¡Necesita una siesta!

Estoy muy cansada hoy.  ¡Necesito tan una siesta!  O cafeína.  Pero prefiero una siesta.  ¡Cómo amo sueño!

Okay, that’s enough of that for a while.  My brain is beginning to hurt from use.   And actually, I’ve had some caffeine now, but clearly it’s not working yet because I cannot type to save my life.  I just tried to spell caffeine with one f and two e’s.  Make that two e’s instead of ei like it’s supposed to be.  Did that make any sense?  Oh, well.  I’m too tired to care.

I would say that I feel like I’ve been hit by a bus, but that’s not quite so funny after yesterday.  See, Friday I had the flu (the yucky puke-up-your-guts-and-then-some variety), so I stayed home from work and did nothing but sit around feeling miserable and wanting to die.  Yesterday Beth had the flu.  I spent yesterday running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to get everything done and the stupid phone wouldn’t stop ringing and people kept coming in and finally the phone rang and it was this lady who had called earlier to reschedule an appointment she had today and now she wanted to cancel it.  Okay, fine, whatever.  She sounded really upset, though, and it turns out she had good reason: her son-in-law and his father had just been run over by a tractor and they were being life-flighted to the hospital.  I’d heard the ambulance go out yesterday afternoon and I’d heard people talking about it at the courthouse when I ran errands, but I didn’t really put any of it together till that phone call.  I’ve heard several people talking about it today, too, and no one really seems to know anything.  I just hope they’ll be okay; the son-in-law isn’t that old, like mid-40s or so, I think.  I really feel bad for the woman; she’s had a lot of bad luck lately.

In other news, after running around like crazy at work all day yesterday, I got home and got to run around some more.  Kindergarten round-up is this week and the parents’ meeting was last night at the elementary school.  I can’t believe my baby is going to be in kindergarten this fall!  Anyway, so I got home with enough time to spare to get a couple things done at home before I had to be out the door.  I got to the school, got the packet they had for me, and then sat down at one of the lunch tables in the gym and waited.  And waited.  And waited.  And then for a change of pace, I waited some more.  Finally, I got up to go have a look at the calendar that was hanging up in the hallway and I realized why I had been waiting so long: the stupid meeting didn’t start till 6:30 p.m. and I’d written 6:00 p.m. down at home!  Boy, did I feel stupid.  At least I wasn’t late!

The meeting lasted about an hour and then I went home and had a bite to eat before I got started on the laundry.  Yay chores.  Not.  I spent the rest of the night folding laundry.  When I was done, I went to bed.  That was my night.  So exciting!  I suppose it’s my own fault; I should have gotten it done over the weekend like I had planned to do, but I spent most of Sunday asleep and most of Saturday wishing I was asleep.  I definitely overdid things Saturday; I’m sure that’s why I was so tired Sunday.  I’ll have a little left to fold tonight and then I intend to collapse on the couch and do nothing.  Well, I’m sure I’ll watch some t.v., but I don’t know what yet.  I still haven’t seen last week’s Life on Mars and there’s an episode of Family Guy on the dvr that I want to see.  They had the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation on as guests Sunday night, so I made Greg tape it.  He doesn’t really like Family Guy, but I think it’s funny.  Also, the cast of TNG was too much to resist.  Makes me want to break out the Futurama and watch the one where Fry kidnaps Leonard Nimoy’s head and they go off in search of the rest of the TOS cast and that energy being forces them to fight each other.  Great episode!

Hmmm…I suppose I should try to find something work-related to do, but I really don’t want to.  I got all my work done yesterday and I haven’t gotten anything new to do, except for a bunch of letters that I’ve already gotten done.  I suppose I could check Facebook and LJ obsessively for updates, but I’ve pretty much been doing that all morning, so…yeah.

You know, I’m beginning to think that maybe that lovely raspberry cream coffee stuff didn’t like me.  Maybe it was the chicken salad.

I can’t believe that today is the last day of March!  In just two short weeks I’ll be confirmed at church.  I’m really looking forward to it, mostly because I’m looking forward to having my Thursday nights to myself again.  It’s one less thing I have to do.  Speaking of things I have to do, I guess I should have brought the worksheets I got in class after church Sunday; then I could do those.  Oh, well.

