Thursday, November 30, 2006

Quote of the Day

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
-Mary Ann Evans

Quote of the Day

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
-Mary Ann Evans

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

House stuff


So last night I signed the paperwork for a townhouse. If all goes well the closing is Dec. 29th. Here's a sneak peak at the outside. I'll update more as things become more solid.

All snowed in and catching up!

So awhile back I was trying really hard to find my roommate from college. I even went so far as to look up the number for the last place she worked and try to talk to them. I was able to get from them that her last name had changed and when I tried to look her up on the internet the only person I found was one in Canada so I thought ok, maybe? and I called her. She was not the right one. I considered my search dead ended until a couple days ago I got an email from her. I am just so pleased!

She and I, ok mostly her, ok all her, she has found another one of the gang and he's in touch with yet another one. It's like a big reunion. Only Eric left to find and I might try and do that today because with the weather goodness knows nothing else is happening.

Yes I am at home today :).

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Quote of the Day

Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.
-Nora Ephron

Monday, November 27, 2006

Monday Already?

So Wednesday night the roomie pictured here at the right, with the identity of the children protected, and I decorated her room. This is her for Halloween dressed up as static cling. Not a very good picture of her but it's what I have. She is quite proud of the room and has made many people check it out. She took pictures with her camera and because I had the work laptop home this weekend she downloaded some of them to me.


So here is her Gingerbread house room:



Thursday: was Turkey day and it was spent as usual at the Consortium and that was wonderful, as it always is. I kept KK up about an hour past her bedtime and much to my joy she slept in until 7.

Friday: I got up with KK and turned on the tv and debated hauling the wee one out shopping and then saw pictures of what the stores looked like and decided I was far too sane to be going anywhere near a shopping area. Friday afternoon and evening was spent again at the consortium and again was a good time. I stayed long enough to make everyone go to bed but no one was polite enough to say so :). Finally figured out where I wanted to spend the Christmas holiday and almost bought tickets but needed to make sure someone would be around to look after the puppies.

Saturday: You know it is really annoying to be able to sleep in because your co-parent has your daughter and to instead be wide awake at 6:30 am. My mind was working and there was then no hope for sleep. Went to take another look at a prospective place to live and put an offer in on the place. This of course means that the plans I wanted to have for Christmas would be utterly in ruins. I should know more today.

Sunday: Met with an old friend that I hadn't seen in awhile. I picked up KK from the co-parent and took her with me to play with the other kids. I brought her back and put her down for a nap which her daddy was taking as well. Decided it was time to stop and buy a few things for when I get a place -- vacuum, broom things that don't matter much. While shopping I get the call I was expecting from Angie and spent the next few hours with her. We did shopping and had some of the worst service ever from a restaurant in the US. After dinner headed back to the condo and spent the rest of the evening hanging out with the roomie and helping her make gingerbread men.

Quote of the Day

If you're married for more than ten minutes, you're going to have to forgive somebody for something.
-Hillary Rodham Clinton

Friday, November 24, 2006

She Loves Christmas

I called the roomie on my way home from work on Wednesday because well it seems like Friday when you don't have to work the next day. I wanted to see if she wanted to go do something. I didn't suggest a movie as I wouldn't have heard the end of it :). She was decorating her new classroom and asked me to come help.

She loves Christmas and I am not sure how much she spent on the decorations but it was a lot. She was doing the walls to look like a gingerbread house when I got there. It was really cute. After 4.5 hours working on it together it was really super cute. She's the creative power and I am the analytical power and together we do alright. I'll have to post a picture when she's all done. She had a few more things to do but we didn't get to them.

One of the things I love about being around her is that because she deals with kids all the time she is an overpraiser. Any little thing you do for her is just the best thing ever! She tells you that your the most amazing person ever, and who doesn't like that? She has said I am drafted every time she tracks off to help her decorate. It was fun. It had been a long time since standing on furniture and desks was ok, heck even necessary. Did we dance on the tables?.....I'll never tell ;).

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Quote of the Day

I was so opposed to name tags that once when a woman slapped a gummed label over my left bosom that said "Hello! My name is Erma!" I leaned over and said, "Now what shall we call the other one?"
-Erma Bombeck

 

Monday, November 20, 2006

Downside to being Detail Oriented

I am one of those people who must research, evaluate, and then re-evaluate decisions. Add into that my constant search for more data. Now mostly I reserve this power for big things, and it's probably why I have been searching for a new house/place to live for 3 months and I hardly feel any closer to where I want to be then I was when I started. I found a few places I really like and if I tried hard enough I can talk myself out of all of them. Why does Highlands Ranch have to be so darned expensive :) ? I suppose also I am asking for a lot and don't really have the budget to back it up. Bah humbug and I want a pony too!

In other news I got an email today from someone at work asking about if I want to join a bowling league. I think that counts as a sport right?

Quote of the Day

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.
-Fran Lebowitz


Friday, November 17, 2006

Quote of the Day

I shalt not steal your boyfriend, hairdo or signature fragrance.
-Cathy Hamilton, in the Girlfriend's Bible

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Quote of the Day

If I can stop one Heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain.
-Emily Dickinson

It's a Train Wreck

The roomie and I went out last night for dinner and a movie. The dinner was good - Old Chicago. By the end, we both thought it was good that we parked inbetween the lots and walked because the three course meal was feeling heavy. We saw Running With Scissors. I.......How to describe this movie.....I asked her 40 minutes into it if we should go to something else but she shook her head no and said she wanted to stay. After the movie I asked how she liked it and she told me it was horrible. I asked then why we stayed -- She said she kept thinking it had to get better but it didn't -- like a train wreck. It was strange and bizarre and doesn't need to be seen on the big screen. I still lack the words to describe it. It wasn't good but I have seen worse. Odd -- it was odd.

