Wednesday is over, the weekend's almost here!


This will be short since I'm posting from work. I had a dentist appt last night, went very well. No Cavaties! Got there early and chatted with the receptionist, a very nice lady. I was planning on hanging out at the local Hallmark store to pass the time, but when I got there I found out it was GONE! I haven't been there in quite a few months, but it was disappointing to see it gone. I know the owner by name, and I remember when he opened it back in maybe 1996/97? The lady at the dentist's office thinks some of the Hallmark stores are closing because more and more people are buying their cards from Target/Wal Mart or when they are at their local grocery store. They all carry cards of every kind, so it's more convenient than running out separately to a Hallmark store. Still sad to see the business leave Warrenville. I think that was the only Hallmark store in town.

So I got home and my cable was STILL out. No DooL to watch, no AI, nuttin. So I caught up on my emails, played more Chicken Invaders on the computer (lol), then watched Notting Hill again! I LOVE that movie.

No Cable In My Entire Complex


Wow, is it only Tuesday? Today went by very quickly, was very busy at work today, trying to get everything done that I didn't get done yesterday. I succeeded! On the way home I was going to stop at Target and do some shopping, but I changed my mind. I decided to do it tomorrow night after my dentist appt. Just a cleaning, so I'll be out of there in 20 minutes.

Got home, with the plan of watching American Idol. Lo and behold, no cable. I put in the tape that was supposed to have taped Days of Our Lives this afternoon from 1-2pm, and nothing but snow. So my cable has been out since before 1pm. As of right now, it's still out. I called the cable company, but they were already aware of the outage and supposedly are working on it. They said it's out in Country Lakes (me) and Greens of Naperville (some buildings that were G of N, but are now part of Country Lakes). So apparently, something major must have happened. Someone must have cut a cable when they were digging, or something. Otherwise, why would half the street be out?

So with no tv to watch tonight, I played on the computer for a bit. I've gotten hooked on a game you can play online through MSN, probably Yahoo too. It's called Chicken Invaders. It's a variation of the old Space Invaders, but instead of invading ships, there are invading chickens that you have to shoot. They fly down, they parachute down, they come down as hatching eggs, it's quite entertaining, lmao. After playing that for about an hour, I decided to watch a movie until bedtime.

Over the weekend, a couple of cable channels were playing some Julia Roberts movies, TBS was showing Erin Brockovich, and another channel was showing Pretty Woman. Well that got me in the mood to see another Julia Roberts movie, one of my absolute favorites of all time, Notting Hill. So I took the opportunity to watch it tonight. Every time I watch it, I get teary eyed, my heart breaks every time they say goodbye, even though I know they'll be together at the end. I loved it so much, I wanted to watch it again as soon as it was over. My favorite line from the movie is: I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love me.

That makes my heart break every time I hear it. It is so romantic! I'm still waiting for someone to say something like that to me. One day, maybe...

Daily Extended Horoscope (Taurus):

For the next few days, it's going to be all about relationships for you, kid. Other than feeding yourself and your critters, you'll forget about work, play, cleaning the house, and just about anything else. If you're already attached, the object of your affection -- well, let's just say they'll finally understand just how lucky they really are. If you're not, it's definitely time to resume the hunt, in earnest, for the Right One. The universe has equipped you with everything you need. Get busy.


Guess it's time for me to start looking for Mr. Right, huh?

What a Day!

I went to bed last night with a headache, woke up this morning...STILL had the headache. Took a couple Advil, went back to sleep for 30 minutes, it was still there, dozed for another hour, by then it was gone, but I was so late for work at that point, I actually thought about just calling in sick. But did I??? NOOOOOOOOO

I almost wish I had. Today was a day from hell. I was at work for 7 hours, and felt like I got nothing done all day. I mostly dealt with piddly little shit stuff, that makes you feel like you haven't done anything important. So the things I'm normally done with by 11am, never got done today. Maybe tomorrow. And hopefully I'll be able to get up on time tomorrow, lol

Watched a bit of the news tonight, supposedly today is the first day of the year our average high temp will start increasing. Meaning, between now and sometime in July, our average high will slowly get warmer and warmer, then after that July date (I can't remember what the date is), it will start decreasing and slowly start cooling off. So in my mind, spring is right around the corner. Makes sense to me!