I now officially have less than six months to go before I am once again a married woman!  I can’t believe how fast things are going.  It seems like we just got engaged, but here it’s been three months.  Everything seems to be falling into place, which is awesome.  We just have to pick out invitations, decide on bridesmaid dresses, find some music that Father Quint won’t object to (can you believe I can’t have Here Comes the Bride?), and probably something else that I’m forgetting.  More decorations stuff, probably.  I can’t believe this is all really happening, but I’m sure glad it is.  I love being part of a family again.  That’s not to say that you can’t be a family of two, it’s just that it’s so much better when you have someone to share it all with.

And with that thought, I suppose I will get back to checking various sites obsessively for updates while trying to avoid getting anything productive done.  ¡Feliz martes!

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WTF????

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Oh, the memories this picture brings back!  I saw this picture this morning and all I could do was shake my head and think back to the good old days in my leadership development class.  It was taught by the high school ag teacher.  I forget how, but one day we were talking about FFA and milk tasting and probably something else, and this girl says, “I don’t like milk from cows.  I only like milk from the store.”

Seriously.  WTF???  Really?  Where then, pray tell, does the store get its milk?  The hog confinement down the road?

As I said, good times.  High school rocked.

In other news, not too much is really going on.  I went to bed last night properly medicated for a mildly annoying headache and woke up this morning with a three-alarm skull splitter.  Two doses of Excedrin later, it still kills.  Why can’t I just have one day without a headache?  Oh, that’s right, because it’s my punishment for working out last night and then sitting down with a lovely adult beverage while enjoying some Star Trek.  Or something like that.

I have run out of excuses regarding why I can’t get my lazy butt out of bed at six in the morning, so I’ve once again begun working out in earnest.  Last night I actually worked out for a full 40 minutes.  This morning…not so much.  I worked out, just not nearly as long as I did last night.  I think maybe I’ll do pilates or something in the morning and then the elliptical at night.  That way I’m getting in my exercise, but I don’t necessarily have to be up at the crack of dawn.  I hope.

I do like the extra time I get in the mornings when I actually make it out of bed before 7:00 a.m., but it’s the actual getting-out-of-bed area where I seem to encounter problems.  The last two mornings I’ve been super tired.  Hopefully this whole working out thing will start giving me a little more energy pretty soon.

And now I’m afraid work beckons.  Happy Thursday!

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This thing is hysterical.  I just kept hitting the slogan to get a new one and some of them were pretty funny: You can be sure of Kay, Just do Kay, Did somebody say Kay?, You’ve got questions, we’ve got Kay, etc.  Then, of course, there was, “So easy, no wonder Kay’s #1!” and “There’s more than one way to eat Kay.”  Or something like that.

I was amused.

 The rain seems to have stopped for the moment, so yay.  It’s been raining cats and dogs here the last two days and I’m plenty tired of it.  Today I had to park almost a block away from work because there’s a trial today and the jury pool took up all the parking in front of the courthouse.  I had to drive around the block twice before I was able to snag a parking space.  I wouldn’t normally mind the walk, but it was raining pretty hard this morning and I didn’t have my umbrella with me because I forgot to grab it when I left work last night.  So I got soaked.  Yecchh.

On top of all that, the rain and the clouds make everything look rather gloomy, even though the temperature is pretty nice.  I wish the sun would hurry up and come out already.  Stupid clouds.

In other news, my tummy is making quite the ruckus this morning.  Evidently I am hungry.  Guess the Cheerios just didn’t cut it today.

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Bull Ring

Clearly, I’ve been at it again.  Boredom struck, so I created another band album.  This time I’m Bull Ring and my album is called God is Looking for Action.  Pretty neato, I thought.

See this post for all the deets. Happy quittin’ time!

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Pimpin’ out the fridges

Or not.

We went and saw Race to Witch Mountain last night and it was good.  Now I want to watch the original again.  Or better yet, the one that came out in 1995 with Erik von Detten.  Yummy!   I actually thought of it last night as we were waiting for the movie to start.  Well, that movie and good times with Christy.  Yay fun stuff!

