A Few Items

This bullet point update is brought to you by Rice Krispies and Survivor.

Discovered on Monday that I should not listen to 80's music when I'm feeling down. For some reason, all it did was bring up bad memories, regrets, and had me feeling worse than I did before.

Last night I had an actual phone conversation with L. No arguing, snarking, or hang ups. We talked about books of all things! I went to my bookcase and started reading off titles I had. She actually ended up choosing a book that I had and her friend Kelly had. She even read on the bus today.

I have been adjusting my eating habits and watching my calories. I need to work on it though - I'm so worried about not having enough calories at the end of the day that I don't eat much during the work day - I then get home starving with lots of calories to spend. like tonight - I had half my calories left for dinner- I had rice krispies, milk, and a banana - its now 9:00 and I still have 300 left to use.

Survivor - learned a few things tonight. A tribe of all woman will implode. No communication skills and tonight they decided to keep the fun, young, stupid one and send home the stronger, older one. The guys are so taking them down. Also, old men with big pot bellies should not wear teeny tiny speedos. They also should not dance around the campfire while wearing it. That is one sight I can never unsee.

De

Weekend

Didn't really do much this weekend - I made the mistake of channel surfing and finding Twilight New Moon and Eclipse playing back to back on Showtime!  Yup - that was a block of time spent on the couch - I am just a little obsessed with those movies - I've watched them back to back quite a few times now. 

Today - I spent some time trying to get the mats and knots out of Chrissy's fur - she does not like to sit very still!  I gave up trying to comb the ones out of her legs and paws - I ended up cutting them out.  She know looks like I took a weed whacker to her legs.  There is still a patch on her neck I need to work on - then I will need to take her to the groomers to get the hair cut evened up a bit. 

L called me today - she and her Dad were at the Museum of Flight and there was a Star Wars gathering there - she had to call me because she was so excited. 

Part of me wishes I was the part time parent - the one who gets to show up every couple of years and do fun things - it definitely seems to be the better deal.  These days all I get are the phone calls asking for money or crying about the latest drama - then having her get pissed because I'm not reacting the way she wanted me to - Case in point - Friday she called me during my lunch hour in tears because she couldn't find something and wanted to know if I'd seen it - she was crying so hard I couldn't understand her.  I guess I wasn't as upset as she wanted me to be - she hung up on me.  I  thought we had been disconnected so I called her back - she then informed me that No - she had hung up on me.  Yup - she did the exact thing to me that she gets pissed if I do to her.  Her Dad never has to deal with this - Can I be that parent for awhile!!

De

Sophia Grace and Rosie!!

Just smile!!

One Way?

I was driving down Pike St in Seattle today - I had just crossed 5th Ave and was heading to the light at 6th Ave when a car turned off 6th onto Pike going the wrong direction!!  WTH!  This lady was heading right towards me - I honked my horn and she never even flinched - gave no indication that she even knew she was going the wrong way.  I should have followed her into the parking garage she turned into so I could give her a piece of my mind - but I didn't think of it until I got to my usual garage.  How does someone turn off of a one way street and not see the signs that say One Way with an arrow pointing in the other direction - not to mention seeing cars heading right at you - and not once step on your brakes. Crazy drivers!!

Chrissy just made me giggle - I heard a noise on the other side of the living room - I looked up and all I could see was her butt and a wagging tail - her head was buried in one of her toy boxes and she was digging around trying to get at a toy.  She is such a toddler!!  She has toys all over the living room but she still needs to pull out more!  Crazy Crazy Pup!

OK - time for bed.  Tomorrow is Friday!!  Yay!!

De

Chemistry?

Depression - this is how it works - one minute your down and the next everything is fine. 

Nothing in my environment has changed - I'm still buried at work, my house is still a disaster, I'm still overwhelmed - but I can feel the change in my brain!  I'm happy, energized, positive.  Feel like I can accomplish something.  It's times like these where I ride the wave and try to do as much as I can.  I sometimes wonder if I might be a little Bi-Polar - I certainly have low lows and high highs.  Although, when I'm on a high I don't go out and do destructive things, spend lots of money, or take risks.

I am so excited for L this week - her Dad is coming in on Friday to spend a long weekend with her.  It's been just about 3 years since they've seen each other.  She is so excited - I believe they are both going to stay at her Dad's parent's house - that way they can spend as much time together as possible.  I told L that if it worked out maybe the 3 of us could have lunch or dinner together - she would like to have both her parents in the same room.  It's been so long and I think L could benefit from seeing her parents be civil with each other.  We shall see.

De

Good Day

Today was a good day - felt like I accomplished somethings at work - went to dinner with a friend after work - got home to find my new Whoopie Pie Pan had been delivered!!  I am so excited - can hardly wait to make my first batch of Whoopie Pies - if I had gotten home a little bit earlier tonight I would have made them - maybe tomorrow.  I will need to search the Internet for the perfect recipe.  

Tonight while watching Glee I saw a commercial that was soooo about my Dad!!  It was one of those Pemco insurance commercials. I think they may need to pay my Dad cuz he was certainly the inspiration for this one! 

Speaking of Glee - tonight's show was an odd coincidence of timing - Amber Riley who plays Mercedes on the show sang I Will Always Love You that was one of Whitney Houston's biggest hits. She did an incredible job and it couldn't have been better if it had been planned. De

They're Watching

I swear - this weekend I felt like they were watching me!

Saturday morning someone from church knocked on my door at 9:30 - that's just a little too early on a Saturday morning.  Of course Chrissy started barking, but I've gotten pretty good at grabbing her up quickly and sneaking up to the peephole on the door to see who is out there.  This time it was one of the gals who isn't very warm and fuzzy and has a way of making me feel like I'm doing something wrong or I'm being selfish.  She knocked 3 separate times and stood at my door for 5 minutes!!  Really - if I haven't answered the door withing 1 minute then I'm probably not going to answer the door.  A knock on the door is a request for a face to face conversation - not a demand.  I don't have to open the door if I don't want to.

Sunday night I took Chrissy out at 8:30 pm - we got to the bottom of the stairs and headed toward to the street - I hear foot steps behind me - it was the missionaries.  They said they were in the area and were just going to head to my place to see how I was doing.  Interesting how they just happened to be right there when Chrissy needed to go outside.

 Just feeling a little paranoid!!

De