It's Almost Friday!


Today was beautiful, mostly sunny, upper 40's, very nice weather for January. After such a cold start to winter at the beginning of December, the last month has been unseasonably warm. Wonder what that means for Spring and Summer???

I stopped on the way home to fill my car with gas, which I do about every 5 days. Gas is costing about $2.28 per gallon here. I think that's about $0.60 per litre. Kerry check my math, lmao (1 gallon is about 3.75 litres?)

I was planning on watching a rerun episode, that I had not seen, of CSI:NY at 7pm, but instead it was a rerun episode of CSI, which I had seen. So I dozed for about 15 minutes, then read some emails, then watched a new CSI episode at 8pm. ER was a rerun, so I switched over to CNN to watch Anderson Cooper 360. He is in New Orleans, still working to find out why so many people there don't have assistance from FEMA. He spoke to the President of Bernard Parrish, who bought 6500 trailers, at a savings of almost $3000 versus the FEMA trailers. Bernard Parrish doesn't have the money themselves to pay for this, and they figured FEMA would be glad to pay for them, seeing as how they're saving them so much money.

You'd think, huh?? Nope! FEMA is now stating that there are too many roadblocks, red tape, regulations, etc for them to install the trailers. $3000 per trailer savings for 6500 trailers. Do the math! That's over $18 million dollars in savings for FEMA, and they are stonewalling! Meanwhile, the ship that is currently holding several hundred New Orleans residents is set to leave port the end of February. Where are these people supposed to go? Apparently, it will be YEARS before enough trailers could be made to house everyone who needs one. Un-freaking-believeable that in this day and age, with all the technological advances, that we have a government this callous as to leave these people homeless after all these months.

Nothing rhymes with Wednesday


I couldn't think of anything funny or entertaining for this post, so that's all you get. Here's a summary of my day:

Weather: cold but sunny
Work: boring, but I'm almost done making file folders, then I can start the stacks of filing.
TV: Watched the hour of American Idol tonight, from the Mile High city, Denver, Colorado. There was this "guy" who had hair styled like a girl, wore girl clothes, and sang terribly. Of course, there was a lot of build-up to his audition. 37 people made it to Hollywood, more than the 32 from Chicago, which took 2 hours to show, as opposed to one hour for Denver. Somehow, I'm sure that's not fair, lol And because I was watching CSI: NY at 9pm, I missed Fox News at 9, who interviewed the Paris Hilton look-alike from last night, who supposedly has just had a terrible life since being told no by the judges. I was hoping their website might have something about it, but I couldn't find anything.

Tomorrow's Thursday, and the week is almost over! WoooHooo!

American Idol begins Season 5


Two hours of hilarity, stupidity, mixed in with a small amount of talent. That's how I would describe the first night of American Idol Season 5, with audtions being held right here in Chicago. I won't be voting, but I will watch, as interstingly enough, I like to see who makes it through each week, and who gets sent packing.

Brrr, it's cold out. This morning started out in the upper 30's, and the temps dropped all day. We had, supposedly, some rain turning to snow. I don't recal much rain falling, but there were some flurries this afternoon. At least I'm glad I don't live in Toronto, where there was freezing rain icing everything up this afternoon.

Looks to be another boring day at work tomorrow, so I'd best get my beauty sleep. Lord knows I need it!

It Shore Is Monday


This past weekend? Uneventful. I saw the movie Munich. It was very good, but long. Three hours to be exact. Watched football, Da Bears lost, which I kind of figured they would. Pittsburgh won, so that was cool! Hard to believe the football season is almost over. Pretty soon spring training will be starting, and I'll be getting into the baseball spirit, lol.

Another slow day at work today, more of the same. Oh how I wish traffic could everyday be like it was today. There were just enough fewer cars on the road to make my commute very easy. It's very unusual for me to make it home in less than 45 minutes. Tomorrow will be back to normal, I'm sure.

Tonights blog is brought to you by the letters C, S, I, E and R.