Speaking of Christy, Erik von Detten, and the good ol’ days, I’ve been reading Tara’s “Emo Facebook Status of the Day” lately and am now hoping that mine will not end up in said lovely snark-filled column.  My last couple status updates have been pretty far out in the realm of weird and possibly bordering on emo, but I will happily explain such statuses (stati?) to anyone who asks.  For instance, “Kay saw an Uno card in the street and thought of you” pertains directly to high school Spanish, as the blog post of the same name will attest.  “Kay has no plans to enter any pimped-out fridges any time in the near future because bad things happen if you do” is all about the movie last night.  And finally, “Kay has the light.  You don’t.” stems directly from that oh-so-lovely 1995 remake I mentioned above, combined with the usual teenage hormones and a splash of dorkiness.

See?  Nothing emo about any of that.  Just weird.  Plenty of weird.

In other news, now that I have proclaimed my geekdom to the world, I got little done this weekend in the way of getting stories typed.  I spent most of the time typing up one that I’m currently revising (and boy, does it need it, though not as badly as some others) and ripping the last of my cd collection for inclusion on my Zune because, let’s face it, I needs me some new tunes.  While I totally love the cd info look-up feature on Windows Media Player (because I used that to rip everything instead of the Zune software that I had to download so that I can hook up the device to the computer and actually manage all my stuff), I wish it actually worked for individual songs, even if you have no idea who the artist is.  Hurry up already, Tara!  We need to retire by 30!

And now, I think I’ll go.  I probably have other things to do.  Like, you know, working and whatnot.

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¡Saca dos!

Went to Walmart yesterday.  Wandered through the toy aisle.  Met a little girl with a death wish.  Greg and I were in one aisle, trying to pick out a toy for Tom, and we kept hearing a whiny little girl arguing with her mother in the next aisle over.  When we changed aisles to find something for Rachael, we were properly introduced to the brattiest kid I have ever had the misfortune to meet.  All I could think was how glad I am that our kids are so well-behaved.  Then again, we set clear rules and boundaries for them to follow, something this mom clearly needs to learn how to do:

Mom:  You need to hurry up and pick a toy.
Daughter:  I am!
Mom:  We need to get going.  Just pick a toy.
Daughter: I’m trying to pick something and when you’re talking to me, you’re getting in my way.
Mom:  Well, you need to hurry up.
Daughter: You’re hurting my feelings.
Mom:  Have you picked a toy yet?
Daughter:  Don’t question me!  Just stop it!  Zip it!

So what happened to the snotty little thing?  She picked out a $30 toy and her mom bought it for her.  And then, of all the brazen things, she had the nerve to ask if they could get a movie and her mom said no because they didn’t have time.  Not “No, because you’ve been a royal pain and a snotty little brat;” not “No, because you don’t deserve one after the way you just talked to me;” but “No, because we don’t have time.”  And after all of this, the girl looked up at her mom and said, “What’s wrong with you?”

I can’t even imagine what my parents would have done to me if I had talked to them like that.  I do know that I would not be sitting here right now if I had ever talked to them like that.  And the worst part is that the mom obviously knew that her kid was a holy terror, but she stared at us like, “Go on.  Say something.  Go ahead.  I’d like to see you do any better.”  I can guarantee that if Tom had talked to me like that, he wouldn’t have gotten a toy at all and certainly not one that cost $30.

Friday night we went to a fish fry at church and one of the ladies who was helping to serve drinks came up to us and told us how great our kids were, how polite and well-behaved they were, and that was all I could think of as we watched that mom and her daughter walk off to another part of the store.  I said a quick thank-you then and there that we have such good kids.  Then again, good kids start with good parents.

Okay, I’ll get off my high horse now.  I was just so outraged!  Honestly, how can you let your kids get away with talking to you like that?  I’ll never understand that.

