The canal after the rain

This is the canal I cross everyday that I come into the slave factory, slave factory=work. It can really be pretty at times especially now with it be slighty cloudy or overcast outside. I was just thinking why don't I take a shot of it for the rest of the world to see. My work area isn't that bad. There is a couple of walking trails around here as well as a few park areas, nice places to eat. It could be worse; I could be stuck downtown where it is nothing but concrete. I use to work downtown, in downtown Dallas. I miss it a bit but not that much to give up parks and walking trails, especially in the summertime when the concrete gets so hot from the sun. You can just see the heat rising.

Sorry just not much to say here. I had so much I think and then it just escaped me.

Outside office window

This is the lovely view from my office window over looking the 4th floor atrium area. You can't tell but it is an overcast day. I've got to learn how to work my camea phone. I think I'm going to order that book, how to work your camera phone or something like that from national geographics. If I am going to be mobile blogging like this I need same damn near perfect pics or at least as good as the ones I would take with my regular digital camera. This one is pretty good compared to all the others but they show up kind of crazy here in the post and then once you click on them and they show up in a different window it is ok. I don't know I just know I gotta get that book and get my learn on. Amazon.com here I come of course just to browse; I might find the book at Half Price Books; now that would be awesome YAY!! Possibly I can try and get a better picture at lunch but we will see, lunch is my time around here since I really don't get any or the time I do get I'm trying to look a little busy and not blog my life away on here, lol.

Ms. Elefantita was spayed today/this morning. I'm all excited it is over and done with. The lady called me to let me know she was waking up and doing just fine. The vet assistant said she had to call me as soon as she saw Ellie waking up and doing fine because she say the worry in my eyes when she took her from me this morning. It is my 'baby' what can I say. I would have just crumbled if Ms. Ellie didn't make it through. Now she can go out and we both won't be worried about some dog trying to violate my cute pooch. Dog parks here we come so ya'll better watch out, grrrrrrr, lol.

Besides the excitement of Ellie going to the vet this morning I am bored to death at work. I gotta finish this associate training class and then start another one but these classes are so boring to do or at least this one is. I am about to scream just trying to stay awake. It is ashame that I'm yawning almost every 5-15mins and when I do I'm so bored my eyes water, lol, bored to tears I guess you can say. I will do this though, I am already a week behind in finishing that course I think and then I gotta have this other one done in time. It is all about my Pay 4 Performance around here and I better get to it if I think I might want another raise next year.
Off to walk around the floor a bit or at least stretch at my desk before I fall asleep right into it before I finish the course, lol.
Ciao

Where is everyone

This is almot the last stretch on my journey to work. Usually this is where it starts to get thick but I guess this morning was something different. I'm still trying to figure out where all the people are at. I guess on Fridays everyone goes into work early and leaves early but on Mondays everyone goes in late and gets off work late. I'm glad I'm not one of those folks or I would be stuck in traffic looking crazy.

It is after lunch and I so want something wrong and dirty to eat for lunch but I was a good girl; I ate a garden salad w/ranch dressing, grapes on the side w/peached flavored water. Trying to get my body right to lose these extra pounds I'm trying to lose. I very much thought I was going to be at my goal weight right now but I guess my body wasn't having it which sucks but if it takes me a year to get there I can do it. I fell off the wagon here the last 2-3weeks but I'm getting back on. Started a little last night with the dinner we had but tonight it's no joke. Leftover cabbage might be in our future but I'm not sure cuz I think the husband took that to work for lunch. If he did I don't know what I am going to cook now. We'll see, I'm sure I can whip up something for him or he can whip up something for himself really but we'll see, we'll see. I have a couple ideas for dinner myself; brown rice, bell peppers, cabbage maybe some corn thrown in now that is what I call healthy and delish.

Ok my break has been long enough. It is time to get back to the grind and into this Associate Training business.
Ciao

