I never learn!!

I've haven't had the first regret about the gastric bypass surgery I underwent back in 2004, but there ARE times when its after effects can be more than just a little annoying! For example, when I drink alcohol it's absorbed almost immediately into my system and I can get smashed in no time. The downside of this is that once I expel my "vitamin P", my buzz is COMPLETELY gone!!
  The same concept goes for food.....if I eat something sweet [or too much of it] I get really light-headed and sick on my stomach because of the sugar rush. I've learned to deal with these things over the years, but something that I apparently REFUSE to deal with is the fact that things such as pizza make me hate life the day after I eat it!!     Well last night [against my better judgement] I ate two pieces of pizza from Papa John's.....and when I woke up this morning I had a VERY familiar feeling in my guts. After a couple of rounds in the loo, I figure that I'm ok and I head out to work. Naturally I stopped by Chik-fil-A for my breakfast. I get to the office and am sitting in my truck when all of a sudden !!BAM!! ---- the urge hit me like a ton of bricks [no pun intended!] After it subsided a couple of minutes later, I figured that I'd better get inside before I ended up in real trouble! Let's put it this way: I just BARELY made it to the bathroom in time!! I'll spare y'all the details, but imagine if you will all living creatures within a hundred feet ceased to be a LIVING creature!!

        I also found out from this little experience that it's VERY hard to walk quickly while holding once's butt cheeks together!

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Once my time as Sir Mud Slide concluded, the rest of the day at work was about as good as can be expected for a Monday. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great. I had all of my required stuff done by noon so I was afforded the rare opportunity to catch up on some other stuff!!

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Once I got home, I barely had five minutes to myself when Cindy comes bebopping over----with an apple pie in hand!! Yes, she's quite wonderful to bring me treats when she visits!! So we end up on the front porch talking when my OTHER neighbors from across the street wandered over to tell us that they'd had someone looking at their house and they were VERY interested in buying it! Ugh. I just hate breaking in new neighbors! From what they said though the people are really nice---AND they're Harley folk!                                                                 
Yeah Cindy's going to LOVE these folks since she was a biker chick way back when!! So an hour and a half later my house was finally quiet again---I was beginning to wonder if I was EVER going to get to eat my dinner!!

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To wrap up the day, I was helping Chris move his computer & all the crap that goes along with it to his new desk. He just got a HUGE [but beautiful] roll top desk from his sister-in-law's late mother. Things were going along smoothly until I picked up the printer. It jumped out of my hands, bounced off the floor and directly onto my foot! Oh and it took a chunk of skin out of one of my fingers on its way down!!   

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So that was my day! Hey at least I can look forward to the fact that tomorrow is my FRIDAY!! Woo Hoo!!







                                                                                

Ok....I'm a little on the peeved side about a few things tonight----

First of all, I go onto my "MySpace" page today and find that my brother's wife has posted some pictures of my nephew Eli. That in itself doesn't bother me, but it's WHERE the pictures were taken than has me seeing red--my brother's house. So why would that annoy me? Because every time that I've babysat my nephew, I've had to go to my sister's house to do it, yet my sister has NO problem dropping him off at my brother's place when THEY watch him!! I've asked my sister MANY times over the last year to bring my nephew here when I'm planning to babysit him, but she always comes up with a reason not to and it's REALLY getting on my nerves! I just can't understand what the problem is-----I live the same distance from my sister that my brother does, only in a different direction. My house is not 'messy' by ANY stretch of the imagination whereas my brother's house is ALWAYS trashed, so that can't be it either! Even worse about the situation is that when Eli goes to my brother's house, the poor kid can't get a minute's peace---my 15 year old niece snatches him up as soon as he gets in the door and won't get out of his face [LITERALLY!] the whole time that he's there! Meanwhile, my 10 year old niece starts whining because SHE can't hover over him like a buzzard over road kill----this leads to my sister in law, my two nieces, and my brother all bickering back and forth as though my nephew is a puppy or something!

I think the next time that my sister asks me to babysit, I'm going to politely decline.

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Something else that's been bugging me. When I put in for my vacation at work several weeks ago, I requested off on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. In addition, I asked for Tuesday of the following week. Since Monday is a holiday, that meant that I'd have 7 days in a row off---a VERY nice chunk of time off, which I *DESPERATELY* need!! So when I got the approvals, I was given all but Friday off. That means I work tomorrow & Tuesday, then off on Wednesday & Thursday, work Friday, then off again until the following Wednesday. Of course I was like, "what the f*uck kind of retarded monkey on crack thought THAT was a good idea?", but then I figured it was because of so many other folks in my function wanting off on that day as well. It did NOT set well with me when I found out on Friday that the reason I was denied having this coming Friday off is because 2 people in a completely DIFFERENT function had gotten the day off!!