In other news, I have a temporary solution to the lack of internet on my lovely new laptop.  I’ll be glad when we get that new router so that we won’t have to unplug cords from the desktop anymore.  I hate crawling around under desks in search of answers to computer problems; I do enough of that at work.  But I love my new computer, so yay!  I can wait.  After all, I’ve waited this long…

So now I’m finally getting around to ripping the rest of my cd collection.  This may take a while, especially because I have a lot of compilation cds that I burned myself one time in college when I had nothing better to do than back up everything on my computer.  Those will take a while to get through because I’ll have to listen to each song and edit the song information manually, which will totally suck because i have something like twenty or thirty of these cds.  Then I get to go through my entire music collection and delete all the duplicate songs.  I mean, seriously!  I think I have Louisiana Saturday Night and Fishing in the Dark on at least three cds, if not more than that.  I’ll be at this a while.  Fortunately, I don’t need an internet connection to delete stuff, so right now I’m just focusing on getting stuff ripped.  In the meantime, I get to fill y’all in on my boredom!

Or not.  I think I’m going to get back to my original plan of typing up old stories.  So far, I’ve worked on one.  I just happened to have it upstairs because I’ve been revising it, but all my revisions are in pencil (because I prefer it to pen; I just hate scribble marks in manuscripts and erasable ink sucks).  Also, I thought I had it typed up and apparently I was wrong.  I have the original version typed, but not the current revisions.  I’m sure this is incredibly fascinating, so now I will get back to my work.

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I saw an Uno card in the street and thought of you

Because that’s my new Facebook status and it rocks.  Particularly if you took Spanish 4 with me in high school and therefore understand the importance of Uno and its cards.  Way more fun than canasta.

¡Saca siete!

Oh, Spanish class, how do I miss thee?  Let me count the ways.  Our parties rocked the chips and salsa world to awesome background music provided by the incomparable Selena y los Dinos.  Unless, of course, ’twas El Dia de los Muertos and we were watching Macario.  All the guy wanted was a turkey for his very own!  It was so sad!  But “…don’t cry for me, Argentina; the truth is I never left you…”  And while we’re on the subject, I really miss watching American Family.  But I must say that EJO and Constance Marie playing father and daughter after having played husband and wife was just weird.  It would have been weird if they’d done it the other way around, too, but somehow I don’t think it would have been quite as weird as husband-and-wife-turned-father-and-daughter.

“What is La Bamba doing now?”

But seriously, EJO is an awesome actor, The Princess and the Barrio Boy aside.  I swear he was in everything we watched in Spanish, except for Macario.

But now, sadly, it’s time for me to go and get a-typing.  My lovely new laptop finally arrived yesterday and I’m super stoked to try it out!  I played a little solitaire on it last night as I listened to Unbreakable, but now ’tis time to get to work on typing up all those stories.  Happy weekend!

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Hmmm…

It’s a beautiful day today.  A bit cool, but the sun is shining brightly and from where I’m sitting, I can’t see a single cloud in the sky.  I’ve got awesome music playing and I’m making progress on beta-ing a story and writing one of my own, but for some reason, I just feel a bit down today.  Maybe it’s just that I’m tired.  And my tummy hurts.  You heard me, I said tummy.  And I’ve had a headache for nearly a week.  And I can’t type.

Hmm…

Methinks there is too much blood in my caffeine system.  Either I need some caffeine or I need to go home.  Personally, I would prefer the going home option to the caffeine option.

I have big plans for Saturday.  I intend to get some things typed up.  I found all my old stories that I wrote as a teenager (including the original copy of A Lovely Little Story) the other night and I thought it would be fun to type them all up.  A lot of them – okay, most of them – are written in pencil and I’m sure the pencil will begin to fade eventually, even though I have them all in those wonderful plastic page protectors.  Besides, if I type them up, it will cut the length of the stories roughly in half and then I’ll have more page protectors available for use.  Yay!  Yes, I really am that cheap.  But hey, those things are pricey!

I sense impending doom for my hands/wrists/arms, etc.  Our computer keyboard is not exactly ergonomic.  I usually resort to stacking pads of paper under my wrists in order to even things out and that helps for a while, but I like the wrist rest thing I have at work much better.

And with that, I think I’ll get back to work.  Apparently that’s what I do while I’m waiting for people to update so that I have something interesting to read.

