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Elizabeth The Ol' Rumor...
On a good note, a coworker has given me permission to scan her photos and play with them in Photoshop. She just had a new baby boy a couple of months ago, and he is so adorable. Then again so are her daughters. It will be a wonderful stress reliever to work on her photos. I am seriously considering signing up for some type of online class again. I need to have my nose in a book learning something. I also need to make some serious changes in my life. Maybe I've hit a midlife rut. Who knows? Elizabeth Power Was Restored...
Sure enough Wyrm and I return to work off of our vacation, and it's straight back into ridiculous nonsense. I had to wait on him till 3:30 AM this morning. That's 2 1/2 hours of just sitting here. It's more tiring having to sit for that long and wait. We didn't get home till sometime after 4:00 AM. I'm exhausted today. Elizabeth No Such...
Elizabeth During Hurricane Season...
As I’m Sitting Here...
The hubby and I have made a pact together to change our eating habits. We're planning to start on Monday. Instead of heading towards the cafeteria or vending machines, I purchased Progresso soups, raw vegetables, and salads. We have got to get this weight off of ourselves. Yes, I’ve missed some days...
As I'm sitting here half asleep with my earplugs in to muffle the racket, I'm silently wishing that today was already done. It is my last night of work before I start my vacation and oh how I am so looking forward to it. I've started redoing my Battle of Sacramento book. I like the page layouts of the publisher much better than the previous one I used. I'll continue to use the other program to sell artwork and calendars and such. I'm also planning on redoing my newsletters and printing copies to distribute since I've now replaced my ink cartridge. We've got the Trail of Tears Pow Wow planned for tomorrow. And I would like for us to go out for our anniversary Tuesday. To others this may seem trivial stuff, but to me who works six or sometimes seven days a week on 2nd shift all of these things are projects that I don't get to work on either because I'm here at work or I'm too tired when I'm at home. Now I'll have the opportunity to work to my heart's content on my projects.
Elizabeth Saturday+Weekend=...
Grandma will be celebrating her 90th birthday on Sept. 1. Her only birthday wish was that she would like all of her family to be with her, but she wasn't sure if her nerves could handle a big family dinner like we used to do. So my Aunt Jessie and my Uncle Sonn got together and come up with the idea of an open house sort of thing with only cake and punch. No hassle or hustle and bustle of cooking, in and out and whatnot. Only Grandma doesn't now that those two have come up with this idea. It's a surprise. I'm planning on getting up and going. I will of course be packing my camera, lenses, and batteries. Picture fun. Grandma has beautiful flowers in her yard that I am so wanting to get a hold of with my macro lens. Can't wait. Here lately there has been someone that has been on my mind lately. My friend, Karen, from grade school. I've been thinking about calling, but I usually talk myself out of it. I tell myself that she's just too busy and wouldn't have time to talk or it would inconvenience her. Don't know why I've ended up this way. Just have. I don't even call my friend Tammy that much. I have an issue with talking on a phone, but then again I have lots of issues.
Elizabeth Bad, bad me. I haven’t...
Counting down to my last week of vacation. Can't wait. It's posted to work this Saturday, but we are supposed to have Sunday and Labor Day off. Then for me I'll work 4 days. We don't really have any major plans except for the Trail of Tears Pow Wow at Hopkinsville on Saturday the 6th and our anniversary on the 9th. I'm hoping to sweet talk my hubby into taking me to the Olive Garden.
Elizabeth Let’s See. I wonder...
I didn't think work could get any more stupid. I just found out that the computer I use has been moved up two flights of stairs to a different room. I've been saying I needed to lose weight anyway. They are rearranging certain people's hours to try and cut back on overtime, but yet they'll continue to post it for weekend work. Now does that make any sense. Uh, no.
Elizabeth Okay. Let Me...
