Ouch….I’ve have spent the last 2 days playing major catch up.  Between work and our stuff, I’m worn out.  But I barely did anything on Tues & Wed of last week and not a damn thing on Thurs & Fri.  There was just no way.  I barely got in 2hrs a day of work on the first 2 days and that was normally interrupted, which stresses me out to no end.

I feel a little better workwise now, but not completely.  I’m  worried about how I’m going to handle the gym tomorrow since it has been a week….almost scared…icks.  But the good news is that I maintained my weight over the week, at least according to my scale at home.  That was due to the heat, cig smoke and drinking a ton of water…kills the hunger which is good considering most of the food in Vegas is sometimes too damn fancy that I don’t want any of it or it is junk food.

Then we have shoot scheduled tomorrow, almost nearly right after the gym…icks…lol  I just hope my muscles can handle it…….grin  It will be on the Living Room Cams starting about 12:30 pm PST time.  So take a peek.

Luckily as of now, I got most of my payroll prep done, but I will have a ton of it waiting for me tomorrow afternoon.

Hopefully, I will have time Tues evening to do a full blog post, depending how payroll goes.

But I just wanted to say hi and let you know what I’m up to.   =)

Current Mood: Annoyed & Frustrated

Just want to let everyone know, that yes we do know that our house cams in the bedroom/shower is down.

We have been fighting it for the last few days.  For some reason we can get that damn laptop to say it is hooked to the network but the damn thing won’t hook to the internet in that room.  I know it isn’t the pc because I was able to get it online with a direct hookup from the router.  But I can’t even get it to hook up to the internet with the wireless.

I am straight up pissed off about it.  With the heat and this added frustration, I’m trying to avoid that damn thing because I’m about to take a hammer to it.

So the only good thing about the heat, is that you will see us downstairs in the living room for the next few days.

Current Mood: Cool

I posted this in my message system, but it has been have some rough bumps. =(

When we got our new photo printer, we did some testers……we don’t have many left but if you would like an autographed picture, leave me an message with your email and I will contact you asking for the name and address that you want it sent to.

Current Mood: Happy

For those who have checked out my blog today :  katvixen.com/Blog  You will noticed that we have a great new design and toon…which we love.  There are still a few things that they are working on and changing for us….but I love it.  It came out even better then I hoped.

Current Mood: Accomplished

Well today was ok on productivity.  I got some accounting done and prep work done for Monday’s project.  Took care of some Rude messages on the board and all the emails I had waiting for me.

I know I did quite a bit of work for Rude, but my mind just went blank………icks

Anyway, I attacked my private messages and emails.  Don’t forget if you have emailed me since June to the end of August, those emails are long gone.  So that is why I haven’t responded.

Let me tell you what we’ve been doing this week.  We spent Monday working when we got our laptops delivered.   So we worked on getting them set up……while, of course once we got more the 3 pcs online all the others got knocked off……ggrrr  Very frustrating.  So it was time to call Comcast……yuck

Since Comcast wasn’t coming over until the next day we went to a park not too far from here.  It was beautiful.  All the greenery and it had a river running through it.  Unfortunately my pictures don’t do it justice.  We did get to see a doe from the road as she was forging.  You could tell that she was use to be people.  She looked right at us several times and just went back to eating, Torn was able to get very close to her for pictures.

So Tuesday, we had Comcast here…….we are getting so tired of waiting on people.  Either way they finally got it where we can have the 5 pcs going like we need.  So Torn got all the laptops set up and we went live!

We started out with 11 cams total……..KatVixen House 1 has 3 bedrooms/1shower……….KatVixen House 2 has all 4 in the office………..KatVixen House 3 was suppose to have 3 for the living room & kitchen, but one of our cams went bad.  We are going to see how it goes before deciding on getting anymore.    So the true voyeurs are back!  =)

Later that evening we went to our friend’s Lincoln place for his small weekly gathering.  It is just where folks show up, bbq & chill out.  He and his friends had built a half-pike in the basement.  So he and his friends were skate boarding.  Other then what you see in the media, I haven’t seen skate boarding like that in years.  So that was cool.  I even had a skateboard fly past me as someone wiped out…..lol

Wednesday, we went to look at couches, something we really needed for our living room.  We got very lucky and found one at the 1st place we stopped.  I was so dreading the possibility of needing to go from store, to store to find something that we like and not finding a thing.  We got a cream colored leather couch.  We really wanted to get a recliner or something of the sort to match, for once.  Unfortunately, there was no other pieces that was with it.  So we are going to find something in black leather, we just don’t know exactly what.  At least it will be in leather.  =)

We went to a few other places to just see what they have.  Even stopped by a mattress place……..we are needing one.  But it was so strange, we haven’t gotten a new one in so long that we don’t even know how a good mattress is suppose to feel.  All I know is I want my lower back to stop hurting from a night’s sleep.  But it going to take time to find one that we want.

We then headed into the city to meet up with folks for lunch.  We had met them through our friend Lincoln and just wanted to get to know each other better since we are all in the same business.  We are in 2 different aspects of the business but it was it is just nice to talk to people that you don’t have to pretend with when it comes to that.  So we made some new friends.  =)

Thursday, I had some work errands I needed to do.  Torn wasn’t able to come with me, since we were having the couch delivered that afternoon.  Once we got it, we got the living room set up, Torn brought down the TV from the bedroom.  The one for the living room won’t get here until Tuesday.  And we want to be able to watch the Purdue game while on the couch……..grin

It was so nice to get out of the office.  We brought our laptops downstairs and enjoyed it.  Even had some naughty fun for those who got a peek…………grin

I already described my day today.  I know I got a lot of done, just for the life of me don’t remember what……….lol  That is so sad.

