Current Mood: Exhausted

On another airplane.  =) This time on the way back to Florida.  I left beautiful weather in Indiana…..sunny, comfortable temps, the grass was a soft green and flowers were blooming.

But it was time to go.  I miss having my own stuff in its own place. And I miss my crazy furballs, Alexis & Reggie.  Torn gets in tomorrow morning.  So that will be another trip to the airport, hopeful the last one to the Orlando one anyways.  We have no other trips that involve air travel until after we get to Portland.

I used our wireless card out at my folks, sometimes I had okay speed but not overall.  I know I could’ve hooked up to dad’s but I hate putting dad out and then I like the mobility of the cards and my laptop.  So needless to say, with not so reliable connection and family stuff I didn’t get much work done.  I did get some of it caught up at while waiting for my flight.

All I know is that I have a ton of it to do once I get home.

I’m flying NWA, I haven’t flown them since 2001 so I ended up at a different concourse then I am normally use to in Indy.  There is one concourse that we have gone to so many times over the years that I know where I can plug my laptop in and settle in on the floor.  Today I had to really look for it. I think the concourse that NWA uses in Indy is one of the older ones and that is why.

What was good about my visit is that I got to visit with folks that I haven’t seen in years.  My cousins got me linked to there myspace page and help me find 3 other cousins.  One of my former co-workers got me hooked up to hers and I have one that should be contacting me for his in the next day or so. We are all so busy that we don’t email, but I can keep up with them on their pages and they on my blog.  I just use my page for former classmates, friends & family to be able to find me.  My one blog entry tells them to got to my actual blog.

Torn had a horrible time crossing the border into Canada yesterday to visit D. He’ll probably write up his own blog about it.  But at least he had no trouble getting back in.  Hopefully our next trip across the border we will have our passports and will prevent issues like that.

I’m going to close this, I’ll post it once I get home.  But this is the perfect time to resize some pics. =)

**Sorry, I got caught up with unpacking and catching up with work stuff.

Current Mood: Cool

The weather is beautiful now. When I got to Indy it was rainy. It finally started to clear up Friday evening, been pretty nice ever since.

The trip had been good. My sister and I went up to NW Indiana to visit our great aunts. We don’t have many left of that generation so I wanted to see them while they are still around. One aunt is 95 and the other is about 90/91 area. Had a good visit them, especially with the one in her lower 90s. Her mind is as sharp as it could be with her age, still living on her own and total frustrated that her body doesn’t allow her to walk very normal. She has always been very active and not being able to go out drives her nuts.

We also stopped and visit one of my aunts. She is battling cancer on her head. =( 2 of my cousins came over. =) I love visiting with them. =)

I did head up to Merriville and picked me up some Fannie May Candies. I love that stuff and was not happy when they went bankrupt 3 years ago. I went a little over board, but it will last me about 6 months since I love to savre it and take my time.

Saturday I left about 5 hrs before the wedding. Packed up the clothes I was going to wear and headed out.

I needed to pick up my wedding/engagement ring set up from the jewlery. I’ve worn the engagement ring for 12 yrs and the wedding for almost 10yrs, so the prongs needed work. When I had them checked out down in Florida, the jewelry I went to was one of those pretentious one…total snobs, with high sky prices. I’m like I don’t think so, Torn worked at a jewelry store years ago and I know how the up prices. So I don’t trust any of them. There is only one that I trust and that is in Indiana and if I have to I’ll ship it to them. So I finally got my rings back….they look great….I didn’t have them for just over 24hrs and it drove me nuts!!! You don’t realize how much you miss it and fiddle with it until it was gone.

I wanted to walk Purdue. I love that campus. So I went around and got some shots of the things I used to know so well. Ironically I saw a wedding party out getting pictures by Hovde Hall and I thought of my friends’, I took a picture from the distance but didn’t get too close because I didn’t want to intrude…………well I should have, it for the wedding I was here for…….doh!

****My connection is too slow to be able to load up any pics. =(

After walking around Purdue, I headed down to the village so I can blow our money on some Purdue stuff, since I don’t know when I will be back and all of our other stuff is a couple years old and starting to fall apart.