Pretty boring day today. Work was slow, made more file folders, I walked to the post office at lunch today. It's about 2-1/2 - 3 city blocks away, but about 6 regular blocks. And I went the long way, on the sidewalk, to the crosswalk at the intersection then down, instead of cutting through the parking garage and jaywalking across in front of the Starbucks like everyone usually does. I got these cool looking stamps that have both the flag and the Statue of Liberty on them.

After coming home tonight, I relaxed in front of the tv, pretty typical, snoozed between 6:30 and 7pm, missing the second half of CSI, then I watched CSI: Miami, CSI, and ER. Anyway, time to go to bed, it's casual Friday tomorrow! Woooo Hoooo

Today Just Seemed Long


It doesn't help that I woke up over two hours later than I should have. For some reason, when the alarm went off at 5:30am, I hit the off button instead of the snooze button. When I finally woke up, I knew just by how rested I felt that I was late. The time? 8:02am. The time I start work? 8:00am. Guess I was just a little late to work today? By the time I showered, got dressed, fixed my lunch, and left for work, it was 9:00am. You'd think traffic would be pretty good by then, most everyone would be at work, right? Nope! Huge traffic jam about one minute after I get onto the tollway. Four lanes of traffic absolutely crawled for about four miles. By the time it opened up and we all could speed again, all I could find that might have caused it were three cars on the shoulder by an on-ramp. Two were police cars, but there was no accident that I could tell, just the three cars. So everyone was rubbernecking? Being lookyloos? Gaping? At three cars doing absolutely nothing?? Talk about frustrating!

Once I finally got to work at 9:45, the day passed uneventfully and slowly. I had pretty much NOTHING to do. For most of the day, I made file folders. Whoopee! For whatever reason, even though I am salaried, the inside sales people are required to sign in and out every day. And if we come in late, we have to make up our time either that day or as soon as possible. Well, with an hour and 45 minutes to make up, I was not staying at work till almost 6pm! So, with my boss' permission, I worked through 45 minutes of my lunch, took my 15 minute constitutional, and also stayed one hour late, till 5pm, and therefore made up all my time from this morning. Tomorrow I'll try not to do that again! LMAO

What Day is it Again?


I was talking on the phone with Deb tonight, and for some reason couldn't remember that today was Monday. Like anyone ever forgets when it's Monday? I'm either getting old, or I have Alzheimers, lmao. J/K

Today was a learning day at work. I discovered that for six months I was doing something wrong when I was paying bills for coils that we had slit. It wasn't really my fault though. It was for the account I was handling while Karen was on maternity leave, and she never got a chance to tell me all the information I needed. Her leave was pretty sudden. So, when Accounting was balancing accounts for the end of the year, they noticed one account was off by $30,000. Once we realized what I was doing wrong, that accounted for about $20,000 of it. Needless to say, now I know what I should have been doing. They say you learn something new every day, and today I did!

I was soooo hungry today, after having my usual breakfast of two chewy granola bars, my pb&j sandwich for lunch, my TGIF chips for a snack, I was starving by 3:30. Normally, I don't get hungry till about 5pm. And I've had a taste for Taco Bell for several days, so I decided to stop on the way home and have some tacos and get it out of my system (so to speak). Was yummy!

Tomorrow is supposed to be about 40F, so I think I might take my daily constitutional at lunchtime. I had stopped once it got extremely cold last month. And now since it's after 11pm (I got caught up watching highlights of the 1987-88 AFC Championship game between Denver and Cleveland), I think I'll go to bed.

The Weekend's Over Already?


Well, what do you know about that? Seems like the weekend just started and it's over already. Time flies when you're having fun! NOT!

Thursday night was interesting, sorta. My aunt in California called me, because she was worried about my sister, whom several people in my family had not heard from in a while, so I volunteered to call my other aunt in Minnesota to see if she had heard from her. Lo and behold, she had. So all is calm again in California. Although she'd like to strangle my sister for worrying her so. (And wouldn't we all?)

