Caption Time!

This showed up on a window sill at work. Very odd as there is glue around the edge of the keyboard. So let's play the caption this picture game - I'll go first.

How you know a plant dominator has been logged into CoV on your PC.

Quote of the Day

How do you mend a broken heart? You don't. It doesn't work. One day, you wake up, and you've learned how to store it, and you go to another part of the heart.

-Sandra Bullock

 

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The more you prepare for a date, the more disappointing the date will turn out to be. In fact, the surest way to make a date cancel or disappear is to go out and buy yourself some sexy, expensive new underwear.

-Merrill Markoe

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There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.

-Maya Angelou

Not Her Best Day

I don't normally post pictures of my baby but I have decided to do it anyway. She was a bit crabby this day as she had just woken up from a nap and wasn't as happy as she normally is, but that still makes her happier than most babies.

And I have no idea where she gets that hair color from :).

Quote of the Day

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

-Dorothy L. Sayers

Somedays

This was the sky Saturday night as I left the Casa. It is easy to forget the beauty of the place you live in when you are surrounded by it constantly. This year I have been in 6 different states and there is only one that inspires me beyond words. Yesterday I drove up into the mountains for rafting and the last time I drove up there they were hiding behind thick fog only poking out occasionally to remind you they existed, but yesterday they were out in their fully glory defying anyone to pretend not to notice them. As I was floating down the creek yesterday I was taken back by the beauty of the scenery -- I was given this luxury as I fell into the boat on a class 4 rapid and couldn't get back to my seat until we were through it. So I sat back and just drank in the beauty. Angie fell in next to me in the boat and we just giggled and looked around because really what else are you going to do?

Sleep is for Sissies.

I have only been averaging about 5-6 hours a night this weekend. I think part of that is readjusting to my own bed again and me being too dumb to go to bed. I got up this morning an hour before I intended to, as my mind kept finding new things for me to do before the rafting trip this morning.
Rafting in the morning and working in the afternoon, ugg. I'd much rather do the rafting. Is it July yet?

Self Evaluation

I am at an interesting place in my life right now. I don’t plan to go into great detail as I am a private person and like to keep my personal life personal. I can say this -- I have leveled my life down to as little stress as possible and let go of the things that were stressing me out. I am at this point in time more 'me' than I have been in a very long time.

If something or someone causes you just as much pain as joy – let it or them go. Sure the good times are good, but if there is just as much bad then it isn’t really worth the effort. If something or someone causes you much more joy than pain, then hold onto it for all you are worth and appreciate it every day if you can. I suppose it is along the lines of if you love something let it go, and if it comes back it’s yours and if it doesn’t then it never really was. If it doesn’t notice that you let it go and walked away well that should REALLY tell you something.

Now I have come to understand that many people think when I write something like this I am talking to them and if you feel that way please do two things:–figure out why would I need to do that, and what are you going to do about it?

Quote of the Day

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

-Bette Midler

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Boys, just to put you at your ease, let me just say that at our all-girl gatherings, we don't just talk about length--we also talk about width.

-Kathy Lette

Right speaking of which - girls night out is July 8th. Pssst local women who wants to come out and play?

Monday Doesn't Feel Like Monday

     When does a Monday not feel like a Monday? The answer is when you had to work on Sunday. ***Dave is posting pictures from the camping trip that stupid Canadian taxes have kept me from this weekend. I really wanted to be there this weekend with the wee one, but alas I am going to be stupid busy until at a minimum the first of July and there are likely more weekend trips into work before it is all said and done. Then I imagine everyone who didn't get the changes done before the deadline, will suddenly realize they need them and make my life hellish for another few weeks. Luckily I have some very fun things coming up to balance things out.

Quote of the Day

People who eat white bread have no dreams.
-Diana Vreeland

I Have Been Drafted to Organize

Once on my own and once by committee. I was drafted to organize a girls night out. There has been talk of a limo and no boys. I am waiting to gage response and if people want to do it before or after the smoking ban takes effect.
The one I am doing on my own is a white water trip. I realized the other day that I haven't been rafting since I think 2002. So if your a local and ya want to go shout out! I am more than willing to do more than one trip.
I should be in a much worse mood considering my work load. *mutters about stupid Canadian tax laws changing*. I have two projects due tomorrow, two due on Monday and four on Tuesday. And here I was thinking I might have been able to go to KOA, silly silly me. I haven't even looked beyond Tuesday as I am just scared.

Quote of the Day

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

-Marilyn French

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Virtue is its own reward; sin pays better.