The wedding was beautiful. Between the wedding party (3 members, including the bride) and some of the guests (3 of them) is was a small reunion from my old job. It was great! I had so much fun. One of my girls, who barely use to talk, now talks so much more. One of my troubled kids, is all cleaned up and doing good. I was afraid that I won’t have anyone that I really know to share a table with. I had fun and loved seeing all the my kids grown up.

This morning I had to my oldest niece to get her some elbow and knee pads for a rollerskating party. Everything has been going good until Torn called me about 10am…….Diesel’s wife called, he is not doing very well at all. He has blood clots in his lungs from the treatment he is getting for his tumor. =( All Torn could get is that the doctor told his wife that she needs to prepare. So he jumped into the shower and headed up to Vancouver, BC. I don’t know what is going on. Torn may have to change his flight so he stay up there longer. I’m taking off 3 days next week, which we were going to do our anniversity stuff, well I may have to fly out…………I don’t know. I’m really hoping that I don’t have to. Diesel is too young and has 2 young boys with his wife…..I want to be able to go and visit him when we move out there. =(

***Just heard from Torn, he feels that D’s wife overstated the urgency.  D had been in the hospital since Friday and Sunday morning was the 1st chance that his wife had a chance to call anyone.  When she called, she was crying so Torn and with how she presented it came out very bad.   He is in the hospital for about 10days, but D doesn’t think it will be that long.  I don’t know, Torn hasn’t been able to talk to him one on one very much since D gets a ton of visitors.

Current Mood: Exhausted

**on the plane, somewhere over this great country of ours about 13:30 EST.

Well this sucks, I wanted to watch a movie that we’ve had forever and it is playing rough, where the sound is broken up.  I’ve played dvd on my vaio before so I don’t know what is up.  I tried 3 different programs, but no dice.  Even tried it with a dvd that I’ve played on here before.  I see what I can figure out when I get to my folks.

I’m exhausted.  I try to nap on and off and it just doesn’t happen.  =(

While at the airport, I took care of a few store orders, surfed the local news, got 2 of my Time magazine read…..now I just have 2 more to read, and I finally got some of my private messages answered.  Sorry everyone for that.  It seems to have gotten away from me. 

I also made a phone blog.  I keep telling myself to use it more. But unlike the written blog, where I can pause and think about what I’m going to write, you have to think quickly on your feet.  I will say I suck at that.  That and I am never sure about what you really want to hear about.  Do you want to hear my everyday stuff?  My life is not all the fun stuff you see in pics and vids, it is just as stressed and crazy as everyone else.  I just don’t want you to hear me bitch too much.  No one wants to hear that all the time.  So I don’t know.  Give me some feed back in the members area.

I must say that I love having my sprint wireless card.  Now, keep your fingers cross that I get a signal at my folks. I would really hate to use their dial up, even though I made sure to set up for it last time I was up.  =(  Now that I think about it, I don’t remember if I have my phone cord for that………..mmmm………lol

Here is a blonde moment.  I’m coming up to attend a wedding and guess what I forgot?  The invite!  Doh!  Good thing I know the area and know where things are taking place.  I’m going to email the bride to confirm my memory.  I’m just stunned that I forgot it.  I remembered when we pulled up to the airport.  Duh!

As you have read, I need a root canal….icks.  But honestly I rather go thru one of those then go through this pain.  It is a relief. I’m so hoping that I can find a dds to take care of this when I get back and not have to wait until the 11^th!!  That would really suck.  =(  And I’m not taking those damn pain killers, codeine makes me sick……ggrrr…..nasty crap

If you read Torn’s post, he had a good visit with his folks.  He brought back about 1500 pics.  He got some great ones in there.  His mom sent me some crochet dollies.  I like those.  I have so many knick-knacks that they are great for.  We are thinking of trying to get up there in Oct.  He has been trying to find a different place to fly in other then Minneapolis.  That was the horrible part of the trip and then he had to drive about 4-5 hrs. to get to his folks from there.

Not sure what else to say.  Sorry I haven’t been around as much.  I’ve just been totally swamped here with everything.