Other than that, I had a very quiet weekend. Watched football mostly, and chatted with Kerry on Saturday for about what 8 hours in MSN? LOL I went for a quick trip to the grocery store tonight, and filled my car up with gas. Prices are going up again, what's the deal? I haven't heard of any refinery problems, or increases in the price of a barrel of oil, so why is gas going up? I also went for a walk this afternoon between football games, since it was about 43F (+6C), pretty warm for January. Felt good to get out and get a little bit of exercise, and I need it after all the gorging I did over the holidays!

I decided to relax in front of the tv tonight, watched The West Wing at 7pm CST, since it's one of the last episodes John Spencer filmed before dying of a heart attack on Dec 16. Then I watched Supernatural, a show about two brothers who are searching for their Dad by going around the country investigating paranormal/strange occurrances. Tonight's episode was a little gory, a plumber got his hand chopped off...n/m, you don't want to know. Anyway, after that, I watched CSI: NY then CSI: Miami, as both shows were delayed due to football running long.

And now that it's midnight, I need to head to bed so I can get 5 hours of sleep, lol

Last College Football game of the season!


I'm watching the Rose Bowl tonight, for the National Championship in College Football in the U.S. The granddaddy of them all, between #1 USC and #2 Texas. It's been quite a game. It started out slow, but in the second half it has picked up quite a bit and is looking to be a showdown! I hope Texas wins, only because USC has won the National Championship the last two years. I could only hope for MY team to make it to the BCS Championship game someday...sigh!

Today was slow at work, which is exactly how I expect it to be for the next few months. If anything interesting happens there, I'll tell you about it, otherwise assume same ole, same ole.


It's almost midnight, the game is finally over...Texas came from behind and won 41-38!

Normalcy at last!


Well, things are getting back to normal at work. Karen is back from her six month maternity leave, which means the one big account I was handling for her is going back to her, as of today. So...now I will have time to continue getting caught up on all the file folders I need to make, and all the filing that has piled up for four months. It will take me awhile, but I'll eventually get it all done. Then what will I do? Only the shadow knows! (Sorry, that was a line from an old time radio show called The Shadow).

Watched a movie tonight that I haven't watched in years, a Stephen King movie called Duel. There's not much to it, just a guy in a car trying to go home, and a trucker that keeps trying to kill him. Eventually he gets the better of the truck by forcing it off a cliff into a quarry. Very strange movie, but I have memories of watching it in high school with a neighbor of mine. He and I used to have a lot of fun hanging out all summer doing stuff together.

By the way, does anyone reading this know how to keep nail polish from peeling off the nail two days after they've been polished? It makes it kind of hard to strengthen and grow my nails when the stuff comes loose on the edges and starts peeling off. Any suggestions would be helpful, as long as they don't cost too much, lol.

2006


After a nice relaxing four day weekend, and now that the holidays are over, I can get back to semi-regular blogging. I hope 2006 is better than 2005 for those of you reading this. And if 2005 was good to you, I hope 2006 is even better. I have quite a bit of vacation built up from last year, so I'm hoping to take a trip out to California later this year to visit family.

Happy New Year everyone!

Blah Blah Blah


Testing to see if anyone reads my blog anymore, lol

First Big Snow of the Season


Today was the first big snow of the season, and Chicago failed the test. That being how traffic handles the snow and how well the plows clear the streets. I took the day off from work to go shopping with a couple friends. We were out in Rockford today. One friend lives in the town next to Rockford, called Belvidere. I left her house in Belvidere at about 2:45pm this afternoon. We figured, with the snow, we'd allow 2 hours, just in case, so I could drop my other friend off at her house by 5pm. Well! We got to her house about 4:30 maybe? I can't remember the exact time. I left her house and started my long ass trip home. Normally, the drive would take 30-45 minutes, depending on traffic. Tonight, it took almost 2-1/2 hours. Every road I took hadn't been plowed yet, and traffic was at a dead crawl. I am so glad to be home right now. And with all this snow, maybe only 5 inches, I will have to get up at 5am, go outside at about 6am and start clearing off my car, so I can leave by 6:30 at the latest to try to get to work by 8. Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday and I can dress in jeans and sneakers!