-Adrienne Gusoff

 

Where the Will is Strong

     I am amazed at the things I am hearing about my co-worker. He is starting to recover a bit. They still have him in a coma but he is there because he refused to let the ventilator do his breathing for him. He has a very strong will and no matter how he comes out of this he will be bound and determined to go further than anyone thinks is possible.

     I compare that to other people in my life who can't think of making any changes for fear of the unknown - even if the changes are for the best. I know which one I would rather be like. Some are afraid of living and others can't imagine letting go.

Quote of the Day

If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.

-Sophia Loren

Serious Side

Please if you are going to ride a motorcycle do everything you can to be safe - and wear the face visor down whatever you do your not really safe with it up. This is not a warning based on some football player in the headlines, it is based on a co-worker whose funeral isn't being scheduled ( just yet) as he was wearing his helmet but had his face visor up. He is in critical condition and one of the strongest people I know, and my thoughts and prayers are with him, his wife and daughter. He hit a concrete barrier and then was thrown face first into the guard rail and without the helmet, he'd have been instantly killed, with it he is at least given a shot at coming out of situation.
Suddenly my problems don't seem so big.

Quote of the Day

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

-Susan Sontag

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Romance is everything.

-Gertrude Stein

Playing with the Boys

     Get your mind out of the gutter first. Tuesday night is golf night at work and this week I was invited to play. The guys at work are quite good and I witnessed a hole-in-one that one of them shot. 170 yards and it rolled into the cup from inches away it was very pretty. I did warn them about my skills but they were all very supportive and promised it wouldn't upset anyone to play with me.

     No I didn't do it for political gain, but that might be a nice side benefit. My arms are quite grumpy with me though and we only did 9 holes.

Quote of the Day

We used to laugh so much then. Now everything is so solemn, so joyless. One must laugh. One cannot moan everlastingly.

-Katharine Hepburn

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If you want a place in the sun, you have to put up with a few blisters.

-Abigail Van Buren

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Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance as his pals.
-Cynthia Heimel

Roots

     I remember now that I am a country girl at heart. I am still hoping for some rain on this trip so I can smell the earth, but when that is failing there's always ATV'ing to be done. Dad got a new one and um... wow it's fast and powerful. The trails are not as well defined or as long as they used to be. They built in another dirt road to make getting to town easier and it took up some of the prime area. They built in a public boat ramp on land that used to be private, but the owner passed and his kids wanted to make some money. The river is still quite impressive but not like it was when I was growing up. I'll miss some of the memories of the way it was.

      The farmer my parents lease the land to wouldn't have been to pleased if I had played on my parents land because well his crops are planted there. I thought about taking the narrow trail down to the timberline but decided it was best to let his stuff be. I had forgotten how much fun it is to just be surrounded by air and the wind in your face. Note to self: Next time pull hair back into ponytail and zip the jacket up so no skin is exposed as bugs exist here and thump against you hard and on bare skin it stings at 40 MPH.

This Just In

Unlike my bags which will not be anywhere near me until 10:30 tonight. I had a chat with a snippy service agent and then her manager, and they will be reimbursing me for the items I have had to buy while waiting for my bags. I haven't had bags lost before and well it really kinda sucks.

Omaha

     I never have liked Omaha and well this trip isn't going to help that. Plane was delayed a half hour. One out of three bags arrived with me. This really ticked me off seems how I paid extra for curbside check in. Oh yes and one of the lost bags was the diaper bag with all the baby stuff in it. It will be flown in tomorrow around 7 pm. Egad the universe is after me.

An Oversight on My Part

     The trip this weekend is not a bad thing, and no my mother hasn't taken a turn for the worst. She is missing her granddaughter and I was asked to come visit. I started to think yesterday that it has been since Christmas that I was there and things were different.

     I've left a message for my girlfriends to let them know I'll be around and hopefully I'll be able to run into some of them. I think I'll go horseback riding and ATV'ing. I haven't played by the river in ages. I hear they put in a fancy boat dock and well that will kill some of the memories of the place.

     I wonder if I'll run into BD at the airport. I had to fly into Omaha because flying into SD was $800 more. Did I mention I bought the ticket only yesterday?

Quote of the Day

Grit your teeth, because it is a matter of resilience, stamina and energy. And never try to imitate what the boys do.

-Christine Lagarde

Another Trip

     If the airlines have another bad year it isn't because I am not doing my part. I'll be gone tomorrow night until Monday evening.

Quote of the Day

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

-Mignon McLaughlin