I do plan on stepping down from my position and cutting back on my hours at my day job in June after I use up all of my vacation.  There is just so much that I need to do online that I’ve been neglecting that it sucks.  But by stepping down and staying on some, I can help with the transition.  Maybe I have a blown head, but I’ve been there so long and other then the boss, none of the other members of the management have the force of a personality and knowledge that I’ve gained over the years. They are getting there.  But part of it is that both of the other managers never had a management position before this.  So not is not just them learning the job fully, it is developing them into managers. If they had the experience before it, there probably won’t be the issues that there are.

Oh well, maybe I should finally respond to some emails so when I get online they will send out.

***It is about 9:30 and I still haven’t had any slept.

I spent time talking and visiting with my dad.  Learned how he got his 2 bronze stars in ‘Nam.  For the repairs he did under fire (he was ordinance) and he had the best repair record out of the whole battalion.  That is cool.  I knew his helicopter got shot down once, but I didn’t know he got shot down 3 times…….1 taking off, 1 coming in and another a few hundred feet up.  Lucked out and had a good pilot that was able to land on the beach.  It is hard to imagine my dad out there as a young GI, but wow…..then learned that he was stationed right at the front by the DMV, where the VC would send over a few bombs over at the same time everyday like clock work.  One left a 15 ft crater right next to his bunker………….damn

He brought up some very interesting insights into ‘Nam & Iraq, but of course, I’m way too exhausted to write them out.  But if I remember I want to explore those ideas.

Time to hit the hay.

Current Mood: Annoyed & Frustrated & Sickly

My tooth hurts like a SOB!  Damn, Damn……I went in to my dentist, he doesn’t do root canals, and then they couldn’t find me anyone who was either in town or had an opening.  =(  So they game me some antibiotics and codeine(which makes me a sick and I won’t had fulfilled if it I knew that it was…ggrrr).  I just feel like crap.  I need to get up in about 5 hrs, so I’m heading to bed.

I may do more updates while waiting for my flight.

Current Mood: Frustrated & Sickly & Stressing Out

Life just bites sometimes.  My head is frigging hurting like hell, I have a tooth ache that is causing it.  I can’t eat worth crap, can barely drink.  It is frigging great, right before my trip to Indiana.  It hurts so bad that I’m going in to the dentist as stand by tomorrow and I will go into work later then I wanted. =(

I left work early because I felt like such crap (leaving early like never happens).  Come home to frustration with stuff.  I think I got most of my stuff packed.  I don’t know I feel like crap, I’m overworked, yet what I do isn’t enough sometimes.  I just can’t think I’m so miserable feeling right now.

Current Mood: Accomplished & Happy

My hubbie is home!!  We got home about 3am, but we got here.  It is great to have him home and being able to put my cold feet & butt on him at night…….grin

We actually got up at a decent time for being up that late, around 9am.  Torn unpacked his stuff, we had some cereal, did our morning news surfing and then he went through the 1400 pics that he took while in Minnesota.  He got some gorgeous pics and his folks have done some great work on their cabin.  I can’t wait for us both be able to go up for a visit.

After that (about 11), we were feeling tired and crawled back into bed for a little snooze time…….well, lets just say we didn’t get much sleep…….grin….even though that was our goal. Since we weren’t going to get any sleep we got up and started to work….by this time is about 11:30.

I got the mounds of laundry going, started lunch and just started in on some store work.  By 16:00 I wasn’t seeing the screen very well to work, so I went to lay on the couch to chill out, read a little and maybe take a 10-15 min power nap.  Well Torn wasn’t feeling very away wake himself, so we cuddled down in bed only expecting to maybe nap for about an hour…….well, 2 hrs later….damn, did we crash.

Well, I’ve been working ever since.  Even with the naps, I got a lot done.  I almost got all of our receipts entered.  It helped that I didn’t have a bunch of things from my other work.  So it was a nice, slow and productive day. Not a bad day at all.  Plus it helped that I had Torn home.  =)

The next few day is going to be extremely crazy….icks.  Right now I need to put away the huge laundry piled on the bed and then try to finish off a few more receipts.  I would feel so much better if I get it done.  Then I can focus on everything else.  Somehow I need to find time to figure out why when I try to add new user pics to my blog they go full size only?…..weird.

