Puppies!

I have been looking at puppies online - I keep going back and forth between getting a new one or not.  How much time should you wait to get a new dog?  I miss how excited Muppet was when I would come home - but it was nice to be able to go to Portland and not have to find a hotel that would take pets or find someone to watch the pup.  It's nice not to have to walk a pup after work - but now I have no motivation to go out and walk.  Nice to sleep in - but I miss my furry alarm clock.  So there are all my pros and cons - pretty much everything I thought about before I got Mup.

I have been looking at the Yourpup.com site - http://www.yourpup.com/YorkieMixedPuppies.html - I like Chrissie and Fancy!  I also saw these three on petfinder.com

What do you think I should do?I don't want to jump in to anything - but if I decide on one from your pup I would need to get it in a couple weeks when I am down in Texas - same breeders that C and her family have gotten all of their pups!

De

Road Trip

I had planned on leaving before traffic hour and to make sure I got to Portland while it was still light out - soooo did not happen!  Something came up in the morning which had me change the leaving time to around 230.  I left around 3 - went to Target to grab a few things - needed Road Trip food and drinks.  Stopped by Kits Cameras to get L's pictures I had dropped off the day before - then it was to L's place to give them to her and then I would be on my way.  Well . . . on my way to L's place I realized I had forgotten my Christian Kane ticket at home!!!  The whole reason for heading to Portland!  At least I remembered while I was still in Washington!!  So by the time I got back to my place, grabbed my ticket, and headed back out it was 600!!  So much for avoiding traffic.

The traffic ended up not being too bad - I had never driven past Olympia so the drive was fun - seeing new places - and weird monuments on the side of the road - they were on the I5N side so I will stop and get pictures on the way home so you can see what I mean.  South of Olympia - making good time and going just 5 over the speed limit I come up rather fast on the car in front of me and not because it was slowing down to stop - because the old woman driving her car in the middle lane was only going 50 mph when the speed limit was 70!!  Come On - Really!!  Then - just after it got really dark it started to really pour!  Nothing like driving in the dark, on roads you have never been on before, with lots of semi-trucks, and massive amounts of water!

Made it to Portland but it took me a few turns around the block to find the hotel and the parking garage! 

Now I am about to venture out into the big city and walk around - make a practice walk to Dante's to make sure I know where I'm going tonight!

De

Low to High

I have been an absentee blogger lately. I found myself in a depression that I couldn’t seem to pull myself out of. I wish I could tell you what it was that happened to pull me out of it. If I knew I could probably make a ton of money bottling it and selling it! I just found myself yesterday morning feeling a bit better and last night I was on a High High – I was cooking and cleaning – did laundry – was up until 1130 and then woke up this morning at 530! It sounds a bit bipolar – went from a low low to a high high. Hmm . . . . . I like the high high!


Oh . . . . Yesterday at work I cleaned my desk and got caught up on a few older items! I came in this morning and it was so nice not to be overwhelmed when I looked at my desk. Taking tomorrow and Monday off and I hate to leave my desk with lots of stuff piled up. Now I’m just waiting for my invoices to be approved and then I will do my check run and try to get them all out today before I leave – need to leave at 345 to get to my Lisa Appt – I will probably ask her about going from low to high.

Found some very cute puppies online – K and Linds were teasing me that it would be very funny if I got a puppy when I am in Texas in May for K’s college graduation!

Heading to Portland tomorrow for Christian Kane and Voodoo Doughnuts! Very excited!

OK – time to get some work done. A bit hard – the high makes me a bit jittery and can’t stop tapping my foot. Over energized!

De

Quote

I saw this quote posted on Facebook this evening -

The Wolf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young. Cooperate with the pack. Play when you can. Hunt when you must. Rest in between. Share your affections. Voice your feelings. Leave your mark. © Del Goetz

Good words to live by.

De

How do you keep a positive attitude going?

 I got up this morning – decided I was going to start the work week with a positive attitude – try to let go of everything that has been bothering me about what goes on at work. It lasted about 5 minutes – took that much time for me to see the notes on my desk and the email sent to me and cc’d to the new person I report to. The person who sent the email is my bosses boss – which bothered me because the email wasn’t about something that has been a chronic issue so why include my supervisor – also, why does this person only ever send out emails when something hasn’t been done to his expectations but never sends out an email when something has met or exceeded his expectations. Like the spreadsheet I got to him on Friday because he needed it early (wasn’t due until this Friday) or the spreadsheet I had prepared on my own anticipating that he would need to know the Fixed Asset ID’s I had assigned to the remodel project. If I could just hear Good Job every once in awhile then it would be so much easier to take the criticism. Keep piling on the shitty comments and it just makes me feel like I can never do anything right which then results in me believing that and so not doing anything right. Why put energy in if you’re just going to get beat down anyways. I’m starting to feel like I did when I worked at Western. Not a good feeling. I hate feeling close to tears at work – There’s No Crying in Finance! Doesn’t help either that the headache and annoying ear ringing are back again!

I don’t really feel like I can talk to anyone about this because everything has been so negative in my life lately that I feel like people are getting tired of hearing it. So – I either paste on a happy face and fake that everything is OK (I am really good at that) or I just don’t talk to anyone at all – either way I will just keep all of this bottled up inside me until it finally explodes. Although – won’t do anything crazy because my house is a disaster and I worry about people seeing it. Told L that a bad sign will be if my house is completely spotless!

D

A Dark Stormy Night!

It was a dark and stormy night . . . . . I had just dropped a friend off at his Park&Ride -  This wasn't just any Park and Ride it was in Kent . . dun dun da!!!  Scary, down in the valley of Kent!  My friend got in his truck and told me to follow him out and when he went to go up the hill I would turn to the right.  Well . . . somehow I missed the turn to the right!  When we started going up the hill I figured I had definitely missed something.  I finally got to a spot where I could turn around and I headed back down the hill . . a dark night is not when you want to be lost in Kent!!  Not that any time is a good time!  Well, I finally found my way to I5 and got back to my own house.

I had worked late on Month End items and just wanted to go home, watch Survivor, and go to bed.  Best laid plans of mice and men!  Got home only to discover that my DVR had not recorded Survivor and it had cancelled the recording of tonight's new episode of Fringe! Well . . I didn't miss anything on Survivor - my last player was voted out - No one left in Survivor and my team is out on Amazing Race.  I will have to find the episode of Fringe online so I can watch it.

I did get my ticket to Christian Kane in the mail!!  Yay!!  In 2 weeks I will head down to Portland and see him in person!  So excited.  I still need to figure out where to stay.  I am leaning towards the Embassy Suites because your rate includes Breakfast and a Managers Cocktail hour!  I remember these from when I went to DC with my Mom and we stayed at an Embassy Suites!  The hotel is also within walking distance of the place where Christian is playing and also Voodoo Donuts!

OK - time to head to bed!

De