Goodmorning, and Happy Halloween... little Ghouls and Gobblins. Today is your day to party, so dress up and party on! Or if you're just plain freaky as you are, don't dress up....just party down!! I still don't know what I'm gonna do tonight. It's raining out and damn cold.....I really don't fancy standing out there tonight freezing my ass off in my ghoul get-up. Not that I haven't in the past...been through rain, wind, even snow. We'll see....this has happened to me before. All day I'm dragging my feet about dressin up, then I change my mind, fly like a bat outta hell, get ready, and have a blast! Maybe I'll dig out my cape and stuff and see what happens. Dunno. The cool thing is that most people fix their places up kinda "cutsey", but I'm one of the few that scares em' a bit and the kids get a kick out of it. So do the parents, really. Guess I'll go dig out my costume. Maybe that will inspire me to bring out my "dark side" once again this year. So maybe if you're out and about tonight, and you hear the leaves rustling behind you, and you feel something staring at your back from out of the shadows, and you catcha glimps of a dark figure lurking about in the cold, dark nightness...don't be too afraid. It may just be me, with my plastic pumpkin filled with Reeses cups. Then again, it may not. Happy haunting!

Whooo Hooo! My Steelers slammed the Titans 34 to 7 on Monday Night Football! Beautiful!! Abso-freakin-lootly beautiful!! I love it!!

Well i am here to blogg and nothing to say.......i feel a bit lost and alone cept for my Karma.....glad to have you as my friend dear one.
I have to work all week until about 6 before i get home... hopefully we will find time to get together. I think i need the voice of reason or acceptance right about now......see you soon....just rambling so i am going in to bed... nitey nite

OK joking out of the way.. I am back.. and hope after this weekend i will recover from the jet lag... or is it just too much party? Hmmm both i guess. I am suppose to go out tomorrow nite to a party.....arghhhhhh....they are trying to kill me i think. Anyway my trip to the midwest was an enlightening experience. I always pictured sort of quiet backward farm people living there....My apology to each and every mid westerner. I would love to move there .........correction........I long for the time i can move there. The people there are so kind and nice. I am a yankee and talk too fast for them but hell i think i can drop the new york minute.. i hate rushing anyway. I worked 70 hours and partied just as many if not more....it was a chance for me to catch up on seven years of naught. LOL......it was fun... Karma you and I have to go on a road trip!!! I did get lost out there easily.. without the lake to help me judge which way is north i was easily lost. I visited Iowa on a regular basis...LOL. Council Bluffs i believe. They treated my like a lady... .. almost forgot i was one. I am sorry that you had to fly solo here for awhile but i will try to do better hon..... i will tell you about the corn maze tomorrow!!! Don't go in to the corn!!!!

hey Karma.......
the most wierd thing happened to me tonight.. i went to do my blankets at the laundry and guess what...? Hoover has a new tennis ball to play with.......freaky hm? Who said god doesnt give random gifts!!!!

Well it seems like our group blog has turned into a solo effort, with occasional special guests. So be it. It's all good. I'll just keep on keepin' on! I did the winter/summer clothes switching thing today. Hell I'm beat. Glad I can relax when I go back to work tomorrow.

There's something about this time of year, that seems to bring out the "darker" side of my personality. I have always been a night person...I love the darkness, the moon and stars, things that lurk in the shadows. And needless to say, this time of year plays right into my love of the dark and mysterious. Cloudy, breezy nights. A chill in the air, and the moon casting shadows under the black, leafless trees. Kind of mysterious and spooky..............I love it. Daytime just doesn't have the same draw for me. I love my nights. Part of me leans towards the dark side. Not too far though. Just to the edge. Went over the edge, long, long ago. I'll never go there again. Ever. Even though I'm a bright, sunny kinda person...ever the optimist...part of me will always be drawn to the darkness. This time of year just brings it to light.

It was a gorgeous fall day today, made even better by the fact that I'm on vacation. Love it! I slept in this morning till 11, and really did nothing worth while all day, except take our down comforter to the laundromat. Strange thing pertaining to doing laundry. I don't know about you, but stuff always disappears outta the dryer. I know this doesn't happen to me alone, as I have read about others experiencing the same shit. Well I'll be damned! It happens in the freakin' laundromat too! I put two tennis balls in the dryer with my comforter, (they beat the down while it dryes to fluff it), and only one came out!!! WTF???? Now how the hell do you loose a tennis ball in a dryer?? Leave it to me. Enter my world....shit like this happens. One would think I'd be used to it by now.