To give you an idea of what type of person I am, I have been diagnosed with social anxiety disorder, OCD, and avoidant personality disorder. I've also been told that I have a problem with environmental depression (only at work). Feel free to look all that up to find out what they all mean cause right now I don't feel like going into it all again. Maybe later. I am a photo nut. I was bitten by the shutterbug right after my son was born, and I've been snapping away ever since. I started out with a regular point and shoot film camera and then my hubby upgraded me to a Canon Rebel G. After experiencing an SLR first hand, I fell in love with them, and it wasn't long until I upgraded myself to the digital age and bought a Canon Digital Rebel. I love to snap anyone and anything. I'm notorious for catching backsides. It's not that I do it on purpose or anything. It's just where someone happens to bend at the time I shoot or someone walks in front of them at the time I'm snapping. There's been many laughs over the years of my butt portraits. :) I love to read. I have books, upon books, upon books. My shelves are overflowing with them. I range anywhere from self teaching books, Star Wars novels, photography, books based on video games, internet, web designing, and so on and so on. Most people collect knicknacks and whatnots. Me? I collect books. Don't know what it is, but there's just something about picking up a brand new book, be it hardcover or paperback, and rifling through the new pages. And I love that newness smell. Set me up in the middle of Books-A-Million with a futon and a compact refrigerator full of chocolate milk and I will believe that I have been sent to heaven. Writing has been a childhood passion of mine. I've been writing stuff since before I knew how to spell. My first poem I wrote when I was about 6 years was a gift to my mother and she still has it to this day in a frame. My creative juices left me years ago when I went to work or should I say dove into the black abyss. That's what my place of employment means to me. I'm trying now to get back into my creative frame of mind and get back into my hobbies that I so love dearly. For too long I have let that place have control over me and have let things go. Hence the reason I'm going to try blogging again. I've blogged at Windows Live Spaces and Blogger before. That's when I got blogging/writer's burnout and quit. I'm going to try picking it back up again. I am truly happy when I have a pen in my hand creating or my camera around my neck snapping away. So I've decided to share my passions once again as you can see. I will be adding a photo to my entries, and my entries will consist of anything that I want to write at that time. Be it an actual journal entry, poem, or short story. Enjoy. Elizabeth I’m Starting Over...
Elizabeth I Got A Huge Surprise...
Today was disappointing that I have to waste it being here at work (or the black abyss as I like to call it). At least I get to be here with just my department. That means the bathroom and breakrooms will be clean, production floor will be emptier, and just a whole lot less people which puts me in a much better mood than I normally have throughout the week. I did manage to get what I think are the best shots into the KY. Gov. Beshear album uploaded and fixed at MySpace. Now I just need to burn some discs for Tammy of my photos of the Gov. and of her photo shoot that we did. I'll also get to play around in photoshop tomorrow.
Elizabeth Grr!! Grumble, Grumble.
Elizabeth Today Was Absolutely...
Elizabeth Don’t Really Know...
I'm also thinking about keeping a food diary in hopes that it might help me to change my eating habits. Yesterday went fairly well. I still wouldn't say great for this place, but I do feel more rested after being on vacation. I also think that writing everyday is helping alot. Even just writing mundane things to myself. I'm thinking about blogging again. I'm not going to worry about trying to compare my life to anyone else. I'm just going to write for me. No time constraints or anything. Just for me.
Elizabeth I Am Sitting Here...
Here I have my computer now to work on my photos, but now I'm already coming home tired. Yesterday I woke up on my own fairly early only to be wakened by the stupid alarm clock today. I believe I really need to invest in a laptop to bring with me. Still need to do wish list
Elizabeth Pen is in hand...
It's the end of my vacation, and I am so sorry to see it go. Michael called and said that he would be dropping off my computer and here I am at work. I've so wanted my computer last week to work on my photos. Now I have to work in time before and after work. It's not as enjoying having to work in a time constraint. Good news is that my friend, Tammy, wants to do another photo shoot again on my next vacation in a couple of weeks. Something to look forward to. At least coming into work today straight off my vacation, I get to come into an empty building with no Debone. I actually felt lightened seeing that posting. Things to do on computer: add to wish list at Amazon: Photoshop Elements (latest version), Photoshop (full version), Microsoft Office Professional, wide angle lens (for my camera) D&D book for hubby, and games for my boy. play with pictures
Elizabeth On HiatusI am on hiatus... from blogging for awhile. I guess you could say that I have blogging burnout and writer's block so I'm just going to lay low and try writing later on. Have a great summer!
