Pick Hump UP

I think I got the Title Wrong. I meant something else. Really....hold on let me think about that.

Seriously, if we all pull together and think warm, warm thoughts then it won't seem so cold outside today.

Come on ladies, help me out. We can do this.

(Thanks, Tara, for that suggestion.)

Any names mentioned in this post may have been changed to protect the presumed innocent from getting in trouble for talking about Matthew McConaughey and his awesome, hawt body with their spouses.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have some inkernet searching to do to see if I can find the photographer.....surely there's a more recent picture.....say....five seconds recenter? He didn't lose his britches in the ocean water did he?

Today's Quote

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

courtesy of......

Hump Day

• I ran into Walmart for a quick second and left about forty minutes later.
• I was talking to a friend when I realized a guy a few feet away had been standing nearby and just staring. He didn't look the least bit familiar and realized I had my radar on him. He started walking off only to make eye contact with me and mouth the word Wow.
  
• I can't tell you how paranoid I was...bugar? bad posture? something on my shirt? Why do I automatically assume I have a defect when someone does that?
• And was that a pick up gesture? What the heck was the point of that? Annnd, I had very little make-up, jeans, a jacket and a baseball cap. There's not a chance in Pluto I was a "wow" at that moment.
  
• I bet I said something extremely smart and it was my intelligence that sparked it.
• Either way, men are weird. Woman? Yay, we're totally normal.
• Insomnia sucks.
  
• In Costa Rica I was in bed before nine and up happily by around five or six.
  
• Oh, yea, it was in the high 60's to low 70's at night and I slept with the windows open to be woken by friendly neighbor howler monkeys and the neighbor roosters.
• I'm sure you totally not tired of hearing about Costa Rica at all, right?
  
• Sigh. I miss Costa Rica. I miss the monkeys, nice weather and smell of the ocean.
• I'm ready to move. My allergies and insomnia would be cured.
  
• Happy Wednesday. Kinda.
  
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Tuesday Pick Me Up

I was debating whether or not it's ok to post a pic of a hot guy in his underoos until my A.D.D. kicked in and I remembered I was a "sexy nurse" for Halloween....I think I still have that outfit.

Excuse me, Doc....I'll take care of this patient.

Lunar Halo

Yea, that's totally what we saw outside last night.

Actually it was what we were supposed to see outside last night. My sweet neighbor sent me a text to go look at it, but it wasn't doing it when we went.

I did, however, enjoy sitting on the deck with my little girls and our puppy dogs in our pajamas and bath robes. We shared a moment of giggles while exploring what we thought "lunar halo" might mean.

I wanna say my great grandmother (Handley) used to say that if there was a ring around the moon then it would rain the next day. I meant to google that last night but got distracted.....with my head hitting the pillow and me falling asleep.

Tuesday's Thoughts

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  I tried to download a chic flcik from itunes in my deep dark depression this weekend, but ended up having to sit through a two hour download. Ugh.
  
  
  
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  I gave up and fell asleep crying into my pillow while watching a Kurt and Courtney documentary. In the meantime, I have a movie rented from itunes just waiting for me to watch it...but I'm not in a deep dark depression anymore.
  
  
  
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  Did I tell you my brother got a place? He's moving this Friday and Saturday. I hope. (I might keep that depression movie available just in case he says last minute that it didn't work out.)
  
  
  
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  I love my brother and his kids, but good grief....me needs me some space. It's been a smidge longer than I figured it would be for him to figure out his situation.
  
  
  
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  It's gonna be awfully quiet and lonely in this house.....after the big party, of course!
  
  
  
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  The heater was broke at work yesterday. Thank goodness we have a maintenance guy onsite for our equipment that got it fixed the same day. It was getting a bit chilly at my desk.
  
  
  
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  I didn't sleep very well this weekend, thanks to being a tad stressed. Last night I slept like a baby...annnd that was with both girls and both dogs sleeping in my room yesterday.
  
  
  
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  I figured out (with help) last night that the Pages (at the top of the bar) in Blogger are only available if you use "Blogger in Draft".
  
  
  
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  Contact Update: The left one drove me crazy yesterday. Today the right one is driving me crazy. I'm also paranoid that I'm going to get them mixed up. My eyes have different corrections.
  
  
  
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  Happy Tuesday.
  
  
  

Coffins, Death and Sports

I heard a discussion on the radio yesterday on buying a coffin for yourself. I think making prearrangements is an awesome idea. The loved ones left behind (ahem: to my parents) don't have to deal with it and the price difference between buying a coffin for yourself ahead of time versus your loved one to buy it and arrange details was significantly different (ahead of time being the cheaper way to go).

The point to this? Well, the discussion was on the sports radio talk station and they were discussing and exploring the details of people buying coffins decorated with their favorite sports teams. My thought, was first: Seriously, anyone out there that big of a Dallas Cowboys fan? Yea, right.

One caller was a gentleman that has his own business of airbrush painting and has painted coffins for individuals wanting their favorite sports teams lots of times. The most bizarre and costly was a 60 year old man that wanted his coffin to reflect his favorite NASCAR team car. Yep, there has been a guy that has paid someone $9,500 to get his coffin painted to appear 3D ish to look like Dayle Earnheart's Car. Now, that is crazy. CRAZY.

