the pschological barrier that VanCan is really not that far away... it's just as close to Portland. After a mid-week invite to visit some friends we drove up. It took all of 4 hours including crossing the boarder and several traffic jams.
Coming home same amount of time.
And now I just need to get my voice back.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Catching up...
So yeah been a wee bit quite. Not much in the fabulousness part of the curve right now. Today I went to the garden nursery. Um yeah I spent a wee bit - In reality I should buy the plants (herbs & strawberries) after I get the garden bed up and running. But no I do it the other way. Go me. Granted now I need to find all my garden tools and then get the Mr. to help me sharpen them. They've been in storage for at least a year. Key word is find them.
In other ramblings - I had to get pissy with a school administrator about my name. I'm volunteering to teach a 6 week science session at one of the local elementry schools. It's a session on gliders and trebucets. Part of it all is getting fingerprinted - in filling out the form I was very careful to fill my new and maiden names out correctly. The admin flubbed it up and then argued with me on what my name is. I finally argued my point that if she puts it in wrong I could very likely be rejected because that is not me and not connected to any form of ID I carry. Oddest part about protecting the kidlings - they take my fingerprints but did not verify my ID. Maybe they thought since I'm doing this through work ... anyway - LOOPHOLE!
This weekend - gardening and some travel to VanCan.
In other ramblings - I had to get pissy with a school administrator about my name. I'm volunteering to teach a 6 week science session at one of the local elementry schools. It's a session on gliders and trebucets. Part of it all is getting fingerprinted - in filling out the form I was very careful to fill my new and maiden names out correctly. The admin flubbed it up and then argued with me on what my name is. I finally argued my point that if she puts it in wrong I could very likely be rejected because that is not me and not connected to any form of ID I carry. Oddest part about protecting the kidlings - they take my fingerprints but did not verify my ID. Maybe they thought since I'm doing this through work ... anyway - LOOPHOLE!
This weekend - gardening and some travel to VanCan.
Friday, April 11, 2008
I used *THAT* voice today
You know that one - the one used to calm down irrational and emotional people. I obviously can't go into the details but after the conference call three people on the call all commented on my handling of it today. Not including the several people around me who hadn't heard that voice before.
It's a voice I don't usually bring up - but it's a very effective tool I know how to use and am not afraid to use it.
It's a voice I don't usually bring up - but it's a very effective tool I know how to use and am not afraid to use it.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Circle of Life
Is sad.
Let me back up. One of the shows Tivo records for us on its own is Meerkat Manor. Tonight while killing time I happened watch one that had the dominate female die from a snake bite.
Come on. Way to make me go weepy. I don't get why they Anthropomorphize cute cuddly animals in the wild. Life happens. They have babies, sex and die. It's all pretty formulaic. And this is geared at little kids?
But yeah - Meerkats are kinda cute.
Let me back up. One of the shows Tivo records for us on its own is Meerkat Manor. Tonight while killing time I happened watch one that had the dominate female die from a snake bite.
Come on. Way to make me go weepy. I don't get why they Anthropomorphize cute cuddly animals in the wild. Life happens. They have babies, sex and die. It's all pretty formulaic. And this is geared at little kids?
But yeah - Meerkats are kinda cute.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Cranky RHCD
So this morning I woke up around 3:45 AM to the lovely sounds of the Mr. snoring - loudly and on my side. Not to happy I trudged into the bathroom grabbed a drink of water and then headed back to bed. Still snoring I crawled in bed next to him. Did the shoulder "tap" that became a shove for him to sleep on his stomach where the snoring stopped. Satisfied I cuddled up under my covers to attempt to fall asleep. After 15ish minutes I moved which caused the Mr. roll back onto his side. And then the snoring began again.
Frustrated I grabbed my blanket and pillow and tried to fall asleep out on the couch. Damn it's bright out in the front room with the street lights. I did finally get back to sleep around 4:40ish.
At 5:30 the alarm went off - see I was supposed to get up so I could head up to the North facility for my all day meeting. During rush hour it's about a 1.5 hour drive or more each way. My meeting was at 8:30 am. Yes I slept past that alarm on purpose and I made it to the facility but not the conference room on time. It took me 25 minutes to walk to the building and finding my conference room (including climbing 4 flights of stairs while carrying my laptop bag - not fun). Thankfully I wasn't first and it's one of those working meetings so being on time wasn't the most important thing.
As for the meeting - bleh. It wasn't fun at all, one of those hashing through point after point.
Leaving and heading home I was noticing I was still pretty cranky. It didn't help sitting in traffic. By the time I got home I had realized: that the Mr. was in now way shape or form responsible for my less than friendly mood. I realized I was in total PMS mode.
Aren't we all lucky!
Frustrated I grabbed my blanket and pillow and tried to fall asleep out on the couch. Damn it's bright out in the front room with the street lights. I did finally get back to sleep around 4:40ish.
At 5:30 the alarm went off - see I was supposed to get up so I could head up to the North facility for my all day meeting. During rush hour it's about a 1.5 hour drive or more each way. My meeting was at 8:30 am. Yes I slept past that alarm on purpose and I made it to the facility but not the conference room on time. It took me 25 minutes to walk to the building and finding my conference room (including climbing 4 flights of stairs while carrying my laptop bag - not fun). Thankfully I wasn't first and it's one of those working meetings so being on time wasn't the most important thing.
As for the meeting - bleh. It wasn't fun at all, one of those hashing through point after point.
Leaving and heading home I was noticing I was still pretty cranky. It didn't help sitting in traffic. By the time I got home I had realized: that the Mr. was in now way shape or form responsible for my less than friendly mood. I realized I was in total PMS mode.
Aren't we all lucky!
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