2008 Day One Hundred Sixty Seven

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I had such a good time yesterday painting pottery and laughing and talking with my girlfriends from work. Lunch was fun also. After we parted after lunch, Melissa accepted my invitation to go to the bead show. So many beautiful beads and findings, just wish I had more money. We then took M some lunch and went on home.

Today the weather is spectacular. We ate breakfast out on the deck. I filled the birdfeeder so it won't be long till we have lots of birds visiting.

Here are some pictures from yesterday:

The five of us: Clockwise Melissa (in front in orange) Joanna, Jessie, Nancy and me.



Jessie, our admin and nancy's daughter :



Joanna and Melissa with the plate they made for Joanna's daughter Jade:

2008 Day One Hundred Sixty Six

I am starting out with by following Betty by doing the Friday Feast meme on Saturday.

Appetizer
Do you consider yourself to be an optimist or a pessimist?

In my personal life I am an optimist. I always believe things will work out. Regarding the world in general I guess I am a pessimist. I don't see where it is going to get better. The war is going to drag on while politicians think it is more important to fight amongst themselves then solving real issues such as ending the war, fixing our economy woes, ending hunger, fixing the homeless situation, stoping the destoying of our environment and all the other terrible things we must face in the years to come.

Soup
What is your favorite color of ink to write with?

I like to write with fine point blue ink pen. Years of doing accounting type work has made that my favorite.

Salad
How often do you get a manicure or pedicure? Do you do them yourself or go to a salon and pay for them?

Before cancer I had nice fingernails. But now I keep them short so there is no need for a manicure. I do not like anyone touching my feet, so, pedicures are out.

Main Course
Have you ever won anything online? If so, what was it?

I have entered quite a few contests online, but, I have never won anything from online entries. In other contests I have won a nice Weber Kettle BBQ, door prizes at events that we have attended and raffles prizes at work events. One time I even won $500 off a Lottery scratch off ticket.

Dessert
In which room in your house do you keep your home computer?

We have many computer throughout the house. My desktop computer is in what we call our office that looks out to the backyard. I have a laptop station set up on a small desk in the living room and a laptop base station set up in my craft room. We have the computer we use as a server set up on a desk in the basement. We are geeky when it comes to computer and gadgets.

I am off today for our monthly girlfriend get together to go to Polka Dot Pottery to paint pottery. I will take my camera and try and take pictures. We are planning on having lunch at Round Table Pizza. After that I'm going out to the valley to a Bead Event being put on ny Blue Dragon Beads that Lorna told me about yesterday. So today is going to be all about fun.

2008 Day One Hundred Sixty Five

Its finally Friday! We had a team meeting today, but, they did not let us know what our schedule change is going to be. Grrrr!!

I have decided to make a whole line of peace sign jewlery. Everything from earrings to necklaces to anklets.

Too bad about Tim Russert, Only 58, 2 years older than me.

Another beautiful weather day and night. Lots of graduations going on all over town tonight. This weekend is going to be great. Tomorrow is my once a month get together with my girlfriends. Last month was the KY Derby at the casino, this month we are going to go and paint pottery. Sunday we may drive up to the lake for the day. I saw gas for $3.99 today. Hard to believe we consider that a bargain.

Hope everyone has a charming weekend.

2008 Day One Hundred Sixty Four

I love this picture, because I love her skin, so Irish white with freckles. Beautiful. Did you notice she is shopping for beads? A girl after my own heart.

A perfect weather day today. Little cloudy, but, a nice 70 degrees. When I got home I opened all the doors and few windows.

Nothing much going on today. I've been beading this afternoon just enjoying the fresh air and listening to a few favorite cd's. We are having leftovers for dinner, so I don't have to worry about that. Just a nice relaxing afternoon.

Tomorrow we are suppose to find out if they are going to change my shift. I will be pretty pissed if they change it. I've been working the same hours for 2 years. It gives me the opportunity to work a part time job in the afternoon. I will try not to fret about it until I know for sure. I just have this feeling its going to change.