Traffic

My way into work on a Monday morning and believe it or not traffic is slim despite the break lights you see in my pic. I'm on 360, a well known highway to people in this area and it is moving pretty good for it being 6:42am especially since I'm going to be late whether it was moving or not, lol. I just thought I would get a few traffic pics in since I'm new to this blog thing and what better pics to get than something bright and early in the morning. Actually it isn't too bright because it is suppose to rain, not sure if it is the afternoon or this evening but sometime AGAIN we are getting more rain. Of course when I get home Ellie will want to go out in it but what else is new. She'll go do her business then not too long after she'll wanna go play in it. I think I'm going to have to get her tired this evening, or spend some good QT time with her because she is getting spade tomorrow. I'm nervous for my little sweetie. I wasn't so nervous with the cats because they are boys, surgery wasn't all that serious, serious but not all that serious and they came back home that day. Ellie is more inside surgery, so more serious, then they are keeping her over night. I don't know what to do with myself. I know I can make it but it will for sure be hard. Ms. Ellie wasn't feeling good yesterday either. She was her normal full of energy self but she had a bit of the runs and sounded like she was going to throw up a few times but nothing came out. I just gotta be more careful and see what she is putting in her mouth indoors and outdoors. I especially gotta watch the bird crap in both places. I think she has been eating that or some of the bird seeds that our bird drops. This morning, actually I started Saturday with vaccuming up around the birdcage every chance I get also vaccuming the house period so there is nothing for her to eat. I don't know though, it could have been the new chews I got her too. Could be she ate too much of it in one day because she ate the entire thing in one day. I was shocked, it took all day but still.
I believe I have rambled enough in this posting. Mind going all over the place with so much to do today. I almost forgot about going to Fry's to return something. I so wanted to read my Extreme Fat Smash book at lunch and do something peaceful along with that and eat my salad but Fry's it is or at least for a hot minute.
Ciao

Monday's drive into work

A 35 minute trip

Now this isn't the best photo but hey what can you do when you are driving right? You can see the green trees and grass through my windshield which I am taking my favorite way into work and decided to take some pics of it with my camera phone since I'm up to speed and have been mobile blogging. I told my new best friend about it but I can't get her to mobile blog correctly. I see I'm going to have to give her her first best friend beating already but that was to be expected, lol.
My cat just looks spiffy hanging from the foot that is hanging from the rearview mirror. I do however just love my ride into work through Fort Worth, Grapevine, and I'm sure some parts of HEB and not all in that order before I mosey it on into Las Colinas. My other post are pics of the same ride in with just a different view of things. Could you believe it is Monday and I wasn't hitting enough traffic to stop and take good pics? I don't think I will traveling the "new" part of 360. I would rather go around and miss a little traffic than go straight through and catch a whole bunch of it.

Central market

Here is a pic of my trip to Central Market in Fort Worth. Not a big trip, something I do on a kind of regular basis so not a big deal but just thought I would snap a pic of it. I should of snapped a pic of what the cart looked like before I checked out, now that was the scary thing, lol. It wasnt too bad though especially when it comes to getting these last few pounds I've gained and the previous ones off of this body. My best friend came with me for today's outing all across Dallas/Fort Worth but she wasn't feeling too hot. She is starting to get sick after being through so much mental and physically but I'm sure she'll make it through because she is becoming a much stronger person slowly but surely. I'm proud of her but this whole thing will take time. Grrrrrrr but I know how it can feel like forever.

Starbucks 949am

Can you believe this line at 9:49am on a Saturday? The line was longer than that but of course dwindled down by the time I got in it and was able to take this photo. This is my first mobile blog and I think it is kind of spiffy. I haven't told Mel about it yet in detail but left her a little message on yahoo I'm sure she over looked while reading other business in that little window.
This day/yesterday was pretty productive well just about. I cleaned up the office some, hopefully do more today. Organized some stuff around and picked up. Now I just pretty much have to shred stuff and get it filed. That is always the pain of the office. Once that is done I'm going to move computers, a computer desk and a drafting table all around the room to get the set up I want to get it prepared for the painting I'm going to do in there here real soon. I can't wait to have those projects done so I can move on to the next so I need to not procrastinate on them like I have been.
My project during/after the office project is organizing the bathroom cabinets, what's in them, and putting "curtains" up so that they are covered and you can't see what is just sitting there in them. I can't believe they don't already have doors on them but oh well it doesn't take much to buy the bars and throw some cloth up there. I have done that once already, don't know why I stopped. Another one of my started/stopped projects. I need to get it together and stop that, finish something I start. I have done it with the computer about to be the office, etc, etc. I can do it!!!

Hey my hot sexy monkeys!!

Happy 04/20 People!!!

Today is the day you can be smoking it up all day!!

Of course what day isn't good for that but today is 4/20

Someone had to remind me on my MySpace bulletins

It didn't even dawn on me the date

and I call myself a smoker right, lol

Not too much to say today just I hope everyone is having a smoking good time

I'm suppose to be looking up something to cook for girl's night tonight

but I have no clue what to prepare

of course i gotta leave enough at home for the husband, grrrrr

I just don't know what to fix

Gotta be something easy and not slingable because...

It is Turistas again tonight!!

We haven't finished watching it from the first time so here we go

The continuation is about to happen babies!!