Gotta go check out zefrank. I discovered this wonderful site a few days ago, and I just can't stop going back! It's very interactive, and different from most of the sites around. This gentleman is very talented...indeed!

Well, Tricia is back from Omaha, (yeah, I finally remembered!), and man is she jazzed about her trip! I can't wait to meet her for coffee and learn all the juicy details. Hmmmmm. Wonder if she'll share a bit with all of us? C'mon girl.....spill it!

It's finally happened. The 70's have caught up with me. My brain is turning to shit. Despite what has happened.......I remain oddly calm.

Wow, this is bad. Tricia went away for the week..........and I can't remember where she went. Shit.

Well, as of today, I'm steering clear of fast food establishments. It's not that I don't love fast food, casuse I do. But some cosmic influences are causing me to have bad experiences, almost every time I try to get a freakin order of fries or a burger. Consider my experiences in the past....go to Arbys, order roast beef sandwhich with horsey sauce on the side. Pay and pick up order, pull away approx. 15 feet or so to check bag. I discover that there's no sauce in bag and decide to back up to the window to ask for sauce. Backing up was my first major mistake. While watching the big yellow cement pillar hickeys in my rear view, I slam into the friggin metal counter with a loud crash, taking out my left tail light. Holy shit! Well like a good person, I glance into the window, nobody there.....bolt like a bat outta hell! I knew I didn't do any damage to the counter, so I figured since I was the "damaged party" I would just haul my embaressed ass outta there. Tuesday, I head to Wendys for lunch. (figured I'd avoid Arbys) I order, drive up to the window and hand the chickie a $10. Well, blondie let go of the bill and it goes flying up in the air and all over the parking lot. Now I can't just jump out of the Jeepster as I'm wearing a dress, and leaping over the shifter and out the side door was not an option. And I can't get out the drivers door, as I'm about 7 inches from her window. Patrons behind me are just sitting there, blondie is screaming, "it's on top of your Jeep", and flailing her arms. All this and I have to be back to work in like, ummm, 10 minutes ago. Well, this Wendys employee fellow pops out the side door to give another patron their dinner, and I jumped on the oppourtunity. "Hey, you there, my money....grab it" I yell at him, pointing to my ten spot doing another fly-by over-head. To make a long story short, he grabbed the bill for me, after a few acrobatic moves in the parking lot, and saved the day. I got back to work late, but the boss found my story amusing. (I'm sure he'll use the word amusing in my "write up".) Okay, on to Wednesday. I buzz by McDonalds just to grab one of their salad shakers...no biggie, right?? Yeah. Do the usual, pay, pick up order, leave. I get over to work, open the bag, and the asshole gave me the wrong salad! I paid for the more expensive one and he gave me the garden salad. And no dressing to boot! Well, I'm starved and I have no time to run back over and correct the mistake,( boss wouldn't have found this story amusing....nah) so I ate it while fuming. So you see, I have tried to eat at many different fast food places, but the results are always the same for me.......bad karma. (no pun intended) So today I pulled out my insulated lunch bag, filled it full of goodies, and no drive thru window will I see. Of course, I haven't tried just going in and ordering....maybe I'd have better luck.......nah.

Not much going on in the ole cranium at the moment. Glad to have one lengthy day at "the grind" over with, one more to go, then all downhill from there. I put in for two vacation days next week. That will give me a nice five day stretch to do as I please......can you say..... be lazy?!! The boss better not even give me any grief about it either, as I haven't taken any days since July and the morons I work with take days off like, every other week. I swear no one keeps track of their vacation days. Anyway, I'm looking forward to a nice stretch of "I'm gonna sleep in and do whatever the hell I wanna do"! Amen and goodnight!

