That was my therapy last night. I had ordered some sugar-tipped cigars in a new flavor that S wanted to try, chocolate. Usually I buy vanilla or amaretto. So last night after eating sushi and cupcakes, we shared one of the cigars. It wasn't bad, but S cut off too much of the sugar tip with a scissor. I like to bite a tiny hole in my cigars. I like to be one with my cigar, and have never owned a cigar cutter in my life! Also I popped a valium, which I have not done in months. I don't think it had any effect on me. The cupcakes made me happier and mellower than the Valium. Today I'm wearing a glow in the dark ghost ring that was on one of the cupcakes!
Tomorrow is a "day off" from work. Well, Job #1 at least. I'm still going into Job #2 for a few hours to make as much $ as possible before the holidays hit in Nov. and Dec. and I have forced days off. I will also pick up the baby for our weekend. Busy weekend planned! Saturday we're booked all morning and afternoon, and then I want to go to a concert on Sat. night: The Flatlanders!!! It's a free outdoor concert, too! Surely the restraining order Joe Ely put on me has expired by now.
Trying to decide what to wear tomorrow. I've got an old standby angel costume, and the standby H-ween dress. Decisions, decisions.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Today I Ate Chips!
It's a big deal, seeing as how I got the stitches taken out of my gums yesterday. That was no big deal--I didn't even feel them come out. And of course, afterwards I wanted to see them. Gross! Peridex maintenance is still ongoing and hopefully I can start flossing again in a few days.
Lately I've been addicted to Facebook. I have made contact with one of my dear friends from college that for years I have been searching for! I have also made contact with other friends and Facebook is a convenient way to keep in close touch with all of them. I also made contact with my Puerto Rican jerk ex from college. The less said about him the better!
Finally I got in to vote early yesterday. It went really quickly, which was great since the line was too long last Friday at lunchtime. I voted for a mix of candidates, except for when there was a libertarian running, then they got my vote immediately. As promised, I did not vote for either Obama or McCain. Obama wants to take my guns away. McCain wants to take my abortion rights away. I can't tolerate either candidate!!!
Today something really strange happened. I was on my way to a lunch meeting (the Friends of the Library). I had just washed my hands and dried them under the hand dryer. I was walking out to my car, talking on the phone to my ex-Sgt. when both hands started to tingle with pain, as if they had fallen asleep or something. The palms turned redder and my fingers swelled up. I stared, perplexed. It hurt to put my hands on the steering wheel. They also felt kind of cold. I tried sitting on one hand and driving with the other for the 10 min. drive to the meeting. I realized I was going to have to take my rings off in case I could not get them off later. My fingers were, not puffy, but definitely bigger and my palms were red-tinged. When I got to the meeting, I said, "Is there a Dr. in the house?" and I got some laughs b/c most of the Friends are esteemed and noteworthy local M.D.'s. I explained what had happened to one of the doctors, though he seemed unsure of what to say. A few min. later a noted and locally notorious dermatologist showed up and she looked at my hands. She suggested that maybe I was having a reaction to the antibiotic I was on (but I finished that on Mon. night so I'm dubious). By then the hands were numb. I placed my rings on the table and ate my lunch and tried to relax. By the end of the meeting the numbness was noticeably lessened and I put my rings back on, though they were still a tiny bit tight.
Naturally, being a medical librarian, I immediately looked up these symptoms when able. My 2 initial suspicions are that this was yet another manifestation of the ongoing stress in my life, perhaps exacerbated by the recent gum surgery. I took 2 much-needed days off from work last week, what else can I do? My other suspicion is that perhaps this is some kind of autoimmune reaction to something--since autoimmune disorders of varying types run in my immediate family. My grandfather has vitiligo, my mom has Stiff-Person Syndrome. And diabetes runs rampant in seemingly every other family member!
But definitely this is yet another sign for me to slow down and relax and have fun as much as is humanly possible.
Lately I've been addicted to Facebook. I have made contact with one of my dear friends from college that for years I have been searching for! I have also made contact with other friends and Facebook is a convenient way to keep in close touch with all of them. I also made contact with my Puerto Rican jerk ex from college. The less said about him the better!
Finally I got in to vote early yesterday. It went really quickly, which was great since the line was too long last Friday at lunchtime. I voted for a mix of candidates, except for when there was a libertarian running, then they got my vote immediately. As promised, I did not vote for either Obama or McCain. Obama wants to take my guns away. McCain wants to take my abortion rights away. I can't tolerate either candidate!!!