Saturday is house shopping again. I still need another sport to play.

Monday, November 13, 2006

Me & Romeo

So first let me say that the turkey bowl was completely awesome! I played three games and then subbed for another team. The subbing is where I met ( and to protect the guilty I am changing his name) Romeo. I would say this is how not to pick me up, but I am going to say on behalf of most of my gender that this is how not to pick up females. Romeo was pitching to me for the team I subbed on ( your own pitcher pitches to you for turkey bowl) and this is when he decided to tell me I was his new best friend the first time and ask my name. Now let me say that Romeo isn't a bad looking guy at all he is just dumb and by the time I ran into him again at the after party -- very drunk. So what follows is true and all of it courtesy of Romeo:

How not to pick up a woman:

1) Every time run into her tell put your arm around her and tell everyone loudly that she is your new best friend -- then ask her what her name is -- repeat exactly -- at least 6 times.

2) Make sure you tell her that you cross-dressed for Halloween and the show her pictures of you in drag dressed as the Bounty hunter's wife. Then please launch into a story about how a 40+ year old woman tried to take you home but you didn't want to have to put on the fishnet stockings again so you sent her home to her vibrator instead.

3) Mention that you are 23 and looking to have a good time.

4) Tell her the charming story of the last time you were arrested and how at least that time, it was just a paperwork thing, but you were in jail for only 48 hours at least.

5) Girls always love a bad boy so regale her with stories of how you were bad and got into trouble with the law which caused the paperwork problem in the first place.

6) Make sure you tell her that it was the only time you were arrested sober and that you yelled at the top of your lungs at everyone you could find.

7) Do not forget to mention that you think college is a waste of time and that people who have degrees just wasted their time.

8) Proudly tell her that you have been drinking since you rolled out of bed this morning and haven't stopped yet.

9) She might have missed that you were interested in her the first couple times you walked up to her table and interjected into the conversation her and her teammates were having, but your persistence will pay off keep trying.

10) When she is telling people how something is misspelled on her shirt point out that you missed the word 'bruise' being misspelled on her shirt and then ask how it should be spelled.

I had thought about injecting my own sarcasm into these a bit more but it just isn't necessary -- so for goodness sake don't be a Romeo!

Friday, November 10, 2006

Good Day

Tonight I had dinner with someone I hadn't seen in a long time. Last time I spoke to her I was very angry at her in Paris, and it was all part of the mending I have been trying to do lately. I realized tonight after spending a couple hours with her, that I have missed her. I never thought that we wouldn't really speak for the three years that it has been. She's an amazing person and the past is just that, past.

Tomorrow is the big softball tournament and truth be told I feel a bit like a kid the night before Christmas. It's an awesome team I have put together - if I do say so myself! I can't wait!

It's a good day.

Quote of the day.

Imagine you have a similar sense of humor and a similar enough concept of the world...then add that you like the way he dresses and the way he kisses and then, oh my God, you make love to this person and it's fabulous. This is all a girl could ever ask for.
-Julia Roberts
 
---Amen I'll take one of those please :)

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Updates

Lets see here:

Charity drive at work - not a good turn out so far I really need to send out a staff email again worded a bit better than last time :).

Work - Fully transitioned to the new job and they are not replacing my old position *insert big time rant here*

House - Still looking haven't seen anything I can't live without. I will very likely be going out again this weekend.

Softball - I finally got the last critical player signed up yesterday and the turkey bowl is this weekend and I can hardly wait!

Christmas - I didn't have plans and wasn't trying to think about it but last night the roomie invited me to go skiing with her and her extended family. I am sure this will be pure comedy gold.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Gifts for KK

There was a book fair at work yesterday and I grabbed a couple books for the girl as her favorite trick right now is to pick up a book, open it to a page, and mumble and pretend to read it. It's about the most adorable thing ever. So I got her "All the Ways I Love You." It's a pop-up book. And I also picked up "Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots?" As per tradition I was inscribing it and wrote something and at the end, love mom. I still can't believe I am someone's mom. I am sure she will love the books, but they are a Christmas gift so sssshhhhh don't tell.

Election Hell

I am one of the likely many many Coloradians who were denied their right to vote because some county official didn't want to spend enough money to make everyone's life a bit easier.

Here's my story: I got off work at 3 and headed to the polling place where I have voted for the last 6 years. I got there at 3:30 to be greeted by a sign that told me it was no longer a polling place and listed several other places. I pick a place that is thankfully about a block away. I go into that place and nope they are not one either. They direct me to another place, and as I am driving there I see a sign that says VOTING HERE. So I pull in and park and walk into the massive church and get in a very long line that snakes around the place and is crazy long. I check my watch 3:45. I have at least an hour before I have to pick KK up so I should be good right? Yeah not so much. In the next 30 minutes the line moves maybe 15 feet and it becomes quite clear to me that I am not going to get KK on time. So I call Doyce and let him know the situtation and he says he'll bring her to me. I am still only about a third of the way through the line when he drops her off at 4:50.

Now let me say Douglas county where I vote decided to move forward only using the electronic voting systems. Most counties had both systems available to help move people through the lines. Not my county they closed down to only 5 polling centers down from I would guess what used to be 20 and only had a dozen computers, two of which where down. At 5:50 KK had enough of the line thing and she was ready to go. So after standing in line for 2 hours and still being at least an hour from voting, I had to leave. I was livid, and I plan to contact the election office of my county and send them a very unflattering email. It is just crazy ridiculous to stand in line for 2 hours and still be an hour from voting. I am still ticked off about it.

Friday, November 03, 2006

Quote of the day

If I am going to live in a fantasy world, [I need to] work on developing a more impressive fantasy.
-Merrill Markoe