Thursday, September 13, 2007

Messages with a meaning

So my favorite ghost-mom gives me a message yesterday (in the shower at the gym of all places) around 1pm. "Don't let him drive the car". Him? Him who? So I say her husband's name, no, it isn't George, her son's name, nope not Larry, there's only one other male name that I know in that family so I say Jack? No answer. Okay it was a faint message anyway, more of an aside really, so it wasn't a must deliver message. I figure okay, I'll go back to work and email MB and tell her to keep Jack out of the car for the day. There's a phone message from the place I dropped my car off that my tags expired two weeks ago. So I leave work, take the car to the express MVA place and my tags come up invalid. ????? I get sent off to the full service MVA (insert loud groaning here) and about 2 hours later I find out that when I bought my car LAST EFFING YEAR and the dealership transferred my tags from my old car to this one, they never filed the paperwork. I have been driving illegally for a full year. Now, my luck being bad luck, I could have been stuck for hundreds in fines. aaargh. So long story short, the car is now legal, but Betty, who is "him"?

Now, to add injury to insult, my boss was traveling and apparently calling me every minute and a half and I am now in the dog house this morning.

I shall endeavor to marry as soon as possible and let someone else handle car shit.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Mixed Feelings

Okay I admit it, I'm Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde about blogging. I feel like I'm "using" this to only record accomplishments and not really tell the truth about the failures. You know what? So what!

So I started Jenny Craig 8/30. To date I'm down 8.4 lbs to 160.4 which I haven't seen in about 2 years. So the diet is going well.

Failure Warning: I'm smoking. 'nuff said.

I've gotten out my Suze Orman books again. My newest mantra "I will retire in 2020".

Looking forward to hosting my future daughter-in-law (not named Janet) and her mother the first weekend in October for girly wedding stuff.

Job is getting busier.

That's all that's in the old dome for now.

Monday, September 03, 2007

Ah Stuff

Okay, I've blown this post up twice, shall we try again?

Saturday: Rob came up for 24 hours since they finally pulled back into port, two weeks late since they had that terrible terrible loss of 3 pilots from the Truman. Our town has something called First Saturday where the stores stay open late and serve wine and cheese and there's street performers and such. It was such a beautiful night, we shopped and sampled (well they sampled, I had a diet soda). We bar hopped and it was fun. So Jenny Craig wise, I did great 5.8 lbs off! Supposedly though that's all water weight. But hey, I'll take it!

Sunday was Mom's birthday party which was great, I made the world's best chicken fingers, so they say, I couldn't eat any, and the requisite burgers and hot dogs. I also made them eat salad! I made a pretty salad in a huge triffle dish. Then Sunday night I met up with my sister and her friend and went to a singles dance. I had a blast learning this dance (which I have no clue what it is) it's like a cross between a square dance and a line dance. I even asked someone to cha cha, can I have my medal now please?

Monday was little Renee's 2nd birthday party. Then home to my ghetto pool. What a weekend. Here's a picture of why we can't have nice plants, or Queen of the Hostas:


who says summer is over: