Tuesday blahs

I don't have any idea what to write about, but I wanted to get my pity party off of the top. So, I will just give you a rundown of the last few days.

Saturday: Wasn't feeling well when I woke up, and prayed that it wasn't the stomach flu (it wasn't). I got a little bit of housework done, but not much. I am still trying to catch up. I took Tony lunch in the afternoon (he was working), then went to my Godson's birthday party. I posted on Friday that he was 7...I was wrong, he turned 6. They had a bowling party for him and watching all the kids bowl was hilarious! After all that excitement I went home and didn't do much of anything else....I know, it is way too exciting to handle, right?

Sunday: Went to church....I almost overslept until Buddy climbed up on the bed and proceeded to try to lay on my pillow and head. Let me tell you, 117lbs of Labrador ass on you head will either suffocate you or wake you up quickly ;0). Apparently my dog has no sense of where is a proper spot to flop down and lay. Anyhoo, after church I went home and made Tony some brunch. We went to my parents' house in the afternoon for dinner...Mom made chicken pot pie....and we took my grandfather along. So, dinner was delish and we got to see my sis and bro in law as well my aunt and uncle. Everyone had a grand time picking on Tony, as is usually the case because no one sees him that often ;0). We later visited with Tony's parents....Tony's dad is feeling much better and is getting around fairly well considering.

Monday: Work...blah blah....yeah, Monday was a wash...absolutely nothing to tell except we watched 24 and as usual Jack kicked ass!

So, now that I have exposed just how extremely boring I really am, let me just say Congratulations to Beanie's Mama on baby no. 2, and my friend Leah on the arrival of Grace at 8lbs 1oz at 6:40 this morning!

Humble pie anyone?

Have you ever been in any type of situation or surrounding, say a new group of people or a new place, where you find yourself acting a bit out of character? I have been guilty of that a few times, but for the most part I have always been proud/happy to just be myself. That being said, my natural personality is not very cut and dry so to speak.

Well, the other day a friend of a friend (I really don't consider her an acquaintance) made a backhanded comment about how it seems that I change my likes depending upon who I am around. I was pretty pissed to say the least.

Her: "....well that is nice that you take on whatever interests your friends of the moment have...."

Me: "The last time I checked, I had the same group of friend that I had ten years ago, and obviously that doesn't include you, or you would know that that is not the case..."

Her: *Blink*

Me: "I am not trying to be rude, but if you want to speak up about something, you should get your facts straight. I don't do anything unless I want to, not because someone else does and I want to be cool."

Her: *Blink*

Uh huh, that is what I though....

That brings me to the point of this post. I have been doing some thinking lately about where I am in life. I am usually very happy go lucky and very laid back..maybe too much so, but hey. I am a pleaser....it makes me a very happy girl to make someone else happy. I know, if you need be sick, I'll wait. *Taps foot, checks watch* OK, all better now? Good. So, while her comment pissed me off, it made me realize something. Maybe she has a point....kinda.

I don't really change my personality for my friends, because they all know how I am and are a lot like me...God help us ;0), but it seems that I did change myself for someone. Yep, that means the MAN. Have any of you guys/girls changed (even a little) to get your love interest/spouse/sig. other?

Before Tony and I were a couple, I was quite the social butterfly. I went out every weekend...either to the bar, to see a show, go to the park, or SOMETHING! Now....well, I can't remember the last time I went out anywhere...like OUT that wasn't a family function or something of that sort. I don't drink hardly at all anymore because he looks down on it, and my best friend says that I am not as outgoing anymore. :0( Damn, I suck!!!

Don't get me wrong...I love Tony and we don't fight...(much);0) but who doesn't? But, what is so surprising is that I didn't realize these things right away. Tony is a homebody, and so when you first start dating someone new, that necessarily isn't a big deal, because you probably just want to mess around anyway...but four years later...I feel a little like I need to get permission to go out or I get the silent treatment.

So, this is me eating humble pie, because I guess I did change for someone, and now I don't know if I like that....all in the name of making someone besides myself happy....OK, now I feel sick ;0( But this is something I will have to ponder and discuss with the man and see where it leads.

OK, I have decided I am going to make time to do something that I want to do at least once a week, because I can. Usually in the past, if I try to get Tony to go out with me...he doesn't want to, so I guess I will just have to go on my own!

Alright, I am done...as always your input and opinions are appreciated! Have a great weekend! And, Happy 28th anniversary to my parents! and Happy 7th birthday to my Godson Logan!!!

I need new tunes

First of all, I just wanted to thank everyone for their concern for Tony's dad...it is greatly appreciated! He is doing well, sore, but good. They are supposed to release him to come home today, so I hope that they do, because he is so ready to go home.