Today something really strange happened. I was on my way to a lunch meeting (the Friends of the Library). I had just washed my hands and dried them under the hand dryer. I was walking out to my car, talking on the phone to my ex-Sgt. when both hands started to tingle with pain, as if they had fallen asleep or something. The palms turned redder and my fingers swelled up. I stared, perplexed. It hurt to put my hands on the steering wheel. They also felt kind of cold. I tried sitting on one hand and driving with the other for the 10 min. drive to the meeting. I realized I was going to have to take my rings off in case I could not get them off later. My fingers were, not puffy, but definitely bigger and my palms were red-tinged. When I got to the meeting, I said, "Is there a Dr. in the house?" and I got some laughs b/c most of the Friends are esteemed and noteworthy local M.D.'s. I explained what had happened to one of the doctors, though he seemed unsure of what to say. A few min. later a noted and locally notorious dermatologist showed up and she looked at my hands. She suggested that maybe I was having a reaction to the antibiotic I was on (but I finished that on Mon. night so I'm dubious). By then the hands were numb. I placed my rings on the table and ate my lunch and tried to relax. By the end of the meeting the numbness was noticeably lessened and I put my rings back on, though they were still a tiny bit tight.
Naturally, being a medical librarian, I immediately looked up these symptoms when able. My 2 initial suspicions are that this was yet another manifestation of the ongoing stress in my life, perhaps exacerbated by the recent gum surgery. I took 2 much-needed days off from work last week, what else can I do? My other suspicion is that perhaps this is some kind of autoimmune reaction to something--since autoimmune disorders of varying types run in my immediate family. My grandfather has vitiligo, my mom has Stiff-Person Syndrome. And diabetes runs rampant in seemingly every other family member!
But definitely this is yet another sign for me to slow down and relax and have fun as much as is humanly possible.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
And...It's Saturday
And I'm at Job #1 until 5, which I don't mind b/c Saturdays are such easy gigs here and then I get to take off next Friday, which means I can go pick up the baby uninterrupted. But I don't have any Halloween plans yet, and we are going to have another marriage counseling session next Friday night so I guess it's good that we got H-ween out of our system last Sunday at Zoo Boo. The baby wore her cheerleader costume that she got for her b-day and she got to decorate a tiny baby pumpkin and I sweet-talked the volunteer docent out of 2 more pumpkins, then found another one later! I didn't dress up b/c the costume I want is too expensive for our budget, but I'll see if it goes on sale after next week, & then I can have it for next year. I have a "stock" H-ween dress that is sexy and sleek and black and orange striped with black feathers around the neckline that I can always drag out anyway, but last week seemed a little too early to be wearing it. Normally H-ween is my favorite Holiday as well as one of my favorite days of the whole year but this year I am just a little out of it. The stitches in my mouth are bothering me (they are black and ugly and you can see them!) and I hate being on antibiotics. I'm just focused on doing little things to cheer myself up, like the other night when I watched that horrible tv show "The Island" and ate Cheetos with S (each Cheeto taking 2-3 bites to eat!). I also ate ice cream for dinner 2 nights this week. Today's lunch will be Popeye's mashed potatoes, red beans and rice, and biscuits!
Last night after our counseling session S wanted to go get a steak but I had to remind him that I am not quite ready for steak-eating yet. Our sessions are always really quite eye-opening. Our counselor has years and years of experience and he's worth every penny that my insurance pays him! His insight is really amazing and he's so gentle with both of us. He's even going to have a private session with S so that they can discuss his issues with his mother--MUCH needed and WAY overdue!!! Therapy really is a great thing.
I have not patrolled since the Hurricane, but it looks like I will not have any patrol time in this month. I want to try going on Saturday nights on weekends we have the baby, but the last weekend we had her I had to be up early on Saturday to go distribute flyers for the upcoming High-spanic Health coalition health event. So since I had to get up early I would not have been in good shape to stay up so late on that Sat. night. However, next Saturday I should be able to sleep in, or at least mostly in since the baby wakes up so early. But what I do is get her her cereal, put PBS on for her (no Cartoon Network or Nickelodean crap while PBS kid shows are on!!!), and go back to sleep for an hour or so.
Last night S and I fell asleep early for us, before 11. We needed it! Tomorrow we'll probably go catch a movie, perhaps the new western Appaloosa. I'd like to get some gym time in, and then chill time!
Last night after our counseling session S wanted to go get a steak but I had to remind him that I am not quite ready for steak-eating yet. Our sessions are always really quite eye-opening. Our counselor has years and years of experience and he's worth every penny that my insurance pays him! His insight is really amazing and he's so gentle with both of us. He's even going to have a private session with S so that they can discuss his issues with his mother--MUCH needed and WAY overdue!!! Therapy really is a great thing.
