Even though we still have 25 minutes to go (here in the East anyway)..............I want to wish everyone a very Happy, Healthy New year! Happy 2002!

I had log-in problems for awhile here, as did all blogger users. But all is a-okay now! Just wanted to stop in and say I'm still alive, I had a wonderful Christmas, and I'll be updating soon. Just taking a "blog break" for a couple days. Happy Holidays everyone! Peace.

Well kids, "Mother Christmas" has just about wrapped things up. *no pun intended* The afternoon drive home from work didn't start out that well. In fact it didn't start at all....my car that is. I got in, turned the key, and.........nothing, nada, silence. Damn. So I went inside and asked if any of my co-workers had cables and one of the guys did, so he came out to help me. Well, while he was hooking up the jumpers, I noticed that if he wiggled the left cable, my lights flickered on, then off. He figured out that it wasn't a dead battery, *phew*, but a loose terminal wire. So he tightened it for me, I thanked him, and I was on my way. Thank-you Jeff! I picked up a few things for our Christmas dinner at Wal Mart, (and a set of cables for my car!!), and I was on my way home. I baked a few dozen cookies and finished wrapping our gifts, then gave Nick a hair cut and well....here I am. Gonna shower and hit the sheets in a bit, as I have to work tomorrow, but luckily not till 1.
Earlier tonight, Hubbs kept asking me, "Now what was it you wanted for Christmas"? I really hope this man is kidding with me. Either that, or he's a bloomin' fruitcake. What is it with guys and this last minute shit? Oh well, I'm sure as hell not gonna try to figure that one out. He better be playin' games here. If he isn't, then he can stand in line tomorrow with all his male counterparts, who think that shopping at the last minute and getting all the crumpled left-overs is a way cool ritual of some sort. "High five" guys.....shop on. Sheesh. Peace.

Shit, I gotta go back to work tomorrow to rest my weary bones. These past three days off have just about worn me out! I've done laundry, wrapped dozens of gifts, detailed the interior of my new ride, scrubbed the carpets in the Jeepster, ran the sweeper in the house, ran the sweeper in the Jeepster, rode down to the 'Burgh with Hubbs to pick up his car, drove back home, picked up a few last minute gifts, ironed clothes, did my nails for work........well, you get the picture. Freakin' busy. Never did get to the cookies. That happens on Friday after work. One thing that did help elievate my stress, was my sis-in-law ok'd us visiting with them on Christmas eve day instead of Christmas. This frees us up to come home on X-mas eve, and enjopy a nice lazy holiday at home.......before back to the "shit pit" on Wednesday. Jr. is all happy too.... now he can see Amanda on Christmas Day. Yeah...everyone is happy!! Now on to the pit tomorrow........ugh. And to all a goodnight! Peace.

I guess we're gonna use the guestbook for comments for awhile..........at least untill I can find another alternitive. Maybe Reblogger will be up and runnin' again soon. *fingers crossed*

I swear this place is haunted. Soon as I ranted about the large print, and posted my comment, it went back to normal size. I didn't do a thing. Freaky.

As usual, I'm outta control again on the web page stuff. Where the hell this huge type shit came from is beyond me. I know my eyesight isn't what it used to be, but damn this is ridiculous...... I can read it from across the room! I hope to have this resolved in a couple of days. If not, just sit back a bit as you read.

Car update: Hubbs brought my new ride back from the 'Burgh on Friday, and I just love it!! It's a pretty champagne color, with lots of chrome and a very luxurious interior. She has a few minor dings on her, but hey, she's 11 years old! I have a few dings on me too....you're gonna get "dings" if you're doin' life right! Right out in front and center. So I cleaned her up a bit today, and took my things out of the Jeep, and put them into my new baby. Now it feels like mine. I went out last night and bought some new mats for the front and a neat plate for the front bumper that says "Here comes trouble". Need I say more? Nah. Anyway, I think my new ride and I are gonna have a good time together. Snow will be the real test though. Should be fine with front wheel drive. All the cars I've had before with front wheel drive, just plowed through the snow with no problem. Hubbs and I have to drive down to the 'Burgh in the morning............he's picking up his car, and going on to do his work, and I'm heading back home to do Christmas stuff. Wrapping, baking, etc. I only have today and tomorrow to finish up, but as always, it gets done! Well, gotta hit the sheets.....have to be up early, ugh! Nite!

Thanks to Backwash, I found another hilarious site! How To Drive Like A Moron is sure to bring any driver a good laugh and even some nods in agreement!