OK, last night I was checking my email and I realized that it has been a very long time since I bought any new songs for my ipod. Now, if I had my way, and an infinite amount of money to spend, I would probably have more songs on there than I would have time to listen to it. I think I only have 150 songs on it at the moment because I lost a lot of my music files and haven't put them on my new computer, but that's my own fault.

Anyone who looks at my music collection looks at me as if I have two heads, six arms, ten legs, and green skin. Well, not really but you get the point. I like many different types of music. Here is a short list: blues, metal, rock (classic and new), country, bluegrass, oldies, punk, latin, classical.....well, you can see where this is going. There isn't much that I really don't like. That's not to say that I like all country, or all oldies, and so forth but for the most part I like all of them.

I tend to listen to whatever I am in the mood for, but I listen to mostly rock or metal I guess. That being said, I am always looking to add songs to my library. I will not even try to list all I have because I am lazy like that, but I would like to hear what some of your favorite artists/songs are. It doesn't matter what type of music it is...I love to listen to new stuff. If anyone is really interested in what I have on my ipod, let me know and I will get off my lazy ass and post it. By the way, feel free to list more than one if you want to! ;0) Happy Tuesday!!

Mondays suck ass

Hey, I realize that it's Wednesday, but I have good reason to be behind. Monday afternoon I am sitting at my desk doing some paperwork, and talking to a sales rep on the telephone...nothing out of the ordinary there. I hear the front doorbell go off, so that I know someone has entered the showroom...this does not interest me because for once, I don't have to help the customers. I look up to see Tony's sister walk into my office...her face all red and puffy from crying and my heart sank. I got off the phone as quickly as possible to see what had happened. Tony's dad had fallen off of a ladder while painting and was on his way to the hospital. They thought that he had broken his hip.

I went home to check on Tony, and spoke with his mom....yep, he'd broken his hip (he's 72) but, it wasn't a bad break, and he would be OK. We spent a good part of Monday night in the hospital keeping him company. He was supposed to have a pin put in his hip yesterday, which we spent all day in the hospital so we knew what was going on, but due to some crazy test results, they didn't operate. So, he is supposed to be going today....but seeing that they don't want him to eat anything he's a bit cranky....as I am sure anyone would be. And, no one has any idea what time all the fun is supposed to start. So, I hope everyone is having a better week than we are!

Poor Buddy....;0(

This weekend was probably the most boring weekend that I have had in quite a long time. I was stuck at home to keep an eye on my gimpy dog. Thursday night when I got home from work, Tony was installing my dishwasher...YAY!!!...and he had Buddy in his cage so he was out of the way. Buddy doesn't mind the cage all that much as long as he's not penned up for too long.

As soon as Tony was finished (it was a fiasco, and I'll post about it tomorrow) I let Buddy out of the cage. I took him out and when we came back inside he was hyper and excited like normal. Tony and I were playing with him and he was running around the house like a mad man. We aren't sure exactly when, but at some point he got one of his toenails caught somewhere and broke it back near his toe. He wasn't crying or limping, but he was bleeding like crazy.

Once I got his foot cleaned off and got the bleeding to stop, I called the 24hr animal hospital to see if I needed to bring him in. They told me it was unnecessary as long as I had stopped it from bleeding. So, I made an appointment at the vet on Friday.

When the appointment was made, it was agreed that we would drop him off and let them sedate him a little bit to cut the nail off without causing him a lot of pain. I'm OK with that, but when Tony went to drop him off, they did no such thing. They went into the exam room, the vet told Tony to hold him (he assumed that the vet wanted to look at it) and proceeded to just cut it off. I don't know about anyone else, but I was seriously pissed off when Tony told me that. I imagine that would feel like having your fingernail get torn down into your nail bed.....not fun.

So, I had to keep an eye on him so he wouldn't chew the bandage...that we had to redo because they didn't do a good enough job. I gave him a break from the bandage last night and had a good look at his nail. It must be very sore, so I've been giving him his pain medicine and keeping him from walking on it too much. So, I think I need to find another vet. I hope everyone had a good weekend!

Someone pass the Nyquil :0(

Tony has succeeded in making me ill. Sore throat...check, fever.....check, stuffy head....check, aching head....checkity check. So, I hope he is quite pleased with himself. Yep, I feel miserable, but I am still at work. I am such a team player...right, I am just trying to give my cold away (just kidding) ;0).

