GGGGGRRRRRRRRR!

I'm not blogging today, I'm in an even worse mood than the other day.  Doing a favor for someone and getting taken advantage of is so utterly frustrating.  Dumb thing is I knew it was gonna happen, saw it coming, and did it anyway.  Now I have to put on my bitchy tude and be the bad guy in order to get control of my own life back.  I HATE being bitchy.  I would do just about anything to avoid having a nasty confrontation.  I am SO hating EVERYTHING right now.  Gonna go shower, take a headache pill and pretend I don't care about all the crap that I should be confronting.  Not that it will help, but I can NOT handle this kind of internal stress any longer.  I have GOT to get better at shrugging off the BS that people push at me.  I now see that's the lesson I'm supposed to learn here.  K, can it be OVER?!?
Bleh.
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Feeling a bunch better after deciding to take off for the weekend and be completely irresponsible.  Scott's staying home to kill zombies and make sure our house isn't taken over by strangers.  He even agreed to care for Oscar so that I don't have to pack him up.  I'm not even making up my mind about where I'm going until I get wherever it is.  We have several boondocking favorite spots close by and I'm quite enjoying the lack of plan.  I'll read, watch a few DVDs, sit quietly and think...and hopefully by Monday I'm in a better mood.  Anyhow, don't expect to hear from me anytime soon.  I'm gonna be ok...I think.

Pissy Day

Be ye warned, I'm in a rotten mood that's just beginning to fade.  Take everything with that perspective in mind.  I can't even begin to point out what made today so miserable.  It just was.

On a shinier note, today marks the 8th anniversary of Scott's & my wedding.  That feels pretty strange.  Perhaps it's because neither of us is a real grown up and being an old married couple is what grown ups do.  However, we both managed to remember this anniversary (unlike last year when we both managed to remember it days later).  We went to Taste of Thai and had shitty service and medium good food (perhaps I'm being judgmental because I know they can do better, I hate their new location, and I'm in a bad mood).  Anyhow.  Yay for us.

On our way to dinner we took the back roads through our neighborhood since all of the main intersections within a mile of us are under mega reconstruction.  Along the way a man in a diaper (no pants) crawled into the middle of the road and then turned to stare at us while we maneuvered our car around him.  I can't even begin to understand what all led up to that situation...I just know it was the perfect cherry on top of my pissy day.  Add to that the loud youngsters who's parent brought playing cards to dinner, the server who insisted on telling us what we should order since he was certain we'd never had thai before....AAAAAHHHHGGGG!  Shoulda saved going out for a better mood I guess.  But it sounded like such a good plan yesterday.

Here's hoping tomorrow's a better day!  I'm calling it quits on this one.
-m

A new Adventure

Today our little family signed up a new member.  My friend Colorado is gonna move into Oscar's room and be our tenant.  I hope he can stand us!  It's a short term thing to help him save up cash to get his own place.  He had a nasty hit & run motorcycle accident last week that's left him with pins & plates in his right foot, and a future that's full of crutches for a few weeks.  You can begin to see why we're sympathetic.  It's quite strange for Scott & I to accept someone else into our house, but for some reason I feel like it's the right thing to do.  I learned years ago to just trust that feeling and not fuss the details.  Karma catches up with everyone, and if it doesn't damage me to help I'm gonna.

Oscar already has a unique relationship with Colorado, so they're probably gonna get along great.  Rado spoils the Oscar, and doesn't put up with biting or screaming. If they can't get along Oscar will be moving into the bathroom.....I'm crossing my fingers.

I am disgusted that we haven't been camping this month, but every weekend there seems to be another excuse.  It's gonna happen yet!!!! I don't care if we have to run the furnace the whole time and watch the world out the windows!  I'm looking seriously at a southern Utah trip for Adda & I.  We'll see.
Happy Friday World!!!!
Guy's doin some sort of yummy thing on the food network show Scott's watching & I want to see.
-m

A wonderful Jumble

This afternoon we had a celebration lunch at the Tulip Tree, Thom & Judy are moving along soon, and we wanted to celebrate with them one more time.  Also Aunt Cheryl and Lynn had an opportunity to stop in and see the remodeled shop.  Scotty came over, the usual Thursday crew was all there (Fran, Adda, Byron, Sherlynn) we all had a fabulous visit.  I made sweet & sour turkey meatballs with brown rice, and we put together a great salad.  I'll definitely have to write down the recipe cuz the meatballs were dElish!  Oscar had a grand time bossing everyone and wore himself out being cute.