Later I have been...very, very, bad with posting these past few months, but you can only write about boring mundane stuff about life until you get bored with writing it. There has been something that I've been meaning to write about for awhile, but I kept forgetting. I've been aiming to write about two fun sites that I have found. The first site I found thanks to Val at Mulewings. LetterPop. It's a fun site where you can create newsletters using premade templates. The second site I discovered thanks to Caffeinated Librarian. Shelfari. I really have fun with this site. It's a place where you create an online bookshelf of the books you own. You can find others that also share in the same books that you have. Take a few minutes and check them out.
Later Okay, let's see...Since my last posting, my monitor finally went bellyup, so I was a few days without a computer. Wyrm pretty much stays on his playing World of Warcraft. I just didn't bother getting on his. Tuesday was Wyrm's and CR's birthdays (35 and 16). We celebrated on the Sunday before it with a cookout. CR got 2 computer games (that he couldn't play due to the monitor crises) and Wyrm got the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon series. When Tuesday rolled around, I was all ready for work when Wyrm came to me saying that he wanted to call in. He didn't have to twist my arm very much. We both ended up playing hookey from work and went to Owensboro for the rest of the afternoon. Wyrm spent his birthday money that he got from his parents on D&D books while I purchased a reasonably priced monitor at Office Depot. It was a very nice monitor that came to a total of $158. It also came with a $100 rebate that I hope will be accepted. It would be really nice to get $100 back. Once we got home I got busy along with CR's help and hooked up the new monitor. CR was excited so I let him play his new games for awhile before I got on it to check my email. Later on that night I found a nice surprise in my inbox. A friend of mine from elementary school had sent me photos of her newborn son. I was thrilled for her. As for any more news, it seems like work has managed to straighten out the water problem. Here's to hoping the water problem stays fixed, and they soon stop posting to work on Saturdays.
Later Actually written on Thursday, April 5...Such is the annoyance of things mechanical. Last night as I was in the middle of discovering a new thingy to play with on my blogs (thanks to Hack MSN Spaces) my monitor goes completely dark yet the computer is still on. This has been happening off and on for the past few days. Not sure if it is the video card or the monitor itself on the fritz. Good thing that I was just surfing and not in the middle of typing my blog entry. That would have severely angered me to have been in the process of typing my thoughts down and not be able to save. So now I have resorted back to the old fashioned method of jotting down my thoughts with pen and paper. So let us begin... In continuance of my mundane and non exciting life, some interesting things have popped up for the past two weeks. I have been working sporadically due to a water problem. Last week I worked Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. I woke Thursday and discovered that production had been called off for my shift. That was a lovely and unexpected surprise. I enjoyed the day be getting my hair cut and ordering our supper from the cafe. Wyrm enjoyed his day with getting his hair cut or should I say shaved. He is nearly bald. Friday I woke expecting to go into work, but again production was called off for my shift. Wyrm however got called in for a few hours. On Monday both of us went into work to hear that we would only be working half a shift. I clocked out around 6:30 PM but had to wait for Wyrm till about 8:30 PM. For Tuesday and Wednesday, my shift was the only one running and now work was canceled yesterday for everyone. Who knows about Friday. I will have to set my alarm to get up and call HR to find out if we are running. I'm loving the time off but my paycheck is hurting. Ouch! The lowdown on my sister is that all of the tests that she had done have come back negative. She's in good health. Her neurologist seems to think that one of her medications that she's been on may be the culprit of her spells she's been having. She's off the medication now and her mind and ours are at ease. I got a wonderful surprise while grocery shopping at Wal-Mart last weekend. As I was walking down the aisles looking for an item, I saw a young girl that seemed familiar to me. She looked so much like the photo of my friend, Karen's, daughter. I decided to keep the girl in my sights. After I was done shopping and heading to the checkouts, I saw the young girl again at the jewelry counter. I made my way slowly past a display stand and lo and behold there was Karen. I almost didn't recognize her with her recently dyed red hair (she's a blonde). We hugged and laughed and were chatterboxes until I absolutely just had to go. As much as I hated to leave, I had no choice. The ice cream I had picked up was starting to melt. I was so elated after that. Nothing could have dampened my spirits then. Well that's been the happenings here so far. Since I haven't been very good at keeping up with my posting, it may be a few days before I write again. Update: My monitor went completely out before I could get a chance to get this typed and posted. It happened while CR was in the middle of a computer game. Thanks to his expertise (he got so mad he started banging on the monitor and the video popped back in) the monitor is working again and hasn't given us any trouble. Also I'm off again due to work being canceled due to the water problem. Will have to call tomorrow to see if I go in or not.
