Where the hell have I been you might ask?? Nowhere special for the most part. I have found that working from home with no real interaction with coworkers makes for a very dull life. Sure I email Meanie, Skank, PPE, and even Captain Quirk…but it’s not the same as actually working with said peeps (well, for those that live in the same state as me) and creating hijinx.
So where to begin? Since I haven’t said two words since April, I feel like there’s a lot to say, but in some ways not that much at all. The only thing I can think of is recapping, random frontish.
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Babies…
I’m not talking about the movie here, but I might as well be. Babies are the theme this year. “Friends” on FB are in the process of spawning left and right. I believe there are 5 little ones that have either made their appearance or will be making one this year by September.
At Easter it was announced that Hitler and Ava will be adding another one to their little brood. The new nubbin is to arrive in November. We were wishing and hoping for a girl, but goddamn Ava and his y-sperm, it’s another boy.
I told Hitler there’s always China, and she might want to start working on that now, so she has a girl in the next couple of years, and not when Boo and #2 are teenagers. She’ll be too old to deal with another baby by then.
Then a couple of weeks ago Bobo and SIL made their announcement that she’s expecting, and estimating a late January due date. This week at her doctor’s appointment she was told she was 12 weeks, and not we are holding out again for a girl to arrive the first week of February.
C’MON GIRL!!!!
Now we come to Miss Skankolicious. I think I might have said she was knocked up earlier, frankly I can’t remember, and even more frankly, I’m not checking past blogs to see if I did. SKANK IS KNOCKED UP!!! She’s currently 38weeks pregnant with the Beast Part Deux. She’s having a boy, and currently, in utero, they are guessing he’s over 10lbs. My vagina hurts every time I talk to her.
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I got a Visitor!
I have been loved in June. My fellow Jewish Princess, Tuschka, came to visit me for ten whole days. It was glorious. Except for one thing that totally sucked ass. I couldn't get the week off from work. No worries, I'll just work a bit in the morning, while she sleeps, relocate to the parental household for some pool time, go out at night, and work in the morning again. Easy peasy right??? WRONG!!!
Work was a disaster at the start of the week. Apparently a 'quickie' training phone call with me to do some new stuff doesn't work so well. Especially when I'm not given all the information I need. So I do all this stuff wrong, and then sites are ready to go live and guess who has to scramble for 3 days fixing shit that wasn't known??? ME!!! So Tuschka spent a lot of alone time in the pool, while I worked. I felt bad.
The week before she came out and the week after her visit....FUCKING DEADER THAN A DOORNAIL. So doesn't that just figure.
At least we got a couple of things accomplished. 1) Grand Canyon and Sedona 2) ECLIPSE 3) Sunburn 4) New washing machine. All will be explained in a few moments...
I'm glad that Tuschka came out. She got to meet some of my peeps at the movies, put some faces to names. It was good hanging out together, it was almost like college all over again, but in a bigger space.
Tushcka and I watched lots of movies. The main feature being Pride and Prejudice with the dishy Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy. That is supposed to be the best P&P, and so we had to watch. This P&P version was FIVE HOURS LONG!!!! FIVE!!!! And a mini series on the BBC, where each and every chapter of P&P was played out, not a thing left out. Granted it was more entertaining than the book, but there was no way we were going to watch 5 hours of a boring ass movie. So we did it like Cliffnotes, after about 2 hours, and fast forwarded to the good bits and anything with the Darcy. I didn't quite get the Darcy appeal until seeing him 'live and in person' by way of Mr. Firth. He's very enjoyable, in the brooding/mysterious sort of way.
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Sunburn! OUCH!!
So, I got a lovely burn while lounging in the pool for 30 minutes with Tuschka. And it was localized in one spot. The one spot I didn't put sunscreen on. The back of my legs. From my ankles to the just under the butt cheeks, were very, very pink. And it hurt. Naturally. When did it hurt the most you might ask?? When I had to pee. Hard toilet seat and burnt ass not so fun.
It was even more fun when I started peeling. Then I was a flaky ass. FUN!!
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Grand Canyon
Overlapping part of Tuschka's trip was a visit from my cousin, who resides in TN. We all got along smashingly. We laughed a lot. It was a quick little trip...heading up to the Canyon on Saturday, staying in Flagstaff for the night, and then driving to Sedona on Sunday, on our way back to Phoenix.
