Monthly Archives: May 2006

Beautiful Sunday

Posted on Sunday May 7th, 2006 by | Comments Off on Beautiful Sunday

It is about 84F sunny and breezy out. Breezy is no fun while in the pool, but while sitting in the patio it is great.

I did spend some time laying out and jumping in the pool. But I think I did quite a bit yesterday that I was getting too restless for it today. It helped that Harold joined me today. He went and picked up another raft and we kept floating into each other…..lol

So I’m sitting here on the patio, enjoying the breeze, listening to some tunes, caught up my email and decided to move my compaq out here so I can clean it up for my dad. Well, deleting files, cookies, unstalling programs he doesn’t need was just taking way too long. And I know I would miss something. So I decided it would be easier to reformat it. I haven’t personally done a reformat in long while. Harold usually does it for me while I’m at work. So it is different. But the good thing is that I don’t have to install as many programs. Dad doesn’t need a program like dreamweaver and ftping.

In fact I better make a list of the things he needs…..lol I also need to see if dad would like my split key board, it was great on my carpal tunnel.

I helped Harold move the universal weight machine out of the spare room yesterday and into the garage. He has decided that we aren’t taking it with us when move out of state, since we don’t use it as much as we use to. So we are going to put it in the paper.

Now I have to clean up that room for my folks. We figured we’ll have the kids sleep in the office and give my folks that room. When it is just the kids, we put them in the spare. Now we just have to get the air mattress for them. =)

It has been nice to have the last 2 days off and been able to take it easy. I’m not looking forward to going into work tomorrow; I have to be there at 6am. The only good thing about that is I get off of work earlier and I love being able to get a lot done without clients coming in. It has been going better at work. I have my fingers crossed that it continues to do so.

There is only one problem with laying out, no matter how many times you jump into the pool you still have that greasy feeling from suntan lotion….yuck. I’ll be jumping into shower again today.

All in all, it was a selfishly relaxing weekend, even if I didn’t get all the things I wanted to get done. It was a weekend I sorely needed. =)

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My Day

Posted on Saturday May 6th, 2006 by | Comments Off on My Day

I came in from outside to watch the Derby. We don’t follow horseracing in general, but you can’t miss the big 3. Plus we’ve always loved the beauty and grace of horses. How can you not?

Today I just wanted to watch the race not all the stuff that runs up to it, cuz it was cutting into me getting some more sun. The things I do like to watch is when they show the hats. Kind of a throw back to an old era. I know if I got a hat for the Derby, it would be a wide brim one with blue & purple feathers and flowers and some of that fishnet type lace. Something that would catch your eye.

The Derby hats remind me of a book I saw once called Crowns : Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats. Now those women had style and class in how they expressed themselves.

The race was a good one with Barbaro winning. When they replyed the race from the angle of the blimp, it was really the best angle. It was cool to see how the jockeys guided and moved through the pack. And Barbaro out did them all, it was cool.

I did get some sun today, I think. Most of it on my back, mostly since I laid on my belly reading a magazine. I get too hot and restless to lay on my back sometimes. Now when i’m floating around on our raft in the pool, laying on my back doesn’t both me. I think it cuz the coolness of the water touching me helps me from getting too hot. I’ll try to get some more on my front tomorrow.

I didn’t go out without some protection. I used a lower SPF lotion. I wanted to get some sun, but didn’t want to burn. =) Looks like I didn’t cover the back of my thighs enough and left a few small spots that I missed on my back. I guess I’ll need Harold to help me with it tomorrow.

The sun is going down and I have my laptop set up on the patio. Harold is making dinner and I guess I really should start bringing my stuff in, but I really don’t feel like it. Even though the office is a nice one, it just gets olds and makes me feel trapped to be in there. Especially once the extreme heat hits, I won’t be able to handle being outside even with a pool.

I’ve always been one who likes to sit outside, ever since I could remember. Maybe that is why I’ve been missing fishing and camping here lately. And I don’t mean Florida style. When I think of fishing and camping, it is on a rivers in the woods……..Minnesota, Alaskan, Canadian style.

The only thing that is a downer when camping is the mosquitos and latrinas. I’m too much of a female not to miss that. If I was able to stand 95% of the time when I had to go, it won’t be an issue. It is about the only thing that I envy about men…….not having to sit down the majority of the time.