I have not patrolled since the Hurricane, but it looks like I will not have any patrol time in this month. I want to try going on Saturday nights on weekends we have the baby, but the last weekend we had her I had to be up early on Saturday to go distribute flyers for the upcoming High-spanic Health coalition health event. So since I had to get up early I would not have been in good shape to stay up so late on that Sat. night. However, next Saturday I should be able to sleep in, or at least mostly in since the baby wakes up so early. But what I do is get her her cereal, put PBS on for her (no Cartoon Network or Nickelodean crap while PBS kid shows are on!!!), and go back to sleep for an hour or so.
Last night S and I fell asleep early for us, before 11. We needed it! Tomorrow we'll probably go catch a movie, perhaps the new western Appaloosa. I'd like to get some gym time in, and then chill time!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Mush--Yum!
Ok, I'm not quite eating nothing but mush, but a sandwich with chips would be great right now. Or some pizza. Or even sushi! Well, I called the periodontist yesterday b/c I had confusing post-op instructions: 1. Eat a soft diet and 2. Do not disturb the operative area for 1 week. So I wasn't sure if that meant I had to drink smoothies and eat soup and ice cream for an entire week or what. I called them and they said that as long as I had no pain and was careful I could, in fact, chew. Good, b/c it was tiring me out chewing the chicken in the chicken noodle soup with only my front teeth. They operated on the upper left and lower right of my mouth so both sides are out of commission. However--yesterday I ate a biscuit and a half with my soup, cookies 'n cream ice cream with chocolate topping, and last night ate ravioli, chewing carefully but happily! Right now I'm drinking another smoothie but at lunch time I will attempt to eat 2 bean burritos from Taco Hell. I remember that's what I ate after I had my tonsils out back in '98.
And today, back at work. Gotta work here this Saturday too, but Saturdays are nice and easy-going. Unfortunately I will miss a baby shower that is also going on this Sat. Still, there's yet another baby shower coming up next month and I have not decided if I'm going to that one or not. Sometimes you have to "just say no" to all these invitations so you have quality time for yourself!
And today, back at work. Gotta work here this Saturday too, but Saturdays are nice and easy-going. Unfortunately I will miss a baby shower that is also going on this Sat. Still, there's yet another baby shower coming up next month and I have not decided if I'm going to that one or not. Sometimes you have to "just say no" to all these invitations so you have quality time for yourself!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
"Only" 25 Years???
I had tons of periodontal fun this morning. The worst part is the shots. But soon afterwards everything is numb so they're worth it--they're just kinda creepy. I have to remind myself: "You've got 5 tattoos! Needles are not your worst nightmare!!!" They told me I'd want to take the whole day off from work, so I did. However, now I'm at Job #2 since that's pretty laid back and close to the house, so hey. I am on 500 mg of Ibuprofin and an antibiotic and smoothies and soup and lots of liquids to promote healing. He ended up, once he got inside the gum and got a good look around, having to do bone grafts. He did 2 and they cost $400 each--WOW. I mean--WOW. But now he says that hopefully, when he rechecks the area in 4 months, the bone grafts will have taken and if so then I will be good for about 25 years or so. Jesus help me. Still--don't want dentures, that's for sure.
I still do not understand where this gum disease came from, and seemingly out of the blue. But the idea that all the incredible stress of the past 3 years affecting my immune system is a valid one. And I also reflect from time to time, how amazingly and KNOCK WOOD on my desk here, I really have not been sick in the past couple of years. I noticed that once I got married I stopped having sinus infections 3X/year like I was accustomed to getting. And I stopped getting the winter and summer colds I always got. Sure, I was diagnosed with allergies, but that's totally manageable compared to those fucking sinus infections that always laid me out for a week at a time--again, 3 times/year typically!!! I attributed some of this non-sickness and lessened amount of illness to marriage making me healthier, as the medical and social science literature suggests that it does. However, now I wonder if it just started manifesting itself in my gums instead. Why not? Science is some amazing shit.
I still do not understand where this gum disease came from, and seemingly out of the blue. But the idea that all the incredible stress of the past 3 years affecting my immune system is a valid one. And I also reflect from time to time, how amazingly and KNOCK WOOD on my desk here, I really have not been sick in the past couple of years. I noticed that once I got married I stopped having sinus infections 3X/year like I was accustomed to getting. And I stopped getting the winter and summer colds I always got. Sure, I was diagnosed with allergies, but that's totally manageable compared to those fucking sinus infections that always laid me out for a week at a time--again, 3 times/year typically!!! I attributed some of this non-sickness and lessened amount of illness to marriage making me healthier, as the medical and social science literature suggests that it does. However, now I wonder if it just started manifesting itself in my gums instead. Why not? Science is some amazing shit.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Robert Hinojosa for Judge! 312th Family District Court
Robert Hinojosa has got my vote, along with as many of my friends and family's votes as possible. His worthless opponent Judge Farr is a DISGRACE to families and children and he has made it very clear that he is happy to perpetuate the "pass the buck" farce that is family court in Harris County as well as across the U.S.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
The Finest Hour
I have seen
Is the one that comes between
The edge of night
And the break of day
That's when the darkness
Rolls away.