Hopefully we can make it through this this evening and put this movie behind us to only talk about it, not to watch it again, lol

Our next scary film together I hope is

Texas Chainsaw Massacare: The Beginning

I heard it is some scary stuff

Heck who knows after this something funny might be in order, take our minds off of scary for a moment but i doubt that will happen

I'm here at work and I really don't wanna be

Don't want to be exactly home either maybe somewhere else at someone else's house on my laptop doing whatever else besides sitting here at work wasting away

I need to get to working on my associate learning stuff but I'm really not in the mood for all that

I mean come on it is Friday, I may touch on it a little but don't expect something great

But if something great happens I do expect my props for the ordeal ya know

I've been really thinking about getting back into my art/painting

Finally have one project done well done enough to start another

Which will be rearranging & painting our office where the computer is

So actually soon I will have two household projects out the way and many more to go

Inbetween getting the office done & organizing the bathroom I can try and squeeze in painting on some canvas, what ya'll think

I think I can I think I can

I am going to try that's for sure

Gives me another outlet to relax

Inbetween all these projects & dealing with pets & a husband

I need another outlet besides the occasional

computer time at home

smoking my green

playing with the pets

hanging out with new friends

going to meetups

and doing more projects, lol

So there it is people I can't seem to sit still

Never have been able to

Always a busy body and I guess that it doesn't help

when my mind is doing the same thing

Probably why I start so many projects and get them half way completed

or

why i have to start writing things down to remember what i was doing, going to do and what i am doing

It is just so much. You think someone without kids wouldn't be so busy

WRONG!!

Sometimes I'm busier than my friend with two children and ones a baby

I have done enough rambling for the moment

Gotta go get lunch here before I start nawing on people

Later Tators

420!!!! Smoke It UP!!!

I found it where is it Damn It! I found it

I lost it I had no earthly clue where it could have been. I had it in the car, grabbed it before I got out and had it inbetween my fingers as if it were a cigarette. My friend and I went into the house, put stuff down and then we came right back out; she left and I started to get things from the car. Later as I look for it I can't find it then frantically I look some more and then I fear the worst, that it is outside and under my husband's car. See I left between the time I lost it and frantically went looking for it, so when I was looking for it I had to move his car and see I just wasn't in the mood for all that there. This morning though I came outside with another trusty glass piece in hand but I was going to look underneathe his car to find the other one WHEN....
I opened the door and there it was, right inbetween the seat and that part of the car that keeps things from easily getting under your seat from the side.
That I couldn't believe I was just so dog gone happy to find my little fished wonder. Of course I used it in the car right after I used the back up for a little bit. I just couldn't leave the back up feeling left out, lol.
Another good day in the world of glass pipes and money. Although if I did lose it of course I would have been hurt because I would have lost it and maybe not be able to find another but on the good note that would have been a shopping trip for me, lol.

A little puppy acheivement!!

Ellie did it!! She graduated a sweet little miss this afternoon. It was our last day of puppy training graduation at Petsmart. I can't believe she did as marvelous as she did, especially with a puppy push up which is where you make a puppy go in the sit and down position at least twice and after a few giggles and love she did, lol. Isn't she just cute with her little graduation cap. All the puppies were sweet and cute but Ellie girl was done up. She went to the groomer early today.
She had her nails painted hot pink with her bow on her brand new collar. It is black faux leather I think with fake pearls, oh it is just so cute. All sleek and sexy she is. Glad I found a cheap sexy collar I like and not having to spend over $10.

That's her napping. She had a very busy day with almost all day at the groomer, then training, then my daddy came over, then going to the liquor store, pep boys, my husband's job. She crashed something serious and is just now waking up. The little terror has gone after Merlin now. She better ring that bell if she has to go potty; caught her losing her mind and peeing in the living room. She is going through her adolescent years so I won't strangle her this time, lol.

Attack of the festive friday monkey

Today is just another festive Friday. Not much has gone on at the beginning of this day. I was finally able to cook myself breakfast on our new gas range. Ended up having to go to the grocery store last night spending a god awful amount of money for not so much stuff or what seemed like not so much stuff but I guess I did make a meatloaf and asparaghus which the meatloaf is two nights worth of dinner. Then there was all the water I bought plus breakfast stuff. I must say though cooking breakfast on the gas range is so much easier which makes cooking quicker I think. I had everything cooked w/time to spare trying to put on eyelashes my dear friend Cherie has yet to help me with but that's alright I'm going to get my other dear friend Melissa to assist me with them. I tried this morning before going to work with a little luck but I need the black adhesive, which I might check Sally's Beauty Supply and see if they actually have the lash applicator. Perhaps if they do I can do it myself. We shall see.