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Noisy Neighbors

Posted on Saturday May 6th, 2006 by | Comments Off on Noisy Neighbors

Nothing like having a perfect hot day for some pool time and you hear your neighbors music vibrating through your walls and over your TV! Talk about putting a kink in your day and pissing you off.

So I went for a bike ride, found out what the addy was and called the police to see if there was a noise ordnance and if I could report anonymously, since we don’t want problems.

Luckily I could report it and I did. The police said it was a heavy call day but they would stop by even if took awhile. It is Saturday, so I know that they have more important things so no problem.

I’m wondering if the police got to them already or the neighbors got a clue (doubtful) because they turned it down.

It is a beautiful day and I have no problem with them enjoying their music, hell I do the same thing. But damn it! Be considerate of your neighbors, they don’t want to hear your shit. I know they don’t want to hear my shit and I try very hard not to disturb my neighbors. If I have music on, I make sure the sound doesn’t go too far.

I know I must have been raised better then most people, cuz some of my earliest memories was for getting in trouble for walking heavy when we lived about people in apartments. My folks had no problem putting a hand to my ass for excessive noise that would disturb our neighbors. It was called being considerate and folks don’t seem to have that anymore.

What happen to the golden rule?!?

“Do onto others, as you wish to have onto you”

I remember that being over the alphabet and chalk board in 2nd grade and it some thing that I try hard to live by.

Maybe I’m just old and cranky, either way….screw it…..I’m jumping in my pool and try to enjoy my weekend off. =)

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Heckled

Posted on Thursday May 4th, 2006 by | Comments Off on Heckled

You got to love this : Hecklers interrupt Rumsfeld speech

I loved it when the protester said “this is America”, referring to his right to free speech when Rumsfeld waved off security.

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Nothing much going on here

Posted on Thursday May 4th, 2006 by | 1 comment

So that is the reason for my lack of updates. Weather has been good for the most part, high 80’s low 90’s but the wind is still coming from the East so we are still covered with dust and now the odor of sewage since they are working on the sewage pipes at the construction site. Joy…

Still no word on if we have to move or not, I spoke to the landlord last week and they was meeting with the home owners today or tomorrow to discus it so I will call Monday or Tuesday if I have not heard from them. He seems to think living on a month to month lease is a great thing. I see it as what happens when we are in Seattle for 10 days and when we get back we have 20 days to pack, find a new place and move.

I estimated it would be $10,000 at least to have a moving company move us to Washington/Oregon and at least $5000 to $8000 to do it ourselves which the idea fills me with dread, but if I have to and that is the only way we can move to where we want to be, then we will do what we will have to do.

The idea is to rent a large Uhaul and tow our truck while Pauline drives a rented RV behind me with the cats. The main reason for this is, it is about 3500 miles from here to Seattle, at 65 MPH at 12 hours that’s about 780 miles which if we could keep up that pace would take us at least 4.5 days to drive it, add all the stops we will be making since Pauline is not the best traveler and with 2 cats who HATE cars it would be best on them and us if we could let them have room to roam and we could also do some small site seeing on the way and not have to worry about finding a hotel with space to park a 26’moving van and trailer like I had the last time when I drove to FL.

The hotel I had booked was too packed to pull in the parking lot so I had to leave it and find another hotel which turned out for the best since it was in a BAD part of Columbia SC. Which really didn’t matter since the cats would not let me get any sleep when we did get a hotel 40 miles later and after 4 hours of laying there I packed back up and hit the road and eventually pulled off into a rest stop and cat napped in a jam packed Uhaul cab with 3 cats a bright sun and crappy A/C.

So the idea of knowing we would have room to chill, a bed, a shower of any sort and a place to eat as well as more room for the cats is a good thing. Of course the RV will cost about $2500 not including gas which I’m sure will push it up over $3500 so we are back at the $10,000 area to move.

Yep, that is a lot of money, but if all goes well, we should be able to pull it off, if not we will of course have to stay here until we do. If that isn’t motivation then I don’t know what is.

I’ve never been one to “settle down” and it does bother me that I never seem “happy” with where I live, but I am hoping that as I grow older I will feel more comfortable with where I am and actually get a social life, maybe that is the secret?

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