Well, I need to balance the checkbooks……….the never ending battle.

Current Mood: Accomplished

Torn posted this to our members earlier this evening:

After all this time we have 11 cams up and running LIVE!

We still not sure if we ever had a 12th cam or if we lost it, but I think we will stick with 11 cams for now since this was a huge pain in the ass to set up and our upload speed isn’t as fast as I had hoped. Right now we have 4 office cams, 3 bedroom cams, 1 shower cam, and 3 living room/Kitchen cams (As soon as we get some more cables, we will move the cams to get better views). The living room cams are not currently set in their permanent location yet since we still do not have a couch or chair or even TV down there, but we are going out this week to get some new furniture and we just ordered a new TV so within a week or two at most we will have the downstairs set up and we will be spending more time downstairs.

We plan to have more and more people over and more importantly we will be having more people who love to show off, people like Trixie and Delia who just told us they are planning a trip down here soon, so who knows what you will see, but I know you will see Toni and her Boobs and whatever else there is so that is a good thing.

We now have 3 Rude House’s, Rude is working on a way to combine all house under one profile, but until then you can find us under these three Rude houses:

Toni KatVixen – Bedroom and Shower
KatVixen – Living room and Kitchen
Torn Rose – Office

There still may be a glitch or two with this setup, but for now everything seems to be working perfectly, so ENJOY!

Current Mood: Hidding from the World

I think I only have about 2-3 blog posts to put up about the trip. I hope you’ve been enjoying the sample of pictures that I’ve been putting up. Those have been only a small example of the pictures we have. We took about 7000 of them………lol

I worked on my passport application and saw that they need my birth cert…….well, I’m not giving up my one and only certified copy when one of the counties in Indiana lost my original………it happened about 16 yrs ago, but it still pisses me off to no end…..gggrrr So I went online to see what I need to do to get a copy of Torn’s and mine. His is a lot easier then mine. I was able to order it online, but mine I have to use snail mail! WFT?!?! Is this not 2007?!? So I’m not too pleased.

I don’t know backed up the passport apps are. So that is another reason for not giving up our birth certificates to apply, we won’t be able to head to Canada and get back without them. =(

Today was my great-aunt’s service. I talked to my sister, I guess there were a lot of folks who turned up. My other great-aunt was crying a lot. That was the sister she was closest to. Mom said the flowers we ordered were huge. But then I ordered from the local florist who my family has dealt with for almost 20yrs and she takes care of the local families very well, knew exactly whose services and her age.

The strange thing was that my aunt’s services wasn’t at the funeral home where all my family on that side have been taken care of. I guess the owner got very sick and didn’t have anyone to take over. So it has fallen in quality big time. Rumor is that it may be up for sale….. I don’t know, if her services had been able to be there, at least I’d be able to imagine the services better. So it is sad that the place that has taken care of all members of my family won’t be anymore.

My aunt will be cremated and then have her ashes buried on top of her mother’s grave. My grandpa’s ashes on with his dad’s and my grandma is with her sister-in-laws. The last remaining great aunt will be with her husband’s. So at least I know where to go to pay my respects when I head back there. That is where most of that part of my family is buried.

This is tough…..working from home, way too many distractions. I’m one who needs structure, a work schedule…….. I need to be able to focus.

If I’m going to work from home, I need 2-3 days of left alone work……and that is for just Rude. Then I need at least 2-3 days of left alone work for KatVixen. I can’t get anything done if I keep getting pulled away from my goals. Then doing my normal hour or two a day for support and follow up. I’m really thinking of creating a planned calendar/schedule but I don’t know if I’ll be able to stick with.

Everyday I had a plan, it got pushed aside. Just because I’m working from the house, doesn’t mean that I don’t take my jobs any less then if I was working out of the house. Hell, if I did that I wouldn’t get anywhere.

I will say doing errands here is no different then Florida, they take forever. So that hasn’t helped with my time management. I think I’m going to have to put one day of the week just for errands. But that is a bitch, because you want to get them done before that brats are released from their confines……..lol………and sometimes you have more errands then that amount of time.

It is very nice not to really go anywhere this weekend. It has been months since we were able to do that.

Alright, site news……..

I’ve been trying to have at least one cam up off of my laptop. Honestly, I hate having it off of my laptop because I have enough damn wires plugged into it. =) We’ve been having issues with continously being knocked off line. It was pissing us off, big time. Well, Torn got on the phone with comcast and demanded a solution. The guy there wanted us to reset the router and restart our pcs everytime!! It would go off 3 times in 5min, so that wasn’t happening! So after Torn gave him an earful, we were able to get a guy out today. It was the splitter and the router was an older one that we should’ve never received. So the tech replaced and and so far, we haven’t been having the issues.

Good news, our laptops have been shipped! Fingers crossed that we get them by Wed. Hopefully have them going shortly afterwards, we have to see how we are going to set up in house and I have to get the other rude page up and going so we can broadcast the 3rd set of cams. So just a little more longer. =)

Torn posted this in our members area :

Current Mood: Chilling

If you haven’t already noticed, but we lost our other cams. =(
Torn posted this in our members area :

Sometime last night our main machine that we use to run 4 of the 6 cams we had running at one time has died, and since we move in 2 days I am not going to bother replacing them just yet. But we fully expect to have 8 or more cams running full time by mid September.

That is okay, starting Thursday we’ll be living in one room of the house to keep that cat fur from the carpets once I vacuum them. So you’ll be watching us on our air mattress……icks =)

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.