We had some amazing roses in the shop yesterday, they're called amnesia and they're a lavender/green/pink color.  They're my new favorite!

Gotta go tuck the birdy monster in, he's had a big day.
Live long & prosper!
-m

So tired, so happy.

For what's supposed to be the slowest month of our year, work's been crazy busy.  We'll take it.  I'm hating the piles of boxes and clutter that keep persistently appearing, and the 20 things I have to keep track of all at once.  But I still love my job.  I suppose we'll get used to being this busy & miss it on slow days.

Today was only mildly busy & I FINALLY got a chance to go visit with Lynn.  She's doing AMAZING, not ideal or rosy, but honestly ok.  My favorite example of this is when we were swapping stories about Mason and she stomped her foot while imitating him, the whole floor shook and both dogs jumped!  If she's strong enough for that, I have all kinds of hope for her healing quickly.  Aunty Cheryl is here for a few more days, and as always visiting with her was wonderful.  Also I discovered she has a facebook!  I know, it means I'm a freak cuz I find it so much easier and less stressful to keep up with all the people I care about via FB.  It's not cuz I don't care, it's cuz I hate to bug people when they might be busy.  I love hearing about the ups and downs and not having to bug anyone.

Lynn gave me guilt trip tonight about not blogging, I AM SORRY.  Honestly it's had a lot to do with all the negative emotions I had this summer during my constructive termination from AL&L.  I was so unhappy I didn't want to share.  I've gone through most of the stages of grieving for a job I loved (not that I won't miss the people still).  So hopefully I can share now and not hate doing it.

Thom & Judy have been in the parking lot of Tulip Tree for most of 2 weeks, IT'S AWESOME!  The parking lot, and my day are going to seem a lot more empty when they move on.  It's been a wonderful surprise every day to share our lives.  Also, Adda has more people to boss, watch, and worry over.  That's rarely a bad thing.  Scott & I have had several wonderful visits and dinners with them.  Today they brought me a catnip plant from Mike & Tiffs house!  Kitties are gonna be so delighted!  Though I may have to keep the plant at work and just bring home leaves...here's a pic of Royla from last year when Judy brought her a bag full of leaves



Taking Oscar for wing trimming first thing in the morning, still gotta look up the vet's address cuz somehow I've only got the old one...and it's already late.
be well!
-m

Good-n-Bad

Life's full of ups and down, and we've had both lately.

Scott's mom's back in the hospital, things aren't too shiny & we're all worried.  As usual Mathew's a far better child than either Scott or I, but we're all coping in our own way.

I had an AMAZING stomach bug this weekend, and spent most of it horizontal doing everything within my power NOT to puke.  Good news is I'm feeling much better today, and actually got to sleep last night.


Thom & Judy moved into the parking lot at work late last week, and I'm LOVING having them there!  I get several visits a day, and even get to see Willow quite often.  I love that puppy!  Oscar had a brief visit with McCuy & Lymon he and McCuy look and sometimes act so much alike and yet have such DIFFERENT personalities.  They're both very interested in each other.  Tomorrow I'm taking my little green beast with me to work, and we'll see about another visit.

Works been a delightful mixture of busy & slow.  There's no telling what's going to happen from one day to the next, but there's plenty to keep us busy so we don't worry much.

Sider Kitty is fitting in nicely, he's going to be a good addition to our family.  Spazz & Yahzi seem to be growing tolerance for his 'punk' attitude.  He'll learn.

Several of our good friends were threatened by the fire that started at Camp Williams yesterday.  Fortunately they've been safe so far.  We're still thinking of them and keeping up our hopes and prayers.  Fire is a scary powerful thing.

I'm off to keep smiling and giving the world my best.
-m

Life aint so bad

Today was AWESOME! got to arrange with pink intuition roses, hung out with Thom & Judy, skritched McCuey, and had fabulous Chinese food.

Adda called off our Wendover trip for today because she was worried we'd be too busy at the shop. The fun bus is always an adventure, but I'm kinda glad I got to spend the day with my "family". Things weren't too busy at the flower shop, so I got visit without having to feel guilty or busy. Thom & Judy are parked right next to the shop for a few days.

Short post, sorry. Oscar's busy singing the night night song & I need to devote so attention to the cats or else they'll snuggle me to death trying to prove how adorable they each are.

Keep smilin'
-m