I watched Keith Olberman tonight. HE IS MY HERO! We need more Keith's!!! He let John McInsane have it for his remark that bringing the troops home, Is Not Important. If we elect old feeble son of bitch as president we deserve what we get. Please, if you are a democrat or a thinking-compassionate human being please vote for anyone other that McBush!!!!!!

I found this on Pidomon's place and had to see who I would be.

Your results:
You are Hulk

Hulk 70% Green Lantern 70% Spider-Man 65% Catwoman 55% Robin 54% Supergirl 52% Batman 50% Wonder Woman 47% Superman 45% The Flash 45% Iron Man 40%

You are a wanderer with amazing strength.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz

2008 Day One Hundred Sixty Three

It's too bad we are both had to work today on our anniversary. We have been together for 28 years. We lived together for 3 years before getting married. I don't really remember M asking me to marry him, it was always something understood between us that we would eventually do. We decided to get married in Reno. We stopped at a mall somewhere on our ride to Reno and picked up rings. Nothing fancy, we did not have much money back then. The night before we went to our favorite casinos and gambled and drank and had a really fun night. We toured several wedding chapels looking at all the celebrity photos on the walls.

In the morning he tossed me the phone book and said pick one. I thought I would call around and check prices. So I called the first one which was the AAAA Wedding Chapel (next to Circus Circus) and almost before I could hang up the phone there was a baby blue limo, that had seen its better days, waiting outside our motel room to whisk us off. They first drove to the chapel where we signed all the paperwork. They tried to sell us all the extras. We kept saying no (I wanted to save all the money we had for our honeymoon) From the chapel the crazy limo driver us down to the courthouse to get the license. To get to the clerk's office you have to walk by where they were letting out all the prisioners from the night before. We were dressed up, so they could figure what we were there for so the cat calls went on all the way down the hall. In the clerk's office there was this lady who must have been 80 years old. She truly had no personality and must have been doing the job for 60 of those years. After we had signed for the license then it was back in the limo and back to the cheesy chapel. Remember when I was saying most chapels have nice pictures of celebrities that have married there before, ours had a black and white picture of Don Ameche(the geezer from Cocoon).

Again they tried to upsell us all the add on's. Again we both kept saying no. Needless to say they were not happy with us. We walked into the chapel and we heard music playing. Michael had to say, Hey, is that costing us anything? We heard, Yeah $5.00 bucks... M turns and says Turn It Off. When we walked into the chapel, it was white, except for the blue and green waterfall wallpaper scene behind the altar. Out comes the Reverend Ramona. She was a big woman decked out in a purple and orange moo moo and Lucille Ball orange-red hair. All the colors clashed so bad.

She starts off the ceremony saying, "Some marriages are not mean't to last..." My brain turned off at that point. I'm sure she went on and had a point. But to this day I don't remember the whole vows, just that first one liner.

So here we are 25 years later, still together, still in love and still happy.

2008 Day One Hundred Sixty Two

Okay, this is totally crazy but there was snow in some of the surrounding towns last night and it is still snowing in the mountains (4000 feet) It's June! How can it be snowing? Here in Spokane it was on the cool side and cloudy with rain off and on all day. It is suppose to be in the 30's tonight. The weather gods have gone nuts!

After work I stopped at Petco to buy the good dog food that does not turn my dog's feet red. Lady has a crazy allergy that makes her feet turn red when I buy the cheap stuff. Buy 10 bags - get one free.

I watched the first episode of Nashville Star. I kind of liked the guy they kicked off. Some of the little girl singers and the one trio of guys with the one with the weird hairdo were really pathetic. The two I was most impressed with was the black guy that looked like Cowboy Troy and the plus size gal who really sing. She was fabulous. Tonight is Hells Kitchen.

I made pork chops, potatoes au gratin and green beans for dinner. Easy to keep warm in the oven for M when he gets home. Tomorrow is our anniversary. We have been together most of my adult life, since I was 27 years old. I feel we have lived so many lifetimes. Most of that time has gone by so fast.