While in the Canyon we saw some elk. Let me tell you, elk are HUGE. Way bigger than I had actually anticipated. And we saw some deer.
We also saw people being stupid idiots and I was waiting for them to fall off the edge.
We dined that night at this little 60s diner called The Galaxy. I had a great banana shake and a mediocre meal. If you decided to go to the Canyon and stay in Flag and want a kitchy place to eat on Rt 66, find the Galaxy. But stick to the ice cream stuff. that would be better.
In Sedona we did a jeep tour. Tuschka almost got popped out of the jeep!! Haha!!! It was really interesting. Our guide, Larry, talked about the formation of the red rock, gave us some geology and history lessons. And we got some great pictures.
Lunch in Sedona was a mexican place where the outside seating was on the roof, and you had great views of red rocks. It was purdy. We went strolling into a couple shops after. There was a fudge shop...OMG!!! It smelled so, so, so good but I was so full from lunch that I didn't buy anything, which I regret. But I did get a mango shake on the way out. Holy crazy good batman.
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ECLIPSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Speaking of delicious. That movie...and Edward...It was fabulous. Tuschka and I saw it 3 times that week. Midnight show, IMAX, and once again because we heard that Eclipse cast members were showing up in theaters, and we went to the show where someone was supposed to be...
Anyways, the movie. It was fabulous, it did not disappoint. I need to see it some more before it goes away. Which will be a sad, sad day. Until I get it on DVD.
And Edward....there were a couple of times I had to refrain myself from licking the screen. So delish.
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Home Improvements.
Still doing improvements around the house. The last 2 projects: kitchen ceiling and plantation shutters.
I had a nice big tree outside my unit that I really enjoyed. I could see it reflected in the mirrors over the fireplace, it felt like I had the outside in. The tree gave good shade from the late afternoon sun. Then the condo idiots decided to trim it up, and I had no more tree, practically. And I knew that my living room was going to roast. I stopped at Homey and ordered me up some shutters for the windows/skylights. Now I live in a cave. Which I also like. It makes me want to nap, when I come out of the office and it's all dark in the living room, and I have to work. But it was a great little investment, and not too horribly expensive.
The project I feared the most turned out to be the least problematic project I had done. Go figure. There were no surprises, other than there not being any problems.
The drop ceiling was ripped out, the new lights that Meaning helped me pick out when up, painting, did a decorated trim, and a vinyl boarder. It's like a new kitchen. I couldn't be happier.
I thought I was done with new things. Got the shutters, the new kitchen lighting, and I was going to start putting money away again. Then my washer broke while Tuschka was here. So I went out to Lowes and got me a new one. My delivery options: Thursday PM or Friday AM/PM, or anytime after that. I took Friday AM, that way if Thursday was a light day, we wouldn't have to hang around waiting for the delivery guys we could go swim. Well, I should have done Thursday...if I did I wouldn't have gotten sunburn, and the bastards didn't show up until 2pm!!!! I was sooo pissed. What pissed me off even more was I essentially had no work on Friday, and Tuschka and I could have played the whole day. Instead, we waited for Lowes. Super annoyed. But my washer's pretty and it works.
The week after that got in, I have another little something starting to die on me. My TV!!!! Seriously. This is ridiculous.
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Travels
I'm currently writing to you from my hotel room in the burbs of Hotlanta. I'm doing a little work travel. Getting more training. In May, I was trained for a new little diddy for work. Then I got a 5 minute call for a second part on the new bit that I then royally fucked up. So now, I'm getting more training. However. I really don't think I've learned anything. When discussing my getting more training, the trainer said "I need at least 2 weeks"...WTF??? TWO WEEKS??? The sup said to do one week and see where we stand after that. What sort of training have I gotten?? Not much. I got a binder with forms and what they should look like, and how to enter them. That's it. Did I get any work to apply my 'new knowledge'? Not really. This is going to be a cluster fuck waiting to happen....AGAIN. Most of my day was listening to my trainer complain about our incompetent partners and how they keep sending over garbage that we can't work with. And basically, it's all greek to me. So. This was a great week for learning.