I almost peed my pants reading this one!! Anyone that deals with "Joe Public" in retail is gonna love reading Dear customer...Drop Dead!

Well it seems we lost our comments. Great, just another thing for the "cyber-screwed" to have to figure out. Shit.

The retail gods just gotta love me. I either need to buy stock in Express or Gabriel Bros. or both. I was over at Gabes again today, and I got more great stuff....a couple pieces of jewelry and two beautiful scarves aka Stevie Nicks. Cool shit indeed.

Well, oh, well. I got all our holiday shopping done today.
Stress free to boot. Trick of it is to go on a weekday if possible........man what a difference from the freakin' weekends.
Now all I have to do is wrap them, pick up a few small odds and ends, and voila', Mother Christmas is done. (I call myself Mother Christmas. Like Mother Nature...If I don't make it happen, it ain't happenin', dig?)
Well, all except for a bit of baking I still have yet to do, but nothing major there. Whip up a few sugar cookies and all is well in "let's have an anti Martha Stewart kinda Christmas" land. Life is good.

"Don't walk in front of me,
I might not follow.
Don't walk behind me,
I may not lead.
Just walk beside me,
and be my friend." ('Nuff said.)

-author unknown-

Hey Karma.. i am here but compared to your life goings on....it's a waste of posting space. Got my test back though and it was negative.......guess i will be around a bit longer. Sigh* Sounds like i might be getting jewelry for xmas......LOL That was too cool a deal..why would you need credit cards when you got the hook up? take care.....nitey night

New meaning to "Express Lane"

Oh my God...........shopping nirvana!! I went over to Gabriels on my lunch hour today to return a top. Well low and behold, a sign that read, all Express jewelry $.99!!! WTF! Well, needless to say, I went ape-shit! I ended up with 20 pieces of awesome jewelry. I spent $20.00, but the regular retail added up to over $400.00!! Man deals like this make me too friggin' giddy! Indeed.

I am technologically frustrated tonight. Ya see, I'm a creative person. Give me a sketch pad and a pen, and I'll zip off a drawing in a heartbeat. Hand me a tablet and a pencil, and I'll write you a poem. Show me a house and I'll decorate it to the nines. But let me try to put together a web page, and I'm lost in cyber hell! God, must it be so freakin' complicated??! I wanna put some graphics on this blog page, but I don't have a place to store my graphics. When I do get a site for them, I can't figure out how to get them here. I have a site that I can't ftp my blog page to, and I have a site that I can ftp to, but I can't figure that shit out either!! Damn it. Now I'm not a stupid person, but trying to figure this shit out is like a damn rubics cube for me. I make a bit of headway in one area, only to be screwed in another. What anal, monkey minded, dip shit invented all this complicated bullshit? Now I know there are people out there who are gonna say, " It's really not all that hard", yada, yada, yada. Bite me. When you're trying to figure this all out yourself, with little or no background in this shit....it is hard. I know there gotta be others like me..............the cyber fucked. We're the ones with the pages with errors out the ass, and shit going on that we don't even remember doing. Our pages are bland, cause we can't figure out how to access the hundred freakin graphics we have. Yeah we have em, you just can't see em. God I'm pissed here.

I'll have a non-platinum Christmas without you.........

I miss my credit cards. *sigh* I've been credit card free for about 6 months now, and it's not been that bad up untill now. This is the time of year when I really had a field day with the old plastic, and getting used to a "cash only" Christmas is a bit hard to adapt to. But I'm doing it. *another sigh* See before, if I saw it and wanted it, I got it. Now, I really have to make sure I have the moolah for it, which kinda puts a small damper on my spending spree. Gotta fit into the budget. *rolls eyes* I hate the word budget............so restricting, considering I'm not filthy rich. But I gotta do this for my own good. Being debt free does feel good, I must admit, but this time of year is a real test for me. I feel like a recovering alchoholic sitting at Frat party. Just Pepsi for me. *sigh*

Totally crazy day at the "grind". The bosses are getting more moronic with each passing day. The only thing that salvaged my afternoon was a nice $3,800.00 sale right before I left. *grin*

Well, hopefully I will be heading down to the 'Burgh next week to pick up my new Winter ride. It's a gold 1990 New Yorker......hubby says it's a pretty car. I can't wait to get it! I'll miss my Jeepster though......she got me through many rough winters, and has been a very reliable ride for the past 5 years. Oh well, gotta move on. Hubbs asked me what I want for Christmas, and I said I'd love a remote starter for the car. I hate getting out of work late, and having to trudge through the snow to start my vehicle. And around my house, my car is always the one parked out in the weather, as I get home after everyone else does, so I get the suck-ass parking spot. I need this remote starter.....bad! I should get it, as I've been very good this year!! Like a fine wine, I get better with age................whooo!