--"Across the Great Divide"by Kate Wolf
I was singing this song this morning as I attempted to wake up at 7am. I found it difficult to fathom that my library at Job #2 opens at 7:15 am. It was still dark outside. Madness! I am the ultimate night owl, non-morning person, whatever you want to call it. My DNA molecules scream out and protest vigorously when I attempt to rouse my body before 9am. If I have to wake up real early at, say 5am for a plane flight or something, my stomach literally gets nauseated. My ideal working day: 10am-5pm. That would be heaven. I cursed this morning further when I was attempting to drive into work at 8:15 and was bombarded on all sides by the rest of the entire world trying to get to work at that time too. Bullshit!!! See, that's why I generally stumble into work at around 9:15, 9:30. The roads have cleared by then and the livin' is much easier.
But alas, I have to get to work at a somewhat decent time now b/c the cakewalk is over and everyone (i.e., my boss) is back from conference. But today we had our annual employee award luncheon and it was decent chow. Lord knows I always appreciate a free lunch! I have a large lemon tart sitting on my desk waiting for its certain death later.
Yesterday another Board member and I interviewed 3 slaves I mean Administrative Assistant candidates for the High-spanic Health coalition job. Of the 3 candidates they're all decent though they each have their pros and cons. 2 more candidates will be interviewed by me and another Board member, and then I will be ready to hire!
Is the one that comes between
The edge of night
And the break of day
That's when the darkness
Rolls away.
--"Across the Great Divide"by Kate Wolf
I was singing this song this morning as I attempted to wake up at 7am. I found it difficult to fathom that my library at Job #2 opens at 7:15 am. It was still dark outside. Madness! I am the ultimate night owl, non-morning person, whatever you want to call it. My DNA molecules scream out and protest vigorously when I attempt to rouse my body before 9am. If I have to wake up real early at, say 5am for a plane flight or something, my stomach literally gets nauseated. My ideal working day: 10am-5pm. That would be heaven. I cursed this morning further when I was attempting to drive into work at 8:15 and was bombarded on all sides by the rest of the entire world trying to get to work at that time too. Bullshit!!! See, that's why I generally stumble into work at around 9:15, 9:30. The roads have cleared by then and the livin' is much easier.
But alas, I have to get to work at a somewhat decent time now b/c the cakewalk is over and everyone (i.e., my boss) is back from conference. But today we had our annual employee award luncheon and it was decent chow. Lord knows I always appreciate a free lunch! I have a large lemon tart sitting on my desk waiting for its certain death later.
Yesterday another Board member and I interviewed 3 slaves I mean Administrative Assistant candidates for the High-spanic Health coalition job. Of the 3 candidates they're all decent though they each have their pros and cons. 2 more candidates will be interviewed by me and another Board member, and then I will be ready to hire!
Monday, October 13, 2008
Weekends Rock!
What a great weekend. I did all my favorite things: lounge around, read, went to the movies with S (Eagle Eye--2 1/2 stars), ate an ice cream sundae, slept late... no patrol for me! I have decided that instead of patrolling on the weekends we don't have the baby, I am going to see how I like patrolling on the Saturday nights when we do have the baby. That way I truly have some honest-to-goodness totally free weekends all to myself, and S can watch the baby while I'm gone and I can get in some good nighttime training, of which I have very little. The challenge will be trying to stay up so late since the night shift is from 10p-6am. I don't think I'll last, but I can let myself off at around 4am, perks of being a Reserve!
Everyone swears the Saturday night shift has the most action. My guess is I'll be pulling my gun a lot more. Maybe I can even bring out the scattergun shotgun, poor thing has never seen any action. S took the sheriff's tests on Saturday and did excellent, as always. I called one of the Majors and talked to him about S getting hired on with us. He said to let him know if he could do anything to help. I have a great feeling about this and just hope it all goes smoothly.
Tonight after Job #2 I meet S at the Mezz, where I will have one of their delightful Mezzy burgers while we watch Heroes! Wednesday I am going to start interviewing candidates for the AA position for the High-spanic Health coalition. There's 2 pretty good ones, 2 adequate ones, and 1 who didn't submit a cover letter like we said to. She's at the bottom of my stack, but I still want a good candidate pool. Good help is so hard to find! Pfft!
Everyone swears the Saturday night shift has the most action. My guess is I'll be pulling my gun a lot more. Maybe I can even bring out the scattergun shotgun, poor thing has never seen any action. S took the sheriff's tests on Saturday and did excellent, as always. I called one of the Majors and talked to him about S getting hired on with us. He said to let him know if he could do anything to help. I have a great feeling about this and just hope it all goes smoothly.