Later Book MemeI borrowed this sometime ago from Caffeinated Librarian and it's been sitting in my saved file so here ya go finally. I guess better late than never.
Okay, so I've been...very bad about keeping up with posting, but in all honesty, there hasn't really been anything of major earth-shattering importance to write about. Along with that, I haven't been in a writing mood lately or in the mood to sit at the computer for that matter. I've been spending my time just goofing off with CR and relaxing. So here's the lowdown for this month of March. So far we haven't heard from my sis about her checkups. She had to go to the hospital for some tests to be run (I believe it was last week) and then those results would have to be sent to the neurologist to look over before he would call her back in. We're just waiting right now. She called me up a couple weekends ago and wanted me to go with her to a baby shower that someone from her work asked her to go to. The only person she would know there would be that co-worker and I knew how she would feel so I agreed to go. We both enjoyed that Sunday out. Mom's been down in her back here lately. Bless her heart. The woman is like the energizer bunny. She just keeps going and going. She just can't keep still and has to be doing something. I believe it's getting better now though. CR signed up for his junior classes on the 15th. He should get all that he requested with him going into the 11th grade. It's looking like he will be taking English 11, Basic Geometry, Chemistry in the Community, Advanced Placement European History, Driver's Ed, Business Law, and Spanish I and II. I can't believe he will be turning 16 next month. My gosh! Where has the time gone? I feel so old. LOL! After a couple of days of not having the Internet (our modem went out and we had to get a new one), I found a surprise in my email. I received a notice that someone had sent me a note on Classmates. I went over to Classmates to see who this person was and it turns out it was a friend from my grade school years. After my father died when I was 13, mom, sis, and I had to move and I lost out on finishing school with my friends. Some of us kept up with letter writing through our high school, but we eventually lost touch with each other. After getting the Internet I decided to search for them and used Classmates to find them all. Well life got in the way again and I lost touch with some of them. Until now. She let me know that she had a MySpace profile and I found her. Meet Karen, my friend since we were little things. We've been emailing back and forth getting reacquainted again and this time I'm not going to lose touch with her. Work sucks major butt right now. We have a new supervisor and he's a slave driver. He's so into kissing his boss' butt and trying to make himself look good that the rest of us are paying for it with being overworked. He's making it very hard to go into work everyday. Wyrm and I are looking into other options though that are becoming available this week. Well that's been all that's been going on this month.
Later Wow! Has the week...went by already? I managed to actually get 40 hours for this week so my paycheck will look somewhat better next. Hopefully I will be able to get caught up on those couple of bills that I got behind on. The weather here has been completely crazy. One day this week it was almost as if spring was coming in. The temps were in the 50's and the sounds that let me know spring is here were plentiful. Music wafting out of windows that were rolled down in vehicles as they drove by, and the constant hustle and bustle that picks up at this time of year. Only it didn't last. The very next day we were under tornado watches and thunderstorms aplenty. Now we're back to the cold temps. Sigh. I'll be glad when spring gets here and actually stays. My apologies once again. I didn't get around to writing those posts that I had planned to. The day gets away from me on the weekends and during the week I basically come home and go to bed. Okay I take that back. I don't just go to bed. Thanks to my hubby I've become addicted to Sudoku and usually work a couple of puzzles before getting sleepy enough to curl up under the covers. Someone asked sometime ago on my sister and how she was doing. Well, she ended up calling her family doctor and demanded to know exactly what those abnormalities were that showed up on her MRI of her brain. The nurse reluctantly told her that it was two lesions on her brain. We're worried. Took had her appointment with a neurologist on Monday this past week. We still don't know anything but he did take vials of blood for bloodwork to be done. She has another appointment, but I can't remember exactly when. It's sometime this month. She's coming down for a visit tomorrow. CR is excited. He loves it when she comes over for a visit. That's my week in a nutshell.
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