So, I have gotten up early (about an hour earlier than normal) every day so far, and it seems to be going well. I don't consider myself a morning person, but I think the extra time to just be up and moving around makes me less tired when I go to work. I have managed to get laundry done, and actually start packing myself a lunch. I have decided that any extra housework will just have to be done in the evenings. I am just going to do a room/area a night. If this all works the way I think it will, I will have little or none to do one the weekends. I like the sound of that. I haven't done anything the last couple of evenings because of being sick, but I will....come hell or high water!

Tony could totally help me with my goals by hooking up my damned dishwasher. He got me a dishwasher for Christmas, and it has yet to be installed. I am impatient as it is, but this is driving me nuts. He had to make two trips to Home Depot so far because he didn't have the right sized connections, so I will give him some slack on that, but damn, go get what you need and hook that thing up already. I am tired of looking at it in the middle of my dining room.

Just so this doesn't seem like a pick on Tony post, I will give him credit for making me soup and a grilled cheese sandwich the other night...it was YUMMY! So, hope everyone has a good Thursday....the weekend is almost here!!!!

Huh? What was I supposed to be doing?

I had decided that I was not going to make a New Year's resolution. It is always a safe bet with me that they won't be kept, no matter how good my intentions are. I have the attention span of....what were we talking about??...oh, see what I mean. That may be a little drastic, but you get the point.

I am quite sure that I am infuriating to live with due to my tendency to start things and not finish them. I think that it is a good possibility that I could stock an A.C. Moore with the stuff that I have that has yet to be made/finished. As I said, I always have the best intentions, but I either find some other interesting thing to get into, or I just loose interest all together and get lazy.

I also seem to have an issue in that once the interest has passed....it is gone...done...don't want to do it. I seriously have so many different craft and sewing projects started that it is ridiculous! So, that being said, instead of making a resolution, I would like to make an effort to quit being ADDish and finish what I start.

One other thing I am trying to take baby steps with is setting up a new schedule for myself. I always leave my housework and laundry for the weekend. I do this because I never feel like doing anything when I come home from work, but that doesn't make for a fun weekend. So, I have decided to start getting up a little bit earlier in the morning to do some of the little things, and picking a room/area to do each night to break up the work. I figure this way I will have free time on the weekends to actually relax.

Also, I have been reading that it is De lurking week!! So, if I have any lurkers??? Please say hello!! I hope everyone has a good Tuesday, and wish me luck!! ;0)

Party Time!!

January is going to be a busy month for me apparently. I've got a Body Shop home party, a baby shower, my parents' anniversary, my Godson's birthday, and last but not least my dad's 60th birthday!!!!!

Now, while all of those things are important, my dad's bday is special for obvious reasons. My mom, sister, and myself are going to have a party for him to celebrate. The only issue is that my sister would rather not have a party that suited dad, but one that was more her style, if you know what I mean. My dad is a drinker....I would be hard pressed to find a day where he has not been "at the office". That being said, for various reasons my sister disapproves of this and his choice of friends.

My dad's friends are nice guys (most of them) but just aren't the most sophisticated bunch, but honestly, that is why I like most of them. They are who they are and don't give two shits if you like it or not. So, while we were discussing the particulars of said bday bash, my sis suggested that it be a family thing...bwahahahaha...yeah right. I laughed at her and she got pissed but oh well. This party is supposed to be about dad...not sis, or me, or mom...just dad.

I will be making invites and passing them among the "heathens" so this should be one hell of a party. My mom wasn't sure what type of food to have, and I suggested roasting a pig, but we shall see. I don't really think anyone will be interested in anything but the beer, but that is just my guess.

Anyone have any good party ideas/stories? His birthday isn't until the 29th so I have a little time yet. Wish me luck dealing with big sis...she's gonna be unhappy ;0p

Happy New Year!

Well, Christmas went off without a hitch, New Years was pretty mellow, and the holidays are finally drawing to a close. I didn't do much for New Years....I am not a big drinker, so I sat around and played Catch Phrase with my friends, two of them were kind of happy, so you can imagine the answers we were getting. That was a sight to see. Catch Phrase is the game where you are given a word to try to get your partner to say that word by giving them verbal clues....yeah, drunks don't do to well with that, but they are hilarious.

I didn't even make a resolution...I don't think I've ever kept one to begin with, so who am I kidding. I could stand to lose some weight, but making a resolution about it would have the opposite effect I think. So, no resolution for me. I do hope that 2007 is a good year, as I am sure everyone else does.

My mom made pork and sauerkraut yesterday and it was yummy, but I think I ate way too much and my tummy is not liking me very much today. So, did anyone make any resolutions for the new year? Or, is everyone like me and said to hell with that? If you made one what was it/are they? I hope this year is prosperous for everyone! Happy Tuesday ;0)