So now I'm VERY seriously contemplating just calling in sick on Friday. Hey I figure if they're going to screw me over, then turnabout is fair play!!

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Given that I've spent the majority of my weekend being so irritated, I can only conclude that I've got my man period. Maybe I could come up with a drug for men that helps them through this time of the month...."Mantol"? ....how about "Pampridude"? I know I could use SOMETHING right about now!!

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I guess that's about it for now! Hope everyone has a good week ahead!

My day started out REALLY early....I mean REALLY, PAINFULLY early!! I stayed up pretty late last night [as I normally do on Friday nights] having gone to bed around 2am-ish. Apparently the stresses of my week must have caught up with me because I was jolted awake at 7:15 this morning thinking, "it's time to get up and get ready for work!" Then I looked at my alarm clock and saw what time it was and was REALLY in a panic, because 7:15 would be about the time that I need to leave!!                                                                                         

  At about the same time that I hopped out of bed, two things dawned on me: number one, if I was just waking up at 7:15 there was NO way that I was going to get to work on time, so I might as well just stay home {we get the same penalty for being late as we do if we're out for the whole day}....and the second was that today was actually Saturday and I didn't have to report to Hell again until Monday morning! I was relieved and pissed at the same time because I knew I wouldn't be able to get back to sleep. GRRRR don't you just HATE that feeling??!! It tells me that I am REALLY in need of my upcoming vacation!

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So the rest of my day was pretty uneventful......I went into town and got breakfast at McDonald's....note to self: the chicken biscuit isn't all that. Once the roomie left for work, I laid down and took a nap and had some bizarre dreams {none of which I can recall at this point unfortunately}.....Once I finally woke up about an hour later, I just played around on the computer for a while. Then Cindy calls and announces that she's finally joined those of us currently residing in the 21st century by purchasing a cell phone! It's the third time in as many years that she's done this, having turned the first one in because of lousy reception, the second died a painful death when she accidentally ran over it [TracFone].....so the third is with Verizon which actually comes in really well out here! So she tells me that I'm invited for dinner......naturally I'm not going to turn down a free dinner, so I head over....

Cindy decided that since it was such an awesome day here we'd have dinner in her new sunroom.....it's just been completed, but she won't let me take pictures of the final product until she's completely done with it...but I do have a few photos to share anyway at the end of this post. Two of Cindy's friends came over....Colleen...sort of a bohemian-type with a twist of zany thrown in....very nice lady. Then enters Gina, who's originally from Germany....she's a hoot! She's trying the low carb diet thing but having a tough time of it....she pondered how many carbs a jalapeno popper has only AFTER she'd eaten FOUR!! Then she decides that rather than drinking water, she'll have a wine spritzer. And she wonders why she's not lost any weight?! I say that tongue in cheek because she's aware that she's blowing the diet all to hell. ANYWAY....come to find out, Gina is actually a "Ghost Hunter" in her spare time....something I find very fascinating. Yes, I'm a kook...sue me. We talked about that for quite a while....there are apparently several places in my immediate area that are "haunted"....cool stuff!! Although I'm not sure I'd ever want to meet another ghost face to face....!!! Been there, done that. Don't want to do it again until I'm one myself!

   It now appears that I've made another zany friend!

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During dinner it occurred to me once again how much I really like the neighborhood that I live in. The houses here aren't mansions or anything like that.....and we don't have fancy landscaping or sidewalks lined with old oak trees....but it's just a very quiet, peaceful place. Cindy's house is no exception....the pictures I'm posting don't do it justice by any means, but I think one day soon I'll take some better ones of the whole neighborhood so you all can see what I mean......

This is one of the front of Cindy's house....she and Kevin tried to keep it as natural as possible. Kevin loved nature and he wanted his yard to reflect that. I think he succeeded.

This is a shot of the new sunroom when it was about 90% complete. The windows are made of a kind of plexi-glass that are sectioned so that only a part of the windows or all of them can be opened at once. There's a storm door [left] that goes onto a landing that takes you down the lower deck where the pool is. There's another door [right] that goes to a small "balcony" that overlooks the rest of the back yard.

Here's another angle...since this was taken, the decking has been stained the coolest color...it's now a sort of burgundy-purpleish color that looks REALLY nice!

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After dinner, I came home and was a bit perplexed as to why my cat Miss Bigglesworth hadn't greeted me at the front door. It usually means that she's asleep somewhere or busy doing her thing in the litter box, but when she didn't come running after I called and then shook her container of kitty treats, I *REALLY* got worried....so I started hunting for her.....