I was and still might go to the Goodwill midnight madness sale but I'm suppose to get with Mel and hang with her a tad bit over burgers and beers which I think I'm going to do for a tanch of time instead of the sale since she is running off on me again. This time to Houston. Hope she'll have a good time, I'll be here doing nothing as usual. The same ol' run the dog around stuff. I might try and get my nails and feet done and see if the same place will put on my eyelashes too. Hell I deserve it!!

What I would really like to do is going to the movies but finding a movie buddy is hard to do. Was suppose to go see The Reaping last weekend with a chick I use to work with but she stood me up. Didn't want to answer the phone and has yet to even call me. Oh well, all I have to say is next time don't come calling asking me to go to the movies if you are going to be flakey about it. I can't stand flakey people. One of my many and biggest pet peeves. Then my movie husband has been neglecting me but that's ok, I've joined a site http://www.meetup.com and joined a movie meet-up group that meets locally for movies and such. Once Ms. Ellie poo gets out of training class (that's this Saturday by the way) I'll be able to be a more active participant in that. I'm also part of beer, women's social, small dogs, chihuahua meet up groups. I've participated in two of the meet ups but not the beer, movie or women's social yet. I plan on to and plan on having lots of fun especially in the pass me a beer meet up group.

I think I am finished with this entry. I am starving and need to dash down to get some vittles. I have no clue what I want to eat and I sure would hate to eat hamburger and fries twice in one day but I may not be able to escape it, lol.

WTF!?!?! This can't be going on

Last night was a very interesting evening. My dear best friend, not the one in this photo, was having a good breakdown last night because her ex-husband decided to be the ass everyone has known him to be. She had been and still is doing great with therapy and then he shows his assholeness, blindsided us actually or her rather. My girl called me damn near hyper ventilating. I had to tell her to calm down before she decided to tell me anything which worked. I ended up going over there and let me tell you it was a mess. The apartment looked like she got upset and threw everything everywhere but it was him. I swear he was acting like a damn female or a teenager with hormone issues. Then to top it off before you leave you spill a soda and instead of being a man and/or showing a good example for the kids and picking it up you leave it for her and I to do. Now she is 15yrs younger than you but you are acting like a stupid ass child, please tell me where you think that is going to get you with anybody.

At least the punk bitch is out of her apartment. The sad thing is, he isn't mature enough to not involve the kids. You say little slick things to them that need to be kept to yourself and are no business of a child's. Ignorance man just pure ignorance. So all that said it caused me to get off my butt and see my friend which is no prob but my husband had the nerve to say it is his Saturday night and I'm running off. I just looked at him cuz yea I am going to go see a friend in need and besides what were you going to do with me besides us watching TV together? Nothing absolutely nothing. When I got home he fell asleep on the couch and stayed there until I got up at 6am the next morning. Smoking, drinking, nodding off again or just smoking and nodding off but never use GOOD COMMON SENSE and coming to bed. I can seem to do it why can't he.

Come on all rucking feady!!!

Arent they just too cute? Can you believe that that is the alpha male cat? Ellie is submissive to the submissive cat. Ellie will bark at him but she won't try to play with him or anything. I think it is funny. She attacks Merlin especially after he has awakened from a nap or she is getting out of Bangkok for a while. They love each other, big brother and lil sis and yes different species, lol.

I just wish this computer would work already. I've been working on it for about 4 months now and still nothing. I have tried to get a "friend" to help which he has slightly but now I'm really needing it and he hasn't called me back like he said he would. I'm ready to get this thing built already. I get so close and then BHAM!!! another road block. I need to meditate and get back to it and see what the hell is going on. Breath when I do it and maybe something good will come out of it. ARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just had to scream or I was going to lose the little mind I had left.

Work today was boring, so boring in fact I feel asleep staring at my computer screen and I actually propped up my feet and took a slight nap. Got off a little early to come work and the computer and I was so close and then NO CIGAR!!! I just want it to work already damn the OS DAMN IT!!!!

Work was just way uneventful, then Wednesday our boss is coming over. Wonder if that is another lunch but I for dammn sure doubt it. I'm not mad because I do understand but a girl can wish can't she. And ya'll his body does not fit the voice he has, not at all not one slight bit. Jesse got into a car wreck last night

or sometime yesterday and couldn't make it in today, Dwight thinks also tomorrow but we'll see. I wonder if it was his fault. I wonder what happen and was alcohol involved. The hubby is home so I'm getting off this laptop and calling it an evening besides ms ellie needs to wind down and stop attacking the merl.