Man I'll tell ya, Mother Nature does not piss around when she changes the seasons around here. At least when we go from summer to winter. Yeah, fall lasts about a week at best here. We don't mess around....a few leaves hit the ground, then BAM, snow! In fact we had a bit of snow last Sunday, not much, perhaps a 1/4 inch or so before it melted. Enough to get my ass in gear on Monday, and put all the patio and lawn stuff away. I remember a few years back when my son and I trick-or-treated in a flippin' blizzard! We raked in the candy though.....everyone felt sorry for us, and only 3 or 4 other people were out, besides us. Man, I was in chocolate heaven for a month! Well worth the frostbite. *Kidding!* Well, those winter winds came howling tonight..........and the temp. dropped like a rock. We have a joke here in the "snow-belt". We have two seasons...winter and waiting for winter. So, on that note, got my winter coat washed, gloves ready, boots lined up...............let er rip!

I think I have a great way to bring all this terrorism to a quick and casualty-free end. Crate up all the clowns I work with, air lift 'em over to Afghanistan, drop the idiots in the hills, wait a day or two, and watch the freakin' terriorists come a runnin'! No shit, these people could test the nerves of even the most hard core lunatics. I know, because I live through their twisted little, mind blowing antics every freakin' work day of the year. And I have the mental and digestive scars to show for it. No lie. I have a manager, who not only looks like, but manages like Hitler. Then there's the fella that farts every 5 freakin' minutes, then giggles & giggles; there's the neurotic socialite-wannabe, who imagines herself to have every illness known to man or is on the verge of getting one. After drinking green tea one afternoon, I told her that the side-effect would be that her skin would have a green tint for 24 hours. She spent the whole day showing everyone in the store her slowly "greening" limbs. Nut case. I got an ulcer because of this bitch. Now we come to the chick that is so strung out on "whatever", that all she does is sleep all day, or when she is awake, and I use that term loosly, her eyes are half shut. She smokes, takes a 2 hour lunch, crashes out, the goes home. She hasn't been to work in like a month......heard she and a few friends got sloshed and rear-ended a parked car. Oopsie! Can you say DUI?? Ok, where was I? Another gentleman (or lack there of) I work with is referred to as "super perv". Gawks at young babes all day, making lewd remarks, etc. You get the picture. Every womans dream guy. Ugh. New guy is a stutterer. Now I know that he can't control this affliction, and his stuttering is not the main source of aggrivation. Fact is, he's a hyper stutterer. Shit, there's nohing like having someone running aroung like they're strung out on coke, while trying to talk to you and they freakin stutter. We also have "bitch and moan". All this guy does, 24/7 is complain about everything! He makes up shit if theres nothing to bitch about. Hates his job, the wife, the traffic, on and on and on. To make a long story bearable, we also have: the manic depressant, the office slut/ valley girl (ya know), a fella from the "hood" who sings "My Girl" all damn day, and a host of other amusing oddities that I call co-workers. So you see, I believe I have the perfect arsenol right here at my disposal. Free of charge, I can have em ready to go in a moments notice. Toss a few snacks in the crate, a case of beer or two, a blow up doll for perv boy, and they'd be filing in there pronto. A few nails, a one way ticket.....see ya!! There's plenty of room in the crate, so if anyone has a co-worker or two to contribute, bring em on. The more the merrier. When in doubt....send in the clowns! (can you tell it was a long day??)

Well my cover is blown.. now everyone knows who to blame for their gateway problems.......I am sorry Karma that I have not come by.. truth is I have been painting.. ceilings no less. So glad walmart is near.. keep running out of paint. Who ever invented open concept living didnt have to paint ceilings. I am busy packing for my trip.. had to wash everything first... sure hope its more fun than work.. as i am packing all my fun clothes.. lol While i am in Omaha I thought I would look for the bunker that Bush went into and try to get a pic....before they arrest me for getting too close. Well i promised i would blogg and will try when i am out of town.. but dont promise that one. See you all in a week.. bye.

I ran into tricia the other day, and after she appologized for the lack of posts, she explained that she is going to Omaha for a week. She works for Gateway, and they are sending her there for training. Training sucks, getaway for a week....priceless! Enjoy. I still think it's a lame excuse for not stopping in and at least saying Hi. I mean, how busy are you? Do you have to build the friggin' plane you're taking, or what?? Are you painting the house before you go?? What!!?? I'm brutal, I know, but I love ya! *wink*

Well, I'm feeling a bit better than I was on Wednesday. Hell, I felt like I was gonna die or something. I seem have a problem where health issues are concerned....like I don't deal with them very well. In fact, I don't deal with them at all. I find myself at this stage somewhere between I'm young and nuthins' gonna happen to me, and, oh shit...everythings wrong with me. Usually I just try not to dwell on the little things. All of us have our aches and pains and such.......nothing that a bit of ibuprophen (or vicodin) can't smooth over. But then at times, like after I see enuff cancer and heart disease ads and stories, I'm like "oh my God, maybe I have that shit!!" So you see, I can swing from let's pop a Tylenol... to call the mortician, quick.....in a heartbeat. Most of the time I just try to stay in a comfortable state of medical denial. I'll probably regret it someday. Anyway, for now, I am feeling better. Better living thru chemicals, indeed.