well talked to my supervisor today about the incident..he all but called me stupid. He told lies of the other supervisors.. making me write his fat ass up........now it will go to the big boss..........we shall see if i am still employed for christmas....not sure how i want that to go......lol. You know Karma my supervisor lives not a mile from us...........................think that over...........help a bud out... i need someone to stand look out.........

falalalala......snow.........STOP IT RIGHT NOW!!!!!

I'll tell ya, no matter how wonderful this streak of warm weather has been, it feel pretty strange as we get closer to Christmas. I feel like I'm down in the South somewhere. I have the decorating pretty much wrapped up, some shopping done, and I'll be writing out the cards this weekend. But something is amiss without the snow. I dunno, just feels strange to me without it. And it's not just the lack of snow. It's friggin' too warm out for this time of year! The good thing is, that at least this year, I got the lights put up without a blizzard swirling around me, and my neighbors watching from their windows in amusment as I cursed the tangled wires and burned out bulbs, and stapled my glove to the window sill. Ah, fond memories indeed. Anyway, things are rolling around pretty well in holiday prep land. Now, all I need is a sprinkling of snow and some major hints from a few people on my gift list. Fa la la la la la la la la!

Today has been a day much like the rest. The rat race is in full swing and i believe i have cheese in my pockets. Everyone is after me. To be alone for ten minutes was all i wanted. On the ride home i stop in a parking lot and shut down for ten minutes.. damn thats sad when you cant find a quiet corner to call your own. Feel sorry for me yet? I think i can still be adopted... one800lifesucks. $1.95 per minute. Girls gotta eat you know? just wanted to post something.. nothing really going on in my life .. playing phone tag with the doctors this week to get results.. think they just want to stress me out so they can doctor me for stress!!! later Krazy

Today as I was leaving work, I told the woman that drove on the "ride from hell" yesterday, that I was getting her a Guardian Angel visor clip to protect her when she drives. She turns to me and says, "Why that's so thoughtful of you, you're always so sweet". Shit, she really thinks she's a good driver. Either that, or my smart-ass skills need honing. Hmmmmmm.

Note to self: never, ever, never ever, ride with any co-workers, to any meetings, anywhere, ever. Period. Today was the second time that I had near death experiences while riding with a co-worker to an out-of-state meeting. Two times, two crazy ass freakin' drivers. Not good crazy....suck ass, nail biting, feet pressed to the floor board, praying to God crazy! I should have known I was in trouble when we got into the car, and she drove with her chest against the wheel. We merged onto the interstate (merging is a whole nuther story), and thats where it all goes awry. Speed limit in the highway is 65, so most are driving around 70 or so. Well not us. We Couldn't just maintain one speed. Hell no....we like variety here, so lets just try out all the speeds. In fact, we'll alternate like every 20 seconds or so. So lets go 55, then up to 70, drop down to 50 for a bit, then speed up to 65 only to drop down to 55 cause a truck ahead of us is creeping along. Now we could pass him, as there's no one in the passing lane. For miles. But no, we'll follow him for a bit. Just chat and enjoy the scenery. Then we get a brain-storm like, "Oh yeah, we do have to be at that meeting by Noon, huh?, hit the gas, and launch ahead like freakin' rocket. Well this went on for a 'bout an hour and a half or so. Anyway to make a long story short, we took a wrong exit and had to loop around again, then we got into a funeral procession going 20 mph, and finally ended up at the meeting on time. Amen, I'm still alive at this point. See prayer does work!! On the ride back, just do everything in reverse, but no funeral procession. Needless to say, I was ecstatic to get back to my Jeep and drive again. I can't believe these folks make it anywhere alive.

I'm having a bland day today. I hate these kinda days...not happy, not sad.........somewhere in between. Bland. "Bland Land". I think I just have too much going on in the ole cranium, and rather than go nuts, I've gone to "Bland-Land". That has to be it. A survival skill, that enables one to cruise along and not inflict bodily harm on those in the general vicinity, that are in an overly goofy, Three Stooges kinda mood today. And in my face about it. So better to be bland, than be incarcerated. I hope my "stooge" realizes that he was spared because of the blandness.