2008 Day One Hundred Sixty One

My last day of a three day weekend went by way too fast. Cloudy and mild most of the day. M and I's anniversary is on the 11th of this month. Since we were both off work we decided to treat ourselves to lunch out. We went to the Brooklyn Grill. We both ordered the open faced steak sandwich with steak fries and iced tea. It was a little overpriced, but very good. Not too many people in the restauraunt so it was a nice unhurried relaxing lunch.

After the lunch we browsed through Best Buy. M bought the PC game Blackhawk Down. We looked at phones, since our phones are at the end of their usefullness. Found an AT&T set with 5 handsets that we liked, but they only had the display model. They also did not have the movie I was looking for, Benny and Joon.

We wasted enough time that when we were done shopping it was time to go to M's first physical therapy appointment. That took about an hour or more. I read my book, helped myself to free cups of water (they only had black tea - not my favorite) and read all the magazines on their waiting room coffee table. It started to rain as we left the building.

By the time we got home it was pouring buckets and thunder and lightning was happening. Poor Sammie, he is scared of thunder.

I watched the 2nd episode of The Next Food network Star. They sent home my favorite. Bummer. Tonight I am recording the first episode of Nashville Star.

Hope everyone survived Monday and is ready for tackling Tuesday.

2008 Day One Hundred Sixty

I've been tagged by my friend Pidomon who was tagged by Dcup:

Two Names You Go By
1. Linda
2. Saoirse

Two things you are wearing right now
1. Pajamas
2. Barefeet

Two of your favorite things
1.Beading
2.Blogging

Two things you want very badly at the moment
1. For the radiation treatments to ease Pido's sisters pain
2. Find a new job

Two favorite pets you have or had
1. Happy Christmas, my Bedlington Terrier, the best companion ever
2. Sammie and Lady, the two dogs I live with now. Cannot separate them, I love them both equally.

Two people you hope will fill this out
1. Betty
2. The Admiral

Two things you did last night
1. Drove downtown to pick Michael up from work
2. Played Chuzzle on my computer

Two things you ate last night
1. KFC Chicken
2. Trail Mix

Two people you last talked to
1. Michael
2. Sue, my mother in law

Two things you are doing tomorrow
1. Visiting with Carole and Roger and having dinner at folks house
2. Beading

Two of farthest trips taken in the last 5 years
1. Odessa, WA
2. Coeur d'Alene, ID

Two favorite holidays
1. Halloween
2. Saint Patrick's Day

Two favorite beverages
1. Milk
2. Unsweetened Ice Tea

Have a wonderul Sunday! I have 2 more days of freedom to enjoy.

2008 Day One Hundred Fifty Nine

I'm starting out today's post with a meme as I have the last few Saturdays that I found on Betty's blog

Appetizer

When you drink soda/pop/coke, do you prefer to drink it from the bottle, a can, or after pouring it into a cup?

Diet 7-up over ice in a cup

Soup

Hells Kitchen



Salad

Name one person, place, or thing you think of as brilliant.

Bill Gates, I know he invented copy-paste just for me.


Main Course

Would you be willing to work 4 10-hour days instead of 5 8-hour days in order to save gas?

I would even be willing to work 3 12 hour days

Dessert

If you were a superhero, what would you call yourself?

Goddess of Peace


If you are participating, please let me know, so I can come and visit.



The Saturday site I want to share is Mimi's blog where you will get information for Blog Blast for Peace

http://mimiwrites.blogspot.com/

Its raining today. Good day to stay in and catch up on housework. There are bills to pay, floors to clean and laundry to wash and dry. I also will need to go to the market. I also have new beads to create with, an awful good book I have started, movies we have bought and have not watche yet and many tv shows on the DVR to catch up on watching. So I will keep busy most of the day.

2008 Day One Hundred Fifty Eight

Windy cool with sprinkles, but, hey its Friday. A three day weekend for me. I stopped at Michaels on my way home and bought, yes, your guess it, BEADS! I saw a co-worker who also does beading and we talked for awhile.

