My Random Thoughts

It took me a lot longer than I expected, but I finally put together a January theme that I like. I have Feb done, so now I can start working on March and beyond. Sounds like quite a goal.

Back from PA, it’s nice to wear my shorts again. I enjoyed the holiday, being on vacation. I’m not sure I’m ready to go back to work. I thought about checking email tonight or tomorrow, but I decided against it. Tuesday will come soon enough. We were visiting fools! We got together with more friends and family than we have in the past. It was good to hang out with John and Leslie. Now if we can just get the vacation planned!

The girls seemed to have missed us. They wouldn’t even let us in the door without giving them some lovings. Sheba has her meds for the day and she’s sleeping on her bed. Champagne is probably on our bed. I’m waiting for midnight so I can start my resolutions! Fitness & writing are the two things I want to concentrate on. Working less & diving more will be in there as well. Speaking of diving - will need to get Jeff to call Rex to see if we can dive this weekend!
I didn’t take as many pictures as I thought I would. That’s another resolution, get more involved in photography. I think 2007 will be the creative year!

Now that I have the theme finished for this blog, I guess I’ll have to do something for my writing blog!

I’m trying to modify my theme - I didn’t think it would take this much work. YIKES!! I should have been a programmer. This is FUN! Now that I’ve played around with it a little bit, I think I will work on a theme for Valentine’s Day and then St. Patrick’s Day. At this point it might take me another month to get a nice theme going.

Its almost 2007 - it’s time for a theme change!! Still have a number of things to fix, but its coming along.

The colored lights are showing through the evergreen branches. The gifts are (mostly) opened and a good time was had by all. Leslie and John made a beef tenderloin for dinner. It was really good. I must get that recipe and try that. We also had mashed yams. I didn’t know I liked yams! They were pretty good.

After lunch we retired to the living room (retired, sounds so upper crust) to open gifts. We got his parents a photo printer and a DVD player. There is a such a story to go along with the printer. We went out yesterday to buy it. We’re looking at the different models. There are two left of the one that we were seriously considering. Out of no place a guy comes up the aisle, walks in front of John and Jeff and takes one of the printers. We were standing right in front of it and he just picks it up as if we weren’t even there. Luckily there were 2. We all stood there in shock for a few seconds before Leslie told John to grab the one that was left. I almost felt like I was on candid camera! But it all worked out in the end! Tomorrow we’ll work on hooking that monster up. The DVD was enough for one night.

Family Portrait

Originally uploaded by DivingDuo.

Ok, so maybe not what someone would think as a family portrait, but it is for us. I had visions of getting both Sheba and Champagne to sit nicely in our laps while my camera took some nice pictures. Yeah, I was having visions! Neither gal wanted to sit nicely and certainly not together. This was one of the best pictures I managed to capture. Ah well, I’ll have to try it again sometime. I do like the background with the Christmas tree!

I got my hair done today. I was so frustrated with my hair that I finally decided to get it cut short again. Right now I love it. I hope it behaves itself tomorrow. I’m not doing anything tomorrow anyway, so I guess it doesn’t really matter.

I’m looking forward to the holiday. I finally started taking my vacation today (I know, it’s my own fault that I don’t take it). I didn’t realize how tired i was until I started relaxing. I fell asleep early yesterday! I probably will do the same thing tonight.

I was in Orlando yesterday, the 2.5 hour drive up and the 2.5 hour drive home gave me a lot of time to think about things - espeically since I couldn’t find a decent radio station. I was taking a diversity class, but this was more than a diversity class where we learn to be politically correct and culturally sensitive. This was real life, this was honest. I was impressed. There were a couple of activities that really helped to illustrate aspects of our behavior. I was really surprised how polarizing and how to the point the class was. This is just the first of 4 classes ( I think ). I am looking forward to taking more. I actually enjoyed it. There was only one thing that ruined it. The people that insisted on dominating the class. There were 2 people - one gal was so LOUD. Her normal voice was YELLING and I ended up sitting right beside her. GAWD, it hurt my ears.  The guy was always right, knew all the answers, had to speak up first.  I wanted to reach over and smack him.  A couple of people didn’t even get a chance to speak up at all. Ah well…..

Sheba is not doing well. We took her to the vet on Tuesday. She’s breathing hard. We put her on a water pill. There is fluid around her lungs and heart (as well as most of her internal organs). It seems that the water pill is helping. She’s still doing the same stuff she was, jumping on the bed, kneading Jeff at night, and purring. He’s worried about her. I’m worried about her.  I don’t want anything to happen over Christmas. Krista is going to be taking care of her.  I know her timing is coming, but it’s still hard to think about it. I wish I would know a specific date! Just tell me when.

I told Jeff we should take some pictures this weekend. Kind of a family portrait since I have the tripod and can do that. I hope I can get some nice ones.

And I’m thinking about resolutions. With two weeks left in the year, it seems like the right time.  Top on my list is working out (as always).  I’m also want to work on having more friends.  I know I have to put myself out there and meeting people (almost sounds like dating). But its so hard. I have been learning a lot about myself - maybe its time to take what I’ve learned and apply it.

I just did something no one in an exempt position should do. I calculated all my hours worked for the year to see what my ‘true’ pay rate is. VERY DEPRESSING. What’s worse, is calculating what I could have made in OT if I would have been non-exempt working those hours. I think that was even more depressing. But it does make one think, hmmm, should I be working this hard, or find a job at that pay rate assuming I can keep it to 40 hours a week. Food for thought.