Current Mood: Amused

**My mom sent me thing and it got me laughing, it is an oldie but goody.
The “Middle Wife” by an Anonymous 2nd grade teacher

When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell. So I always have a few sessions with my students. It helps them get over shyness and usually, show-and-tell is pretty tame. Kids bring in pet turtles, model airplanes, pictures of fish they catch, stuff like that. And I never, ever place any boundaries or limitations on them. If they want to lug it in to school and talk about it, they’re welcome.

Now you have two choices…laugh and close this page or pass this along to someone else to spread the laughs.

Current Mood: Beautiful Day & Happy

I get to see my hubbie tonight!!!!!

I just hope work goes by fast.

Current Mood: Exhausted

Our VP visit went well at work today.  We had to do some changes, nothing major just busy stuff.

After work I broke down and got me a few different books on Harry Potter…..I can’t wait to get into them.  If I ever get time that is.  Hell, I’m 3 weeks behind on my Time mag, 2 mags behind on my Ms. & 1 mag behind on my Bitch.  I’m piling them up in my laptop bag for my trip to Indiana.  Especially since Torn’s flight takes off about 4hrs before mine, so hopefully that I can get them read……I’ll probably end up napping some.

I did catch up on some work here for the store, surprisingly.  When I finally get a breather from it I feel kind of lost.  What I need to do is refocus on things that I need to for our own business.  Thinking of organizing the receipts for quickbooks entry, so I can do a little at a time.

The only good thing with being so busy is that it makes it easier to deal with the fact that Torn isn’t here.  =(  But when I head to bed, I miss having him next to me.  This may not sound very nice, but once he comes to bed I can settle down and crash.  If he doesn’t I end up staying up longer then I should just because he isn’t there.  It is if I’m waiting for him to come to bed.  He told me that he misses warming his feet up on me and that is it………..grin  The bum.  At least tomorrow night I’ll be cuddling with my prickly husband…..grin

**Newsflash

Supreme Court ruling raises ‘08 stakes

***Not even an exception for the woman’s life?!?!!?  WTF?!?!  I’m going to be really pissed off if the dems blow the next election.  We can’t have another conservative administration like this again if us women are going to maintain what rights that we have.  Bushie 2 has already been removing our Bill of Rights……ggrrr

Current Mood: Reflective & Working

Ok, that settles it, I need a clone and I need one bad.  All my plans that I had for myself got totally shot down.  I’ve been home since 18:30 and it is currently 23:16 and other then speaking to my mother-in-law and Torn for about 30 minutes I’ve been working on rude stuff the whole time.  And it just dawned on something that I forgot to do.  So as soon as I get this done I will attack that.

I do have to keep up earlier then I want to, but still later then today.  So once I get that one thing done for rude I’m going to try and get my private messages done.

I will say that I had a great conversation with my mother-in-law, she has just been over joyed with Torn’s visit.  It has been going well.  They had been having the wine that we sent them for the holidays and when I called she started to pull my leg on asking who I was…………LOL  I’m like his wife, the one he has been married to for 10yrs in May…..it was too funny. She was just over the hill happy.  It was really cool
Torn got the printer going.  It was one of those things that they had hooked everything up correctly but it didn’t want to work until you unplugged and plugged it back in.

She was very surprised at the amount of pictures that he took when they went out to the falls and few other site seeing things.  He took about 450 of them in a short time.  For us, that is normal for us, for them it is stunning.  She really loved how well the pictures came out.  I took her that she has to poised for some pictures so I can have some. The only one we have is one they gave us years ago.

Torn has had a rough relationship over the years with his folks.  She was surprised at how he has changed. All the things I’m use to him doing, simple things like helping on a rough trail, holding a door open she says she hasn’t seen that in years….sounds like before he left for the Navy…her polite son that she knew is back.  For me, he has always been that way, but what I noticed is that his overall coping skills have come a long way and so has his patience.  He really has grown though the years……even though he can still drive me nuts………grin
She says that this visit is what they needed.  She doesn’t know what really happened in their relationship with him but hoping that with all of them changing that it will keep getting better.  She thanked me a lot for telling him that he needed to get up there sooner then June.  My schedule just will just never let it happen.

I need to get back to work before I head off to bed.