Someone let my kids know that I love Colby Donaldson and if he won't come around, I'd like to go ahead and be buried with a replica of his body next to me. I would be happy to cuddle with Colby for eternity even if it was a fake Colby.

Two Second Post

I'm happy again.

...and I almost regret eating my feelings this weekend. That ice cream was super yummy.
Did it solve my problems? No.
Did it taste good? Yes.

Carry on.

Monday, Badly Needed, Pic me Up

Happy breakfast bowls, indeed!

I've always heard that breakfast is the most important part of the day.

Lunchtime Snack

Created by a 19 year old. He's has lots more for you to nibble on here.

Android Does

Can the iphone do that?

Monday

• It's Monday and I'm never excited to see a Monday. Sometimes I feel bad for how I perceive Monday. Poor Monday.
• I finally went to the eye doctor this weekend. I walked out of there looking like I was on crack cocaine and wearing contacts. I've never worn contacts before. I also have two different visions in my eyes. My right eye isn't too bad and my left one is worse. I also have The Astigmatism in both eyes. I have a temporary pair right now and they've special ordered what ever it is that my eyes need.
  
• If you wear contacts, good grief, I feel for ya. Those are a pain in the neck to wear. I'm sure I will get used to wearing them, but today was a learning experience.
  
• I'm glad I finally went to the eye doctor even if it wasn't in my budget. Someone made fun of how old my glasses were. Finally getting contacts and not having to walk around in glasses that....apparently were out of fashion and probably had seen better days...was nice. I needed to replace those glasses a long, long, long time ago. I actually tried to buy a pair from Walmart but didn't get the right ones. It was worth a shot, but didn't work.
  
• Back to the crack cocaine comment. I let the doctor do the dilation bit to check for The diseases and The infections ( I got none ) and man oh man, the kid accidentally squeezed that bottle a tad too hard over my left eye, put way too much solution in my eye to dilate and it stung forever.
  
• He failed to warn me how my eyesight would change when he did the dilation bit. I almost had a panic attack when I realized I couldn't see a thing in the close range. I reached for my phone to look at the time and couldn't tell what the screen said. At all!
  
• He giggled and explained that it would last for three or four hours.
  
• Huh?
  
• He was also the one assigned to teach me how to put my contacts in and teach me how to care for them. I'll admit, for the kid that had trouble operating a little bottle with solution - he left me feeling a little nervous when he was going to put a contact in my eye. He turned out to be pretty good....at teaching contact wear....just not so much on the forewarning of side effects. At least he was honest and apologized for the slight mishap.
• I appreciate honesty. I appreciate someone that actually cares.
  
• I had them in for a couple of hours until I got back home. It felt good to take them out. I'm not sure I truly had the chance to appreciate the clarity they'll add to my vision since I couldn't see worth anything.
  
• Imagine my drive home. Little stressful...I was praying I didn't get pulled over. I'm not sure a cop would have believed me if I claimed to not be on drugs.
  
• I did pull off a photo shoot after the doc's office. I'll have to look at those pictures again. My left eye was still stinging. My eyes felt sensitive and I was feeling the weight of the contacts in my eyes. Annnd, I had a raging headache. They were happy with the pics, but I'll need to reevaluate after I can sit and look at them again more clearly.
• The couple was cute. I've known the family for a while and this was engagement pics. The couple were really cute together. Awww.....poor young love.
  
• I've had a bad weekend. I don't even wanna get into it, but we'll just say that I'm not a happy camper.
• I've also learned last week that a gal I thought was a nice and decent person isn't. See I can be wrong every now and then. I'm not always right. I'm glad she's had fun hurting my feelings and portraying me as something I'm not. Wait. No, I'm not glad. I think she's a stinker and unkind. Poo on her.
• On a brighter note, anyone notice that Blogger added the ability to create up to ten pages to your blog? They are a smidge slow in adding that ability, but nonetheless, I think I might enjoy playing around with that.
• Annnnd, my radio station told me that Brad Pitt and that other girl have broken up. I'm gonna feel bad when I break the news to Brad that I am still not going to date him.
  
• Don't worry, Colby Donaldson, I still love you. I won't let that smooth talking, cute Brad get in between us. I'm still saving my heart for you.
  
• Speaking of Colby Donaldson, he's gonna be on the next Survivor. I cannot wait until that starts. I'm drooling already.
  

Wake Up

Friday...finally

Today is the day. It's Friday . It's here. Today can be translated to staying up really really really late (10:30pm) and then sleeping in till....9am tomorrow morning. Heck yea, cause I'm a rebel like that.
My brother is moving out in one week to place of his own with himself and his kids. (Wondering when he's gonna start packing up.)
The next weekend I gots me some cleaning and rearranging to do.
Half marathon next month. Am I ready? Am I ready? Am I ready?
Last night was band practice. There were some tough, tough pieces involved.
I can't wait to pick apart the hard parts and master them. Plus, it's exciting to play at the Myerson in Dallas. That place is amazing and beautiful on the inside.
This year it doesn't interfere with the half marathon in Fort Worth.