I haven't done much of anything but train, and go back to the hotel. I was going to go out and see somethings or wander around a bit. But the 3 hour time difference is throwing me for a loop...and there's not really much to see where I'm at. But I did stop at the grocery store so I could get sandwhich stuff for dinners at the hotel, instead of eating out the whole week. While I was cruising down the snack aisle, a saw a BIG.FAT.COCKROACH!!!! I about died.
Also, MSN posted a story about the new uprising of bed bugs. Not good for the slight germaphobe that I already am. I mean, I can't walk barefoot in a hotel to begin with. And I get wigged out thinking about the nastieness that already transpired in the room. Now I have to look out for fucking bed bugs. Thanks MSN, you're a peach!!
What will make this week in Atlanta worth it will happen tomorrow!!! When I leave for the airport, in 17hours, instead of boarding a plane to Phoenix, I will be heading to Pittsburgh to see my dearest PPE and his TWAH!!! This will be soo fabulous!! We have some fun things planned, like seeing a movie in the gardens at night, I'm going to be cooking dinners, going out to lunch (Panera and sushi!!), seeing some movies (ECLIPSE!!!!), PPE loves to watch the scaries with me, so I'll be a flailing queen. I can't wait to get on that plane and see him.
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GLEE!!!!!!!!
One of the best things I could have done was getting tickets to the GLEE! concert with Meanie. It was like the show, happening live and on stage. It was AMAZING!!! I couldn't stop singing or smiling. I was being excited. Meaning had fun too. I took a bunch of blurry pictures. And I'm wishing and hoping and praying that they do another concert again. I so want to go again. It was so much fun!!!
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Speaking of singing.
Have you heard about the Grease sing a long?? Guess who went?? ME!!!! Guess who sang a whole bunch??? ME!!!!! Guess who also repeated every movie line??????? ME!!!!!! Luckily I wasn't the only one there repeating lines, and the whole point was to sing. So. It was the most fun. Again. I lalalalalalove that movie. My little partners in crime: Meanie, CC, and CwJ. I wish it was running longer, I so want to see it again. Not that I don't have it home. But it's just not the same.
I wonder if there's a Danny Zuko/Edward Cullen hybrid out there??
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Sad news, with some happy
A little death in the family. One of the dogs had to be put down. Poor Miss Kami Lou. It was horrible and unexpected. She just wasn't right all of a sudden, and the vet said there was a tumor on her spleen. Usually they are benign, and you remove the spleen and the dog is fine. When they started the surgery, everything was not fine. And they called my aunt and uncle right away to tell them.
Kami started off with Ava. Ava moved in with Hitler and me, and she became my sleeping doggie. Then I moved out. She had ACL surgery, after Boo was born and needed to be in a home without stairs, and she went to my aunts for rehabbing. But Oma fell in love with Kami and didn't want to give her back. So that's where she stayed. She was happy and spoiled and loved even more than before, if that was even possible.
The loss of Kami was hard. So hard, in fact, that my aunt couldn't handle the house without her. They went and got themselves a puppy. A yellow lab, Katie. She's adorable and everything a new puppy is.
Jaeger, not a big fan of her's yet. He's tolerating her well enough though.
I really want Kami back though... She's one dog, that if I could have live forever, I would. She was just a really, really good dog. And Oma really, really misses her.
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Good reads
I'm a reading fiend, naturally. Some to look into: Actor and Housewife, Shannon Hale; Paging Aphrodite, Kim Green; Linger, Maggie Stiefvater. I've reread the Twilight, and some dirties.
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New Music
Check out: Eclipse Soundtrack; Brothers, Black Keys; Sigh No More, Mumford and Sons; Baby Darling Dollface Honey, Band of Skulls; Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers, The National; Boxer, the National; I and Love and You, The Avett Brothers.
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Okay. That's it. I can't think of anything else.
I'll try to not have a 5 month gap again.
OH!!!!! I TOTALLY FORGOT ONE BIG THING!!!!!! Guess who's filming near PPE in the Pittsburgh??? Mr Taylor "Wolf boy/Abs of steal" Lautner. Guess who's hoping to do a little stalking and get a picture from afar?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! ME!!!!! Wish me luck!!
Rock out, with your caught up cock out!!!
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