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Unsuspecting Sunday Afternoon

Last night I saw the fireworks
The kind of pain that never hurts
The one you hate to love is made for you
Another unsuspecting Sunday afternoon

Oh, I love that song!  It was requested that I provide a complete review of Unbreakable and I intend to comply, but it will be rather a short review because I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT.  It’s easily my new favorite album.  The other BSB cd I bought over the weekend was The Hits – Chapter One, which has a whole bunch of their old songs plus one new one.  I haven’t gotten to listen to that one yet because I refuse to take Unbreakable out of my car stereo (though really, I should take it inside and rip it so that I can listen to it on my Zune) and the cd player in the bathroom at home is dirty and I’m too lazy to clean it.  But maybe I’ll do that tonight.

Anyway, I love love LOVE Unbreakable.  There are so many good songs on there that I can’t pick one favorite.  I love them all!  I really like Unsuspecting Sunday Afternoon and Intro, which is a little snippet of Unsuspecting Sunday Afternoon that they did a little differently.  It’s seriously awesome.  Panic is lots of fun; great rhythm.  I’ve had bits of Something That I Already Know floating through my head all day.  Trouble Is is awesome!  In short, I love this album.  It has fueled my fancy the way that Backstreet Boys and Millenium did back in the good ol’ days.  Woo!

In other news, I adored the weather we had Monday and Tuesday.  It was so springy, so lovely!  Yay warmer weather!  Today it’s in the fifties, but it’s still really nice outside, so you won’t hear any complaints from me.  For now, anyway.

*sigh*  I suppose I should get back to work, but since I apparently forgot to post yesterday, I thought I’d play a little catch-up this afternoon.  Happy Hump Day!

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Things that made me laugh today

Taken from Miss Tara, who always makes me laugh with her oh-so-very-witty blog entries.

• Thing One: “A few weeks ago was the annual UP 200, aka the biggest sled-dog race in the lower 48 – always a pretty rocking time. The dogs are adorable and it’s so goddamn freezing that you want to knock over a hot chocolate vendor and pour the stuff down your pants or something, but it’s all part of this northern experience, I guess.”

• Thing Two: “Speaking of which — on my way to Starbucks today, I noticed an adult store that just opened. It’s called “Northern Pleasures.” That’s right, even when you’re buying kinky lingerie and dirty movies, you can still express your Northern pride. I do love this place.”

• Thing Three: *flails* *deep breath* *flails some more*

Thank you, Tara, for all the laughs.  They make Mondays so much better!

In other news, I went shopping yesterday after having an incredibly productive day on Saturday in which I washed four loads of laundry and folded and put away five loads while taking the occasional break to do dishes, scrub the stove to a gleaming shine, and finish copying some old recipes onto nice, neat index cards.  I was rather tired Saturday night.   But I digress.  Yesterday we picked out Rachael’s flower girl dress and then I tried on bridesmaid dresses to model the three Jenny and I had narrowed it down to.  None of them looked good on me.  Well, maybe this one did.  But then we got into looking at other dresses not previously considered and of all of those that I tried on (some were truly heinous and don’t worry, girls, I won’t make you wear anything as hideous as some of this year’s prom fashions (and I use the term fashion very loosely)), this one was easily the best-looking.  So now I don’t know.  But seriously, some of the dresses they’re coming out with just scream early-to-mid-1990s.  I didn’t like those dresses then and I don’t like them now.  *shudders*  *sigh*

In other news, I got two new Backstreet Boys cds Saturday and am super excited.  But apparently Kevin is no longer in the group!  I was shocked!  I had heard nothing about this so I decided to investigate and do you know what I found?  Do you?  I found that they came out with another cd in 2005 and I don’t have it!  That’s it.  I must find it and buy it.  I just happened to run across the only two BSB cds that Walmart had Saturday and it was a no-brainer to grab them up before anyone else had the chance to.  I listened to Unbreakable on my way to work and I plan to finish listening to it on the way home.  So far, I love what they did on that album.  It got me thinking about the old days and how far they’ve come and how they totally provided the background music to my teen years (with a little help from *N SYNC, 98°, 5ive, and others).  You may see a bit of fluff one of these days along this line.  But first, of course, I have to finish it.

*sigh*  The work is not exactly piled up on my desk today, but I suppose I should get something work-related done.  Somehow I don’t think that blogging and superpoking people on Facebook counts as work-related stuff.

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