EDIT: I got distracted and never did finish my Friday posting. I was so optimistic about having a good weekend.

I'm in a bad mood....

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.

• My eyes are getting bad. It didn't just happen overnight...it's been happening more and more over time but I just refused to accept it until recently. I finally soaked in the fact that I could only see longer distances when it really mattered and in focus when I had my telephoto lens on my happy fancy camera. I've worn my prescription glasses for three days in a row and man oh man is my head free of aching and my eyes and sight happier.
• BUT, and yes there is always a butt....I know my aged, very aged glasses aren't quite right....they are older than dirt and not quite up to what might sight has become.
• Millions, Billions, Trillions....at what point have we raised enough money to buy enough sand and concrete to rebuild that island?
• That was the most insinsitieve comment I've made in....2 months.
• Wait....I think I had bad thoughts about some guy that has caused me grief today...I take back the 2 month rough estimate, make that ten minutes instead.
• Days like today and yesterday leave me very irritated with myself that I work behind a desk.
• Today and, well, yes, yesterday was too....very irritating. BUT, I've had estrogen and feel better. I, a happy girl again.
• Have you been reading this blog long enough to figure out that I lack the ovaries to deal with life on a day to day basis with medically injected estrogen?
• Please tell me you've obeyed Miss March's orders to clink on the calender link on this page. She's pretty dang annoying. She keeps asking if anyone has asked for autographs or at least bought a calender.
• I hate hate hate it when I realize I still have a gmail in draft that I thought I sent but is sitting in the draft folder.
• I had a two hour conversation with my mother last night. Ahhh....nothing beats being a mama's girl.
• By the way, my sweet mini-me's got big kisses and hugs tonight from me. I am super duper proud of my girls. They are good kids. I'm beyond lucky.

Tuesday

• My body is out of estrogen. This probably isn't going to be a good day. I was feeling overly grumpy, tired and blah yesterday. Maybe I'll go get my shot tonight. I wonder if my sweet nurse still reads my blog. I'd like to go ahead and made an appointment for 4:15 ish.
• The girls had the pleasure and fun of washing all the sheets on all three beds. I flip my mattress after I wash sheets. Oh my....my hidden diary right there under my mattress...I snagged it up only to find two more on the other side. They belonged to my older daughter. Made me giggle. When did she hide those there and who gave her that idea?
• I'm back on the strict diet and exercise routine starting last night. I've been exercising but just to get it done. Now I'm working toward two goals: one half marathon and then my full marathon. Here we go.
• I'm not sure I can possibly sneeze one more time. Wait. Bless me. I was wrong.
• I had massive sneeze attacks yesterday and last night. You'd be amazed how worn out you can feel when you have ten to twelve hard sneezes back to back.
• I had close to twenty last night, grabbed my credit card, glasses and keys and made my way to the garage - ran to Walmart, got the good stuff, (children's liquid allergy) and chugged it up in the parking lot.
• Grape flavor isn't too bad. (I can't take pills - I would have made a horrible drug addict.)
• Ten minutes later I felt a huge relief. Five minutes after that I couldn't drive thanks to the sneeze tantrum, I had to sit on the side of the road for with my flashers on.
• Now it's 6am and I'm waking up to more sneezing. I might work on that pill problem for some Zyrtec.
• Happy Tuesday.

Afternoon Pic Me Up

A man in a suit.....




....gets me everytime. Yummy Bradley Cooper.

Afternoon Entertainment

Freezelight Magic Forest from FREEZELIGHT.RU on Vimeo.

Monday

• Man, there's a ton of crap on the inkernet. I'm starting to have trouble keeping up with everything I stalk.
• Is it really true that if a truckdriver honks at a chic on the freeway that he's giving code for wanting to see boobs?
• I've tried before to do a Flickr photo project called 365. I'm trying again. The concept of the group I joined is to do a self protrait once a day. Last time I tried to do this,I got bored within a month. I'm trying again.
  
• I've spent the majority of Saturday watching movies and Sunday trying to upload Costa Rica pictures to my flickr site. I feel pretty unproductive after this weekend. I did get a lot of cleaning done, but feel like I sat around all weekend.
• My brother is moving out. He found a place. I'm gonna feel lost with only two kids in the house. It'll be weird. Then what will I do?
• I'm ready for another book. Any suggestions? I kinda like the tear jerkers. I like the real life crime biographies too. Make me cry or make me think.
  
• Dear John comes out the 5th of February. I think I'm gonna take my little girls to go see it at the Fort Worth Movie Tavern. Maybe.
• After that I wanna see this movie:

....wander if I can find me a hot date by then.

• My older daughter got a red eared baby turtle for Christmas. That thing is cute as can be. Right now it is in my bathroom in it's little turtle home. I can hear it crawling around at night. It gives me the creeps, because I keep thinking there is a little mouse crawling around.
• Monday is payroll day which only stresses me out on the items that build up while I'm working on getting the time sheets in.
  
• I'm not a fan of Mondays....especially holiday Mondays when I'm working.