Tonight after Job #2 I meet S at the Mezz, where I will have one of their delightful Mezzy burgers while we watch Heroes! Wednesday I am going to start interviewing candidates for the AA position for the High-spanic Health coalition. There's 2 pretty good ones, 2 adequate ones, and 1 who didn't submit a cover letter like we said to. She's at the bottom of my stack, but I still want a good candidate pool. Good help is so hard to find! Pfft!
Friday, October 10, 2008
Thursday Night Date With S
S and I met last night for the Fireproof movie. I skipped going to Job #2 in order to do so and I paid--horrors!--full price for the movie since it was not a matinee. But I didn't care. On my personal finance blog I post my feelings about money and finances and I have decided that due to our recent marital problems I am going to stop freaking out about money so much. One of my friends said, "You guys never do anything fun with each other!" While that's an exaggeration, we certainly deserve to do more fun things with each other: go out to dinner at a place with waitstaff, see movies when we want to instead of waiting for our next free Sunday and going to the matinee, shopping for new clothes together--we never do these things now. Maybe 1-2 times a year. Now, I don't think we need to be buying another motorcycle or flying to Europe, but we are missing out on so many other perks in our young married life together that honestly, we don't need to be missing out on. 2 3/4 years married should still be the honeymoon period. After the movie we went to Cafe Adobe and had margaritas and shrimp nachos. It was a nice evening so we sat out on the patio and it was just a really great feeling to just sit and enjoy myself with my S. When we got home we had Rice Krispie treats and tried to watch Iron Man but that was not successful. Too bad b/c I hear it's really good, so hopefully we can try again tonight!
Besides, I have no problem with eventually getting another motorcycle if S truly wants one. There are 3 conditions that must be in place first and I think they are totally fair: 1. We must be out of debt. 2. S must have health insurance. and 3. I get a million dollar life insurance policy on S. Ok, maybe $500,000. At the least.
Job #1 is groovy at present time. Everyone went to conference in Dallas, leaving behind me, the Librarian 1 and the Library Assistant. Today I took them to go get Greek food for lunch, yum! And I got to work at 10 am. Perks of being in charge. And the conferencers are not coming back 'til next Thursday so the easy life is here for a few days!
What to do this weekend. I should go patrol a shift. It will have to be tomorrow so S and I can have Sunday together. I just wish I could sleep late on my weekends, but I have to get to the station by 8 or 9 to get 7-8 hours in and be home when S gets home from work. I've also decided we need some traditions. For example, I proposed taking a little vacation every year on our anniversary, even if it's just a weekend away somewhere. Also, I'm going to suggest spending Monday nights at the Mezz. We can watch wrestling and relax in the private room and it's a nice start to the work week. And I think we should go out to dinner on Thursday nights, which means I will also have 1 forced night free of Job #2, which would be nice for me. I only work 1 hour on Thursdays anyway, so it wouldn't be breaking the bank or anything for us.
I'm trying to really get into this concept I was reading about, called "Creating your own reality." It's a psychological training where you control your environment through your mindset. I've always done it throughout life for my major life goals, but I am going to try and adapt it to day-to-day living. Sometimes I use it to get good parking spaces (I swear!) but that's trivial. The mantras are: "But it doesn't matter" and you act "As if." Instead of wasting mental energy on reaction and what if's you focus on your actions instead. It's brain training and about making up your mind to be as happy as you want to be.
Besides, I have no problem with eventually getting another motorcycle if S truly wants one. There are 3 conditions that must be in place first and I think they are totally fair: 1. We must be out of debt. 2. S must have health insurance. and 3. I get a million dollar life insurance policy on S. Ok, maybe $500,000. At the least.
Job #1 is groovy at present time. Everyone went to conference in Dallas, leaving behind me, the Librarian 1 and the Library Assistant. Today I took them to go get Greek food for lunch, yum! And I got to work at 10 am. Perks of being in charge. And the conferencers are not coming back 'til next Thursday so the easy life is here for a few days!
What to do this weekend. I should go patrol a shift. It will have to be tomorrow so S and I can have Sunday together. I just wish I could sleep late on my weekends, but I have to get to the station by 8 or 9 to get 7-8 hours in and be home when S gets home from work. I've also decided we need some traditions. For example, I proposed taking a little vacation every year on our anniversary, even if it's just a weekend away somewhere. Also, I'm going to suggest spending Monday nights at the Mezz. We can watch wrestling and relax in the private room and it's a nice start to the work week. And I think we should go out to dinner on Thursday nights, which means I will also have 1 forced night free of Job #2, which would be nice for me. I only work 1 hour on Thursdays anyway, so it wouldn't be breaking the bank or anything for us.