I finally found her.....the poor thing had gotten locked in my bedroom closet! I opened the door and she came charging out----and I started laughing----I have told her a hundred times not to be so nosey when I've got a closet door open because she'd end up getting locked in! Of course HER response to my laughing was to fluff her tail, flip it up at me, and then saunter out of the room as though she hadn't just spent 4 hours locked in a closet.

Cats.

G'nite!

Damn.
It's been one long day! Work was hectic, but I had all my "required" stuff done by 10:30 this morning! So the rest of the day's accomplishments were gravy. I like days that go that way! It means that I can be a slacker and get away with it. Yes, this behavior is in direct response to the knowledge that I've been harassed for the last 7 months so that buffoons who make triple my salary can go to the Bahamas for a weekend every year. My "enthusiasm & desire to excel in my work" has come to a screeching halt after learning this little tidbit of knowledge. I do exactly what is required of me and nothing more. I feel SO liberated! If I wore a bra, I'd burn it right now. Of course, if I wore a bra then there'd be many more issues in my life needing attention than these little things at work.

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After I got home from work and celebrated the fact that the week was FINALLY over by going to a cool Mexican restaurant in town, the roomie and I went to his parent's house for a bit. While we were there, I saw the most horrifying sight....the roomie's dad has been dealing with skin cancer for a couple of years now (quite successfully)...but has been put on some bizarre chemo pill. Well he took an extra dose accidentally and it has made him look as though he's been in a microwave oven!!! I was HORRIFIED!! I'm beginning to wonder if his treatment is going as well as he's been portraying! Part of me wants to know so that I can be prepared for the worst, but another part does NOT want to know. See, George is more of a dad to me than my own father could have even HOPED to be....and while I know that he won't be here forever, I'm just not ready to deal with "dealing" with anything happening to him. If that makes ANY sense at all.

Now, while in the middle of this frightening event, the roomie's mom just had to interject something to lighten the mood.....

She bent over slightly to get something off the table and let out a rip roaring fart!! In the nine years that I have been around this woman on a daily basis, I have *NEVER*.......*EVER*......been privy to something like THAT happening with her!!!   I laughed so hard I thought I was going to cry!!! You see she's from the days when "Proper Southern Ladies" were taught that things such as that were simply NOT done in the company of others. That makes it all the funnier!! And the fact that it was purely an accident makes it HILARIOUS!!

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So that's about it for now.....yes, I know this is a short entry, but I had to do my visiting before I started my entry for tonight and y'all wrote some good stuff this week so I was late getting started!!

First----those of you who read "SIDE B" last night, I'm VERY happy to report that Ollie is just fine!!! Check this out--she went in for the surgery yesterday morning, and just as the doctor put the needle into the "lump", it VANISHED!!                                                                                                                                                                                   I kid you not!! It's the most bizarre thing---it didn't retreat somewhere or anything like that, it just DISSOLVED! There just aren't enough words to convey how RELIEVED that I am feeling right now!!

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Second---the huge crates making their way across the country? Well today we had ANOTHER round of blind shipping!! If THAT wasn't bad enough, we were told at 3:10pm EDT to have ALL of the orders shipped by 3:30pm EDT!!! Thankfully, I only had about 5 to do so it didn't take that long. Like I said before---I'm going to laugh my ass off when the fallout begins. Figuring that these things are coming from Europe, I'm guessing that the shit will REALLY hit the fan by about Wednesday of next week. Conveniently, I'm OFF next Wednesday!!   By the time that all is said and done, I'll be surprised if the company I work for isn't in the middle of several lawsuits!!

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Third---Things aren't exactly over between the cousin and the mistress after all....a fact I found out just moments ago. Here's the thing though.....just yesterday the cousin tells me that on Monday he had over $1400 in the bank and as of last night, he's only got $24!!! The wife can't [WON'T] own up to the mysterious disappearance of the funds, so here's my take on the situation----

• The wife KNOWS that SOMETHING is going on, but she can't PROVE it just yet. The fact that she can't [won't] explain the money disappearing combined with the fact that she ALSO claims not to have gotten the $1200 "stimulus package" money leads me to believe that she's hording money so that she can leave him.                                                                                                                                             This situation is a hard one for me. On the one hand, I completely understand WHY she's hording the money to leave or IF she's doing it. Her first husband cheated on her...right in front of her face, so it would stand to reason that she wouldn't want to get hurt & embarassed for a second time! She ALSO knows what signs to look for that she's being played for a fool, and the cousin hasn't been exactly slick about this affair, so I'm quite sure that she's got the goods on him now. On the OTHER hand though, I do love my cousin and I don't want to see him get raked over the coals in a divorce. Yes, yes I know....he's been running around on her and he probably deserves what's coming to him, but I just HATE to see all of the hurt that's going around!                                                                         

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That's about it for now!