My Random Thoughts

I’ve been quite, but I have lots to say.  So much in fact, that I had to write myself a list of things I wanted to talk about.  I’m not going to put them all here, no, I’m going to save them so I can just put them out at specific times…..maybe you’ll come back and visit more   Perhaps leave some comments so I know I’m not the only one out here…..whatcha say?

I stepped on the scale and its down 10lbs for the month (actually 11) YAY me!!

Where does the time go – it’s Saturday again. I have to fly out tomorrow, so I have a short weekend. I have work to do, so I have an even shorter weekend.  I have a party to plan and I house to clean and laundry to do. What am I going to do? Oh probably go craft for a bit, perhaps workout. I will sweep the house and attempt to put some order to the place. While the to do list looks long, it’s probably not all that bad. One just must get off of one’s butt and do it.

So on that note, i’m off to do something!

I know that’s probably not so hard to believe. All of my cats (and all cats in general) do some pretty strange things, but Nut has been consistently warped since we brought her home. She’s a sweet girl, she curled up with Champagne, she’s now a ‘mother’ to Wootle and she’s just a gentle soul.

One of her habits is to steal pens. Yes, right off of my desk, right in front of my face. She’ll jump up. If there is one laying around, she’ll pick it up and walk away. If there isn’t one laying around, she’ll pull one out of the pen holder. A couple of days later, she’ll bring it back. She must be writing a novel or had some report due for her leaders (she is an alien, you know). She’s now FASCINATED by the printer. As soon as she hears it start, she’s on my desk watching the paper come out. Maybe she submitted a job and it hasn’t printed yet, or maybe she’s written something she doesn’t want me to read, so she needs to get to it first?  Whatever the case, she’s guarding  it until it stops.

THe other thing she’s doing is carrying around her favorite toy. That’s not all that strange, Sheba used to do that too. What is interesting is Nut is developing the same habit of holding the toy and then ‘crying’ until she finds you. She’ll bring the toy in and drop it near you.

Hours of enjoyment!!

I was getting tired of pulling out every tray to find what I was looking for, so I decided to do a little organization last night. Holy cow. I have more envelopes than should be legally allowed by law for one person. I have paper, and just stuff. And I’m going to a stamp store today because they are having a sale. Jeff is going to kill me <GRIN> I really don’t need more than the basics that always run out (glue, tape, specialty paper). But as for the rest, I think I’m going to have to go through a serious purging exercise again.  And this was after I already did that a couple of times already.

Now the good thing is that I’m using the stuff again. I painted a cigar box. I’m waiting for that to try so I can gold leaf it, stamp it and collage it. I’m making a recipe box for my friend Denise.  I have more, so I think I’m also going to make a bank, maybe a keepsake box and some desk accessories.  YAY me – creativity has returned.

I had an idea for Christmas cards and it’s translating nicely to paper from my brain. I just need to keep working through the ideas. And on that note – back to the creativity den

I worked in my craft room yesterday. How could I have forgotten how much fun that was? I made Valentine’s Day cards and today I made some general thinking of you cards.  I was stamping while I was listening to my online course for my exam on Friday. It was a good way to listen and not be bored and hunting for something for my hands to do, which is what I would have ended up doing.  I have three more sessions to listen to, that’s a total of 6 more hours. That should take me through St. Patrick’s Day and Easter! I need to find more of these things where I can just listen. I need to make it to Christmas!

Some of the cards are all original creations. Some of them, I’m taking the ATC’s and card fronts that I’ve gotten in swaps and I’m recycling. It will be nice to see if once I send things out, I start getting things in return. I enjoy getting personal communication in the mail. I enjoy getting it via email as well.

I’m looking forward to my next couple of hours in the room. What else might I find if I try it again?

There are not enough hours in the day. I’m convinced of that. Of course, sitting in meetings all day without access to email also helps to make for long work days. Two more days! I’m hoping that tomorrow we can crank through some other stuff and I have a chance to get some of my to-do list done. I’ve got so many follow up items for the client, but I need to get myself organized. Looks like it will be another early morning of prep work. I just can’t work any longer tonight.

I have nothing profound to say, nothing to update, not even any thoughts running around my head. I think it’s time for me to crawl into bed.

For being a short week with a holiday in the middle of it, it was a long hard week. I didn’t think Friday was EVER going to end. I still have work piled up that I’m going to get to shortly (or at some point today). Next week is going to be painfully long. I have to go to the client site. I’ll be traveling for the next 3 weeks. I’m really really getting over this travel stuff. The nice thing is that I made Silver Status, so I can start snagging the good seats and potentially getting upgrades. That will make the travel less painful. Now I’m remembering why I didn’t mind it as much when I was at ADP – with status, it’s almost bearable.

There is one thing I need to stop doing and that would be reading the comment after the articles on the Sun-Sentinel. If those people had to write letters to the editor, rather than being able to make anonymous comments that they could whip off in a few seconds, the would put more thought into what they were saying and not be so stupid. It saddens me to think that there are people out there who actually think the way they do.  The article from yesterday was on the ME’s office in Orlando getting bigger autopsy tables because the country is getting bigger. Yes, obesity is a problem – we get that.  So the comments were not on the story as much as they were personal attacks on anyone who might be carrying around extra weight. Comments to the effect of you’re fat because you want to be. Put the bon bons down and move. There should be a tax on twinkies. If you’d stop eating the country wouldn’t have this problem. Fat people should have to pay for 2 airline seats, etc etc etc.

As if everyone’s weight problem is due strictly to the fact that they are just sitting around eating, and thinking about their next meal. (that was the comment that really got me – yeah, I just sit here and worry about what I’m going to eat next). Where did all this negativity and nastiness come from?  Another article was on the first borns of 2008. You know, the nice little fluff about the first baby in the county, or the hospital after the new year.  Some of the comment on that article were. Great more crack babies and welfare mothers we are going to have to support.  HELLO? Where in the article did it say they were anything more than upstanding tax paying citizens?

I know, if it bothers me – stop reading the comments. I’m going to have to do that, but I just don’t understand why they would choose to use a public forum like that to just spout off and sound so ignorant. What about some thought out public debate on topics, what about some well wishes for these families? No, just negativity and stupidity. Sigh.

In other news. I had two cats stare me awake at 6:30am. Champange sat on my chest and stared, while Wootle, after getting no response from her stares took action, she started licking my nose. Who needs an alarm clock. I have cats.

BRRR – a cold snap has come to Florida. Now, I get that it’s all relative and that our cold snap would be beautiful weather to those barraged by snow right now, but BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.  Right now (8:30pm) it’s 46 degrees. Tomorrow’s high is forecasted to be 64. I was wondering when we’d get our cold weather. I actually had to put the heat on. The poor cats didn’t know what to do, so they tried to snuggle on me while I was trying to work.

It was tough trying to get back into the swing of things today. I didn’t get everything finished that I wanted to, but I didn’t stay late. Just couldn’t make myself. Got to ease into it.  I still need to clean the house up. I was going to do that this morning, but decided to stay in bed a few more minutes. Maybe I’ll be motivated tomorrow morning. Maybe.

I am enjoying this having a life thing. Like actually having time to write in a blog, exercise, read a book, make some cards. I may even break out the needlepoint again.  I better not say it too loud. I might jinx myself!!  And on that note, back to my book.