I'm trying to really get into this concept I was reading about, called "Creating your own reality." It's a psychological training where you control your environment through your mindset. I've always done it throughout life for my major life goals, but I am going to try and adapt it to day-to-day living. Sometimes I use it to get good parking spaces (I swear!) but that's trivial. The mantras are: "But it doesn't matter" and you act "As if." Instead of wasting mental energy on reaction and what if's you focus on your actions instead. It's brain training and about making up your mind to be as happy as you want to be.
Thursday, October 09, 2008
I Smell Election
Early voting begins Oct. 20 and I am all over it. I like to go to the local Fiesta grocery store near work on my lunch hour and get it over with. Who needs the insanity of Election day? Find your neighborhood early voting spot here.
I also smell Board removal action. The High-spanic Health Coalition Board--or, at least 6 of us--had a teleconf yesterday and we removed 1 board member per our Bylaws that state we can even do so by committee, ha ha ha! I offered up 2 more names while we were at it. Those are on hold but if I have anything to say about it, their heads are on the chopping block.
I had a private conversation with one of the other board members yesterday, and she is someone that I adore and admire. We both agreed that we are in a firing mood as far as these board member slackers go, and we both agreed that we are "Do"ers, not "Talk"ers. We believe in by God getting things done and we can't stand lollygagging! For example, that job description I wrote up b/c I was tired of waiting around for anyone else to do it. Our Prez had called for a teleconf to "discuss" it before we wrote it, but I didn't see the point in YET ANOTHER DAMN MEETING, so I wrote it up and sent it on its way for comments, additions, etc. And now it's done and I sent it out the the public at large on Tuesday! We even got 1 submission already, but I am disappointed b/c I put for them to send a "cover letter with resume" and this person's cover letter sucked. I was also critical of some minor typos on her resume. I am hard core.
S and I have been majorly PO'd at each other lately, for like the past week. Tonight we are going to go see this movie (my idea), which looks quite cheesy but it has firefighters and is Christian so it should be right up our alley. We had a double marriage counseling session yesterday--2 hours! Our counselor is awesome. He's been married for 38 years. People like that sure give me hope, that's for sure! Anyway, he's also very effective at getting me and S to really think about things. I still say I much prefer to give my money to marriage counselors and not divorce lawyers. I just found out about a couple I know that I was surprised to hear apparently just got divorced. I went to their wedding but have not kept in touch much. They met in a bar.
I spoke to L. earlier who is going to South Africa tomorrow! She is meeting up with J1 and J2 and I am so jealous, but so happy for them, thinking of the good times they will have! Then we will all party together at New Year's in New Orleans. I am trying desperately hard to get my good buddy Greg to go with me and incidentally, his friend Matt whose brother is in fact NOPD! I hung out with those guys and our other friends--Monkey John and Opie--last Friday night and it was the best, most fun time I have had in a long time. We drank beer and caught up, we went to the Continental and ran around there, we ended up at a new friend's house that we just met and we hung out there until about 5am. I was in the living room watching Dirty Harry, Johnny was asleep next to me, Greg was passed out drunk in my car, our new friend--a very tall, very funny Australian who was impressed I pronounced Melbourne as "Mailbin"--was in the back yard playing guitar, and Matt was outside smoking cigarettes with our other new friends Jack and Neesy. It was total play group time. It made me feel young again! And the next day I had to deliver to Greg the items he'd left in my car: his cell phone, his sunglasses, and 1 shoe.
I also smell Board removal action. The High-spanic Health Coalition Board--or, at least 6 of us--had a teleconf yesterday and we removed 1 board member per our Bylaws that state we can even do so by committee, ha ha ha! I offered up 2 more names while we were at it. Those are on hold but if I have anything to say about it, their heads are on the chopping block.
I had a private conversation with one of the other board members yesterday, and she is someone that I adore and admire. We both agreed that we are in a firing mood as far as these board member slackers go, and we both agreed that we are "Do"ers, not "Talk"ers. We believe in by God getting things done and we can't stand lollygagging! For example, that job description I wrote up b/c I was tired of waiting around for anyone else to do it. Our Prez had called for a teleconf to "discuss" it before we wrote it, but I didn't see the point in YET ANOTHER DAMN MEETING, so I wrote it up and sent it on its way for comments, additions, etc. And now it's done and I sent it out the the public at large on Tuesday! We even got 1 submission already, but I am disappointed b/c I put for them to send a "cover letter with resume" and this person's cover letter sucked. I was also critical of some minor typos on her resume. I am hard core.