On my drive in to work this morning I saw that gas prices have risen above $4.00 a gallon. I will say this once again as I have been saying for almost 8 years:

WORST PRESIDENT EVER!!!!!!!!!!

I love to drive. I have been driving since I was 15 years old. Now with gas prices the way they are that joy has been sucked dry. I will soon have to learn to take the bus or ride a bike. Bummer.

M's office is having a luau tomorrow, so I stopped by the $1.00 store and bought decorations including lei's. For someone who hates potlucks he is really getting into this one. Plus he looks too cute in his Hawaiian shirt. He went to the orthopedic dr today and got a cortizone shot. He has a torn rotator cuff. He starts physical therapy on Monday.

Nothing much planned for the weekend. Just house stuff, beading, movie watching and book reading.

Have a nice Friday night.

2008 Day One Hundred Fifty Seven

The day crept by. During the day I kept thinking of all the things I could accomplish once I was off work. But now that I've been home I have accompplished so little. I did get all the jeans washed for tomorrow. Come to think of it beside feeding the dogs that is all I have finished. Oh well, I do have a 3 day weekend coming up to work on whatever I choose. Its been cloudy and windy with spots of sprinkles all day. Not sure what the weekend is going to be like. I hope a little nicer.

2008 Day One Hundred Fifty Six

It seemed strange without M at the house this morning, as it always does. I had to do all the things he normally does. Like take the garbage can out because its garbage day. Remember to feed Jack the Fish and fill the pups' water dishes, plus all the things I normally do every morning. But he will be back tonight.

He called me from the game last night and sent me pictures on my phone. I'm glad he had a fun time with his peeps.

I went and got a coffee so I will stay awake. He is going to be hungry when he gets off the plane so I'm going to take hime to King Yens for a big bowl of won ton soup and eggrolls.

I guess we now know it will be Obama vs McCain. It doesn't matter, I've been a democrat my whole life. I will vote for the democratic candidate as I always have. I don't think this year I will volunteer to work on any campaigns like I have in years past. I wish we could put together a Code Pink chapter here. I would definitely volunteer to work for the peace movement.

So I'm off to the airport.

2008 Day One Hundred Fifty Five

I left work at 11:00 today. Can I say I danced out the building. I had asked for an hour off early to make up at a later date, but, the scheduler decided to give me 1/4 day vacation. I had to drive M to the airport. He went over to the west side to attend a management team build at the Mariner's baseball game in a catered private suite. Now won't he have fun with his peeps?

Its raining this afternoon and much cooler than it has been. I went to the bank to make a deposit and move some money. I resisted stopping at the bead shop and came on home.

Is anyone watching the Next Food Network Star? I was sad they sent Corey the comedienne home and kept the freaky snob Dallas chick. I already have my favorites. Who is yours so we can compare? Hell's Kitchen is tonight. The previews have been showing Matt going a little bonkers. That will make it interesting.

Have a nice evening.

2008 Day One Hundred Fifty Four

Tonight I am saddened by some news received by a friend many miles away. Again I wonder about the purpose of life and what it means.

I believe in Nirvana. And that life on earth is another step towards the most sacred of places where the most perfect souls rest.

2008 Day One Hundred Fifty Three

Woke up to a rainy day today. Much cooler than yesterday. I'm glad I went to Artfest yesterday since it is an outdoor event. I saw so many unique beautiful art. I got so inspired by what I saw. I met a couple who makes the most unsual jewelry. I bought a pair of mermaid earrings from them which I really love.

We had a wave of thunderstorms come through yesterday afternoon. It was wonderful. I picked up M from work last night and we went to the Swinging Doors for beer and onion rings before heading for home.

Today I just enjoyed the day here at home. Got some laundry done and pulled weeds. I made 2 new necklaces. We BBQ'd and had dinner with folks out on the deck. It stopped raining and was a nice 67 degrees.

Tonight I set the series recording of Food Network's Next TV Star show. They have already cancelled the show of last year's winner. I told them they should have picked Rory. She was alot more fun and inventive.

Hope everyone has a good week.