Sorry 'bout lack of posts. Past couple of days I've been feeling like garbage....headaches, fatigue, eyes bugging me (I need glasses bad!) Anyway, I think I need to re-group here, and start taking better care of myself. This mid-life bullshit is for the birds, I'll tell ya!

"If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, did it really make a sound?" Hmmmm. Nuff said.

Today is one of those picture perfect fall days.........crystal clear, robins egg blue skies; foliage ablaze in reds, oranges and yellows. The air is crisp, but not cold. Love this shit! I went to "The Wal" yesterday, and bought our pumpkin and a pretty wreath of silk flowers for the door. Looks very nice indeed. I love our pumpkin...kinda lop-sided with a few dents here and there (kinda like me!) I never go for the perfect ones...they always get chosen. I think this obsession to always pick things that are a bit different from the "norm" stems from school...I never got picked to be on the teams for dodge- ball, etc. Like the last choice. Ugh. So I always feel sorry for the underdogs, so to speak. Anyway, I'm headed out into this wonderful day, to get a few things done in the yard and enjoy a bit of sunshine while I'm at it. Man I could go for a slice of pumpkin pie right about now. Yummm!

I just figured out today, that I am a "lazy ass" with good intentions. When I'm at work, and everyone is talking about our upcoming days off .....I'm just as into the "gotta get shit done around the house" as they are. Oh yeah! I need to clean up the yard, straighten up the house, wash the dog, bla, bla, bla. Then I get to those wonderful days off, and suddenly my resolve to conquer the dust bunnies wanes. Hell, it goes right out the damn window, into the yard that is waiting to be tended to. Now don't get me wrong, it's not like I get home for a few days and don't do anything. Oh, I saunter around and do a bit of this, and a bit of that. Wipe up here, sweep there. But those visions of "Martha-dom" elude me. Ok...I think the washer stopped. Screw it. It'll wait. I wonder what new sites I can find tonight?

It looks like I'm in a big snowglobe........it's snowing like a bitch outside. Big, big flakes. And it's laying......yikes!!!

It's Sunday morning, and it doesn't get any better than this. Saw Hubbs and Ron (my brother-in-law) off a bit ago. Heading down to "The Burgh"....Ron going home and Hubbs staying the night as he has business down there tomorrow. So here I am, enjoying a day of "me time". Nice. Actually I have three days off, but I have plenty to do around this place. Gotta get my ass outside and "winterize," as Mother Nature doesn't seem like she's foolin' around this year. Damn it's cold, and those dark, winter clouds are just zooming along overhead. So wether my patio furniture is put away or not....winter is on it's way! Around here, it's either Winter or waiting for Winter. Lovely to live in the "snow-belt". Well, I popped a few cd's in our new stereo a bit ago, and I must admit it sounds really nice! Our old stereo didn't have a cd player, so I either had to listen to my cd's in the Jeep or my sons room. Not very convenient. Anyway, I feel like a kid at Christmas with my new "toy". And I am gonna enjoy my day today......just me, a few cd's and a hot mug of Orange Spice tea. Yummm.

Celebrate Halloween? Need a Platinum card!

Is it me, or has Halloween turned into a major retail bonanza over the last few years?! When I was a kid, we dressed up and went around to houses that had the paper cut-outs in the windows, and a nicely carved and illuminated pumpkin outside the front door. Today, it's a real "keep up with the Jonse's," full blown, animated, illuminated gobblin bonanza, that starts in September! I've seen trailing lights, flashing ghosts of all shapes and sizes, whole front yards that look like a cemetery, fog machines, well you get the picture. Now I am in no way knocking these creative folks. Hey, if you want to bust your ass to hang up all this stuff, more power to ya! All I'm saying is that it has gotten so commercialized...just like Christmas. I live out in the sticks...no street lights, tar chip roads through the woods, spooky any night of the year. Halloween night it's double spooky. I personally think that all this "Vegas style" Halloween decor takes away from the best fright doctor of them all...one's imagination. Imagination is free. For everything else....there's MasterCard.