S and I have been majorly PO'd at each other lately, for like the past week. Tonight we are going to go see this movie (my idea), which looks quite cheesy but it has firefighters and is Christian so it should be right up our alley. We had a double marriage counseling session yesterday--2 hours! Our counselor is awesome. He's been married for 38 years. People like that sure give me hope, that's for sure! Anyway, he's also very effective at getting me and S to really think about things. I still say I much prefer to give my money to marriage counselors and not divorce lawyers. I just found out about a couple I know that I was surprised to hear apparently just got divorced. I went to their wedding but have not kept in touch much. They met in a bar.
I spoke to L. earlier who is going to South Africa tomorrow! She is meeting up with J1 and J2 and I am so jealous, but so happy for them, thinking of the good times they will have! Then we will all party together at New Year's in New Orleans. I am trying desperately hard to get my good buddy Greg to go with me and incidentally, his friend Matt whose brother is in fact NOPD! I hung out with those guys and our other friends--Monkey John and Opie--last Friday night and it was the best, most fun time I have had in a long time. We drank beer and caught up, we went to the Continental and ran around there, we ended up at a new friend's house that we just met and we hung out there until about 5am. I was in the living room watching Dirty Harry, Johnny was asleep next to me, Greg was passed out drunk in my car, our new friend--a very tall, very funny Australian who was impressed I pronounced Melbourne as "Mailbin"--was in the back yard playing guitar, and Matt was outside smoking cigarettes with our other new friends Jack and Neesy. It was total play group time. It made me feel young again! And the next day I had to deliver to Greg the items he'd left in my car: his cell phone, his sunglasses, and 1 shoe.
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Hardy Har Har!
Oh man, tonight's the night! I am going to thoroughly enjoy the Veep debate tonight. They say more folks will watch this one than watched the Prez debate last week. Letterman is being viciously funny. He started this new segment last night called "John McCain: Presidential Material" that shows video of John McCain doing stupid stuff ala Bush. It shows them both bumbling around in video footage. And last night's Top 10 list was choice! For real... why would anyone vote for John McPalin??? S says 'cause she's hot but come on, America...
The thing that does get my goat about liberals and Democrats attacking her though, is they always have to mention that she's one of those horrible gun lovers!!! See, this is where the Dem's lost me years ago. Do the Dem's and GOP even remember that we have a little thing called the Constitution? That there's something in existence called the Bill of Rights? When was the last time they read these documents??? Dem's hate guns but want privacy... GOP hates privacy but wants guns... How could I ever vote for either party? I won't! So what if the Libertarian vote pretty much just evaporates into thin air? It's my right to damn well make a point and that's what I'm doing.
In other news, I had to try these knockoff breathe-right nasal strips last night b/c S said my snoring was, on a scale of 1-10, a 20 the night before and consequently he got so little sleep he fucked up at work and got chewed out by the boss. So last night I applied the strip, snuffed some Nasonex, and sprayed my throat with this anti-snoring spray. This morning S said my snoring was, on a scale of 1-10, an 8. I am at a loss. I am going to have to take some drastic measures due to my chronic allergies. I don't want an operation but there's other things that can possibly be done. As soon as the New Year starts and my new FSA takes effect, I'm going to have to look into them. AGAIN.
Working from home tomorrow, which is good b/c I was just about on the verge of needing a mental health day, but tomorrow should do some good. I gotta go pick up the baby in the afternoon, too. Saturday I'm doing one of my famous health fairs and the baby will come with. Sunday, maybe I'll actually be able to sleep in and relax a little.
And now for your viewing pleasure:
Me and the baby at R.'s wedding.
Me easily bowling over 100 at the kiddie birthday party a few weeks ago.
Riding the roller coaster game.
Here's the shot from last weekend's wedding of the groom, S, and their other friend. They are laughing b/c I announced that S's wedding day was the best day of his life. I don't see what's so funny!
The thing that does get my goat about liberals and Democrats attacking her though, is they always have to mention that she's one of those horrible gun lovers!!! See, this is where the Dem's lost me years ago. Do the Dem's and GOP even remember that we have a little thing called the Constitution? That there's something in existence called the Bill of Rights? When was the last time they read these documents??? Dem's hate guns but want privacy... GOP hates privacy but wants guns... How could I ever vote for either party? I won't! So what if the Libertarian vote pretty much just evaporates into thin air? It's my right to damn well make a point and that's what I'm doing.
In other news, I had to try these knockoff breathe-right nasal strips last night b/c S said my snoring was, on a scale of 1-10, a 20 the night before and consequently he got so little sleep he fucked up at work and got chewed out by the boss. So last night I applied the strip, snuffed some Nasonex, and sprayed my throat with this anti-snoring spray. This morning S said my snoring was, on a scale of 1-10, an 8. I am at a loss. I am going to have to take some drastic measures due to my chronic allergies. I don't want an operation but there's other things that can possibly be done. As soon as the New Year starts and my new FSA takes effect, I'm going to have to look into them. AGAIN.