Just a Quick Post


I'm heading to bed, had to read emails and catch up on blogs, and couldn't do all that until after I watched part 2 of The Triangle, a mini series on SciFi. Almost freaked me out on the plane today, cause I was remembering images from the first episode last night.

I flew down to Indianapolis today to go visit a customer. Nice visit. I've been there once before, but it was nice to go see the buyer again. And I got to see a couple pieces of steel that they've been having problems with. I knew what the problem was, but I wanted to see what it actually looked like to them. Flew back this evening, and since I don't fly much in the winter, I think this is the first time I've ever actually been on a plane that I knew was being de-iced. It was interesting to watch, lol. I think the plane held 40 people total, and I was in seat 1A, so I got off first! Wooo Hooo! ! !

Friggin airport, couldn't let us park in the parking garage on one of the coldest f***ing days of the year, NOOOO, we had to park in the outside lot, and walk OUTSIDE to get to the terminal! And the WIND! OMG! Overnight temps are supposed to be around 0F with a windchill of -15F. I'm not even going to attempt a conversion for Kerry, lmao.

Back to work tomorrow, then off on Thursday to go shopping with a couple friends, then back to work on Friday, crazy week! LOL

It's FRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDAY! ! ! ! !


What a nice day it was! I got out of work early, so I could come home and get ready for my "Holiday Dinner." Damn thing was 45 miles one way, took me an hour and a half to get there! Of course that was during rush hour too, plus one accident along the way.

Dinner was very nice. I had filet mignon, green beans, mashed potatoes, some kind of creamy shrimp soup, hearts of romaine ceasar salad (two pieces of lettuce 6 inches long with ceasar dressing drizzled on top), and OMG this cheesecake for dessert! It was like a mint flavor cheesecake, and a firm coating of chocolate all around it. That was the best part of the meal, lol

I don't know if I'll get any pictures of me in my outfit, only 2-3 were taken with me in them (I think), if I get any of them digitally, if they show the outfit at all, I'll send them to you.

I only had one glass of wine with dinner, drank water and diet pepsi the rest of the time. Traffic was much better coming home, it only took me 45 minutes or so to get home. And just as I was about to turn onto my street, I see the first snowflakes falling, so my timing was perfect. I ended up not driving in any snow, lol.

Now that I have this stupid song in my head (me? I'm a kitty cat, and I dance dance dance, and I dance dance dance.) Kerry will know what I'm talking about, lmao

Quick and Painless


Is that what the dentist said to Kerry tonight? LMAO

Busy day today! It's end of month AGAIN! Seems like I just went through all this, and now I'm doing it again, lol. Ran some errands on the way home from work today...stopped at the post office to get stamps, got gas for my car (gas is getting cheaper and cheaper, wooo hoooo 2.14/gallon), and picked up some dry cleaning. Tomorrow night (Friday) is my "Holiday Dinner." Guess it's not being called a Christmas Dinner, because we have so many Japanese people in the office, and I just bet some of them aren't Christians, lol.

So I had this outfit for oh at least three years and never wore it, lmao. I LOVED the outfit in the store, but the pants were too long. I bought it anyway, and just never got around to having the pants hemmed. Well, since it was suggested that I reconsider going to the Holiday Dinner, I figured now was a great time to hem the pants and wear this outfit. The pants are all black, real soft material. The top is button all the way down, it's like a jacket, goes down past my hips, it's tan in the front and black in the back, with this blacked stitched flower or something on the front. I think it looks very nice on me, perfect for this dinner, which we've been told is business formal. Black flats with the outfit, and I'm all set.

Now I'm just hoping that the snow really does hold off until after midnight so I can get home from this dinner beforehand. And since I'm going to the dinner, I get off work at 2pm tomorrow!!! Gives me a chance to come home, shower, shave, get all spruced up, grab a little snack since dinner won't be until 7pm and I'll be starving by then, lol.

I had bills to pay tonight, had two episodes of Days to watch (one of which had no sound so it only took 7-8 minutes to fast-forward through it, lol), watched ER, typed up this, and now I'm going to bed. Hope everyone else sleeps as well as I'm going to tonight!