Need someone to "kick your ass?" Look no further!

Never ceases to amaze me, the bizarre and twisted things that pop up on the web. While checking out Backwash , it amused me that I could bid on a "good ass-kickin"! I don't even know how to comment on this one. (And NO the bid on there is not mine!!) Hell, I get my ass kicked everyday for free. It's called a job.

I am so jazzed! I bought a new stereo system yesterday.......a purchase that I feel has been long overdue. This one was advertised in the Sunday paper, at a store where I get my employee discount. I checked it out: 500 watts, 3 cd changer (that's all
we need), surround sound speakers, remote, all the fancy bells and whistles. Well by the time it was all said and done, I paid little more than the cost of small boombox for this sucker! I am a bargain hunter! Love it. My son has it temporarily hooked up for me. W e have to remove the old one from its area, dust a bit, then wire this one up properly. But you know how guys are. Just gotta get it hooked up and hear how it sounds. Duh, sounds like a radio. *smirk* I officially haven't heard it "cranked" yet, but hell, anything will be an improvement over the 20 year old fossil we had!

Just a lil' bitty post tonite. My brain is totally "anti-blog" at the moment. For some reason, the movie title "Fried Green Tomatoes" applies to me right at this moment Nite..

Well, as of tonight, I've asked Baby Girl to be my coding "support person." You know, like in AA, if an ex- drinker feels the need to go out and have a few, they call their support person to talk them out of it? Well, Baby girl is the person I'm gonna call if I ever feel like pissing with the coding on my sites again! No shit...I tried to add some stuff, ended up screwing the whole thing to hell and back, and then had to take 2 hours to get it all to look just as it did in the first freakin' place. Damn it. *shakes head in disgust* So from now on, any time I feel the need to be "little miss freak around in the template area", I'm gonna call Baby, and she's gonna yell, '"do not touch the coding...just step away from the computer." Bless you Baby. Keep the pager on 24/7. Thanx!

Full moon? I sure hope so that would mean that all of today will end and the morning it will be all better. I am a single parent that happens to be married. Shiit sometimes life isn't fair.. Son woke today claiming he was ill... ok mad dash at the last moment to find a sitter... I find one that can stay for an hour... calling again... find another that can stay for two hours... ok.. well hell at least I can get to work.. driving a car pool sucks!! I leave 20 minutes late and hit every tractor in the entire farming community. Ok now in town and all the red lights.....arghhh. Pick up the people I need..who are also running late.. all of us on edge.. I have to stop and get a card for the office to sign.. death of a grandmother of a co-worker...for a brief moment daydreamed of that peaceful sleep.......I did snap out of it in time to follow a city bus.....choke, cough, oh pewww -- the rest of the way to work. Today was moving day. They moved our office, which means out of the 100 pc's lucky if 30 are working. Of course the first two I try don't work. Finding my groove and a pc that works now and settle in. I feel a shadow looming over me... I look up to see a new trainee standing eagerly beside me...shiit. This is what I need today. He introduces himself.. a rather nicely built man....but not sure what his face looks like. He never raised his head above my bust line.......After a few hours they come and tell me that due to my sons illness i can go home! Happy to go home until i see son is up and running around.......hes not sick!!!! Load his lil butt up and drive him to school.....home again and its only 1p.m. My sister calls and she is having the dog put to sleep.. oh man..............i should have stayed in bed. I won't even go into the frogs escaping in my kitchen........arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Full moon indeed.

I am one happy girl! Hubbs installed a new hard drive and memory card for me today.....I am freakin' flying now baby! Shit this is great! I had the slowest pc in the house, as I had literally no room left on my hard drive. Thanx honey.......this is super! Now the "bride of frankenstein" is right up there with the big boys. *smiles*

It's late and I need sleep....but feel the need to announce my dahhhhh here. I found our homepage......LOL...........so freakin stupid sometimes......so now I can read your comments Karma.........lol so sorry........nitey nite now.