Working from home tomorrow, which is good b/c I was just about on the verge of needing a mental health day, but tomorrow should do some good. I gotta go pick up the baby in the afternoon, too. Saturday I'm doing one of my famous health fairs and the baby will come with. Sunday, maybe I'll actually be able to sleep in and relax a little.
And now for your viewing pleasure:
Me and the baby at R.'s wedding.
Me easily bowling over 100 at the kiddie birthday party a few weeks ago.
Riding the roller coaster game.
Here's the shot from last weekend's wedding of the groom, S, and their other friend. They are laughing b/c I announced that S's wedding day was the best day of his life. I don't see what's so funny!
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
I Guess I'm No Politico
I am ready to FIRE some of the other board members of the High-spanic Health Coalition. We have our next meeting next week, it's an early breakfast meeting. There are a handful of board members, 4-5, who never contribute, never come to meetings, never bother to respond to emails. There's only 11 of us currently; we had 3 voluntary dropoffs in the last year. We met with a consultant recently who told us that all boards have worthless members, just like we do (my words, not his). We all had to SIGN a board member commitment at the start of the new year, so in my humble opinion these dead weights have not honored their signed agreement and based on this, they must be removed from the board and do not deserve to pad their resumes with us any longer.
I sent this suggestion to our current President to be put on the agenda for next week's meeting but after I sent the email I thought, "Am I being too rash? Am I risking alienating these people from the coalition? Should they just be allowed to keep padding their resume b/c apparently, this is a common occurrence on all boards the world over?" Dammit! I don't care! I hate slackers and do not want any resume-padders on my watch! I spend ~2-4 hours/week on coalition work, not counting the monthly and bimonthly meetings. I spent an evening at home earlier this week writing up a job description for us to hire an AA. I am committed and when others are not, it ticks me off that they have the nerve to call themselves a fellow board member of mine when they don't do SHIT.
I'm currently reading The Smartest Guys In The Room and I see where Ken Lay was a huge charmer and used relationships time and time again to his advantage over the course of his life. I just can't stomach doing that; I'm a real bridge-burner. I don't like playing games with people and manipulating them and using them and having the same done to me because--this sounds terrible, but this is how I really feel--I believe that people are truly replaceable! There is no evidence that shows otherwise. Fatherless children adopt father figures. People remarry. When you leave a job someone else takes your place. I guess I don't really mean that the people themselves are replaceable, but rather, what they do can be done by someone else, every time. This sounds really harsh... but I fear it is true. And there's almost nothing I need from anybody else in this world that if they prove themselves to be worthless enough, I can't get from someone else the next day.
Fortunately, I am blessed enough that all the closest people to me in my life have been hand-picked and wisely chosen and there's only about 3-4 acquaintances/coworkers who I am waiting for to get carried off by a twister or eaten by a bear. But those people I have no choice about being involved with; however once they are gone they will not be missed, nor replaced! Now if I can only get rid of these space-wasting board members...
I sent this suggestion to our current President to be put on the agenda for next week's meeting but after I sent the email I thought, "Am I being too rash? Am I risking alienating these people from the coalition? Should they just be allowed to keep padding their resume b/c apparently, this is a common occurrence on all boards the world over?" Dammit! I don't care! I hate slackers and do not want any resume-padders on my watch! I spend ~2-4 hours/week on coalition work, not counting the monthly and bimonthly meetings. I spent an evening at home earlier this week writing up a job description for us to hire an AA. I am committed and when others are not, it ticks me off that they have the nerve to call themselves a fellow board member of mine when they don't do SHIT.
I'm currently reading The Smartest Guys In The Room and I see where Ken Lay was a huge charmer and used relationships time and time again to his advantage over the course of his life. I just can't stomach doing that; I'm a real bridge-burner. I don't like playing games with people and manipulating them and using them and having the same done to me because--this sounds terrible, but this is how I really feel--I believe that people are truly replaceable! There is no evidence that shows otherwise. Fatherless children adopt father figures. People remarry. When you leave a job someone else takes your place. I guess I don't really mean that the people themselves are replaceable, but rather, what they do can be done by someone else, every time. This sounds really harsh... but I fear it is true. And there's almost nothing I need from anybody else in this world that if they prove themselves to be worthless enough, I can't get from someone else the next day.
Fortunately, I am blessed enough that all the closest people to me in my life have been hand-picked and wisely chosen and there's only about 3-4 acquaintances/coworkers who I am waiting for to get carried off by a twister or eaten by a bear. But those people I have no choice about being involved with; however once they are gone they will not be missed, nor replaced! Now if I can only get rid of these space-wasting board members...
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